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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmmagnetic" data-source="post: 26344" data-attributes="member: 558">Or how about this - I was going on a nice, relaxing, lazy summer vacation at Texel, Holland, and greeted with these two beauties:<img src="http://i.imgur.com/TG6Bn.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Nice! Dropped quite a lot of quarters into these. Wasn´t quite feeling RFM (I drained like crazy and it seemed to have almost zero ball saver time), but GNR was solid fun, even if the machine was a bit beaten up. I even got the backhanded shot into the "add band member" shot working a couple of times, had quite some trouble hitting ramps, but it felt good and was just overall a very fun game.Keep in mind that up to this point I haven´t played a real pinball machine since about 1993, when I was a little kid with no cash and no idea what I was doing. So obviously, I was determined to have fun with whatever machine was standing there anyways.So, I was staying there for a whole week. The room those two machines were standing was next to a bigger hall with some pool tables and remote controlled car tracks set up, which I never even bothered to enter - I mean, I got my two tables right here! My days were usually filled with hanging around on the beach with my girlfriend, lots of riding bikes, eating delicious, fatty dutch snacks and sweets, and the daily visit to this little arcade at the evening for half an hour or so.Until, on my second to last day there, I run out of euro pieces, and saw that they have a counter in that other room, so I casually walk to the desk, change some bills to coins, turn around, and suddenly the room is filled with the sound of my jaw hitting the floor with the weight of an imploding sun as I see this:<img src="http://i.imgur.com/Y8tLC.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />...This machine has been there the whole time, within spitting distance, only blocked by a wall. I never even heard any attract mode music or anything, the Outrunners and F355 Challenge cabinets must have drowned it out, and that side hall was closed in the evening, which was the main time I was frequenting this tiny arcade.I spend the rest of the two days dropping what felt like 30, 40 euro into this baby. I liked RFM and GNR, but man, I was so incredibly hyped to discover this. The only thing missing was some sort of angelic choir starting to sing. I even told the guy working there how pumped I was to see this, he quite obviously had no interest in pinball at all. The machine was also in a quite good condition, I even got my girlfriend to film some silly video of me desperately trying to get the multiball to work, and after 2 lost balls I announced "This time I´m going to hit that dumb electric chair", and boom! SHOWTIME.And to think that I could very easily have missed that TAF machine completely... I wrote the contact lady of this vacation park before we went there, because I remembered they used to have some old Gottlieb tables the last time I went, and she said "we have 2 machines left".Probably one of the coolest vacations I ever had. The end.I guess I was the one who turned the intent of this thread on its head <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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