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Offline oldboy

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Hi from a lurker
« on: February 17, 2011, 12:42:45 AM »
I have to admit that I have been lurking around this site for some time and have not contributed. After reading the recent topic on this I thought it was time to rectify this slackness. That is the major reason I don't contribute and usually my sense of humour confuses people.

A little about me I am in my middleish 50's and currently have a couple of Gottlieb pinballs a Big Hurt and a Mario Andretti (due to my interest in speedway). Also have a Gottlieb lowboy arcade cab with a 1800+ game set up. More coincidence than anything else that they are all Gottlieb. Although growing up in the 60 & 70's I was always intrigued by the name when playing pinball. In those days we weren't very multicultural in Newcastle and I hadn't heard of anybody with what I thought was such a cool name.

Always been interested in arcades and pinballs after owning a heap of game consoles, C64s starting with Pong that cost me heaps back in the 70's.
One of my son's inherited a cocktail table to fix about 18 months ago and ever since it has got out of hand between the 2 of us with him picking up projects all over the place

Currently think I would like a car themed EM preferably Gottlieb of course.
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Offline Steevsee

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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2011, 01:12:07 AM »
 $.$ and welcome to Aussie Pinball.

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Offline pinnies4me

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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2011, 08:43:45 AM »
G'day Oldboy, welcome to Aussie Pinball. Lots of Gottlieb love here for sure (I have more Gottlieb than any other brand).

Good luck with the EM search!!
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2011, 09:05:23 AM »
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 09:23:29 AM »
Not a Gottlieb...
but theres a few of us hanging out for one of these

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=flying+turns&searchtype=quick


Welcome to the forum    ^^^
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2011, 10:23:19 AM »

 $.$ and  %)% to Aussie Pinball !

That's one great intro post  ^^^

I used to have a sense of humor once  %.%

Plenty of Gottlieb love on the forum - enjoy !
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2011, 11:36:31 AM »
Great intro post.  Welcome to ap
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Offline ktm450

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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2011, 01:56:04 PM »
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2011, 03:09:25 PM »
 %)% to AP

I too like race car themed pins
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2011, 11:42:52 AM »




That is just a beautiful work of art.
 I think I would just put it in the lounge room so I could sit there and admire it.



Quote from: Retropin on February 17, 2011, 09:23:29 AM
Not a Gottlieb...
but theres a few of us hanging out for one of these

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=flying+turns&searchtype=quick


Welcome to the forum    ^^^
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Offline pinnies4me

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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2011, 06:01:32 PM »
Quote from: Retropin on February 17, 2011, 09:23:29 AM
Not a Gottlieb...
but theres a few of us hanging out for one of these

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=flying+turns&searchtype=quick


Oh man, I just clicked that link - I am now in pinball-love, I sooooooooo want that game!!!!
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2011, 07:15:11 PM »
Quote from: pinnies4me on February 18, 2011, 06:01:32 PM
Quote from: Retropin on February 17, 2011, 09:23:29 AM
Not a Gottlieb...
but theres a few of us hanging out for one of these

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=flying+turns&searchtype=quick


Oh man, I just clicked that link - I am now in pinball-love, I sooooooooo want that game!!!!


Bugger off.. theres a queue!
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2011, 12:26:02 AM »
Welcome mate, I wouldn't worry too much about lurking as there are usually enough posts to go around, but congratulations on putting keyboard to forum and making that first post!

Sounds like a nice pair of machines you have there.
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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2011, 12:21:04 AM »
That Flying Turns is great with the cars in the backbox, I played one in Vegas and thought it was real cool how it is 2 games in 1
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Offline billxixix

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Re: Hi from a lurker
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2011, 11:03:54 PM »
Wellcome
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