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<p>Ethan wrote: </p>
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<p>Playland in Ocean City MD had the highlight of my MD exploring, and that <br>
was a Namco made vid called Final Furlough. You basically straddle this <br>
big stupid looking horse thing and have to bob it up and down faster than <br>
the other player to make your horse win the race. It's entertaining to <br>
watch, and it's been on my "Want it for magfest" list for a long time but <br>
they're kind of rare, crazy heavy and not sure how they would hold up <br>
getting played nonstop for 4 days. It was fun running into that machine <br>
first on my trek, since it is of interest. When it comes to pins, Playland <br>
had a solid lineup with Iron Man, PoTC, IJ Stern, and X-Men. No or low <br>
classics, but a lot of the modern huge redemption things which to be fair, <br>
are what pays the bills in modern arcades. The pins had players on them, <br>
which is awesome!</p>
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<p>The game you're talking about is Final Furlong. Final Furlough is the game where you get sent home and don't get paid.</p>
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<p>Final Furlong should definitely be at Magfest. Not only is it fun to watch others look like they are doing not so nice things with a horse, but a game on there is one hell of a workout! </p>
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<p>There is a related game called Rapid River which is the same idea, but you're in a raft and have to actively paddle.</p>
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<p>Personally, I would love a Derby Owners Club with the full 12 slots at Magfest. I probably would never leave if I got to play that for hours on end.</p>
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<p>Joe K</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 5, 2017 6:35:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> fspa@fspazone.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ethan@757.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [FSPA] Arcade fun: Ocean City, MD and Rehoboth Beach, DE</font>
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Via a crazy craigslist deal to pick up a used and slightly broken <br>
commercial frozen drink machine I ended up doing a quick trip last weekend <br>
to Ocean City MD. My goal was to buy said dual node frozen drink machine, <br>
and do the duty of checking out as many arcades as possible in a <br>
reasonable amount of time.<br>
<br>
So I trekked out on Saturday morning to meet the craigslist seller who <br>
agreed to hold the equipment that I was hoping to purchase before the <br>
upcoming MAGStock camping event. Deal went down easily, and crazy enough <br>
the guy used to work for Silicon Graphics and his kids are involved in <br>
diving so he spent some time over in Utila, Honduras recently with dive <br>
operators that I was familiar with. Small world! Chatted a bit about <br>
Silicon Graphics and loaded the 117 pound thing into the truck. It was <br>
taller than expected, so it wouldn't fit under the solid bed cover which <br>
means I had to leave it open while off doing arcade hunting. Brought tarp <br>
and the machine is this awful olive green color so I figure no one would <br>
take it.<br>
<br>
I found that parking at Ocean City, MD was fairly costly given my simple <br>
intentions but took advantage of the Park-N-Ride lot. Park right off the <br>
strip, pay $3 and the bus will drop you off on the strip. Perfect, but <br>
bring exact change for the bus.<br>
<br>
Once on the strip I found the arcades to be pretty well stocked with the <br>
current high end redemption crap just like Dave and Busters. Instead of <br>
one fish bowl transparent LCD ball drop ticket dispenser there was 3!<br>
<br>
Playland in Ocean City MD had the highlight of my MD exploring, and that <br>
was a Namco made vid called Final Furlough. You basically straddle this <br>
big stupid looking horse thing and have to bob it up and down faster than <br>
the other player to make your horse win the race. It's entertaining to <br>
watch, and it's been on my "Want it for magfest" list for a long time but <br>
they're kind of rare, crazy heavy and not sure how they would hold up <br>
getting played nonstop for 4 days. It was fun running into that machine <br>
first on my trek, since it is of interest. When it comes to pins, Playland <br>
had a solid lineup with Iron Man, PoTC, IJ Stern, and X-Men. No or low <br>
classics, but a lot of the modern huge redemption things which to be fair, <br>
are what pays the bills in modern arcades. The pins had players on them, <br>
which is awesome!<br>
<br>
On to Sportsland in Ocean City MD. Another large redemption filled cade of <br>
decent size. The only two pins there were Elvis (down) and JJ Wizard of <br>
Oz.<br>
<br>
Final stop for Ocean City MD was a location called Fun City. Once again <br>
the money maker redemption crap (Though I like the design of some of the <br>
machines! I've been thinking I'd love to build a pinball using the large <br>
transparent LCD trick but the servicability would suck with that under the <br>
playfield glass!) BUT, chilling in the Fun City was a Stern Family Guy and <br>
another JJ Wizard of Oz.<br>
<br>
All three arcades were pretty large, none of them had much in the way of <br>
classics which isn't a surprise at this point but all three had solid <br>
recent pinball machines.<br>
<br>
I was able to spin through all the locations pretty rapidly, and wasn't <br>
really in a rush to get home so next stop Rehoboth Beach, DE. I had gotten <br>
a tip from a coworker that there are pinball machines on the boardwalk. I <br>
moved to the DC area from the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area, and Virginia <br>
Beach only ever had one arcade on the boardwalk. So it was a surprise to <br>
me that these other places have multiple competing 'cades with similar <br>
machines.<br>
<br>
It didn't take too long to get to Rehoboth Beach, and I just parked at <br>
some metered spot. I was using google maps, searching for the Arcade <br>
keyword to find locations with very little prior research. The first and <br>
only place I really found was...<br>
<br>
Playland! Playland was a let down IIRC, I don't have any pictures of it. <br>
Needed to use the bathroom and while trying to find that I found...<br>
<br>
Ryans Mini-golf! This one didn't register on the map search but was really <br>
close to Playland. The lineup there... yea<br>
<br>
Ghostbusters (BAM), Wizard of Oz, Aerosmith (whaaaat?) and Batman 66! <br>
Someone there cares about pinball or they just refreshed their line up! <br>
Finally I coudln't resist anymore and instead of just looking at machines <br>
I spent my time there playing Aerosmith and actually got my initials on <br>
GB, meaning good players haven't been there yet ;-) An interesting <br>
suprise. 75 cents a play as I recall. I played GB the most just because I <br>
was getting good runs on it. Aerosmith has a cool feature where it tosses <br>
the balls upwards for lock though. Both Aerosmith and Batman66 had the <br>
color LCD system from Stern (anyone know how that works under the hood?)<br>
<br>
Got home, unloaded the heavy sticky machine of frozen goodness. Next day <br>
was the moment. Did I outsmart the prior owner who might not have <br>
understood how the safety interlocks work on the slushie machine? No. <br>
After like 3 hours and hands covered in sticky old slush syrup the culprit <br>
was a broken gear in a gearbox that makes the augers stir the slushie on <br>
the right. But I managed to buy all the parts that were missing online and <br>
the slushie machine should hopefully have it's transmission rebuilt for <br>
the right side before league tonight.<br>
<br>
I didn't have much time to work on the slushie machine this week.... <br>
because... work trip to Chicago datacenter and personal fun trip to <br>
Brooklyn for computer security conference / nerd rap music concert (next <br>
post.)<br>
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-- Ethan O'Toole<br>
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