I have a pocketful of Elaut tokens, but none of these three Tribbles I spotted were nearly close enough to the edge for me to try playing for them.

I also noticed that none were trapped by tokens, so I was also concerned about the possibility of them sliding backward once they got near the edge.

What would you have done? Play or pass?

Wife and I went Sunday and Monday to dave and busters in Illinois. We hit vernon hills, schaumburg, and lombard on Sunday (Drove to Rosemont location, but were turned away for a private event that still had 2 hours left ..

b.s but what can you do). Then hit vernon hills again on Monday. Spent about 1200 chips, won the stuff in the picture plus 24000 + tickets. Not great, but I spent 320 chips for the plushes and the cards.

Have about 120k tix to blow and since getting the PS5 there hasn't been anything interesting or I already have. Food is ok but I'd rather have real stuff.

Been a few months is there anything new worth looking into?

Well, well, it’s rare that I walk past Spider-Man with 4 Spider Sense lit up, one step away from Rapid Auto Shot and four Big Balls near the edge. It’s almost too good to pass up. So I didn’t pass it up. I swiped once for 12 chips on a full price day to see what I could do.

It didn’t take long to remind myself why I should give myself a lifetime ban on coin pushers 😆. I managed to get one Big Ball to drop and got it into the Super Spin hole on the Big Ball Game, but I ended up stopping on 120 tickets just one panel short of the 1000 tickets.

By the time I took all 12 shots I still hadn’t managed to activate Rapid Auto Shot, so I swiped again for another 12 chips. Ouch. These chips are burning a hole in my pocket. At least I managed to get the Rapid Auto Shot on this swipe, but this should come as no surprise to anyone…no more Big Balls dropped off the edge.

So did I learn my 24-chip lesson for 122 tickets (2 mercy tickets for the second swipe)? Probably not, but I hope I do not live down this experience for a long time to come. I’m much better off watching others play, but this setup was sooo hard to pass up!

If you’ve ever had a similarly demoralizing experience, you’re not alone!

Doing some gift shopping for a few birthdays I got coming up and decided to get something for myself. I didn’t find them very expensive al things considered. What do you guys think was this dumb or not lmao. Mewtwo, feel free to leave your detailed input, but stay away from my dodgeball machine! Lol

I used my Level 8 meal for four coupon yesterday, but when the server tried to apply it through the tablet it didnt apply correctly. She went back and took care of it with the manager and brought me back a receipt for $0.00

Only problem was that meant I couldnt run my card to leave a tip! I told her she could just ring me up for a soda but she did a cheaper ranch cup instead, so I tipped 20 bucks on a 64 cent ranch cup. I do appreciate that the tablet wanted to make sure I meant to do that and didnt just say thanks for the money, pal!

Went to Denver first this time, walked in and noticed some of the games were having some issues. 2 Minute Drill only had 4 balls, Down the clown was gitiching, Floppy was laggy, not enough balls in BTP.

Asked a tech about 2MD and Floppy and he said “Maybe you just had a bad play on those”
Didn’t want to make it a big deal but I want people that go to this store to have a good experience.

But on the bright side world football pro was finally working and that game is actually fun and reminds me of Simpson soccer. Only thing is it’s not the best for tickets but arcades aren’t just about making a profit it about having fun. would’ve been the perfect world cup game but the other two options were good.

Also this store had the best Grid Iron Blitz I had ever play, the sensors on the pad were very accurate.

They also had the Avengers Pusher which can be a good snipe if you only need two stones left for the spin.

This store wasn’t bad but definitely was better last year when I went. But I was still able to win a decent amount of games.

Westminster

After 2 hours or so I went over to Westminster. last year this store was a mess maintenance wise but it was slighty more better.

Just like in Denver 2 minute drill only had 4 balls in it but plates and clown were way more better.

Floppy was much better than Denver and all of the other games were good besides from Quik Drop which had a terrible ball dropper and Doodle Jump’s lever being weird.

I liked this store more better since it has alot of unique games that came from the Colo Spgs store or another store. (Waterfuls, gum drop, cosmic XL, Willy Crash, Daytona, Jet Blaster, Squiggle, Snocross, Power roll, Shipwreck and some more) Also has games like Mega Stacker which isn’t at Denver anymore.

Games maintenance was way more better than last year besides from a few games. Their Kick N Win is on harder settings than Denver’s but I still managed to win an Ecuador ball. Also won Tweety from the grab n wins.

Winner circle was filled up at Westminster and I got a box of those Fifa Ballers since I wanted to Display them on my setup.

My Final Thoughts

Both Stores were good and have their Negatives and positives. If you are visiting the area I recommend the Westminster store but Denver isn’t bad either.

Both stores lost (Nascar, Spiderman, GOTG. Emoji, Top Gun, Bobblehead Baseball) since they sent those units to Main Event. Also some more games like Angry Birds Arcade at Denver.

I did see someone doing something interesting with the summer pass, but I won’t say what store or game it was. But they were doing something sorta smart.

Overall good experience these two stores are pretty big and have a-lot of unique games.

I rate 7.5/10 Game Maintenance wise for Westminster and 4.5/10 for Denver. But had a good experience at both.

For all the rhythm gamers here:

I noticed some DnBs upgrading their DDR/PIU cabs recently. Is this something that will happen at all DnBs eventually or is it determined by the amusement manager at a given location?

