[FSPA] Swinging from a vine to Mighty Mikes ...

Mon Jul 10 16:41:46 EDT 2017

Unfounded. The Stern GB issue was not my fault, as it would be obvious to any reasonable person that I was losing money having it sit there not operational for a few weeks, so it is in the operator's interest to have it running ASAP.  And there have been soooo many machines rotated in and out, I lose track.  And the maintenance on the machines was never neglected as the managers and I have said and doucumented.  It's pinball, a game will go down at any time.  Anyone in the hobby or business knows that.  IE: All 3 flippers on a brand new Dialed In at VUK have broken down within less than a couple weeks.  And if you want to buy a machine from my location then we can rotate even more, so pony up the bucks and lets start rotating more, as it is obvious I do not control which machines customers buy or how often they buy.  Consider the location lucky that they are rotated at all, much less the large number that actually has been rotated.  I should not have to, but aparrantly I do, remind you this is not the 1970's with tons of public pinball accounts to swap games with every year.  You also may not be privy to power issues or limitations with the lease or with the landlord owners desires, etc, so a person does not have an entitlement to a certain number of games in life.  I was happy to have not one, but two pinballs, working even half way decent, a Scared Stiff and NBA Fastreak, at my local bowling alley many years ago, and dropped many bucks in them regularly.  I was grateful.  Apparently some people's memory of Johns Place and all the serious issues between power and maintenance has faded quickly.  Amusement operators do not want to operate pinball, and locations do not want pinball ...it makes little money per sq foot of leased space because casual public pinball is dead.  And no way would I ever pull a machine from an account that has one machine to put temporarily in an account that already has 5 or more games just temporarily waiting for GB to be up and running (which was an unknown time period simply due to Stern's customer service) so it is not fair to consider that neglect either.   -Roland   

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Subject: Re: [FSPA] Swinging from a vine to Mighty Mikes ...

The forgotten branch of FSPA is how it feels sometimes in there.  Glad to see we are getting some variety AND a 7th game.  I FEEL YOUNG AGAIN!!

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On Jul 10, 2017, at 3:44 PM, Bob K Mertz via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:

I was referring to the frustrations we had being down a machine for a season and machines being stale for quite a while.... There was a thread here a short while ago.... I'm just glad to finally have different machines and enough to cover a breakdown and not be stacked up on each other.

On July 10, 2017 3:38:46 PM EDT, The Bob via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:

Not exactly a forgotten branch.  I'd still play there if it was smoke free and wasn't so far from my house. :)

Good luck with the Magna save!

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Roland Joyal via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:

Not sure what "forgotten branch of FSPA" means since machines are well maintained as reported by league mangers, and there has been many machines rotated in and out, but OK, glad you are enjoying the variety.  Not saying Jungle Lord is 100% since I have only owned it for less than 24 hours, but seemed close enough to be played tonight if anyone so desires.  -Roland  

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Subject: Re: [FSPA] Swinging from a vine to Mighty Mikes ...

Thanks for the variety! I'm starting to feel like I'm no longer playing at the forgotten branch of the FSPA.  
...... Now if you could only find a machine that everyone is good at except Edan things will be complete :)

On July 10, 2017 1:30:09 AM EDT, Roland Joyal via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:
... Jungle Lord makes an appearance.  It's after 1 AM and spent the last 7 + hours getting the game ready for prime time, including fixing several hacks and issues, so hopefully it plays OK for Monday's league at Mighty Mikes.  Let Edan/Joe know if not.  Keep in mind it is a 35 year old game so it is not going to play like a newer SS game. 

Jungle Lord is a great early 80's pin with 2 levels/ramps, 4 flippers, Magna-Save buttons, TONS of drop targets, 2 ball Multiball, a super sexy back glass, and a VERY sophisticated rule sheet (for the time period) w/cool strategy and features (as Mr. Blonder will tell you).   And just TRY and get the ever-changing background sound to get to it's limit!  (I had a super long ball, 10X bonus (but fell just short of the default highest score), and as soon as I thought the pitch was as high as it can go, it then changes to something lower/different and gets more intense.  Gotta luv the 80's technology ;)   I will point out that in certain conditions there is a bug in the s/w or design where if there is a ball in the right saucer, and there is another ball on the play field, the second ball can hang up next to the locked ball, and it won't time out and kick the ball out (and no ball search for this era game).  

So now Mighty Milke's has 7 Pins, and you can't beat the variety of games.  The league has a mid 70's EM, an early 80's SS, a late 80's SS, a mid 90's WPC, a mid 90's WPC-95, an early 2010 decade Stern and a 2017' new Stern pin. Don't know how long Jungle Lord will stay, as most of the games are for sale, but for now and the foreseeable future, it is there.  Things will be arranged differently in the next few weeks in the pinball room if or when it gets painted, so JL's final resting place may will be different.  

-Roland
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