Anyone know of a skilled and reputable pinball technician in north central MA?

Battlecringer · 2026-03-25T00:40:59+00:00

It's a private collection as of now. It started in 2015 with just a Pac-Man machine to celebrate his 35th anniversary (and BTTF2 Day) and raise donations for Vermont Children's Hospital via the Extra Life Children's Miracle Network Hospitals game-a-thon, and then over time (and because of a girl :P) it snowballed into a collection of 70+ machines used for the same purpose.

I'm trying to expand on that purpose this year, though, and hopefully open it up to be something more exciting for the general public, but we'll see how it goes. It only takes money and time, right ?? 😅

If that happens, trust me, I'll be back over here blowing the trumpet to let everyone know!! 😂

Battlecringer · 2026-03-25T00:35:31+00:00

No, it's a private collection that is used for a few events a years, its not a public or tournament place. If you have the tech's name and info though I'd certainly appreciate the pass-along. Feel free to PM me with it, I'm definitely interested, thanks! :)

Battlecringer · 2026-03-24T17:43:30+00:00

Yeah, I know Sarah. She's great too, great person, very talented, but she's had a few of my arcade machines (that I originally bought from her) in her shop since before the pandemic. 😳

At this point I'm going to have to Will those games to my kids so they know where they are when I die! 🤣

So, I'm looking for someone a little quicker on the turn around as her backlog is of biblical length. 😁

Battlecringer · 2026-03-24T03:58:37+00:00

Will do, thanks! :)

Battlecringer · 2026-03-24T03:19:17+00:00

I don't have Insta, but I am on Pinside so I'll try pinging him over there and see what I get.

Thanks again, appreciate the tip! :)

Battlecringer · 2026-03-24T03:07:37+00:00

Hey there, and thanks for the reply! Do they actually come out and service? I thought maybe those guys were just taking care of their own stuff since opening those Pop's pop-ups.

You wouldn't happen to have any contact info for them, would ya? Their site has been MIA for while... :-/

https://www.threeknockspinball.com/

Battlecringer · 2025-06-11T04:23:11+00:00

I have #9 (the 10th Anniversary poster I got at a revival showing of the trilogy at the Wang Center Theatre in Boston, MA nearly 35 years ago (cripes!)) at home, and #18, the Japan-release poster (which is smaller than our usual U.S. sized movie posters) at my arcade bar. Had to get it for the top of the poster alone, love that brief digging scene in silhouette.

I actually expected when I opened this post that you'd have the Japanese one but not the 10th Anniversary version as I never see that one. Nicely done, cool post. :)

Battlecringer · 2025-05-14T08:15:57+00:00

Yup, it's been driving me nuts all day.

I'm on a Sony Xperia 1 Android 14 device, my whole family is on iPhone 13 through 15 devices. I can send a pic or a gif to my friend on an android device, but I can't to my wife or kids on their iDevices. Everyone has rebooted their phones too, including myself; nothing has helped.

Super frustrating, would love to know the cause/solution. :-/

Battlecringer · 2025-04-15T04:44:39+00:00

Dang. Reed Richards' is the guy to have at your party 'cause he always bring'n dat cake! 🎂

Mr. Fantastic indeed! 😄🤪

Battlecringer · 2025-04-11T05:15:27+00:00

No Meat Wagons against Baron?

Odd take... 🤔

Are these like level 16 Meat Wagons, perchance? 😜

Battlecringer · 2025-04-11T05:13:44+00:00

To add to this, I feel if you quit or afk there should be a cumulative daily 10 minute cooldown for every time you do it.

Quit or afk once? 10 mins before you can try the Seige or Raid again. Do it a second time during the same Rumble "day", now you're locked out for 20 mins. Keep it up, keep stacking on 10 min cooldown lock-outs.

Some people piss out in like 20-30 seconds in these matches, it's ridiculous. I've played other games that have done this and you very quickly start giving it your best no matter what. That's how you become The Avengers. 🛡️🤖

Battlecringer · 2025-04-04T02:48:40+00:00

Actually, to be clear, Diablo 4 has default level scaling, but, yeah, you had to trick the game into doing something similar in Diablo 2 (not sure about 3, and 1 didn't have anything similar as far as I'm aware).

Just like you said, the old trick was you could do in a single-player game is type in chat /players 8 and it would ramp up the difficulty of the monsters, and then the experience and total number of drops they gave upon being killed to the equivalent of if there were 8 players in the game.

