wow loads of local matches at the arcade growing up.  
  mr. arcade here in peterborough use to have matches every week on certain machines and the top score would get $10 in arcade money.  it always seem to be me and my friend chris (which more then a few of you have meet) winning them.
most days, chris and i would take turns at the arcades.  who ever got there first would pick a pin and play.  win loads of credits till the other show up.  play against each other and then if one would want to leave that was fine.  the other would stay and play and then who ever left would come back and let the other go.  we would hog the machine all day.  that was back in our acid days.   if we both wanted to leave.  we would just sell off all the credits and split the money.

  but my best time with pinball, was when i was working at BPM (bar in peterborough) back when the addams family first came out.  they brought it into the bar.  i would start work at noon.  one day i started drinking right away when i got to work and started a game.  it wasn't that busy during the day that day.  but when someone needed a drink they would come over and save my ball.  then later it picked up alot.  so i started telling everyone to pour their own drinks.  no one complained and they even started pouring me mine.  then dess (other bartender) came in for the late shift.  i just kept playing and drinking.
  it was when i was a smoker and you could still smoke in places.  but not my funny stuff.  so i had people hold the ball while i went out for a joint ever so often.  also people would bring me food from pete's subs across the street.
  i played even after we closed the bar.  we usally stay after hours with a crowd of regulars on i think thursdays and watched kids in the hall.  they moved one of the t.v. for me so i could still watch.  
   in the end i was more then a little tipsy.  i rolled the machine twice and almost did it a third time.  over 15hrs i owned the machine for .50 cents.  still ended up taking home a new girlfriend that night as well.  plus my tip jar was overfull from everyone pouring their own.  

  as for arcade machine.
  in trenton during the hayday of arcades we had nine at the most at one time.  not bad for a town with less then 1500 then (now they are a city).  but we did have a guinness world record their for one day/night for asteroids and defender.   i am sure that the asteroids record was beat that day/night.  but the guy trying for defender wasn't having a good day.
   i was allowed to stay there all day and night due to the owners of phils arcade lived four houses away and they liked me.  i ended up playing arabian most of that night and bet i set a world record on it as well.  but who would care?   i did.  cost .25 cents and i finished the book at least a dozen times and played most of the night away till they closed.  the great part was besides killing on a game no one cared about was, i only had a dollar for the day and night (two weeks allowence).  so i played haunted house pinball earlier in the day for money against alot of the new comers who wanted to watch the record attemp.  the regulars there wouldn't play against me for money on pinball and most vids.  well except hyper olympics.  i would get my butt kicked by tony boberio and loss my money to him.  but now i kick butt on hyper olympics and when we had our shop in trenton, tony worked at the hair salon in the building behind ours.  i kicked his butt everytime he came in to play (which was almost every day).
but back to that day.  playing haunted house against people who didn't know me, i earn enough to enjoy myself that day and night.  earned enough that i got to play arcade games all day, had my food and smokes paid for and more then a couple times did i pick my music on the jukebox (adam and the ants, billy idol, joan jett).  then when i was down to my last dollar that when i played arabian.  they had to turn off the machine to close up the arcade on me.  well that and they took me home as well.  
  loads of other great stories.  i started pinsetting when i just turned 7 at our downtown lanes that my brothers bowled at.  the bowling alley always had great e.m. pins.  later when i was around 9 our friends bought brighton go-karts.  they had a great pin arcade with that being the first place i played captain fantastic and some other classics at.  one time they got broken into and the bastards broke all the glass on the playfields.  i had stayed over at their place that night and was so sad when we all opened that day.  but to make me happy, the owners let me use the vacume to clean out captain and play till the cops arrived.  
  then another time we found a warehouse on the trent river that was full of machines.  we broke in and played all night.  we didn't hurt any of course.  also i have went down that old path more then once to see if i could find that building.  i even took eve and erin with me.  but i never found it again.
  well thats enough or i would just keep going on.  i just love playing and almost every time is special.  now that i am selling off most of my machines........................gone today STREET FIGHTER II pinball.

