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Sparky
June 4, 2008, 10:58am Report to Moderator

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I had some pins in storage a while back and I was moving one around on the dolly. It slipped and fell down, with the bar on the dolly landing on my foot.



That's when I lost it. I picked up the pin and lifted it up so fast and hard that it flipped right over and landed on the playfield glass side. The glass shattered, some playfield component damage and the cabinet started to split open on the left side of the coindoor.

I lost it even more.

I took out the sledge.

It was t-o-a-s-t.

My foot was sore for a month.


Sparky

PS: It was a deader-than-mess Gottlieb Super Soccer I ended up with in a package deal of parts pins I got for 200$ (9 pins in the lot). this was in 2004).


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Usually it's to tear the SOB apart (to fix it right then and there) because some 5 cent switch has denied me completing the wizard mode.



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It supports my theory that booze, europeans?, pinballs and dreadlocks just don't mix well.  

Now this IS my version of heaven (do we know this place? somewhere in michigan I beleive) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJgJT7XWAho

I like the idea of staging a 12 hour pinball marathon (is 12 hours a marathon?) and tournament. And I seriously need to win a lottery and buy a bigger basement (of which to leave largely unfinished except for electrical, of course)!  


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I have been on pace to get a BIG record on the DM, on like ball 2 I'm 75% to my best ever score, then 2 balls drain on me within 30 seconds, but the worst I've done is shake the sh*t out of it, because I know if I do anything to it, I have to fix it.  Usually my sanity wins.  I mean, I feel bad after smashing a hockey stick on the crossbar and now I have to buy a new one .


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I've hit the PF glass with my fist a couple of times ...then I wake up, closed the machine and walked away.

The worst one I've ever done is on the pc ... Need for Speed "hot pursuit".

hit the wall, a rock and then the cops got me ... lost it, wanted to bang the keyboard but I miscalculated and hit the side of the desk.  My bone was showing up on my hand.  

Uninstall-delete-shreded the CD... never played again  

take a deep breath and walk away if you're at the point of hitting "a machine"...  (if it's a person, seek help NOW)


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The best revenge is GETTING RID of the machine. I couldn't get Pinbot out of my gameroom fast enough. I've NEVER experienced a more frustrating game than that one. I *seriously* considered pulling the game out of my house, driving it to the nearest field and setting the bastard on fire on more than one occasion.

I'm much more restrained now.    When I'm annoyed with a machine I'll intentionally tilt it and call it a couple of profanities. The knowledge that I have to fix whatever I break on it prevents me from doing any real damage... I'd be much more frustrated having to fix damage I caused.
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OK, I'm starting a Free Pin Anger Service.  You get overly frustrated with your pin (or any other coin-op machine), call me and I will come pick it up for free.  


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Quoted from cooke
The best revenge is GETTING RID of the machine.



I agree.  See you on TV Bart and Homer - just get the hell outta my house.


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arcade days in the 70's/80's i would turn my back to the pin and back heel kick the bottom of the f-ing machine.  found out when i did that to haunted house i got free credits.  also got kicked out more then once for my gosh darn swearing.  always heard my name being called out over the jukebox speaker given me my warning.

  at home though i just give a toe kick to the underbelly.  nothing too hard.  i tilt alot.
   vids... well i have knocked over a machine.  just once.  usally i just smack the cpo and that has restarted a game or two in my time.
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seriously though, you guys are nuts!

at worst i'll lightly pound the lockdown bar, look up at the backglass and shake my fists.

btw, being engaged in a game enough to get so angry at it, maybe means you shouldn't sell the game. tv, movies, games, food, etc are so bland these days, why not pursue hobbies good enough to get you emotionally involved??


"If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball."
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I guess it depends on what way you look at it.

I almost never get angry when I'm just casually playing some pinball because then it doesn't really matter.  If I'm just playing by myself at home or just for some fun at a friends place then no I don't generally push machines around to much or get Angry.

But put something on the line, be it money, or in terms of a league night at TOPL, points, then things change, things I would let slide when playing casually (A switch working intermitently, game not being level, etc) drive me insane because I know it is affecting my overall ability to play and as such frustrates the hell out of me.  Hense why if I have to play a game in a trounament like setting where it is leaning to the right or left, I'm going to shake the sh!t out of it as much as the tilt will let me to keep it away from those outlanes as a result of bad leveling and if I lose as a result of a poorly maintained machine that is where the shoving comes in.  


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If someone don't think to shake or to hit the machine when he lose the multiball after 10 second with the creature from the black lagoon he can come to play in my house.


wish list :   Big house? yes big house,not the pinball gottlieb's,real big house for more machine

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