We were originally going to takeover the lease for the old Cloak & Dagger bar on Gloucester Road and turn it into a barcade, which would have had a dedicated pinball section. Sadly the lease holder wouldn’t give up the lease without a significant payment to payoff her debts, so negotiations broke down after that. I’ve looked at a few places in Bedminster that look promising, but central or Gloucester Road is where we really want to be.
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KendarTheOrc
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Nice I'm really hoping you find somewhere because I'd love to see a pinball community take off here
Loads of empty property on Clifton Triangle at the minute; prime student land!
KendarTheOrc
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Incredible work from you. Do you think you'd be interested in hosting a tourney sometime?
Unfortunately Ghostbusters isn't currently playable for those in the Bristol area. The coin door buttons have stopped working due to a fault on the board (anyone else ever encountered this on a Spike game? There isn't actually anything wrong with the physical buttons) so I can't set it up for coined play currently. I'll report back when it's ready to roll
In terms of machine numbers I think this means you are now currently the 6th largest public pinball venue in the country (behind only Pinball Office, Special When Lit, Tilt, Arcade Club and Medway).
Going to see if I can swing coming down for a couple of hours on Saturday…
paulg100
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Great work, will defo be along soon to see if i can put a high score on DH and FT 
If you can keep em playing well then all the better ( sure everyone here appreciates the work involved with that!! )
If you can keep em playing well then all the better ( sure everyone here appreciates the work involved with that!! )
This is something we would definitely be up for once all our games are ready
Myself and Craig we have about 50+ games between us, so it’s not outside the realms of possibility that we could have 30+ games working by this year.
Myself, Craig and his dad Kev spent yesterday trying to get as many games working as we could.
I’ll create a list of all the games we currently have out with a update on their status later today
Here’s a list of all the games we have at the arcade and their current status:
£1 per play section:
Ghostbusters Pro (Coin option not set)
Dirty Harry (Fully working)
Dracula (Fully working)
Dr Who (Fully working)
Lethal Weapon 3 (Fully working)
Star Wars (not ready yet)
Star Trek The Next Generation (Fully working)
Avengers (Fully working)
Flintstones (Fully working, not on new pound yet)
Spider-Man (being delivered shortly)
Not ready yet
Gorgar (Doesn’t speak, sounds are working though)
AC/DC pro (Kicking out two balls)
Dungeons & Dragons (Working, needs coin mech sorting)
Terminator 3 (Needs a few things sorting)
Fish Tales (Kicker is getting stuck)
Arcade Free Play Section
Mario (Working)
Galaxy (Working)
Spy Hunter (top flipper stuck)
Operation Thunder (Working)
In the basement waiting to be assessed.
Williams Flash
Williams Grand Lizard
Williams Black Knight
Williams Black Kight 2000
Williams Bride of Pinbot
Bally Strange Science
Bally Vector
Bally Medusa
Gottlieb Class of 1812
Gottlieb Haunted Haunted House
Stern Magic
£1 per play section:
Ghostbusters Pro (Coin option not set)
Dirty Harry (Fully working)
Dracula (Fully working)
Dr Who (Fully working)
Lethal Weapon 3 (Fully working)
Star Wars (not ready yet)
Star Trek The Next Generation (Fully working)
Avengers (Fully working)
Flintstones (Fully working, not on new pound yet)
Spider-Man (being delivered shortly)
Not ready yet
Gorgar (Doesn’t speak, sounds are working though)
AC/DC pro (Kicking out two balls)
Dungeons & Dragons (Working, needs coin mech sorting)
Terminator 3 (Needs a few things sorting)
Fish Tales (Kicker is getting stuck)
Arcade Free Play Section
Mario (Working)
Galaxy (Working)
Spy Hunter (top flipper stuck)
Operation Thunder (Working)
In the basement waiting to be assessed.
Williams Flash
Williams Grand Lizard
Williams Black Knight
Williams Black Kight 2000
Williams Bride of Pinbot
Bally Strange Science
Bally Vector
Bally Medusa
Gottlieb Class of 1812
Gottlieb Haunted Haunted House
Stern Magic
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Fixed the opto issue with AC/DC kicking out two balls. It’s now fully working and set to £1 per play.
Getaway is also fully working and ready to play.
Spider-Man just needs a coin mech then it’s ready
Getaway is also fully working and ready to play.
