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<blockquote data-quote="Blueshirt" data-source="post: 39856" data-attributes="member: 1540"><p>As a local minnesotan, as Farsight started to get me into pinball big (curse you guys!), I feared finding pinball machines would be fruitless and disheartening. Boy, was I wrong. There's a surprising amount of great machines in the twin cities here, and I thought I'd share a few finds with you all. Warning: Big Lists incoming!</p><p></p><p>Firstly, there's the big ones. There are two big pinball places near here, SS Billiards and Blainbrook Entertainment Center. The former has a rotation of tables, mostly popular and gamers' games. The latter just has tons of tables, and some of my favorite old ones! There's a list below for those curious.</p><p></p><p>[CODE]Blainbrook</p><p>-------------</p><p>Bram Stoker's Dracula</p><p>The Getaway: High Speed II</p><p>South Park</p><p>The Addams Family</p><p>Cleopatra</p><p>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</p><p>Solar Ride</p><p>Jacks to Open</p><p>Royal Flush Deluxe</p><p>Lucky Seven</p><p>Eight Ball</p><p>Counterforce</p><p>Devil's Dare</p><p>Panthera</p><p>Amazing Spider-Man</p><p>Superman</p><p>Hercules</p><p>Big Guns</p><p>Medusa</p><p>Funhouse</p><p>Playboy (Data East)</p><p>Comet</p><p>Pinbot</p><p>The Machine: Bride of Pinbot</p><p>Red & Ted's Roadshow</p><p>Whirlwind</p><p>The Bally Game Show</p><p>Mousin' Around</p><p>Xenon</p><p>High Speed</p><p>NBA Fastbreak</p><p>Centaur II</p><p>Sorcerer</p><p>Jungle Lord</p><p>Demolition Man</p><p>Jurrasic Park</p><p>Checkpoint</p><p>Big Buck Hunter</p><p>James Cameron's Avatar</p><p>Tron Legacy</p><p>Iron Man</p><p>Wheel of Fortune</p><p>Eight Ball Deluxe</p><p>Spider-Man</p><p>Orbitar 1</p><p>Strikes 'n' Spares</p><p>Lord of the Rings</p><p>ACDC Premium</p><p></p><p>SS Billiards</p><p>---------------</p><p>Attack from Mars</p><p>Creature from the Black Lagoon</p><p>Big Bang Bar (Original)</p><p>Medieval Madness</p><p>Corvette</p><p>Taxi</p><p>Twilight Zone</p><p>Pirates of the Caribbean</p><p>Spider-Man</p><p>Wheel of Fortune</p><p>Family Guy[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>Some highlights: I absolutely love a lot of the late 80's/early 90's stuff Blainbrook has! They have my all-time favorite machine, Bride of Pinbot, as well as Funhouse, Pinbot, Whirlwind, TAF, Centaur, and more. They have good prices too. For their really old SSes it's only a quarter, 80's to 90's machines are 50 cents, and new Sterns are a dollar. They have some of my favorite Sterns too, with LotR, Spider-Man, Tron Legacy and ACDC (The premium version is incredible!). They also have some great oddities, like Hercules and Orbitar-1. Interesting tables, those! All in great shape and playing more or less like they should, save a couple bubbles in the protective plastic on a couple tables. Great place, tons of tables!</p><p></p><p>SS, on the other hand, is a smaller place, but packed with gamers games. Tons of great 90's stuff, all on 75 cents to play, more or less. Heck, they have an original big bang bar! Not to mention great tables like AFM (With a colorDMD mod), TZ, MM, CftBL, and Taxi. Apparently they have even more in their rotation, we've yet to go back there actually. Great place though, and they'll be getting a Wizard of Oz when that comes out, so I'm excited.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Beyond that, there's just some little places here and there with a couple tables. A small italian place called DeMori's had a <strong>Theatre of Magic</strong> me and a friend checked out one night. It's a little broken sometimes (the sensors for multiball etc broke sometimes) but still very playable. That's more than I can say for the <strong>Twilight Zone</strong> we played tonight at a theatre called Woodbury 10 (iirc?). Broken as heeeeeeck. 6 games for 2 dollars wasn't worth it spitting out 2 balls all the time, for no reason, never sensing power ball, ball getting stuck all the time. What a nightmare. On the other hand the same theatre also had a <strong>Scared Stiff</strong> in very fine shape that I played an hour of on only 2 dollars. Got so close to monster multiball once, too. We found another <strong>TAF</strong> at a little roller rink near here, and nicely the janitor let us in when they were closed to throw some balls around. Very good shape, aside from a broken tilt. Which we abused the whole time. Another theater near here has <strong>Iron Man</strong> (drain monster! SO hard), <strong>24</strong> (surprisingly fun) and <strong>Corvette</strong>, which I didn't play. And Another nice surprise was the local bowling alley, which had a nice-playing <strong>Spider-Man</strong> (one of my favorite Sterns) and <strong>Monopoly</strong>, which I, again, didn't play.