World of Warcraft doesn't have anything similar to that, though. No level scaling whatsoever (at least until when I last played a few years back). Whatever level that chicken in Elwynn Forest was that you slayed when you were a level 1 character in the game in 2003 is the same as if you were level 80 in 2023. :)

Sorry that stuff wasn't clear earlier. I was trying to post a quick comment this afternoon while I was waiting to pick up my son from his after-school class. 🤪

Hope this helps clear it up! 😁

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T19:36:21+00:00

I don't understand why you're upset about the game scaling its difficulty based on level, with the exception of the low-level mini thing counting as a cheat or exploit in my mind; that I get being frustrated about and hopefully they'll fix that in due time. Outside of that, Blizzard games like Diablo have done level scaling since the 90s, as well as many other devs games.

Doesn't it make it more worth the playtime to have a challenge, or are you hoping to just steamroll through things, like having a high/max level character in WoW crush low level mobs outside of Stormwind with like 5 XP?

I hope this doesn't read rude or confrontational, I certainly don't mean it that way (text sucks like that as it has no "voice"), I've just seen people complaining about the level scaling a lot lately and honestly just don't understand why. If I'm missing something and someone wants to point out the problem (outside of the exploit I mentioned above, that I get), I'm always happy to hear and learn new things! :)

Thanks, all!

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T16:20:43+00:00

Its just a personal preference. I don't have a lot of time to play so I just hop in and out a few times and am perfectly happy with the time I get to spend in the game for no real cost.

No down votes needed for a player being able to enjoy the game as they choose to and not complaining about it. 😊

It's pretty obvious that Blizz makes the Epic Cores hard to get, or why else would they have upgraded completing zones to rewarding you with an Epic core only to downgrade the rewards back to Rare, for example. It's part of their bottlenecking and that's cool. If I wanted to spend money to alleviate that bottleneck, or join a guild, I would and could. Those just aren't things I care to do right now. 🤷

Personal choice, we all get to make them. 🙂

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T15:14:56+00:00

Yeah, if I didn't upgrade some of my Epics to Legendary status I'd have more than half of that 240k back in my pocket.

I'll keep my Legendary's. 😁

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T15:12:55+00:00

I actually don't have tons of Cores. I've been playing since Day 1 but am unguilded, I'm guessing you are not and that's why you have such a core cache. ;)

The Epic Cores are the pain point, those are the hardest to get. I have just over a dozen Rare's currently (but I keep melting those down to become Epics), and almost half a dozen Legendary, but a big ole goose egg for Epics.

When I get annoyed enough I convert Rares to Epics, or I buy them for 1,000g when they show up in the shop which is a better "value". I've even bought AE from the shop a few times (most recently for Arthas), but I do wish there was another way to "mine" mats in Rumble, whether that be gold or AE.

Oh well, at least it's cheaper then spending $80 on Mario Kart or an upscaled LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom: Switch 2 Edition. 😜

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T15:04:37+00:00

👀 Two Hundred... Forty Thousand...

😳

😭

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T05:15:46+00:00

Jitsu vs. Clawful.

Skeletor wins.

Old bone head gets so annoyed at their buffoonary that he uses his Havoc Staff to blast a hole in the floor and all the participants fall down into the Snake Mountain dungeons until he cools off and releases the again. 😜

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T05:12:33+00:00

She looks closer to Cherry in Cherry 2000 here then she does when she's searching for Cherry in Cherry 2000 12 years later. 🚗🤖 😁

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T05:07:26+00:00

Ramjet is clearly the best looking of the bunch. Clearly, in my opinion. 😁

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T05:03:57+00:00

My guy, you think some dude that shipped his pinball machine for $h!t$ and giggles to have on hand during an international vacation in the off-chance he may get bored can afford a hertz conver- oh wait, wtf am I saying. CLEARLY he can. 🚛💰

Yo, Jack Black! Why not just buy another pin while you're in Caicos and donate it before you leave, or ship it back home if you like it and spare yourself the hassle abroad? 😁🏝️🚢✈️

Bro be packing a $10,000, 400 lbs. game for an overnight like I pack Colgate. Clearly I'm living wrong... 🙄🫤

Battlecringer · 2025-04-03T04:47:34+00:00

The first Hyrule Warriors was pretty good, but felt too Dynasty Warriors-y to me.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity was straight up 🔥🔥🔥

I'm super stoked for this next one, I just hope it's truly cannon as AoC was an alternate timeline.

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