Spider-Man just needs a coin mech then it’s ready
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Just waiting on a coin mech to be delivered then it should be readywhsts ETA on D&D
then it’s ready Nice I’ll pop down when it’s up and running and on 20p playJust waiting on a coin mech to be delivered then it should be ready
Was in Brewdog last night and had a few games on the Venom there. All seems to be working fine and playing really fast, £1 for 1 or £2 for 3. I was in the place for about 2 hours and I was the only person who played it that whole time, despite it being reasonably busy.
Spiderman and Roadshow now ready to play
4.4B, Nice! I'll have to get down to Kongs soonJust played a couple of games of GZ at Kongs. Scores must have been reset recently, managed to get HS#1 and #2 with 193m and 185m so go and put some proper scores on there!
The 4.4 billion GC of “BUZ” remains
PinballNoobie
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I was passing by on Tuesday and stopped in for a couple of games of Dracula.
It played really nice - hopefully, I can get back down to play some more games at some point
It played really nice - hopefully, I can get back down to play some more games at some point
I saw you put up a decent score on Foo (1.4bn ish?). Was GC last time I played it but I only went on GZ tonight4.4B, Nice! I'll have to get down to Kongs soon
Yeah about that I think, I got bored in the end because it's on early code and there was nothing left to do, hopefully they have updated the code
No idea, I’m not good enough to get far enough in the game to find out
Homepage needs updating to reflect the pic... i spy more than 3....First visit to Playback Arcade today - really good selection of games, I put some crap scores on Getaway, Dr Who and ST:TNGplenty more games for me to play badly when I get the chance to get back.
Thanks for a great venue Mark and Craig
"Over 40 arcade machines, 15 consoles on CRTs, 3 pinball machines and over 100 board games."
Had a day off so finally took my chance to come and try Playback. Had a really good time and managed to get on a couple of boards - high score #1 on Dr Who (455m) and STTNG (550m) so pretty achievable for anybody who loves putting in their initials. Enjoyed playing BSD for the first time as well, really clean machine!
Couple of maintenance points for @8bit-1up / @roadshow16 :
- STTNG - in Battle Simulation mode, the game crashed on two separate occasions when I shot a standup next to the Neutral Zone scoop (curse my terrible aim). I replicated this crash so it is quite a curious one. I did leave a note of this one with the front desk.
- Dirty Harry - when entering multiball, if I missed the first side ramp shot when the ball was kicked out of the warehouse I didn’t get a second ball for the MB. The MB scoring / jackpots still ran with a single ball, so I wondered if there was a stuck ball, but on draining it ended the ball so don’t think so. If I made the initial side ramp jackpot shot multiball worked just fine. There was also an issue with the coin mech where it ate a couple of coins with no credit and no return (after this happened twice it was switched off).
- Lethal Weapon 3 - coin mech rejected all pound coins I tried to put in it, so I couldn’t play it.
- High Speed 2 - first example of this I’ve played so not sure if this is normal or not, but the ball often didn’t make it round the loop from the plunge even though it looked like that was the intended route. The metal ramp diverter for the lock at the back seemed a bit “floppy” so sometimes blocked the loop when it was supposed to be up.
- AIQ - shooter lane / orbit rattled a bit, so I could never get a full plunge to go all the way round to give me a chance at the secret skill shot.
Will definitely be back and hope to be able to play more of the machines like FT and D&D once they’re up and running.
Couple of maintenance points for @8bit-1up / @roadshow16 :
- STTNG - in Battle Simulation mode, the game crashed on two separate occasions when I shot a standup next to the Neutral Zone scoop (curse my terrible aim). I replicated this crash so it is quite a curious one. I did leave a note of this one with the front desk.
- Dirty Harry - when entering multiball, if I missed the first side ramp shot when the ball was kicked out of the warehouse I didn’t get a second ball for the MB. The MB scoring / jackpots still ran with a single ball, so I wondered if there was a stuck ball, but on draining it ended the ball so don’t think so. If I made the initial side ramp jackpot shot multiball worked just fine. There was also an issue with the coin mech where it ate a couple of coins with no credit and no return (after this happened twice it was switched off).
- Lethal Weapon 3 - coin mech rejected all pound coins I tried to put in it, so I couldn’t play it.
- High Speed 2 - first example of this I’ve played so not sure if this is normal or not, but the ball often didn’t make it round the loop from the plunge even though it looked like that was the intended route. The metal ramp diverter for the lock at the back seemed a bit “floppy” so sometimes blocked the loop when it was supposed to be up.
- AIQ - shooter lane / orbit rattled a bit, so I could never get a full plunge to go all the way round to give me a chance at the secret skill shot.
Will definitely be back and hope to be able to play more of the machines like FT and D&D once they’re up and running.