So..  I've just read in another post about someone kneeing his pin out of anger and ended up hurting himself doing it..  What's the worst you've done out of anger with a damn pinball (or vid too I guess)..  Teamatomics need not reply to this post

I'll start!  I've done the "drop" quite a few times with LOTR...  Lift the front up about 10-12 inches then just drop the f#$ker..  The intermittent switches were driving me nuts - especially on a good game where you're timed and have to hit a ramp, hit it 3 times and it didn't count..  Take the glass off, test it and it works fine..

I've also kicked the coin door but I usually get hurt doing that..  Case in point - last week I got pissed off with Demo man because the ball wasn't falling correctly in the elevator and the game was tilting when I'd try to make fall in.....  Kicked the coin door HARD (bare foot).  Foot slid up..  a portion of my big toe went UNDER the lock bar, the rest went OVER..  Figure it out..      Need I say bloody mess???  Definitely the most blood I've seen since my broken nose 20 years ago..  Damn...

Mike

I have a tendancy to shove machines quite a bit when frustrated, I try to refrain from it as much as possible but my furstration gets the better of me.  Espically on games that don't play right.

i tried strangling my TOTAN genie once, but all the f***er would do is stare back at me defiantly.

Holy sh*t, you guys need to see a physiologist. Kicking and punching a game? I admit I get pissed too, but the worst I do is push against the game and jump back. I usually swear at the game -- when the kids are in bed, otherwise I do the "Oh bother" comment (thanks Winnie the Pooh). No physical damage done to me or the game.

There was one time, I really wanted to destroy a game. I bent down to pick up a toy one of the kids left behind. As I came up, I whacked my head HARD on the gun handle of Shadow. Damn, I saw stars. After that I put padding on all the pinball handles that stick out (ST:TNG, Shadow, JP, etc.)

Duane

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I have a tendancy to shove machines quite a bit when frustrated, I try to refrain from it as much as possible but my furstration gets the better of me.  Espically on games that don't play right.

Not at my house you don't     

Duane

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I've done the "drop" quite a few times with LOTR...  Lift the front up about 10-12 inches then just drop the f#$ker..  

I've also kicked the coin door but I usually get hurt doing that..  

Kicked the coin door HARD (bare foot).  
Need I say bloody mess???

( Mental note to self... :  Don't let Mike Play my games when he's in a bad mood... )


Steph

I find yelling at the top of my lungs costs less in post-traumatic repairs and/or physical injuries... also helpful when it's not your machine i.e. one of the tournament players in Allentown who would yell so loud from time to time that he would create a temporary hush in an abnormally noisy environment!

God I have done my fair share of kicking machine.
One machine that comes to mind that I hit really hard that actually caved the coin door broke the hinge and interlock switch was Judge Dreed.
The machine had me so pissed because it lost track of the balls and then tilted for no reason.
This was when i first got before I shopped it.
Another game was Robocop pin i had one day i got so mad I hit the lock down bar with my fist dont ask why was just mad bent the bar and broke the glass.
Since then never ever to i hit a lock down bar.
Now a days i just shake the machines and walk away.
But i also don�t own a pin.

Another that is not pinball related was arcade podium at cyberdome arcade in Ottawa and the guy i was playing the game with was being really cheap on the game also one of my friends maybe about 2 hours of this i snapped and ripe the control  panel pylon completely off.
luckily the head tech that was there was my old boss at the other arcade I worked at.
He let me cool down and gave me the tools i had to fix luckily they had a gutted cab i could steal the wood from because the base was just trashed.

I admit kicking a machine out of anger... when I was a teenager. Nowadays "darn it" or "fudge" seems to suffice.

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I have a tendancy to shove machines quite a bit when frustrated, I try to refrain from it as much as possible but my furstration gets the better of me.  Espically on games that don't play right.

Adam .. shake a machine ??? this I find hard to believe ...

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I've also kicked the coin door but I usually get hurt doing that..  
Mike

OK, YOU"RE the ONE!  I seem to get a lot of your games (coiun door bashed inward)!    I'm not happy that you got hurt, but I am glad to see that the pinball fought back for once!

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