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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pinball_wiz_05401" data-source="post: 185567" data-attributes="member: 4947">I can only hope that Farsight continues to have poll considerations for upcoming pinball releases from the mid 1980s and earlier.  If I had to choose my favorite pinball release period- it would be between the years of 1979 – 1981… the old Atari 2600 home game console period.  With the exception of Gottlieb’s Haunted House “released back in June 1982”, I found myself pulling away from commercial pinball as home gaming consoles started to evolve with the release of Atari’s 5200 and ColecoVision in mid/ late 1982 and pinball units were becoming more and more scarce in my local arcades due to higher maintenance costs with pinball units verses video gaming units.I worked in the smaller of the two arcades we had in town back in mid/ late 1986 and we had 65 – 70 units and only 1 commercial pinball unit.  When we had periodic staff meetings and suggestions for improving customer attraction, I would suggest more pinball units like the larger competitor arcade up the street and it was always no due to higher repair maintenance issues with pinball.  Eventually, even the larger competing arcade went all video gaming except for Williams – Pinbot and some other pin next to it.  For the most part, we were deprived of many of the pinball releases from the 1990s onward just because I lived in a smaller community so many of the later pinball releases Farsight has released in recent months has missed “my” mark.I’d like to see more commercial pinball releases from the old Atari 2600 home game console era and before.  These older pinball units were at the top of their game and still have staying power.  My favorite Farsight work to date has to be Black Hole… Gorgar… Black Knight “glitches and all”… Big Shot… Genie… Firepower… Centaur… Flight 2000… El Dorado… Haunted House “well this one may need to be a little revised”.   We all have different tastes when it comes to pinball.  In my first post, I said Heretic’s Paragon probably had the best game play of all the pins on the original list from round one and I’m thrilled to have another older pin from the Atari 2600 era.  My favorite electro- mechanical “video” pin has to be Microsoft Pinball Arcade’s “Spirit of ‘76” from my personal collection and I can only hope that Farsight reconsiders older pinball release polls.Off topic…I know that a lot of forum members come and go and I know I lost my focus when I initially posted on this poll… but I think it’s wrong for a newer member with ONE derogatory post… to single out a senior member from this forum and to take it upon his or herself and call this senior member a baby.  I tried to lighten the atmosphere from prior posts but I didn’t think this senior member would give nubie a verbal nose bleed… and I said to myself… DUDE!  and it stuck…Heretic… you came into the aftermath a situation that happened earlier.  I read the comments you left for me earlier.  I have two things I want to say to you…ONE… Don’t make me send my Momma over there and wash your mouth out with soap and…TWO… Pour me another Guinness!  My beer glass is empty…That’s all I have to say about that…<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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