Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:26 am
JUST what is this about againForest wrote:Were open
Schedule of events
Symposium on the virtues of the knob
The Magic of the hole
Hope to see you tomorrow
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:58 am
My assistantMETZ wrote:JUST what is this about againForest wrote:Were open
Schedule of events
Symposium on the virtues of the knob
The Magic of the hole
Hope to see you tomorrow
posted this last night and there were a few typo'sIt should have read
Symposium on the virtues of the starter knob
The Magic of the token overflow hole
Why Metz', you weren't thinking of something else were you?
Yes Lou,I'm always angling for more MB.
I'm hoping these events can be rescheduled. We had a unfortunate incident when one of the new employee's decided to open all the machine doors and turn on the hopper dump buttons.. You should have seen all the people diving for cover"Consideration of the Volume Control Conundrum" supposed to be scheduled at 10:15 to 11:00, followed by "New Poses for Random Images" until 11:45? Or did the event scheduler say "Canceled!---We need more time to play for the Token Cup!"?
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:30 am
heheheheheh funny!!
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:42 am
Too funny first thing in the morning! (damn~spilled my coffee)
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:51 am
Spill is usually better than spit. Spills can be wiped up. When you spit you need to clean the monitor and those LCD screens are harder to clean that the old display monitors.
I am hopeing to be on my way within the hour. I am currently waiting for my car to be serviced. Oil change and state inspection. Shouldn't be too long.
I am hopeing to be on my way within the hour. I am currently waiting for my car to be serviced. Oil change and state inspection. Shouldn't be too long.
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:33 pm
I can only somewhat imagine hailing tokens from several machines. There is enough panic when one does it.
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:01 pm
True true..... Luckily no where near the laptop...... or spit would have been the better of the two options! 
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:19 pm
Well we need an update. How did the convention go? Get all the tokens rounded up? Is Chris coming back with 8 legs? Who got the Token Cup?
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:22 pm
Considering how many machines are in the Forest, Lou they are probalby still rounding them all up!
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:33 pm
Good exercise for them!indiansumr1 wrote:Considering how many machines are in the Forest, Lou they are probalby still rounding them all up!
I'm still jealous though.
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:49 am
So how unusual is it to have a friend show up and know more about your parlor then you do
Our Admin is that good!(look for my upcoming post on new coin mech designs)
After a quick tour,
We played and talked pachi, never enough time
I was able hear a little D/B history and plans for the future.
The pinball legs will make a nice pachi stand.
I'm hoping to have him back sooner then later (great seeing you again).
Wish I could have all all my D/B friends over for a pachi party.
Life is good
Our Admin is that good!(look for my upcoming post on new coin mech designs)
After a quick tour,
We played and talked pachi, never enough time
I was able hear a little D/B history and plans for the future.
The pinball legs will make a nice pachi stand.
I'm hoping to have him back sooner then later (great seeing you again).
Wish I could have all all my D/B friends over for a pachi party.
Life is good
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:03 am
sounds like a good timeForest wrote:So how unusual is it to have a friend show up and know more about your parlor then you do
Our Admin is that good!(look for my upcoming post on new coin mech designs)
After a quick tour,
We played and talked pachi, never enough time
I was able hear a little D/B history and plans for the future.
The pinball legs will make a nice pachi stand.
I'm hoping to have him back sooner then later (great seeing you again).
Wish I could have all all my D/B friends over for a pachi party.
Life is good
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:03 pm
After the haunted Tropicana attacked me at Metz's place I know how panic reflex kicks in when a machine spits tokes at you with the door open.
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:35 pm
hehe that was funnyGman wrote:After the haunted Tropicana attacked me at Metz's place I know how panic reflex kicks in when a machine spits tokes at you with the door open.
did you see the new videos of that machine yet G?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:48 pm
Well the NDA I needed to sign has expired so I now may talk about my visit to "The Museum". The day before my trip bestowed us with a nice little amount of snow. As I drove south toward "The Museum" 
I found that they had gotten approximately 18 inches of the lovely white stuff. When I arrived in the area I made my way through a very nice neighborhood to arrive at "The Museum". I was ushered 
in through a side door away from the general population (whom were already lining up) for a private viewing of all the machines currently on display. I was then greeted by the owner (our very own Forest). After our initial greeting I needed to be approved by Chewy 
(or is it Chewie, he was not wearing his name tag at the time).We seemed to hit it off right away I was allowed to proceed. To the right of main entrance was a small area where they had set up a few machines to show the contrasts of what the advancement in technology has brought to the pachislo/pachinko world. The machines on display were Aliens, Devil May Cry & a vintage pachinko. I was able to play the vintage pachinko for a few minutes before being ushered to the next room. Forest wanted to be sure that I was able to see all the the Museum before the main doors opened to the public.
I was then led through the main lobby through a pachi-less room filled with toys
. Forest informed me had plans to expand the museum once the current owners of the pachi-less rooms lease ran out. Once we entered the main area of the parlor ahead I spotted a Balboa & Bruce Lee 2007. Forest informed me that he had set up the machine to give me a taste of all different manufacturers. To the right of Bruce he had set up Austin Powers, Shake II, Dynamite Man & Marvel Heros. I was able to give each machine a few spins. Not nearly enough but I understood we were pressed for time.
