Games room - How much space per pin?

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I was looking at Otto's Landing and dreaming of having a collection of
my own one day. We have a room that we don't use that has a 10'6" space
along one wall and 7' along another. The dream is to have a variety of
pins from the 70s, 80s & 90s in there. How many would fit?

The only machine I have now is Parag0n, which has a wide table, so it
is hard to judge from it. It would probably remain in my office where
my wife doesn't have to look at the artwork. <g>

(BTW, what state is Otto's Landing in?)

TIA

Ron
Tsawwassen, BC

 

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Sounds like 4 to me. 7' isn't enough space for 2 rows unless you're
Olive Oyl.

 

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Hi Ron . . .

Most of the back boxes are around 28" and you need to leave an inch or
so between them so that when the machine shakes or shifts, they don't
scrape against eachother. If the walls are separate and do not form a
corner, then 4 pins on the large wall and *maybe* 3 on the smaller wall
but it may be too tight and you'd have to back off to 2 pins there.

Either way, Good Luck!

 

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>I was looking at Otto's Landing and dreaming of having a collection of
> my own one day. We have a room that we don't use that has a 10'6" space
> along one wall and 7' along another. The dream is to have a variety of
> pins from the 70s, 80s & 90s in there. How many would fit?
>
> The only machine I have now is Parag0n, which has a wide table, so it
> is hard to judge from it. It would probably remain in my office where
> my wife doesn't have to look at the artwork. <g>

I'm going to say the minimum is 30" per pin and that includes 2" between
each for "wiggle room". Also depends on the mfg, but wide body pins usually
still have the same width backbox which is the widest part of the game.

I'd say you have room for 4 games along that wall.

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90's Wiliams/Bally Wpc games are 28 1/4" wide at the head which is the
widest dimension for standard and widebody machines. Others will have to
chime in with dimensions on the other makes and eras. You probably want to
allow for an additional 2 inches at least so you don't bang heads when
moving machines in and out of the lineup. I'll let you do the math.

Ga.


Otto

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My web page: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-Ottoslanding



"ronstew" <ron@moonset.ca> wrote in message
news:1124742732.605517.71680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>I was looking at Otto's Landing and dreaming of having a collection of
> my own one day. We have a room that we don't use that has a 10'6" space
> along one wall and 7' along another. The dream is to have a variety of
> pins from the 70s, 80s & 90s in there. How many would fit?



> (BTW, what state is Otto's Landing in?)

 

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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:47:18 -0400, "Otto"
<ottondebremove&%$*@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>90's Wiliams/Bally Wpc games are 28 1/4" wide at the head which is the
>widest dimension for standard and widebody machines. Others will have to
>chime in with dimensions on the other makes and eras. You probably want to
>allow for an additional 2 inches at least so you don't bang heads when
>moving machines in and out of the lineup. I'll let you do the math.
>
>Ga.
>
>
>Otto
>

As most people say - backboxes close to each other with only one or
two inches between.

However, if you plan on having a lot of parties where almost every
machine is played, and some players need some free space to play (to
slap save and more..) then the cabinets are still a bit too close to
play comfortable.

Aeneas.
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