</p><p></p><p>All in all not a bad little local haul as far as table variety goes. Also, I'd post pics if my phone had a camera. Yes, it's very, very ghetto.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blueshirt, post: 39856, member: 1540"] As a local minnesotan, as Farsight started to get me into pinball big (curse you guys!), I feared finding pinball machines would be fruitless and disheartening. Boy, was I wrong. There's a surprising amount of great machines in the twin cities here, and I thought I'd share a few finds with you all. Warning: Big Lists incoming! Firstly, there's the big ones. There are two big pinball places near here, SS Billiards and Blainbrook Entertainment Center. The former has a rotation of tables, mostly popular and gamers' games. The latter just has tons of tables, and some of my favorite old ones! There's a list below for those curious. [CODE]Blainbrook ------------- Bram Stoker's Dracula The Getaway: High Speed II South Park The Addams Family Cleopatra Close Encounters of the Third Kind Solar Ride Jacks to Open Royal Flush Deluxe Lucky Seven Eight Ball Counterforce Devil's Dare Panthera Amazing Spider-Man Superman Hercules Big Guns Medusa Funhouse Playboy (Data East) Comet Pinbot The Machine: Bride of Pinbot Red & Ted's Roadshow Whirlwind The Bally Game Show Mousin' Around Xenon High Speed NBA Fastbreak Centaur II Sorcerer Jungle Lord Demolition Man Jurrasic Park Checkpoint Big Buck Hunter James Cameron's Avatar Tron Legacy Iron Man Wheel of Fortune Eight Ball Deluxe Spider-Man Orbitar 1 Strikes 'n' Spares Lord of the Rings ACDC Premium SS Billiards --------------- Attack from Mars Creature from the Black Lagoon Big Bang Bar (Original) Medieval Madness Corvette Taxi Twilight Zone Pirates of the Caribbean Spider-Man Wheel of Fortune Family Guy[/CODE] Some highlights: I absolutely love a lot of the late 80's/early 90's stuff Blainbrook has! They have my all-time favorite machine, Bride of Pinbot, as well as Funhouse, Pinbot, Whirlwind, TAF, Centaur, and more. They have good prices too. For their really old SSes it's only a quarter, 80's to 90's machines are 50 cents, and new Sterns are a dollar. They have some of my favorite Sterns too, with LotR, Spider-Man, Tron Legacy and ACDC (The premium version is incredible!). They also have some great oddities, like Hercules and Orbitar-1. Interesting tables, those! All in great shape and playing more or less like they should, save a couple bubbles in the protective plastic on a couple tables. Great place, tons of tables! SS, on the other hand, is a smaller place, but packed with gamers games. Tons of great 90's stuff, all on 75 cents to play, more or less. Heck, they have an original big bang bar! Not to mention great tables like AFM (With a colorDMD mod), TZ, MM, CftBL, and Taxi. Apparently they have even more in their rotation, we've yet to go back there actually. Great place though, and they'll be getting a Wizard of Oz when that comes out, so I'm excited. Beyond that, there's just some little places here and there with a couple tables. A small italian place called DeMori's had a [B]Theatre of Magic[/B] me and a friend checked out one night. It's a little broken sometimes (the sensors for multiball etc broke sometimes) but still very playable. That's more than I can say for the [B]Twilight Zone[/B] we played tonight at a theatre called Woodbury 10 (iirc?). Broken as heeeeeeck. 6 games for 2 dollars wasn't worth it spitting out 2 balls all the time, for no reason, never sensing power ball, ball getting stuck all the time. What a nightmare. On the other hand the same theatre also had a [B]Scared Stiff[/B] in very fine shape that I played an hour of on only 2 dollars. Got so close to monster multiball once, too. We found another [B]TAF[/B] at a little roller rink near here, and nicely the janitor let us in when they were closed to throw some balls around. Very good shape, aside from a broken tilt. Which we abused the whole time. Another theater near here has [B]Iron Man[/B] (drain monster! SO hard), [B]24[/B] (surprisingly fun) and [B]Corvette[/B], which I didn't play. And Another nice surprise was the local bowling alley, which had a nice-playing [B]Spider-Man[/B] (one of my favorite Sterns) and [B]Monopoly[/B], which I, again, didn't play. All in all not a bad little local haul as far as table variety goes. Also, I'd post pics if my phone had a camera. Yes, it's very, very ghetto. [/QUOTE]
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