Bertychewster
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Welcome @machopixel
Thanks. I'm happy to join a UK community, I'm a big fan of the whole UK and British people (and your music, French music is so... meh).
You know what @dave , I hate the first (I'm sure it is possible to find British guys doing even worse), but I prefer it 100 times (at least) to the second, my ears are bleeding!Listen, there's plenty of decent French music.
Start with a mild one from the 80s, classic.
Now if you can handle your French bosses The Clamps / Opsen AKA Burr Oak. These french guys are running it.
my ears are bleeding!
Let me enjoy Jack Peñate, Frank Turner, Air Traffic, Scouting for Girls and many more (that are almost unknown in France) alone!
Yeah? Awesome. I play the disco violin. If you can record string falloffs I will take them off your hands all day longI can understand, but I play a little the piano and sing in 2 different groups (rock with violin and cello and funk), and I enjoy that. Sorry to be mainstream
In my spare time, I've practiced the luthery as an amateur. Started with a bass guitar then a pseudo cello, then 4 violins and finally 2 cellos. They are all electroacoustic.
Here is my last violin played in the rock group:
And the last cello played in the group too:
welcome Andrew @PennilessImp749 what have you bought?
Welcome @Triple H - yes it will begin.....And then I suppose it will begin.........................
And then I suppose it will begin.........................
Sounds like you need to track down a Gorgar.Hi, I have always loved Pinball games starting at a very early age playing Bagatelle in the 1960's.
I was fascinated by the machines such as "Central Park" in the local launderette and in the pubs.
Fast forward to the early 70's and I used to nip in the local arcades and watch other people play as I never had much money to throw into the machines myself. I was then asked if I would like to launch a ball by one guy playing and I was hooked.
The game was called "Big Shot" and was hard as heck but hypnotic at the same time. From then on every time I went to the arcades with my mates I was throwing my money away playing pinball whilst they were trying to get rich on the Fruit Machines.
I remember walking in to a local arcade called "The Showboat" and hearing a really loud and cool sort of synthesised speech ......... and then there it was ........ Gorgar. It was like everything I had seen or played before had become obsolete there and then ....... and that moment in time has always stayed with me.
Not much happened after that Oh! there were the early 90's games that were rotated in the local pubs which were amazing. Pool, Darts and PInball if they had one was a normal routine back then for me.
With having 3 children and being the sole earner I had no money to buy a machine of my own so I did other things instead.
I haven't seen a pinball machine to play anywhere around these parts for years .....not that I get out much to be fair.
A few years back I installed the Pinball Arcade virtual tables on my computer and thoroughly enjoyed them (still do) but it just isn't the same now is it?
I will be looking for my very own first table very soon.......it won't be a mega title and it won't cost me mega thousands of pounds but it will be mine and authentic and it will get played a lot and it will mean the world to me.
And then I suppose it will begin.........................
Hi Jay,Hello,
Your name isn't Wes, is it?
To explain, the old yahoo pinball group regularly featured requests from Wes for a Gorgar, which apparently held similar memories for him. Whatever else he acquired, he tended not to keep for long.
Though it's the first pinball (in fact the first amusement machine) with digitally synthesised speech, in other ways Gorgar was actually rather ordinary. Technically, Williams were trailing every other manufacturer, even the conservative Gottlieb, in still using the flipper mechanisms from the days of electro-mechanical games; their long overdue modular flipper finally appeared on the slightly later Firepower, with the additional features of Lane Change and Multi-Ball.
Hi Andrew welcome to the forum and community. We are about to start the new Scottish Pinball League season, first meet up is in Cumbernauld, it's a great social group, everyone is super friendly and a good way to try out different machines. If you and your partner are interested let me know and I'll PM you all the details.Hello I am Andrew, I live in Scotland with my partner.
We ordered our first pinball machine. Looking forward to getting it.
I'm David, never owned a pin, but used to be a regular player in the 70's, favourite machine was Williams Space Lab.
Have just got into looking after a private collectors machines ( I used to be a electromechanical engineer ), he owns Theatre of Magic, Monster Bash, Adams Family, Munsters and Medieval madness.
Just started designing some lighting features for him and making new gears for Monster Bash.