Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Two Far-Outs, too far out..?

We have an art-room in our basement in Basel. Some folks would call it a bar, but anyway, Sergey and Manuela, who did the interior, covering the whole floor with mirror-mosaics, prefer to call it art-room. It's our living room and quite fancy place. There is a photo-album in the net, where you can check out more pics. --> Far Out

Down there we have all kinds of recreation, pool-table, one-handed bandit, video-beamer etc. We also used to have a pinball-machine, which Mitch got from a french guy called Lardon (?!!) already long time ago. He wanted to have it because it's called Far Out, same as his company and the art room too. This mechanical machine from 1974's is super fun to play.


Recently I saw that there was similar machine on sale in Ricardo, Swiss online auction and I mentioned that to others. After thinking about it for a while, Sergey decided to buy it. It arrived just couple of days ago and was placed next to the first one. Now it looks really cool and sort of crazy to have two identical machines next to each other in the basement.



It's actually funny. The machines should be identical, but there are big differences between them. How they sound, how they feel to play, how they give points ( new one is much more generous =)... Anyway, now there is more options in the art room than before: you can play Far Out, of you can play, wait a minute -what was it- oh yes, -Far Out!

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