Blast From the Past

[Denbo]

Hey Y'all,

I have been MIA for much to long, hows everyone??? Tulsa, Lew, Davis Arby....What up!!!

What's the latest and greatest in the world of Pachilo?

I am still a proud 3 machine owner, TriColor, Charlies Angels and Super Reno.

[luckydog]

The times are changing!!!

Identity theft

You have all of Tulsa's Info, you need to change it

[Denbo]

BA HAHAHA....I have no idea How that happened......

[Tulsa]

Denbo!

It's about time you showed your ugly mug around here again! What are you doing bud?

[Denbo]

Hey man, been way to busy with work and life to have play time.....LOL. Finally fired up the machines last evening after a shocking 4 months of inactivity.....DOH.... and thought of you guys and well here I am.....


So I was surfing Ebay looks like lot's of new machines out there.

[Tulsa]

Quite a few new ones have come in. The LCD's got huge but still the Git's are the most playable out there. We've embraced pachinko heavily now too. Arby has become out quintessential guru on pachinkos. He started importing them himself. Now he gets all the best stuff. Arby and Davis are moderators here and Lew, he's still Lew. He took the role of our advertising exec and drops our links wherever his surfboard takes him.

So are you back now for a bit or just slumming?

[azlew]

Denbo glad to hear from you again!!

[Tony Junior]

Hi Denbo! We never met or talked, but welcome home!

[arbycoffee]

Hi Bud,

remember balls are better than tokens to play with in your pockets

[Tulsa]

For everyone relatively new to the site. We all started once upon a time at another site. Denbo's was one of the originals. The originals that are still around, in order of appearance are...

Azlew
Stealth
Pachislousa
Drugdoc
Davis
Tulsa
David R
Denbo
Dritz
Lddrizzt
Arbycoffee
Luckydog
Gwarzin
DMowery
Logicprobe
Bilko44

[Lddrizzt]

Are you sure we are originals, and not jut clever copies? You know anything is possible with todays technology.

[Tulsa]

Are you sure we are originals, and not jut clever copies? You know anything is possible with todays technology.

Or even cheap knock-offs?

[Lazarus]

Is there a list of all of us that were on the first site? To compare to who jumped that burning ship to come to this much better site. I don't remember now what number I was there, I was the # 17 to be invited here. It would be nice to see who is still here from the original.

[Denbo]

I am back, looking for machines and catching up. Looks like I have lots of reading to do to get there though...LOL

So Pachinko's huh? are they as fun as they look? I havent seen one first hand as of yet.

[Lddrizzt]

Or even cheap knock-offs?

Hard to tell with yer Darth Tater belly glass.

OH and Denbo, I was anti pachinko, I think I was one of the last hold outs. Buuuut these little steel ball machines are really cool! You gotta have at least one! (I have 2 newer ones, Thunderzone and Star Wars, and I got my dad one of the more simpler mid 90's models) As with pachislo pick one with a theme you like and you won't be disappointed.

[Firewire]

Denbo,

Pachinko is a WHOLE different animal. Like Lddrizzt said you gotta have at least one.

[Tony Junior]

...or three!

[cmk8895]

On the other hand.... I'm one of the few here who find modern pachinko one of the most boring things ever. You turn the knob, making minor adjustments until the majority of balls go in the start pocket, then sit there. And sit there. And sit there. Little balls flying in the start pocket; reels spinning; nothing much happening. Once in a blue moon the reel spin (or other sub-game depending on which machine you're playing) will hit something and a big trap door opens and catches most of the balls you shoot.

The whole time you're just sitting there holding the handle mindlessly watching balls fly out a little quicker than one per second. And the cyclics seem to be worse. You don't even have the joy of refilling ball containers and having to find the 'sweet spot' on the shooting knob again

Just not for me. I even followed advice and tried a few different ones. All the same. Sit there holding the handle and watching the balls.

Now VINTAGE pachinko; THAT is another story.

*sits back and tries to duck the hits from the pachinko folks*

cmk

[Bilko44]

Hmm, perhaps you need another hobby. There's darts, bowling, chess, bull riding....

[Denbo]

Hmmmm sounds Pachinko sounds interesting, think I'll have to crawl Ebay tonight and see what's around.