Archive for June, 2010

British? American? I thought it was just Pool!

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

british and american pool tablesWith so many Pool experts working here ar Liberty Games it can be easy to forget that some people are new to the game, and are looking for a table that can bring some life to their home.

This is where we get the question of ‘what table is best for me ? a british or american table ?’. If you are interested in the exact technical answer to this question, then why not check out this excellent article on Britsh vs American Pool Tables.

However if you are new to the sport it depends what you are after ? British pool (as you will find in most pubs and bars in the UK) is played on a generally smaller table surface with smaller balls and pockets, wheras American pool is played on a generally bigger surface with larger balls and pockets.

If you’re just looking for a fun table thats easy for all the family to play, then we’d probably recommend an American pool table, such as the Pro American Elite, however if you are looking to build your skills up to show off to your friends in the pub then you may well be better off starting with a British pool table, like the Black Jack Daniels slate bed British pool table.

Although these are general guidelines, the table will have to be one thats right for you, so why not give one of our pool table specialists a call on 0800 612 8180, tell them what you’re after and they’ll find the right table for you.

Hit the Bullseye with a Dart Board

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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The Strikeworth Wood Effect Dart Board

Take your time, take your time, step up to the oche. Ok thats enough Bullseye references for now, but the point of all that was to open up for one of our most popular products, the Strikeworth wood effect dart board.

Perfect for play at home, in the office in a commercial premesis this great value board comes in at a very respectable £19.99 and comes complete with two sets of darts so you can get up and running straight away – just don’t blame us if you miss!

As great value as this dart board is, don’t forget at the moment if you buy one of a number of our Recommended by Liberty Games products, and see the free dart board logo you’ll get it for FREE! That’s right free. A great addition to any games room, with just one purchase from Liberty Games you can get your games room started with two great pieces!

Available of the Pro American Elite Pool Table and many more we can’t get enough of this amazing board.

As always if you have any question about this product of any of our other great dart boards, please give our team a call on 0800 612 8180.

And remember stay out of the black and into the red, nowt in this game for two in a bed! Sorry had to be done.

Our Pinball Pro!

Monday, June 28th, 2010

pinball table repair

It’s no secret, here at Liberty Games we love pinball machines! And lucky for us in our technical department we’ve got one of the very best in terms of knowledge of all the different styles and types of pinball, and also one of the very best at repairing them!

You may have seen our reconditioned pinball section on our website, these great value tables are subject to our 20 point reconditioning process, but none of them are allowed to leave the building until they have passed the Barry test! And he’ll make sure that they are working down to the very last light bulb or relay.

However Barry’s skills are also available if you have a pinball machine that needs a little TLC to get it back in its prime, you can drop the machine off at our Chessington warehouse or alternatively our courriers can collect and for a fixed fee we can inspect the machine and try and work out what is wrong with it. For more information please see our pinball repairs page, or give one of our pinball specialists a call on 0800 612 8180.

Of course refurbished equipment isn’t for everyone, although it does combine great value with a wider selection of tables (only certain tables are batch manafactured each year by Stern). We do still keep in stock the latest and greatest new pinball machines, shiny and new and with the latest cool features and sound effects.

As always don’t forget our pinball specialists are always on hand to discuss their favourite topic, pinball! Just give us a call on 0800 612 8180 and we’ll be more than happy to help.

Customised World Cup Table Football!

Friday, June 25th, 2010
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One of our trained technicians repainting table football players in Serbian colours

With England now through to the final 16 World Cup fever is still firmly gripping the nation! So it was no suprise when Nike asked us to help them celebrate by helping them arrange customised table football tables featuring the world cup teams in their national strips.

We knew these were going to look great, and picked one of our most popular tables, the Aurora Table Football Table to customise. There’s no easy way to do a job like this, requiring immense detail and a great finish, but luckily our technical department has the artistic talent neccessary to pull of a job of this magnitude. To your right you can see a still of one of our guys painting the new kits on the players, trust me its more difficult than it looks! These players are designed to be spun round at high speeds and take impact from fast moving foosball balls so the job had to be perfect.

If you’re thinking you’d like any kind of customisation, either your favourit football team’s colours on a football table, or your favourite rock band on a pool table cloth, then just give our customisation team a call on 0800 612 8180, there’s no job too big or too small, and we’re always looking for our next challenge!

A small selection of the kind of work we’ve done before is on our corporate branding page, although this kinds of work doesn’t have to be for just companies!

Anyone for (table) tennis ?

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
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The Cornilleau Sport 100 Indoor Table Tennis

With Wimbledon now in full flow, those who haven’t been swept up in World Cup fever are breaking out the Pimms and the strawberrys and cream (or even pineberrys and cream!). If you’ve got the Wimbledon bug yourself then why not play your own tournament at home with your very own table tennis table!

Here at Liberty Games we have a great range of table tennis, including indoor and outdoor tables as well as accessories such as bats, balls, nets, covers, match scorers and even robots to play against!

