From: ung@felix.filenet.com (Bill Ung)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: EARTHSHAKER - Buying a pin
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:48:12 GMT
Reply-To: ung@fritz.filenet.com (Bill Ung)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA

In article <6491@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> jerryc@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM (Jerry C Carathers) writes:
|In article <19427@fritz.filenet.com> ung@fritz.filenet.com (Bill Ung) writes:
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||The bad part is, since I can't have an EARTHSHAKER, my other desires
||are either an ELVIRA (not a bad choice if it's real cheap), or a
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||FUNHOUSE (not gonna be cheap!)
||
||Bill Ung
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|Say what??? I'm sorry, Bill, but Elvira's a MUCH better game than FunHouse
|or Earthshaker.

Well, Jerry, that's a matter of opinion.  Don't get me wrong, it *IS* a
good game, and I like it a lot.  I think it made my Top 5, if it didn't,
it was probably number 6.  In all actuality, I'd agree that it is better
than EARTHSHAKER, but I'm not sure about FUNHOUSE.  I guess I went for
the EARTHSHAKER first because there never were very many around here and
there is now only one left in my area ... and it WAS broken last time I
was there (not anymore).  I was hoping they'd sell it.  The ELVIRA games
around here seem to work okay, so I didn't think anyone was willing to
sell, at least not cheaply.  Now that I think of it, a local SEARS has
a small arcade with a more-or-less dead ELVIRA (a good 2-3 months ago).
Perhaps I ought to pay a visit...

|Incidently, I was just talking to the manager of Dunis
|Dist. in Portland last Saturday and I mentioned having a cherry Elvira at
|home and he immediately asked me if I'd sell it. Williams never made enough
|of them and you'd never find a used one (he has a waiting list).  A clean
|Elvira can still fetch $2000 despite what the DRA says.

Really?  How clean?  Places I've talked to were quoting around $1500.
Most of the street games I've seen were still in pretty good condition.
Did you actually sell your ELVIRA, and how much did you sell it for?
BTW, who or what is the DRA?

|Dunis recently had
|a used Funhouse, BTW. It sold the day they took it in for $2500!!! You
|could almost get a TAF for that. A guy in California bought it sight
|unseen. 

$2500 for FunHouse sounds about right, I could never afford that, though.

|Anyway, no derogatory comments on Elvira will be tolerated :^) :^).
|It's #2 on my all-time-best list (just barely behind TAF). 

My apologies if I sounded derogatory.  My point was that I wanted to buy
another pin and my choices were either EARTHSHAKER, ELVIRA or FUNHOUSE.
EARTHSHAKER is out of reach, for the moment, and FUNHOUSE is just too
damned expensive.  ELVIRA is cool, but I haven't shopped for one.  I
also, just last week, played a really cool game of FUNHOUSE, which got
me the #3 high score position ... it was very nice.  In light of that,
my current opinions/rankings may be somewhat biased at the moment.

Anybody got a rules sheet for ELVIRA?

|	          From high atop my soapbox...
|
|		  Jerry (Mr. Pinball) Carathers
|
|P.S. I'm an electronics engineer, Bill. I'm a poor working-class grunt who
|     really can't afford these expensive toys. Sorry I didn't get back to
|     you. I'm terrible about email response :^).

Ah, well, I'm a software engineer, another poor working-class grunt who
really can't afford these expensive toys either.  Perhaps a promotion in
October will change all that :-) :-) :-)

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