That is fantastic news! I live just up the road from there. Hopefully the Metro accessibility will be good for business.

I count myself lucky to live close by. Its the best!

What are your thoughts on Elton? I lurk in the owners forum and there’s not one negative thing to be said. Makes me want to try to get out and play it myself as I’m not sure if it’s the usual new owners mentality to talk up their latest collection piece.

Very interested in seeing how it compares to Star Wars and LZ shooting wise.

Pulp fiction now at GameOn bar Annapolis!

Foo premium now at GameOn bar merriweather, right next to jaws premium!

Go play!

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Went to Game On in Columbia over the weekend.

They had some machines I got to play for the first time but some of them definitely had issues.

Jaws unfortunately had the upper flipper not working. It was stuck upright and barely moved. It also felt like the flipper power in general was dialed down quite a bit

Foo Fighters had the flippers not aligned properly. Both of the main flippers were pointing upwards slightly and it made hitting some of the outer shots nearly impossible.

Bond on the other hand seemed find and was surprisingly a lot more fun than I had expected.

All in all it was decent for pins aside from the issues, but the 2 arcade games I played both had messed up controls (MK2 and SSF2T). Also like a decent amount of games are using LCD and not CRT which sucks, and makes me wonder if it's even real hardware under the hood.

In two weeks on Monday, May 6th (7:15pm), another season of Pints and Pinball league at Ocelot Brewing in Dulles, VA will be starting up.

You can sign up here: https://www.pintsandpinball.com/league-signup

You can see the schedule here: https://www.pintsandpinball.com/schedule

It's a good time playing the awesome Ocelot games, so I hope to see you there.

Next weekend at Decades Arcade in Charlottesville:

https://www.decadesarcade.com/john-breen/

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Thank you for the comments! I have to apologize about Jaws. For some odd reason when we were running the game at the shop prior to putting it out, I turned the lower right flipper power down, so I turned that back up, we also had a spring break on the flipper on the upper play field (twice now ugh), so I fixed that.

Not sure what the issue is with Foo Fighters? To me it plays fine. The outer shots on that game are supposed to be difficult to hit by nature. But they are hit-able. Enclosed pictures of the flippers at rest and the flippers engaged to show you that they’re not out of alignment. I have not rebuilt or altered the flippers on this machine yet, this is the way it came from the factory.

Also, not sure about your complaint on the Mortal Kombat machines. I tried both of them just in case you were mistaken and the Mortal Kombat two and three machines both have flawless controls. Those are running on original hardware.

Yes we do have some emulators in there, but from a reliability standpoint at this point, with games that are on 12 hours a day seven days a week getting beat up by the general public, sometimes emulation is a better choice, especially on games like killer instinct, Moonwalker, and tapper, boards are dying left and right because they’re 30-40 years old and replacement pcbs are +\- 1000 bucks. Downtime means less revenue, and also downtime makes the place look like shit. So from a reliability standpoint, sometimes emulation is the way to go.

Thanks again,
Mike
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Foo Flippers look fine to me.