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Offline bossninja17

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What sort of pinball person are you?
« on: March 03, 2011, 01:18:57 PM »
I enjoyed reading this:
"Pinball enthusiasts come in all shapes and sizes, but many of them share common traits": http://www.pinballnews.com/comment/enthusiasts.html

Anyone brave enough to say which category they belong in?
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Re: What sort of pinball person are you?
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2011, 02:28:22 PM »

I read this morning and could narrow myself down to ONE single category.

If it could be more than one, then it would be ALL of these ;

1. Art Collector: The Art Collector appreciates the beauty of games and will obsessively add to his collection. The games won’t get played much, for that’s not his aim. He wants the perfect specimen. His collection may include games like Fathom, Centaur and Iron Maiden.

8. Hoarder: Hoarders collect games.  Typically they have more games than they could ever hope to fix or set up at once. They hoard anything but more commonly collect early '80s games or EMs as you get more of them to hoard for your dosh!

11. Hunter Gatherer: HGs are those who enjoy the thrill of the chase. They seek out the rare and unusual games that many players haven’t even heard of, never mind played, such as Airborne, Eclipse, Orbitor 1 or Spirit.

If I HAVE to pick ONE, then it is ;

8. Hoarder: Hoarders collect games.  Typically they have more games than they could ever hope to fix or set up at once. They hoard anything but more commonly collect early '80s games or EMs as you get more of them to hoard for your dosh!

If it was my wife picking for me then it is easily ;

12. Junkie: Junkies can’t concentrate on anything but pinball. Other things such as work or the family tend to suffer due to their obsession.

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Re: What sort of pinball person are you?
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2011, 03:18:32 PM »
Have to say I am a cross between
5. Fanatic
8. Hoarder
9. Historian

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Re: What sort of pinball person are you?
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2011, 08:57:14 PM »
Looks like I am a cross - Fanatic/Hunter Gatherer
“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”

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Re: What sort of pinball person are you?
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2011, 09:10:25 PM »
Nothing too descriptive of me, closest is probably space cadet.

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Re: What sort of pinball person are you?
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2011, 09:31:51 PM »
I'm probably a mini-hoarder and mini-historian cross.
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Re: What sort of pinball person are you?
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2011, 09:29:51 PM »
well after reading the de******ions, i'd have to say i would be a cross between...

art collector
fanatic
hoarder
technician, coz i spend way too much time working on pins (mostly for other people and not my own)  !!! rather that playing them :D
with a smidgen of junkie thrown in for good measure  :lol

i guess that means im a "bitsa"  %.% %.% %.% %.%
« Last Edit: March 04, 2011, 09:40:06 PM by Mr Pinbologist »

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Re: What sort of pinball person are you?
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2011, 09:36:32 PM »
well after reading the de******ions, i'd have to say i would be a cross between...

art collector
fanatic
hoarder
technician  :D with a smidgen of junkie thrown in for good measure  :lol

i guess that means im a "bitsa"  %.% %.% %.% %.%


 %.% %.% I reckon most of us are Mitch . I forgot to add in my earlier reply that I am a techie too .. was a manager for 2 years but hated it so demoted myself back to tech .. long story short
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Re: What sort of pinball person are you?
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2011, 08:03:40 PM »
Guess I'd fall in the drunk category.

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