Who in here plays all 3 pretty well?

Fatboy said:
I’m a world class Defender player. Took me years to master it. I started on it the day it came out. I was good after a year. After 4 years, I couldn’t find anyone anywhere who could beat me.


We used to play races to a million points. Who gets there first is the better player because it’s alternate turns so you have a higher point average peer life. Playing for a total is impossible because on factory default settings playing forever is easy after you know how to play.

Or we would go into the settings with zero free lifes(default is every 10,000 points) and set it to 5 lifes and who scores the most wins. Shorter races than the million.

I’ve owned a number of Defender machines over the years and Stargate as well(which is a much easier game.

Fun times,

Robotron I was good at but never a top player, I could play forever on it as well but my average per life in the formats outlined above I wasn’t the best.

Tempest I couldn’t ever get there, same for centipede.

I was 13 or 14 when the golden era of arcades happened, I played pool then too. When the arcades dried up. I went to pool full time. I’m a life long degen on this shit. In 77 I was 11 and that’s when it all started with pinball. My parents didn’t even try to tell me what time to come home-I’d never listen. I still don’t listen rip mom & dad.

In Vegas last week I was on good behavior mode and got in at 4am

How I ever achieved any measure of success I’m not sure.

Fatboy<——doing his thing since day 1
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You hear anything about them closing down the pinball hall of fame museum in Vegas?
 
u12armresl said:
You hear anything about them closing down the pinball hall of fame museum in Vegas?
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I used to know the guy who owns it. Tim Arnold. Last I heard they relocated it and it’s bigger and better-that was during covid. I’m not sure since then.

He has about 1000 machines in his personal collection. I have a few I bought from him(in storage in Vegas). He’s a very good guy, does lots for charity Salvation Army.

I’ll ask around and see what it says online. I knew him long before he opened the first one.

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Fatboy <——loves pinball

My back tattoo is the back glass from the pinball machine called Paragon made by Bally in 1980 iirc maybe 81. I think 80. I love pinball art.
 
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Scrunge19 said:
The USBC just hosted a major bowling championship at the Gold Coast Casino a few weeks ago the BCA/USAPL championships were going on. It was pretty neat to go over and watch the best in the world bowl. You don't realize just how much better the pros are than you until you watch them, just like in every sport.
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From what I've read, they oil the lanes differently to make it more difficult for the pros, also.
 
I've bowled a few times and enjoyed it, can't say I sucked, I've played quite a bit of darts (and have a nice board at home) and am proficient enough to be the guy to beat at the office, but that's not saying much :)

I was also pretty good at golf but didn't play long enough, played a few times a week for a couple of years on a par 3, my short game was getting pretty good but was never any good at hitting the long clubs.

Eventually, I picked pool over golf because I could play it year round in the Midwest.

I'm generally very spatially aware and have pretty good hand eye coordination so most games/activities that pertain to those things are pretty easy for me to pick up.

Jack of all trades, master of none ;)
 
No to darts, bowling is fun every few years.

Crokinole was our game growing up. Wife's family still likes to bust it out at family gatherings. It gets pretty competitive.
 
MmmSharp said:
No to darts, bowling is fun every few years.

Crokinole was our game growing up. Wife's family still likes to bust it out at family gatherings. It gets pretty competitive.
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Crokinole! I have a Crokinole board. Can’t say i’m good at it. However, have a buddy from Saskatchewan who could be in the Crokinole Hall of Fame…if there was one. Only compensation is I can whip him at table top hockey.

Now that you mentioned it I’m going to get my board out and mess around a while. Lots of nostalgia.
 

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I'm surprised there hasn't been mention of shuffleboard in this thread. The bars that were the popular locations back when I was growing up (1960s) all had shuffleboard tables. Some were short, like about 15 feet, but most were about 10 yards long. As a kid, I'd just make stacks with the weights and try to smash them from the other side, but usually they didn't even let us kids near the tables. Darts were big back then, and the pool tables were almost always 9 footers. They wouldn't let us kids play on those either.
 
Geosnookery said:
What’s that song? : ‘Two out of three ain’t bad’. I play billiards and darts. Might bowl twice a year. However in Canada we have ‘5 pin’ …I prefer it to Americsn 10 pin with those Flintstone balls. I was a ‘decent’ but not great 5 pin bowler at one time. I had a job pin setting and could play whenever we wanted to on our free time.

Darts or billiards:
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Looks like close to heaven, You are blessed in my mind... Carry-on...
 
Now I play pool better. Haven't bowled or tossed darts in many years. When I was a kid I did all 3 but wasn't very good at any of them. Needed eyeglasses but we were too poor to buy any. Only sport I was good was running because you don't need to see very good to run.
 
u12armresl said:
You hear anything about them closing down the pinball hall of fame museum in Vegas?
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I was out in Vegas in October and visited it. They just moved the location on the Strip south just past Mandalay Bay. I'll be out again in June for the BCA trade show and will visit it again. Doesn't cost to enter and most of the games are set at .25 to play. Definitely worth checking out if you have never been.
 
dardusm said:
I was out in Vegas in October and visited it. They just moved the location on the Strip south just past Mandalay Bay. I'll be out again in June for the BCA trade show and will visit it again. Doesn't cost to enter and most of the games are set at .25 to play. Definitely worth checking out if you have never been.
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We went there a few months ago and a had a fun night at the Pinball Museum. It was a blast and we maybe spent $5 each! The machines are old and are constantly breaking down, but maybe 80% of them were working. If we put money in a machine that did not function they gave us our money back (a few quarters at most).
 
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