Awesome. Reading that article made me want to get either a MAME cabinet or skeeball machine if I get a home with a basement. My only concern would be when the damn thing breaks, or someone throws a ball into the wall.

So to avoid pumping quaters into a skeeball machine they cought their own...for $800!?! That's a lot of quarters.

Brewskeeball sounds like an amazing idea.

@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected:

Yeah, but they are a team, practicing in a league. Say 1 night of a few guys practicing at .25 (if they can find a place that cheap now)...each guy would probably spend $10 a night, and if you had 4-5 guys...it pays for itself like a month.

@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected:
3,200 of them...

@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected: hey, but they can sell it/donate it/have a lot MORE fun than using quarters...

@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected: Well, they also don't have to smack a kid to get him off a machine if he was using it. They can also use it anytime they want. But they will miss out on the prizes for all the tickets they could win.....

Austin and College Station... The two best cities in Texas.

And Texas is the best country in the world.

@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected:

You are forgetting RE-SELL value. Finding a buyer is hard but I bet they can unload this machine for $500-$600

@YellowDucati: I wish Texas would succeed from the US. That would be AWESOME.

@BuildABearGroupMember_GitEmSteveDave: But they won't get any tickets. No spider rings.

@lannister80:
Those of in Texas would like ti SECEDE from the US as well.

Now someone can actually save up enough tickets to get the 13" TV/VCR combo!!!

@tbonekatz:
OK, I slammed you for "secede" and forgot to put "us" after "of." I'm going to blame it on having my eyes dilated at the eye doctor this morning. Yeah,that's the ticket, eye doctor.

@tbonekatz: I enjoy Texas as part of the United States.

Go figure.

@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected: I preferred the "Jet Whistle Rings". Those were eventually taken away after some dumb kids choked on them.

@HungryTuna: I would love to have a SkeeBall Machine; those things rock!

@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected:

According to the sign in the picture, that $800 = 14,400 balls thrown in the arcade.

@tbonekatz: You can leave any time now, really. We won't try and stop you. Also, give our best to Mexico.

@BuildABearGroupMember_GitEmSteveDave: fake moustache and moustache comb?

@Chris Langro: arcade-in-a-box [www.arcadeinabox.com] used to make a product called "jamma-in-a-box" (picture/review here --> [www.retrothing.com] ). i wanted one of those for the longest time - you can buy any JAMMA logic board, plug it into the JIAB & play it on any standard TV.

perfect for times when you don't have a basement for a MAME cabinet...

I'm jealous! I would love a real Skee Ball machine at home!

But until then Alley Ball on Carnival Games for the Wii will just have to do.

So finally! I can play Strip Skeeball!

That's so cool. I have a new goal in life.

(On the one hand, I've spent more on computer games than this machine cost. On the other, a new house to put it in will probably add more to the price than I'd really want...)

I'd settle for a wii version of skee ball, if I had a wii that is

@edwardso: Is the mustache comb fake? B/c my mustache is real.

@Mike_Hawk: Oh trust me Mr. Hawk, we would leave in a heart beat if we could. The great Sam Houston said "Texas can survive without the Union, the Union can't survive without Texas."

And @YellowDucati: seriously, Collie Station is one of the best cities in Texas? That place is the ugliest college town I've ever been in. It's nothing but abandoned buildings, used car lots and shitty motels. You know it's a bad college town when there's only ONE starbucks. C'mon now. If the world was to receive an enema, College Station, TX is where they would hook the hose. POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR AGGY.

@YellowDucati: LOVE THE PIC!

Thanks.

@YellowDucati: I say we give Texas back to Mexico, while we're at it they can have NM, Arizona, California and Colorado.

@Skankingmike:

Sounds like a great idea. Letting go of California alone would mean the end of the USA. Let's destroy everything for fun! Woooo anarchy!
I for one would love to see Texas become its own country. Then we could put crazy tariffs on everything and basically make them even more 3rd world. We need to pay for their homeboy Bush's mistakes somehow...

@LetMeGetTheManager: I am so disappointed they don't have a league in Los Angeles.

@LetMeGetTheManager: No kidding, i am totally looking for one of these in my area.

@Chris Langro: Check out Hanaho's ArcadePC (flash, some sound). I ha(d) the Deluxe version and if you put MAME on it, the thing's great.

When I was in my early 20's I worked for this Video Rental Store/Chuck-E-Cheese's kind of place that was owned by this guy who I'm pretty sure had connections to the greek mafia.

I was the bookkeeper and we would buy ridiculous things for redemption game prizes (prizes you get with those little tickets). There were of course the spider rings and erasers and pixie stix... but we had fake guns, syringe pens that looked like they had heroin in them... and even beyond that we had Microwaves, DVD players, Gold watches.

I never ever saw anyone get enough tickets (it was something ridiculous like 120,000... the place had machines that ate your tickets and gave you receipts you could use instead so you didn't have to carry a wheelbarrow around with you) to get the gold watch, but we definitely had quite a few move through the place.

I've long suspected he was taking a write off on the cost and then selling them outside of the store, instead of giving them away as prizes.

@edwardso: I think there's one or two Wii games that have a version of Skeeball in it

@trujunglist: LOL. "even more 3rd world?" What exactly does that mean? Aside from California, Texas has the largest economy in the country, (both CA & TX would fall in the top 10 largest economies in the world if they were separate countries.) And with that said, TX is actually growing faster than CA. Oh and TX has it's own power grid. Like I said before, Texas would be just fine on its own, huge airports, huge shipping port, own power, plenty of agriculture, cattle, oil...lol, I'd be worried about the rest of the country if Texas seceded. If you think anything other, then you're just lying to yourself.

@catnapped: adding- "Carnival Games", and "Game Party". I think there might've been another game that had it.

We got this machine because we spent $20 each weekend at places like Chuckie E. Cheese and Dave and Busters, the money goes quick. Also, if anyone has ever gone to Chuckie E. Cheese, you know that it's Satan's asshole. So, we figured paying $800 is worth never going back there.

After we're done with the "Skeeson" we are in the works in putting ours in a bar to make a little money. We only want to charge $0.25, and it's at a bar where people can have fun and challenge their friends. Thanks for all the comments, we really appreciated it.

-Roy

Way to go boyo!

Hahaha--my friend sold it to them; my other friend had spotted the original post and told him about the guys looking for the skeeball machine. They got a good deal on it!

Shameless pimping: he also has a pro-style air hockey table in like-new condition (maybe been played on 20 or 30 times tops) for sale. I think he paid like 3 grand for it and the last I heard he'd sacrifice it for 1200. kiddo is on the way and he wants to reclaim the space!

@rhinojosa: I have two small children. I'd give you $800 to never have to go back to Chuck E Cheese again. And I am jealous of your Skeeball machine, like whoa.

@audemars: There's actually 5 Starbucks locations in College Station, and 8 if you include Bryan: [www.starbucks.com] If you're going to be a troll, at least do your research beforehand.