ITT, I try to acquire a pinball

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon May 28, 2012 8:36 pm

Well, I picked Funhouse because I wanted a Pat Lawlor pin. Mostly. But yeah, the fact that it's going to be easy to get replacement parts also figured in.

I took Melissa to the mountains this weekend. The route I took passed us by Lyons Classic Pinball so I stopped in there. Look, it was our "get away from it all weekend," you unfeeling beasties.

They have Funhouse there. So I was able to see what mine is missing versus what theirs has. And the first thing? On MINE, Rudy's eyelids are not held up by anything! Unacceptable!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:02 am

By the way, Elvira (with the costume) is in my all-time top five, and if I ever say otherwise, smack me.

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Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:35 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:By the way, Elvira (with the costume) is in my all-time top five, and if I ever say otherwise, smack me.

Does anyone think it's rather appropriate that the real name of Elvira - a woman dealing with horror - is "Cassandra" ?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:01 pm

So, the 2UP opened in Denver. I hopped over there tonight. They have a Cirqus Voltaire next to an AC/DC (the newest pinball table in the world) next to a Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is an amazing lineup. There were probably 3 or 4 other pins there, but I am idiot and I forget which pins.

I am idiotperson bastard-man.

Nobody was in there. Well, maybe 8-9 people were in there. A girl was playing Cirqus Voltaire and I was waiting for her to finish. (There was a table probably 8 feet behind the pinball machines. So I wasn't lurking behind her like it was a restroom and I needed to wash my hands but Mister Really Making a Production Out of It was ahead of me.)

She finished, I walked up to it and she was very excited! I told her that I had never played before and she said it was her favorite pinball machine. I can see why! I can see why now. Cirqus Voltaire is amazing.

The basic goal, I guess, is to get the Ringmaster's disembodied head to rise up from the table and appear. I enjoyed smacking the shit out of him to get some multiball going. But there's other circus-themed stuff going on as well like the tightrope. There was probably even more circus stuff going on, but I was overwhelmed and quickly overstimulated by its light show.

To get the ringmaster's face to appear, you hit the area above his head a few times. (His face is sunken below the top of the playfield, normally.) A magnet then catches your ball in place and up comes his goddamn face. He then shrugs your ball off and it is fucking on.

Amazing pin. Lights going everywhere. Possibly better than the actual circus. I got a replay (at 25 million points) my first time up. I think it's just that the replay was set low. Or maybe two weeks of playing Funhouse in the dark on a table with the legs not attached had the effect of making me a superman on a proper pin with light and legs. I don't know.

I'm really psyched about the 2UP. I liked the layout of it more than the 1UP, which has the bar in the middle. (Technically, the 2UP does as well, but there are only two arcade machines behind the bar.)

I will now begin being officially angry that none of my friends (with a few exceptions) over the years have ever made the trip out to see me in Denver, because my city is quite frankly now officially better than yours.