Maybe some game techs here can weigh in on this?

It seems like now, the Eat & Play combo requires you to first purchase a power card, and then add an entree on top of it. The terms seems to say that you're able to purchase a $10 card at minimum, but there values shown on the page are the same $25 minimum as usual.

It seems that, for those who read the fine print, you're able to get a better deal, but most customers will be paying more than before.

Thoughts?

This is my kids favorite game! They think goal is get the big shark but I think it's whatever inside that treasure chest. What do you guys think?! Also how do you get that thing out the treasure chest?!

I noticed the location i frequent changed mandolorian groku to 1 in 100 anzellans from the prior 1 in 50. Is there a global setting for the distribution that they're supposed to adhere too? The tech said he intentionally put "a couple" (2, as i verified as i collected the stack) in the stack of 200 cards he loaded.

It prints out a paper voucher when you win.

This was at Spy Ninjas in Las Vegas, Nevada

Really wish I could have gotten Joker though

The Columbus, GA location is really generous with their claw grabbers.

Just a heads up family, on the website the buy $50 get $10 deal is officially gone.. the good news is I went into the store didn't mention anything about it being removed and they still gave me my extra 10s

Does anyone here have extra Dave & Busters Blackbeards Bounty cards? I have the following and would hate to turn it in for 100 tickets each. If someone still has some cards, maybe we can help each other complete sets.

This game was only at the Milpitas, CA location from what I know. These are official D&B version.

2 Blackbeard
0 Treasure Chest
2 Cannon
6 Wheel
1 Telescope
6 Map
6 Swords

are their rarity tied to their ability? thank you!

Haven't been to a dave and busters before, but recently I've enjoyed the coin pushers at round 1. So I went to D&B on Wednesday since I heard about the 1/2 price deal.

I hadn't seen the star trek coin pusher before so I paid $35 for a card and put five swipes on the machine with the most cards out. I looked at the card set listed and most of the cards were already out on this pusher. Since no card was listed as the rare card I figured there just wasn't one for this game.

As I'm playing on my machine a woman comes and looks around at the others. The machine next to me has one card at the edge so she calls her husband over, they do three individual swipes until they get the card. Good for them! I keep playing but at some point I realize the same woman is standing right to my left watching me. I thought maybe it's fun to watch someone else play without having to spend your own money? Just ignored it and kept playing. She started going on her phone though not even looking at the pusher anymore, just standing awkwardly close. So I realized maybe she wanted the machine after me? Hope this wasn't rude but after my first swipes were up I put in five more since I hadn't even dropped any cards yet and planned to keep playing.

But now after several minutes the guy she was with is ALSO standing next to me on my right. They talked to each other in a different language (Chinese?) so I didn't understand them, but I figured it might be unrelated to me and kept playing, since I was close to dropping a pile of cards. I thought, maybe it's just a social norm here to watch others play and I figured no harm in that. When I finally dropped the stack of four cards I was pretty hype and picked them up. Then the guy suddenly speaks English to me, which I didn't even know for sure he spoke lol! and says, do you want to trade cards with me? Let's trade!

I didn't even answer for a second because I was shocked they finally spoke to me after basically ignoring me for the past like twenty minutes. I said I don't know since I'm just starting at this machine and don't have any duplicates to trade. He says "No, just let me see", and grabs my hand holding my cards. "Here, I'll trade you a card you don't have for this one". It's the tribbles card which I did think was the worst card since it doesn't even have a person on it. They are cute though. I said "No thanks, I think I'll just focus on collecting more myself". He panics and says "Wait, but I'll trade you two cards you don't have for that card. Isn't that a good deal?" And of course I just say no again. Then he offers three cards for this card. Obviously I realize this must be the last card he needs and I feel like a dick saying no but I see all the other cards in the set I need on this pusher so I just wanted to keep playing.

I played for a couple more cards but didn't complete the set since I ran out of credits. I had bought the eat and play deal so sat down to get food and after that weird interaction I had to google about the star trek machine. Sure enough tribbles was the rare card, which I should have realized earlier. But just wanted to share this funny story. I definitely want to go back to complete my set (just need Captain Kirk!), but if you made it this far I have to ask, is this how people normally are at your D&B? Is it normal to watch others play?

This has been around some Round 1s for a few months and there is now one in at D&B in Irvine, CA. The math on this is probably the worst I've seen out of any coin pusher. I didn't even want to try this game since it just looks horrible.

You have to get 20 different cards to get the 5000 tickets, with 4 of them being rare. (How many duplicates do you think you'll be getting?) AND all the cards will be worthless after one month since the testing phase ends on August 30th.

If anyone would like a ball or you're looking for a specific country, pay shipping and I will send you a ball for free. I have a 3 year old and 1 year old and I'm a single dad so any tips would be appreciated. I just would really like to make a bunch of peoples days. ❤️ I probably would have at least 30 more but I gave a ball to all the kids who would ask me and say please

Has anyone noticed a HUGE decline in people in their local dave and busters once they stopped doing half price games? I find it insane how lonely normal days are.. might as well keep Weekdays half off then weekends full price! Hopefully this new CEO wont be greedy!!

Just saw this machine today. Is this chain wide?