Skylab

[DokkenRokken]

http://ipdb.org/search.pl?any=skylab&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#2202

I can't remember who posted about this, but thank you. I've never heard of it until now, and it looks pretty interesting.

What else can anyone tell me about it? Has anyone personally played this one? I don't get interested in EMs too often, but this definitely caught my attention.

 

[Crawley]

I played this at the Tom Taylor tour which takes place the day before the Midwest Gaming Classic starts for real. Tom has a warehouse with about 300 pins in it, mostly EMs, and you pay like $20 (which goes to a charity) to play from like 3pm to 8pm.

Skylab really kinda grabbed me and I kept going back to play it. The rules are very simple. You first spell Spacelab by hitting the various elastic bumpers that are along the sides table. Then you need to hit the center ball trap to move the balls from one side of the trap to the other. Since the targets for moving the trapped balls are close together it makes it a bit difficult to hit the right one. Once you get them all on the highlighted side you get some sort of bonus then the table resets and you start the pattern over again.

Like I said simple. But still something about it had me coming back to play it. I probably played around 15 games on it, more than any other table there.

If I was building a pinball collection I could see this one being table 6 or 7 just to have a fun go-to machine.

 

[Shaneus]

Nate of the Coast 2 Coast Pinball podcast owns one. I think it's finding use as a table (but he's known for not really liking EMs at all).

 

[DokkenRokken]

I played this at the Tom Taylor tour which takes place the day before the Midwest Gaming Classic starts for real. Tom has a warehouse with about 300 pins in it, mostly EMs, and you pay like $20 (which goes to a charity) to play from like 3pm to 8pm.

Skylab really kinda grabbed me and I kept going back to play it. The rules are very simple. You first spell Spacelab by hitting the various elastic bumpers that are along the sides table. Then you need to hit the center ball trap to move the balls from one side of the trap to the other. Since the targets for moving the trapped balls are close together it makes it a bit difficult to hit the right one. Once you get them all on the highlighted side you get some sort of bonus then the table resets and you start the pattern over again.

Like I said simple. But still something about it had me coming back to play it. I probably played around 15 games on it, more than any other table there.

If I was building a pinball collection I could see this one being table 6 or 7 just to have a fun go-to machine.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Zombie Aladdin]

Here's the shorter, more direct link: http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2202

Is it actually based on the real space station? I've always been a fan of astronomy and space travel.