A friend said to me that the happiest two days with a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
Made me think about happy v sad pinball days.
Happiest for me - Late 90s when I bought my first game, TAF. I had just bought a 3 bed house in Leeds and so naturally added a refurbished 7x4 turned leg Superleague and a Pinball Machine. TAF was bought refurbished and installed by the courier. The game that really cemented my love of pinball when I was at Uni. The game changer - streets ahead of anything out then: Hurricane, T2, Phantom of the Opera, Fish Tales, Swords of Fury, BoP, Checkpoint, LW3, the Gottliebs..... Having first really cut my teeth on Earthshaker, this was the first machine in a busy environment that I achieved and maintained the high score on. I still own this game and it has been phenomenally reliable. One fuse. One linkage. Rubbers. Balls. Bulb or two. In 20 plus years of ownership. I think I paid about £1.1k for it. Probably £5k now. Just brilliant in every single aspect.
Saddest for me - Day my NIB DI LE arrived. After unboxing it with @mark9, seeing the quality of the thing, the misaligned everything, the complete lack of quality; I realised I had made a huge mistake. Nearly pulled the trigger on selling it the week I got it. Thought I would fix it up, give it a chance. I put hours and hours and hours into setting the damned thing up. But nothing was going to overcome the shattering day one disappointment. Lost money when selling it, naturally.
Made me think about happy v sad pinball days.
Happiest for me - Late 90s when I bought my first game, TAF. I had just bought a 3 bed house in Leeds and so naturally added a refurbished 7x4 turned leg Superleague and a Pinball Machine. TAF was bought refurbished and installed by the courier. The game that really cemented my love of pinball when I was at Uni. The game changer - streets ahead of anything out then: Hurricane, T2, Phantom of the Opera, Fish Tales, Swords of Fury, BoP, Checkpoint, LW3, the Gottliebs..... Having first really cut my teeth on Earthshaker, this was the first machine in a busy environment that I achieved and maintained the high score on. I still own this game and it has been phenomenally reliable. One fuse. One linkage. Rubbers. Balls. Bulb or two. In 20 plus years of ownership. I think I paid about £1.1k for it. Probably £5k now. Just brilliant in every single aspect.
Saddest for me - Day my NIB DI LE arrived. After unboxing it with @mark9, seeing the quality of the thing, the misaligned everything, the complete lack of quality; I realised I had made a huge mistake. Nearly pulled the trigger on selling it the week I got it. Thought I would fix it up, give it a chance. I put hours and hours and hours into setting the damned thing up. But nothing was going to overcome the shattering day one disappointment. Lost money when selling it, naturally.