Quoted from necro_nemesis

I take back that statement on Joust. Although the game is boring as all hell the controversy and rediculous road trips associated with that pin make it quite fascinating.

... The hunt for a game is often just as exciting or even more exciting than playing the game itself. The anticipation of a newly acquired game is almost like a drug... ask JVegas... You get hooked!

Quoted from Sparky

... The hunt for a game is often just as exciting or even more exciting than playing the game itself. The anticipation of a newly acquired game is almost like a drug... ask JVegas... You get hooked!

Which is why, when the result of the hunt isn't as successful as you thought (or think you were lead to believe), sour grapes can ensue.  Each person's experience of a deal or sale is personal and social at the same time.  Where one person or group may apply a certain criteria that makes a transaction successful, another may apply different criteria that makes it not so successful.

The best advice is to "look before you leap," a lesson not easily learned in this addictive hobby.

it's a very cut-throat hobby..

Quoted from machine.slave

it's a very cut-throat hobby..

True... that's why I keep my deals to myself, and I even back out of deals when I smell trouble. Friendships and good acquaintances are more important to me than a pin. It is normal when a bunch of guys in a community all aim for the same thing... someone will get pissed at someone else. By keeping my deals, garage finds and found treasures to myself, people are happy when they come over and play them.

And on the flipside of that, when I buy from another member, I do it of my own accord. If I don't like the price, I merely move along, therefore there is never any bad blood. But if it is overpriced and I still want it, I negotiate a bit, and when I buy it, if the deal sours, unless there is true evidence of a malicious seller, I only have myself to blame. I saw it... I negotiated... I made the conscious decision to buy it. Period.

It's a small pinball world... I rather be happy in it, so I don't start anything with anyone... well, except with Glen sometimes... f**ker eliminated me from the pinball championship. (Man, that was fun btw... probably the most exciting games I ever played... was close!)

Quoted from necro_nemesis

I take back that statement on Joust. Although the game is boring as all hell the controversy and rediculous road trips associated with that pin make it quite fascinating.

It's a matter of taste Glen, I rather play Joust than TZ, it's by far my favorite game (on a 2 player basis of course). At first glance it is boring, but once you understand completely the game and use those different strategies against your opponent....it becomes really fun. But it's a really, extremely boring game to play alone though, that I give to you.


I made 2 trips for 2 different Jousts, one to California with my wife and my 2, 10 year old sons, and another with  a friend to Washington State. Both were rediculous and quite boring, riding in a car 24 hours a day for 6 days, eating at restaurants, using public showers at truck stops, not being able to sleep because of the kids, or just because you're not comfortable in the damn car, without counting that both trips were made without a GPS,  makes it everything except fascinating,  but the games were well worth the trip, my best game ever.

Quoted from ALJO

I made 2 trips for 2 different Jousts, one to California with my wife and my 2, 10 year old sons....

!  You're not going to have us believe you made that trip with wife and family in tow JUST to pick up a Joust, are you?  I couldn't get my spouse on a pin run if they were made of solid gold and I found one for $5.00....  Couldn't resist....  

I still find it Insane that you don't have a cell phone for these trips.  GPS is a nice to have, I wouldn't dream of driving that kinda distance without a cell phone.

Quoted from websherpa

!  You're not going to have us believe you made that trip with wife and family in tow JUST to pick up a Joust, are you?  I couldn't get my spouse on a pin run if they were made of solid gold and I found one for $5.00....  Couldn't resist....  

You're going to have to believe me, I sold my first TZ to Teamtonics and brang it to him on my trip, he'll confirm.
But not the whole family, only the younger ones, i would not have toughed the trip with 2 extra teenagers .

Quoted from Vengeance

I still find it Insane that you don't have a cell phone for these trips.  GPS is a nice to have, I wouldn't dream of driving that kinda distance without a cell phone.

I now have a GPS, but not back then. My wife had a cell phone on my first trip and it cost her 700$ that month, more than what it cost for gas (550$) to go and come back, because of the few U.S. calls we made. Cell phone? NO THANKS.

you, sir, are in-f$%king-sane...

Quoted from Vengeance

I wouldn't dream of driving that kinda distance without a cell phone.

Hmmm, kid's these days. I don't have an issue being a 1000 miles from anybody with no communication in the middle of the Arctic. If I don't show up eventually someone will come looking for me.

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Hmmm, kid's these days. I don't have an issue being a 1000 miles from anybody with no communication in the middle of the Arctic. If I don't show up eventually someone will come looking for me.

Cell phones are such a rip-off in this country...So, I'm boycotting them until the prices of the plans drop significantly.
However, whenever delivering/picking up a pin (or anything really) they are pretty handy.