Quoted from gorydeath

wow loads of local matches at the arcade growing up.  
  mr. arcade here in peterborough use to have matches every week on certain machines and the top score would get $10 in arcade money.  it always seem to be me and my friend chris (which more then a few of you have meet) winning them.
most days, chris and i would take turns at the arcades.  who ever got there first would pick a pin and play.  win loads of credits till the other show up.  play against each other and then if one would want to leave that was fine.  the other would stay and play and then who ever left would come back and let the other go.  we would hog the machine all day.  that was back in our acid days.   if we both wanted to leave.  we would just sell off all the credits and split the money.

  but my best time with pinball, was when i was working at BPM (bar in peterborough) back when the addams family first came out.  they brought it into the bar.  i would start work at noon.  one day i started drinking right away when i got to work and started a game.  it wasn't that busy during the day that day.  but when someone needed a drink they would come over and save my ball.  then later it picked up alot.  so i started telling everyone to pour their own drinks.  no one complained and they even started pouring me mine.  then dess (other bartender) came in for the late shift.  i just kept playing and drinking.
  it was when i was a smoker and you could still smoke in places.  but not my funny stuff.  so i had people hold the ball while i went out for a joint ever so often.  also people would bring me food from pete's subs across the street.
  i played even after we closed the bar.  we usally stay after hours with a crowd of regulars on i think thursdays and watched kids in the hall.  they moved one of the t.v. for me so i could still watch.  
   in the end i was more then a little tipsy.  i rolled the machine twice and almost did it a third time.  over 15hrs i owned the machine for .50 cents.  still ended up taking home a new girlfriend that night as well.  plus my tip jar was overfull from everyone pouring their own.  

  as for arcade machine.
  in trenton during the hayday of arcades we had nine at the most at one time.  not bad for a town with less then 1500 then (now they are a city).  but we did have a guinness world record their for one day/night for asteroids and defender.   i am sure that the asteroids record was beat that day/night.  but the guy trying for defender wasn't having a good day.
   i was allowed to stay there all day and night due to the owners of phils arcade lived four houses away and they liked me.  i ended up playing arabian most of that night and bet i set a world record on it as well.  but who would care?   i did.  cost .25 cents and i finished the book at least a dozen times and played most of the night away till they closed.  the great part was besides killing on a game no one cared about was, i only had a dollar for the day and night (two weeks allowence).  so i played haunted house pinball earlier in the day for money against alot of the new comers who wanted to watch the record attemp.  the regulars there wouldn't play against me for money on pinball and most vids.  well except hyper olympics.  i would get my butt kicked by tony boberio and loss my money to him.  but now i kick butt on hyper olympics and when we had our shop in trenton, tony worked at the hair salon in the building behind ours.  i kicked his butt everytime he came in to play (which was almost every day).
but back to that day.  playing haunted house against people who didn't know me, i earn enough to enjoy myself that day and night.  earned enough that i got to play arcade games all day, had my food and smokes paid for and more then a couple times did i pick my music on the jukebox (adam and the ants, billy idol, joan jett).  then when i was down to my last dollar that when i played arabian.  they had to turn off the machine to close up the arcade on me.  well that and they took me home as well.  
  loads of other great stories.  i started pinsetting when i just turned 7 at our downtown lanes that my brothers bowled at.  the bowling alley always had great e.m. pins.  later when i was around 9 our friends bought brighton go-karts.  they had a great pin arcade with that being the first place i played captain fantastic and some other classics at.  one time they got broken into and the bastards broke all the glass on the playfields.  i had stayed over at their place that night and was so sad when we all opened that day.  but to make me happy, the owners let me use the vacume to clean out captain and play till the cops arrived.  
  then another time we found a warehouse on the trent river that was full of machines.  we broke in and played all night.  we didn't hurt any of course.  also i have went down that old path more then once to see if i could find that building.  i even took eve and erin with me.  but i never found it again.
  well thats enough or i would just keep going on.  i just love playing and almost every time is special.  now that i am selling off most of my machines........................gone today STREET FIGHTER II pinball.

My eyes are bleeding.

Quoted from OTTOgd

My eyes are bleeding.

*slaps Kevin in the face for quoting all that text*

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*slaps Kevin in the face for quoting all that text*

    

Quoted from OTTOgd

My eyes are bleeding.

I averted my eyes quickly so as not to cause any permanent damage.