do you enjoy fixing moe than playing

[studley67]

i have 14 machines,9 dms and 5 ss.do you find yourself playing the mchines that you have had to do the most work on?i love all my machines but specially playboy and cleopatra,as i have had to do a lot of work on these.i love the challenge of fixing and then playing a dead machine.no machine is un fixable except a dead JACKBOT MPU ,OWEN.regards damien

[ddstoys]

I prefer fixing them than playing them i find the only time i play is a few test games after a repair

[Extra Ball]

Just owning them (thats the biggest buzz), closely followed by playing them. I would be happy for them to never break down, and buy all of them working. I get sad when they break 

[ajlaird]

I am definitely a player - it never gets old!

Fixing is satisfying but playing is what it is all about - that's what they are designed for!!!

[beaky]

i enjoy both about the same

[studley67]

the only thing that i enjy  more than pins and sex is beer.BUT beer stuffs up the other two.lol .

[Strangeways]

Owning - Having many machines (hoarding?) is great. It means you have HEAPS to do. I could not have many working pins, as I would get bored playing them. So I need to be working on them. Once they work - I tend to lose interest and I want to work on the next machine. There are exceptions - I love my Paragon - that is just the pinnacle of pinball playing. As the years go on, I will have my dream collection in my gamesroom, and also fulfilled the need to work on as many pins as I can get my hands on.

Working is definitely better than playing.

[studley67]

are we related nino ? p .s. did you see hat medusa i sent you?

[Strangeways]

are we related nino ? p .s. did you see hat medusa i sent you?

Yes mate - it was nice - Are you buying it ?

[studley67]

i was hoping too,but i need some heeeeelp on th logistics of getting it here!

[ajlaird]

Where is it?

[Strangeways]

Where is it?

Jolly old England !

[beaky]

reminds me of the old tech who used to fix the pins at the keon park amf
he didnt like playing pins much but loved fixing them

[Retropin]

Both for me..

I find i can really get stuck into fixing one up, then it might piss me off and i walk away for a while and come back with a fresh approach.
Playing is the same - ill fall in love with a game again after an absence and wont stop playing it for a few weeks.. then ill move on.. come back etc etc etc.
Best part of playing the pins is having a line up of different eras all working. It really screws with your skills moving along the line adapting to the various styles of play.
Can be reverse 2" flippers on an early 50's game straight onto 3" flippers on something like Super Mario, then to SS machine and then to impulse flippers... all feel so different... and adapting is not easy!

[pinnies4me]

Depending on my moods, either is more fun at different times. Sometimes I am happy when a fault develops in an old game so I have to trace it down, and other times all I want to do is play. But I do enjoy games on a newly fixed machine, lots of satisfaction in that!