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Oh wow, Kevlar. I've read through that thread before but forgot about it. Thank you so much for redirecting me to it. It will be very useful going forward.

Thank you so much. I was lucky and saw the kickback thing when I was at the guy's house. We actually did replace the coil sleeve while I was there. The guy had a workshop full of parts. I'll try and see if it's secure enough though. I might need to fully replace it. I'll try everything before...

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After almost 20 long years of dreaming about it, I finally found a way to snag my all time favorite machine. This is the first pinball machine I've been able to acquire, but you can't spell gateway without Getaway. I have a very sweet girlfriend who is just as excited as me to try and get a few...

I was able to get a picture of another one that happened last night. This time it was on Grand Lizard. [/URL][/IMG]

Thank you. I'm going to be on a tight budget for a little bit, but you're right. I probably should. It was just a right place/right time kind of scenario. The guy just bought a boat and his wife said one of his machines had to go. Lucky for me, he actually had two Getaway machines, so he picked...

We were told the two machines to practice this week were Whitewater and Pinbot. After taking Tuesday to rest, I returned on Wednesday night and ended up getting the #1 score on both machines. I did not get the Grand Champion of Whitewater, but my #1 Rafter score was 1.2 billion. I went back a...

Ha! Good point. Hope that works in reverse too. I often give away my free games anyway. If they had waited for just a moment, I'd have offered them up. As an epilogue to all this, I went back last night to practice Whitewater and Pinbot. I ended up getting the number one score on both...

I made sure to practice really hard this week. I didn't want to find myself in the same situation as last week. We were told two of the four games, Star Trek LE and Genie. There's only so much practicing you can do on Genie, but I played A LOT of Star Trek, and I got to a place where I felt very...

I got 100%. I had TPA on PS3 and held back on getting all the goals because I knew I'd just do them again on PS4. I also held back on buying any tables other than season 1 (except T2 and Champion Pub), for the same reason. I can't wait to start attacking goals on the upcoming tables. I enjoy...

Being beaten in a Gulag in Siberia is a lateral move from being beaten in the arcade of the town I grew up in. I can't say I feel any worse for him than I did back then.

I miss the days of laying a quarter down. The other day I had a guy stand 6 inches behind me not saying a word. He literally pushed me out of the way and plopped his tokens in the moment I finished. I'd have gladly let him play next, or even better, played against him. I'm guessing it's probably...

As much as they frustrated me at one point, Genie and Big Shot. I think I swore to never play either again after hitting the wizard goals. I enjoy the simple rules and the laid back pace they run at now. I know a game of either won't usually go on for hours. There's also something incredibly...

Thank you for the feedback, guys. I'm learning that knowing a machine is vital. I'm going to try and learn every machine I can. Other than that, skill is extremely helpful, but bad luck trumps skill. It's time to just have fun with it. I hope I didn't sound like it was her I won't let myself...

Awesome! Thank you. That shot map explained the Captain's Chair perfectly. Edit: Just got back. I got to Kobayashi Maru Multiball and somehow beat it on my first try. At least I think I did. I hit two of every flashing shot, and then it started the missions over. I ended with around 60...

There's one near me. I instantly liked the way it felt. I'm not a big Star Trek fan, but this machine had me hooked. I've been lighting the Captain's Chair, but didn't know what to do with it. I watched that tutorial video. He (Kerins) met the conditions, but I couldn't tell if it lit on that...

I just noticed all those scores were removed. There's still at least one more ridiculous score, but it's nice to see they're on top of it.

This week's machines: Monopoly Transformers The Sopranos Demolition Man I arrived at the arcade a little bit early. I was super excited and actually pretty nervous. I couldn't wait to finally do this. I noticed which four machines had been picked, and I was starting to really regret last...

I've been playing pinball for a very long time now. It was around 1998 that I met The Getaway at a pizza place I worked at, and it all finally clicked for me. I couldn't stop playing it. My friend Mike and I went at each other's throats competing for Grand Champion. Somewhere along the way...

Last night I noticed a user going by "Failsight" had taken the top spot on most games. I'm not looking at it right now, but their Theatre of Magic score was literally in the neighborhood of like 8 Quintillion points, making it their most obvious hacked score. I hate being on the same...