We also realise that a lot of our customers have already invested in a pool table and might not want the extra expense of a table tennis table, or may not have the space. Well don’t worry we have a great answer for you, in the style of our great pool table table tennis table conversion kit!

This two piece kit sits on top of your existing pool , air hockey or dining table and gives you a quality full size table tennis court to play on! Conforming to official ITTF dimensions and including 2 bats, 3 balls and a net, this great product is all you need to expand you games room easily with a full size table tennis table.

table tennis conversion kit

The Liberty Games Table Tennis Conversion Kit

We think this product is a great idea, and its proved very popular for many years. Don’t forget with the great weather we’re having at the moment that if you have an ourdoor table of any sort the table tennis conversion kit can also be used to quickly turn that into an outdoor table tennis table (although we recommend the kit is not left outside to the elements – it is however very easy to assemble and disassemble).

As always if you need any advice about any of our table tennis products please give one of our specialist advisors a call on 0800 612 8180.

Arcade Focus : Point Blank 2

Monday, June 21st, 2010
point blank arcade machine

A Point Blank 2 Arcade Machine

While trying to choose which of our great range of products to feature in today’s blog post I was gazing into space trying to pick, then my glance caught it and I wondered why I didn’t think of it before! Probably the king arcade machine of my early 20s its the ever popular Point Blank 2.

Mixing fun and exciting graphics with the action of a shooting game, and the classic gun recoil action the you can only get from a true arcade machine, yes point blank is a real classic! With varied game play and many different levels and difficulties this game is fun for all the family, and better yet with no blood and gore this game is fun for all the family, whilst still providing older kids and adults a challenging game that will keep you coming back for more.

Not only that but Point Blank 2 is a two player shooting game, making it ideal for head-to-head or co-operative gameplay only adding to this machines already impressive list of features. Still you probably don’t need me to tell you all that, given what a classic this game is!

Don’t forget that this machine comes with a fully functional coin-mechanism meaning that not only can you play yourself as much as you like for free, but you can charge your friends and family – or if you are a commercial premesis your customers (trust me this machine is a great earner in pubs, bars, nightclub well pretty much anywhere there are people with change to spend!).

The cabinet is full arcade quality, no-one will be breaking those guns off as they are attached with hard-wearing metal connectors.

Although these machines are refurbished, they go through our 20 point quality control process and also come complete with 3 months onsite and 12 months parts warranty so you really have nothing to worry about in that area.

As always if you have any questions about the point blank or any arcade machines, please give one of our arcade machine specialists a call on 0800 612 8180.

Oh an just to wet your appetite here’s a quick video of the gameplay:

Too Much Football Yet ? Sneak an Offside Football Table In!

Friday, June 18th, 2010
coffee table football table

The Offside Coffee Table Football Table

Ok so the world cup has been going for over a week now, and there’s a good chance that at least someone in your home has probably already had enough! But for each person who’s had enough there are five more who are loving it. So the question is if you’re one of those who are loving it, and you want to play your own mini world cup at home, how do you get a table football table in and keep everyone happy ?

Well don’t worry Liberty Games have the answer, in the form of the offside football table coffee table. This great blend of furniture and funtion has been a consistent great seller here, and has attracted one or two mentions in the press, as well as recently featuring in the channel 4 soap Hollyoaks (check the listing for some screen captures).

You can use this table as an everyday coffee table, and with its solid oak build, chunky glass top and mirrored pitch its always going to look great in your lounge, and is a real talking point. But then there is the offsides other side as a fully functional table football game. The game has stainless steel telescopic rods as well as a ball return, so everything you’d expect from a fulyl featured table football table.

There’s only so much that words can do to describe this simply beautiful table, head on over to the product listing and check out the many photos and the product video. As always if you have any questions about the offside, please speak to on of our table football specialists on 0800 612 8180.

Strikeworth 6ft Multi Game Back in Stock!

Thursday, June 17th, 2010
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The Strikeworth 6ft Multi Game Table showing its skills!

Some great news just in from our warehouse, the amazing Strikeworth 6ft Multi Games Table is back in stock! This table proved so popular on its first run with us that embarrassingly enough we ran out of stock. But don’t worry as we’ve now been told we can get these back in stock on the website and start selling them!

Its easy to see why these tables were so popular, combining a Pool Table, Air Hockey Table and Table Tennis you really are getting three for the price of one! Sure there are other multi game tables on the market, but we’ve never seen one that plays so well as the Strikeworth and is so easy and intuative to use. This is also by far the most stable flipover-style multi game table we’ve seen, due to its rotate-and-lock flipover mecahnism which means when you lean on the table or even put your full weight on it it won’t give. If you need to see eactly how this works checkout the video here.

This table truly gets all three games spot on, and for only £395 is the same price as you’d pay for many dedicated pool, air hockey or table tennis tables. Not only that but at the moment when you by the Strikeworth you get yourself a free dartboard worth £19.99 so its actually four games in one! Complete with all cues, balls, pucks, bats, balls well everything you need to enjoy all the games.

