My most recent acquisition, located via ebay.com in December 2001. My mechanically-savvy friend Thomas N. rode with me to pick it up in Winchester, VA, thus making moot the typical huge shipping charges for a pinball. I would say that this, along with Diner (1990), would qualify as an all-time favorite. When arcades were in Crystal City where I work, I played this game quite a bit. My last encounter with a FunHouse in commercial service was in May 1997, when I visited my cousins in Portland, OR and drove up to Sea-Tac, WA, to catch the plane back. I had to call the vending company because of malfunction. Tinkering pinballs is a lot of fun, and I shall enjoy spiffing up Rudy and his domain in the months (or years) he's with me, I'm sure.
Found on an ebay.com auction in October 2000. I rode to Norfolk, VA with my mechanically-savvy friend Thomas N. to pick it up from Wometco Amusements, a commercial coin-op outfit. This is one of those machines I played a lot in 1989 and 1990, and it is still hard to believe I have one in my own home. Alien Poker has a more responsive mechanism, but this game is much more intriguing.
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Purchased in November 1990 from Home Amusement in Rockville, MD and maintained in the same room ever since. It was my cure for spending too much time in the arcade. For the tinkering type, pinball is an excellent hobby because it is pretty much done with ordinary hand tools and the diagnostics aren't all that difficult.
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From knowing Rich, I think he'd have found the WWW "cool", indeed.
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