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No Longer Available Nearly-new small vPin - Dutch Auction. Now reduced to £800

VeeMonroe

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This is an Arcadeland (https://arcadeland.co.uk/) vPin purchased in April 2022.

Unlike the usual 27” vPin, it has an analog shooter for more realistic skill shots and was upgraded to 10.7 software to play newer tables.

1 x 27” Virtual Pinball Machine
Add on - (Star Wars Graphics, Chrome, Digital Shooter, Legs)+ upgrade 10.7 software and ssd 500gb pinup)

It has ~750 virtual tables, including Future Pinball, FX3, etc, inc:

Cactus Canyon
Embryon
Fathom
Stern Deadpool (seem to be the right layout, but with different LCD graphics)
Stern Beatles (has alternative music and graphics that are better than the real one IMO)
The Addams Family
Earthshaker
Whirlwind
JJP Wizard of Oz (again, looks like the right layout)

Also, the various FPvideo-game-only tables. And so on.

I also have longer videos that are too big to upload here showing some gameplay and a scroll through some of the tables available.

I paid ~£1,500 for it - so I’m putting it on at £1,200 and will Dutch Auction (dropping by £100 each time). Also open to offers.

Would prefer pickup as it’s cheaper and I’m in SE London. Otherwise, happy to use a courier. Open to advice on how to transport vPins safely!

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robotgreg said:
If it's any good why are you selling as would seem ideal for you and not had for very long?
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I bought it to learn rules for tournament play and to try pins I hadn’t seen in real life. Both me and my older son played it exhaustively for a few weeks.

Then, my son stopped playing and, once I’d learned the rules for the pins I was interested in and tried out all the relevant pins, I drifted back to the physical pins downstairs.

It is great fun if you like computer pinball. It turns out… I don’t. Rather like how I exhaustively play my Nintendo Switch for a couple of weeks, and then it doesn’t get touched for ages.

If you enjoy computer pinball and want a proper plunger, a big screen and a general pinball *feel*, but in a small package, and want to experience different tables and so on, it’s great.

As a separate point, we’re saving money to pay for another IVF cycle so - if something isn’t getting daily play - it’s going to leave.
 
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How are FX3 tables implemented please? I sometimes play these on my laptop - they're fun, but they require all sorts of extra input. How do you manage without an attached keyboard?
 
JWG9999 said:
How are FX3 tables implemented please? I sometimes play these on my laptop - they're fun, but they require all sorts of extra input. How do you manage without an attached keyboard?
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You can connect a mouse and keyboard via usb, and use them to navigate fx3
 
JWG9999 said:
Thank you for your answer. I was hoping you could play FX3 without having to do that though.
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Fx3 is navigated through the front end, using buttons on the cabinet, selecting tables, changing the view etc
Mouse and keyboard is used for changing settings etc
 
Mouse and keyboard is not needed to just play fx3, as you use the cabinet buttons
But will need them if you want to change play modes / single player/ classic/ 1 ball challenge etc
You can also use the mouse and keyboard to tweak options in cabinet mode
 
All the best with the IVF cycle. Been on that expensive rollercoaster of emotions and wouldn't wish it on anyone. We were one of the lucky ones and have a healthy 8 year old and a 4 year old as a result. Wishing you both a big fat positive test result!
 
strongs_uk said:
All the best with the IVF cycle. Been on that expensive rollercoaster of emotions and wouldn't wish it on anyone. We were one of the lucky ones and have a healthy 8 year old and a 4 year old as a result. Wishing you both a big fat positive test result!
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Thank you 🥰

JWG9999 said:
Thank you for your answer. I was hoping you could play FX3 without having to do that though.
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A couple more videos (inc. a request on Beatles).

This is Creature on VPX (which is, IMO, better than FX3).




The Beatles on VPX.

 
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Pinball FX3 with a non-physical/virtual table.

 
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Apologies for my unbelievably soft plunge on Pinball FX3 Creature.

It’s worth mentioning that I bought the vPin because I played the Williams, FX3 and Zaccaria apps and didn’t especially enjoy the physics on FX3. I don’t own a PC, and the VPX and Future Pinball physics is WAY better for the same real-life tables.

The Pinball FX3 virtual-only Zen tables are great fun if you like computer pinball, and beautifully implemented on this vPin (see video above).




Please let me know if you’d like some proper gameplay videos and I’ll get someone else to hold the phone while videoing.
 
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Marvello said:
What Operating System do they run on?
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I’m not sure to be honest. When it boots up, it says ‘Dell’, so the underlying PC is a Dell one.