At this great price this stock is sure to shift quickly again so grab yourself a bargain now! Don’t forget if you want to test the quality of the games for youselves we’ve got a strikeworth on display in our showroom, come have a play we know you’ll love it!

As always if you need any more information about the Strikeworth or our range of multi games tables please give us a call on 0800 612 8180.

Jukebox Focus : Rock-Ola Nostalgic Music Centre

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
rock-ola jukebox

The Rock-Ola Nostalgic Music Centre Digital Jukebox

Here at Liberty Games we’ve been selling Jukeboxes for many years now, and certainly over the past 2 or 3 years we’ve really seen the pace of technology deployed increase. Wheras ten or fifteen years ago a computer-based jukebox with a large touchscreen may have been the fevered dreams of a mad-man today there are many jukeboxes out there that can easily connect you your ipod and play music from there or store music themselves.

Our current favourite of the current crop though would probably have to be the Rock-Ola Nostalgic Music Centre Mark 3 Digital Jukebox. This great jukebox not only really looks the part, with all the cool styling we’ve come to expect from Rock-Ola, including the colour changing tubes, the bubble tubes and the authentic wood-look, but this model takes the classic jukebox and kicks it straight into the 21st century!

It does that though its generous 19″ touch screen and built in music center software. The touch screen is responsive without being over-responsive, and is a good enough size so you don’t have to squint to read. However the real gem here is in the software. We’ve seen a few pieces of music centre software but the Rock-Ola’s is probably the easiest to use we’ve seen. Like all music centres it can retrieve title and cover art from the internet, but the Rock-Ola goes a step beyond and if there is trouble finding the particular data related to your music, it will sample the music and upload it to special music comparison servers where the musical tones are compared against a vast database and the true artist data is returned! Very impressive.

Not only that but the software is also able to import music from cd, hard drive, ipod and network locations with the correct configuration. Not only that but with the network connection activated there is a really cool iphone/ipod touch app to remote control your Rock-Ola! Alternativley the Rock-Ola has an inbuily web-server which allows you to control all of the jukeboxes functions from any web browser (network configuration allowing).

However all these advanced functions don’t make the jukebox any harder to use with easy drag-and-drop functionality for creating your own unique playlists and simple touch controls for starting and stopping music and controling volume etc.

Marry all of that with 160gb of storage, a 5-band graphic equaliser and truly thumping speakers (2 x 3 inch tweeter, 2 x 6.5 inch Full Range, 1 x 10 inch dual voice coil and 1 x Subwoofer) and you really do have the full package.

As always if you have any further questions about the Rock-Ola or jukeboxes in particular please don’t hesitate to contact one of our Jukebox specialists on 0800 612 8180.

Arcade Focus : Galaxy Combat Fighter MultiGame

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
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The galaxy combat fighter multi game arcade machine

Today we thought we’d share with you one of favourites of the current crop of multi-game arcade machines, the Galaxy Combat Fighter multi game arcade machine. This great cabinet is in the same form factor as the hugely popular galaxy cosmic multi game arcade machine, except where the cosmic is focused on the cool ‘retro’ games of the 1980′s, the combat fighter takes it forward a decade into the games of the early – mid 1990′s.

What this means is an increase to 6 buttons per player and a two player cabinet, as well as an upgraded gaming board to take advantage of the enhanced graphics the 90′s brought over the 80′s. If you wasted spent your youth in the arcades of the 90′s then this machine will take you straight back there, except without having to decide which games are worthy of your pocket money! Its kid in a candy shop time with the combat fighter as all the games are free (well if you want them to be! as the combat fighter comes with a coin mechanism so you can charge youself if you feel like setting up an arcade machine piggy bank – or feel like charging your friends!). Similarly this machine is also a great earner for commercial establishments.

Its no suprise given its name that this machine has a large number of the greatest fighting games of all times, pretty much every street fighter incarnation ever (including my personal favourite SF 2 Turbo), as well as King of Fighters, Xmen, SNK vs Capcom, Alien vs predator and many many more (check the product listing for a complete list).

However this game goes beyond the fighting genre to bring you the best of the 90′s as well, with such classics such as Puzzle Bobble, Tecmo world soccer, magic sword and many more!

ryu from street fighter 2Not only this the cabinet has some great fighting game themed artwork (don’t forget Liberty Games offers a custom artworking service as well!), and a massive 29″ monitor, bigger than most you would have seen back when these were in the arcades (although some of them still are!).

So all in all this is one great cabinet, trust me i’ve got one at home! Head on over to the product listing for a video showing some of the gameplay with closeups on some of the features of the cabinet that make it a real looker.

However the best part is yet to come! Since these cabinets have been so popular we’ve ordered some extra stock and have managed to get the price down, which we’re passing straight on to you! When this cabinet launched it retailed at £1,895 we’ve managed to drop that by a very healthy £300 to an amazing £1,595 -a real bargain for a cabinet of this quality with the huge list of games it comes with.

If there is anything else you need to know about this great cabinet or arcade machines at all please give one of our arcade specialists a call on 0800 612 8180.