On a work trip, I stumbled across some location machines at a popular taproom/bar. It was Friday and there were tons of people but nobody at the coin-ops. Besides the pins, they had a small selection of video games. Machines used tap-to-pay cards. The pins interestingly had slightly different values between them, 5 or 6 credits.

The pins were not well kept. Dirty playfields and dry, worn rubbers. T2 had a cracked flipper. Sad to see them in this shape including an original Medieval Madness. The only Stern machine with an Insider reader was Foo Fighters.

Amusingly, each machine had the business card of the owner Greg Creech, “Pinball Guy Extraordinaire”. Not something I’d broadcast given the state of the machines.

Come here for the beer, I’d skip the pinball.