Doggard said:
Ive owned one of their machines for 2 years, I’ve used it daily, and it’s never let me down, they are built really well
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Yes, it’s a lovely machine. The fact I’m selling it isn’t because there’s something wrong with it. It’s simply because we’re trying to pay for IVF, it’s taking up space in our bedroom, and it doesn’t seem to be getting played, which I attribute to it intrinsically being two screens displaying a pinball machine. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I’m a fundamentally analogue-sort of person - more so than I imagined when I bought it.
 
I've had an enquiry about shipping. I haven't weighed the vPin with the legs off yet, or measured with packaging, but - assuming it weighs 30kg - it looks like it would be £52.75 to ship, fully insured (at the current £1,000) with Parcelforce for 48-hour delivery. Parcel2Go thinks Parcelforce is the cheapest shipping option.

The backbox doesn't fold down, so the packaging solution would be similar to my Godzilla Prem/the various monitors & desktop PCs I've ordered over the years. So, I'll manufacture a box of the same dimension to the vPin with the legs off, and then protect the screens with boarding, and the edges with some foam - to stop it moving around. I'll then fill the cavity between the backbox and playfield screen with bubble wrap and packing peanuts. My packaging solution will be a variation on the various packaging solutions I've used over the years to ship collectible board games both here and internationally, some of which are worth several hundred pounds.

I'm not willing to ship uninsured, for obvious reasons. We had a box of 10-15 board games and another box containing a Too Many Bones Trove Chest (a collector's edition board game) worth £450 in a case made out of plywood completely crushed by UPS last year, but - fortunately - had fully insured the consignments and were able to reclaim the money.
 
VeeMonroe said:
I've had an enquiry about shipping. I haven't weighed the vPin with the legs off yet, or measured with packaging, but - assuming it weighs 30kg - it looks like it would be £52.75 to ship, fully insured (at the current £1,000) with Parcelforce for 48-hour delivery. Parcel2Go thinks Parcelforce is the cheapest shipping option.

The backbox doesn't fold down, so the packaging solution would be similar to my Godzilla Prem/the various monitors & desktop PCs I've ordered over the years. So, I'll manufacture a box of the same dimension to the vPin with the legs off, and then protect the screens with boarding, and the edges with some foam - to stop it moving around. I'll then fill the cavity between the backbox and playfield screen with bubble wrap and packing peanuts. My packaging solution will be a variation on the various packaging solutions I've used over the years to ship collectible board games both here and internationally, some of which are worth several hundred pounds.

I'm not willing to ship uninsured, for obvious reasons. We had a box of 10-15 board games and another box containing a Too Many Bones Trove Chest (a collector's edition board game) worth £450 in a case made out of plywood completely crushed by UPS last year, but - fortunately - had fully insured the consignments and were able to reclaim the money.
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Just to let you know, Parcelforce (and most other couriers) are experienced in getting out of insurance claims.... they wont cover is anything glass breaks (probably includes screens)...

One of the clocks i sent to the USA i ended up paying out of my own pocket to get a new piece of perspex shipped, since they successfully managed to completely crush the double skinned specially made box, and then told me that bubble wrap wasnt adequite and it had to have plastic mouldings to be able to ship....

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Now reduced to £900.

I've had interest at £1,000, but with concern about shipping LCD screens. Martin was £100 to deliver last time I used him, so that should currently be £1,000 all in for Martin, or you can collect if near SE London.
 
VeeMonroe said:
Too Many Bones Trove Chest (a collector's edition board game) worth £450 in a case made out of plywood completely crushed by UPS last year,
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Too many bones is an awesome game! I was so close to going all in on the last kickstarter and getting the trove chest (I only had the base game at the time)
 
VPin now reduced to £800 before the weekend.

NOTE: This is the LAST reduction.

If it doesn’t sell at £800 or close to it, I plan to keep the vPin. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just that it’s not currently getting played and we’d rather have the money towards an IVF cycle, but £800 is close to half the price I paid for it in April (£1,578 exc. shipping). I don’t dislike the vPin and I’m sure it’ll get played sometime - so I don’t need to take a bath on the price.

These 27” vPins are listed as £1,200 on the Arcadeland website, but this is a custom job with an analogue shooter and upgraded software - my aim being to get as close as possible to a real pinball machine. The extras made up for the ~£300 additional cost and allow, for example, for players to make skillshots on some VPX/Future Pinball tables.

If I get no further interest by Monday, the advert will expire on here.
 
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