I was then led to the left of Bruce and saw proudly on display a pair of Spin Luck machines. As I currently own a Spin Luck I did not play them but did pause to admire that he had two of these long sought after machines. Continuing on I did find that he had a more modern Pachinko machines in the back. The title was Elvis. I had only see one before this time and had never had a chance to play it. He powered it on and the machine was very nice. A huge LCD screen took up most of the play field. I was able to throw a few balls through the machine and even hit a reach (I think that is what it was called) and wondered what people saw in these machine. Because of the LCD screen taking up most of the play field there was very little space for the balls to flow. Even though I prefer the technologically advanced new pachislos over the older ones my attraction was the exact opposite for pachinkos. The older ones see much more fun to play. I did take a look at the back of the machine to see how I could hook a PachiSTAT up to it and summarized that probably some of the unused outputs on the dongle would probably be used to track balls-in and balls-out
Since we had time left I was able to return to the some of the other machines and throw a handful of tokens in. In fact I was able to play all the machines currently on display. I even helped to identified something about the over flow logic on devil-man that was previously unknown by the curator.
Forest and I were able to talk about how things had changed in the pachi-world and just discuss all aspects of our hobby.
When our visit had come to an end I was informed that currently in the works for the new year was a retro-themed pachislo exhibit. I am going to have to make it back down there after the new year.
And YES, I did get the pinball legs too
I found that they had gotten approximately 18 inches of the lovely white stuff. When I arrived in the area I made my way through a very nice neighborhood to arrive at "The Museum". I was ushered in through a side door away from the general population (whom were already lining up) for a private viewing of all the machines currently on display. I was then greeted by the owner (our very own Forest). After our initial greeting I needed to be approved by Chewy (or is it Chewie, he was not wearing his name tag at the time).We seemed to hit it off right away I was allowed to proceed. To the right of main entrance was a small area where they had set up a few machines to show the contrasts of what the advancement in technology has brought to the pachislo/pachinko world. The machines on display were Aliens, Devil May Cry & a vintage pachinko. I was able to play the vintage pachinko for a few minutes before being ushered to the next room. Forest wanted to be sure that I was able to see all the the Museum before the main doors opened to the public. I was then led through the main lobby through a pachi-less room filled with toys
. Forest informed me had plans to expand the museum once the current owners of the pachi-less rooms lease ran out. Once we entered the main area of the parlor ahead I spotted a Balboa & Bruce Lee 2007. Forest informed me that he had set up the machine to give me a taste of all different manufacturers. To the right of Bruce he had set up Austin Powers, Shake II, Dynamite Man & Marvel Heros. I was able to give each machine a few spins. Not nearly enough but I understood we were pressed for time. I was then led to the left of Bruce and saw proudly on display a pair of Spin Luck machines. As I currently own a Spin Luck I did not play them but did pause to admire that he had two of these long sought after machines. Continuing on I did find that he had a more modern Pachinko machines in the back. The title was Elvis. I had only see one before this time and had never had a chance to play it. He powered it on and the machine was very nice. A huge LCD screen took up most of the play field. I was able to throw a few balls through the machine and even hit a reach (I think that is what it was called) and wondered what people saw in these machine. Because of the LCD screen taking up most of the play field there was very little space for the balls to flow. Even though I prefer the technologically advanced new pachislos over the older ones my attraction was the exact opposite for pachinkos. The older ones see much more fun to play. I did take a look at the back of the machine to see how I could hook a PachiSTAT up to it and summarized that probably some of the unused outputs on the dongle would probably be used to track balls-in and balls-out
Since we had time left I was able to return to the some of the other machines and throw a handful of tokens in. In fact I was able to play all the machines currently on display. I even helped to identified something about the over flow logic on devil-man that was previously unknown by the curator.
Forest and I were able to talk about how things had changed in the pachi-world and just discuss all aspects of our hobby.
When our visit had come to an end I was informed that currently in the works for the new year was a retro-themed pachislo exhibit. I am going to have to make it back down there after the new year.
And YES, I did get the pinball legs too
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:21 pm
Very cool! That was a great peice of narrative! Have you ever thought of writing a book!
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:14 pm
real nice story
sounds like a great time!
how is the bruce lee? I just love the pachinko
sounds like a great time!
how is the bruce lee? I just love the pachinko
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:15 pm
Unfortunately I did not have enough time to play each machine to get a real feel for how it played. I did see that Shake II has more to offer than I had imagined.
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:52 pm
SHAKE II is very very cool
I should play it more
the type 5's are DEEP
in game play it seems
I should play it more
the type 5's are DEEP
in game play it seems
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:21 am
The narrative was extremely kind.
I considered myself fortunate to have a Pachi master at the Forest.
(both friend and teacher)
Communication has a different flow when you can just talk about stuff minus the keyboard.
Each of you makes the whole pachi experience that much better. I rely on d/b members for help and comradely.
Bruce Lee is a unique and a fun machine to play. Only one other model employs the same lighting system which dominates the game. Huge reels help with eye shooting and powerful sounds provides excitement. Multiple photo's of Bruce, animated fight scenes and a steady supply of actual Karate forms keeps the replay value high.
Shake 2 all English writing and songs as well as constant screen action makes this one fun machine. 10 big bonus sequences and one Shake bonus provides a lot of variety. The 3D stage effect is like no other.
Here a pic of Shake' video box.
I told Chris next time I'm hiding his coat
I considered myself fortunate to have a Pachi master at the Forest.
(both friend and teacher)
Communication has a different flow when you can just talk about stuff minus the keyboard.
Each of you makes the whole pachi experience that much better. I rely on d/b members for help and comradely.
Bruce Lee is a unique and a fun machine to play. Only one other model employs the same lighting system which dominates the game. Huge reels help with eye shooting and powerful sounds provides excitement. Multiple photo's of Bruce, animated fight scenes and a steady supply of actual Karate forms keeps the replay value high.
Shake 2 all English writing and songs as well as constant screen action makes this one fun machine. 10 big bonus sequences and one Shake bonus provides a lot of variety. The 3D stage effect is like no other.
Here a pic of Shake' video box.
I told Chris next time I'm hiding his coat