Hi Accession,
In a message to Jimmylogan you wrote:

Ac> Pinball was also huge. 'Fun House' comes to mind as my all

That was a great game. I haven't seen it in quite some time, though.
The last really good one I played was Terminator 2 themed.

I have fun house installed on the Visual Pinball rig here, I love it.
One of these days (If you stop making me buy bbq's) I will save enough
to build out a proper pinball setup.

Do not install visual pinball unless you want to lose a few weekends!

Shawn

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Hi Accession,
In a message to Jimmylogan you wrote:

I think the excitement of getting one would be one thing, but just
like the pool table I had in my early-mid 20s, you play less and less
and over time it's time to make room for something else (our reason
birth of our son). Had to turn the "man cave" into a living room, for
some odd reason. :P

When I had the house I had converted the front "master" bedroom into
the billiard room. The problem was I got really REALLY good on my
table, but whenever I played at a bar I stunk the place up. hahaha

Shawn

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On Fri, Nov 08 2024 06:08:03 -0600, you wrote:

I have fun house installed on the Visual Pinball rig here, I love it.
One of these days (If you stop making me buy bbq's) I will save enough
to build out a proper pinball setup.

Do not install visual pinball unless you want to lose a few weekends!

First off, one must never stop buying anything related to BBQ. :)

This looks pretty interesting, though. I'm not sure I'd want to create
my own stuff, but just to check out anything the community has created
over the years sounds pretty cool.

Regards,
Nick

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On Fri, Nov 08 2024 06:08:03 -0600, you wrote:

When I had the house I had converted the front "master" bedroom into
the billiard room. The problem was I got really REALLY good on my
table, but whenever I played at a bar I stunk the place up. hahaha

I played so much that after I sold my pool table (to a good friend, so I
can still go see it, or play on it whenever I want to, lol), I don't
think I played again for a good 10+ years. Which is unfortunate, because
you end up really bad after that long without playing. :)

Regards,
Nick

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Accession wrote to Tiny <=-

On Fri, Nov 08 2024 06:08:03 -0600, you wrote:

When I had the house I had converted the front "master" bedroom into
the billiard room. The problem was I got really REALLY good on my
table, but whenever I played at a bar I stunk the place up. hahaha

I played so much that after I sold my pool table (to a good friend, so
I can still go see it, or play on it whenever I want to, lol), I don't think I played again for a good 10+ years. Which is unfortunate,
because you end up really bad after that long without playing. :)

Or be like me and never get the hang of it at all, even though you really enjoyed playing. :-)




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Hi Accession,
On <Sat, 08 Nov 24>, you wrote me:

First off, one must never stop buying anything related to BBQ. :)

Laugh.

my own stuff, but just to check out anything the community has created
over the years sounds pretty cool.

That's where I went. Took me weeks to install and play them all. My
desktop isn't really powerful enough for it anymore. I need to spend
a bit of money on that one, but there always seems to be something
more important.

Shawn


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Hello jimmylogan,

On Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:47:42 -0800, you wrote to me:

I played so much that after I sold my pool table (to a good friend, so
I can still go see it, or play on it whenever I want to, lol), I don't
think I played again for a good 10+ years. Which is unfortunate,
because you end up really bad after that long without playing. :)

Or be like me and never get the hang of it at all, even though you really enjoyed playing. :-)

I probably would have been better off going that route. Instead, you tend to expect to be good, and when that doesn't happen you get frustrated and play even worse. :)

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Tiny,

On Sat, 09 Nov 2024 06:45:14 -0600, you wrote to me:

my own stuff, but just to check out anything the community has created
over the years sounds pretty cool.

That's where I went. Took me weeks to install and play them all. My desktop isn't really powerful enough for it anymore. I need to spend
a bit of money on that one, but there always seems to be something
more important.

You need a powerful PC to run a pinball game? Or is your PC just /that/ old? :)

Regards,
Nick

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Accession wrote to jimmylogan <=-

Or be like me and never get the hang of it at all, even though you really enjoyed playing. :-)

I probably would have been better off going that route. Instead, you
tend to expect to be good, and when that doesn't happen you get
frustrated and play even worse. :)

They call that 'tilting' in the card game realm (think Magic: The
Gathering and Pokemon, etc.). You have a bad run and it snowballs...

I don't know that they know it comes from the old pinball days. :-)




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Accession wrote to jimmylogan <=-

Or be like me and never get the hang of it at all, even though you really enjoyed playing. :-)

I probably would have been better off going that route. Instead, you
tend to expect to be good, and when that doesn't happen you get
frustrated and play even worse. :)

They call that 'tilting' in the card game realm (think Magic: The
Gathering and Pokemon, etc.). You have a bad run and it snowballs...

I don't know that they know it comes from the old pinball days. :-)




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Re: Re: Favorite Retro Arcad
By: Accession to Tiny on Fri Nov 08 2024 13:40:59

I don't think I played again for a good 10+ years. Which is unfortunate, because you end up really bad after that long without playing. :)

Must be rough being stick-less for that long. :D
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Hello Mortar,

On Tue, Nov 12 2024 00:29:21 -0600, you wrote:

> I don't think I played again for a good 10+ years. Which is unfortunate,
> because you end up really bad after that long without playing. :)

Must be rough being stick-less for that long. :D

Tee-hee. Zinger?

To be honest, it was. One night, after going out with some friends we
decided to go back to my buddy's house (the one I sold my old pool table
to) with some beers and low and behold, went downstairs and there she
was, in all her glory!

I had damn near forgotten that I sold it to him, and was like "man this
table looks so... nevermind." lol

We played for a couple of hours, and while I wasn't nearly as bad as I
thought I would be after not playing for so long, I was definitely rusty.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: Favorite Retro Arcad
By: Accession to Mortar on Tue Nov 12 2024 06:32:22

...there she was, in all her glory!

And you just couldn't wait to get into her pockets.
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