13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Foosball / Pool / Air Hockey review, January 11, 2009
This review is from: 3 in 1 Game Table (Automotive)
Unlike the other reviews, the product arrived undamaged. Overall, I'm very happy with the 3-in-1 game table....my boys love it. I couple of small things prevent me from giving 5 stars:
- The foosball men are solid red (or blue) from head to toe...differs from the picture where the men have white shorts. Not a big deal, but my old college table had the red/white and blue/white men. I think the picture should be accurate. Also, if you score a goal with a really slow roller, the ball will fall out onto the floor. If you hit it hard and score the ball will stay in the goal.
- The air hockey goals are not deep enough to allow the puck to go all the way in on a goal.
- No issues with the pool table.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not particularly high quality, but good for 11-year-old kids, January 26, 2010
This review is from: 3 in 1 Game Table (Automotive)
After much research, we settled on this game table as a Christmas present for our 11-year-old son, in part so we'd have something we could play with him, and in part so he'd have something to do with visiting friends other than play video games. It has been highly successful for those two purposes.
It came by truck and weighs about 90 pounds - the fact that we had free Amazon Prime shipping reduced the overall price significantly; Sears would have charged an extra $125 for the same table for truck shipping.
Assembly wasn't too hard, but it took me and my son 4 hours of fairly careful work. A power screwdriver or cordless drill were essential, and having a second person to help hold things in place is helpful at times. Other tables sounded as though they were much harder to put together. Only one instruction (they're all graphical) was ambiguous - the pool table top needs to be flush with the top of its side of the frame, which isn't made clear by the illustration or any pre-drilled holes (such as exist for everything else).
Once put together, all the parts work as advertised, and we've enjoyed all the games. The pools balls and cues are smaller than normal, but the basic gameplay is the same. The air hockey game seems to work well, and isn't too loud, but the pucks "score" when they stick in the goal - they don't go into a goal like the foosball game. Speaking of which, the foosball game is better than many others in some ways, since the other player's rods don't extend out from the table at all (they have internal slides), so you can't be poked by the other player accidentally.
Turning the table isn't hard, and doesn't require two adults, as it implies. You unscrew the holder on one side, then move to the other and unscrew the other side. Then you rotate the table to the desired position and screw the holder back in on one side and then the other. It's too hard for a young kid to do, and getting the holder bolts threaded into the receptacles is a bit tough. It's hard enough that you won't just play one game, rotate it, play the next, rotate it, and so on. Instead, you rotate it, play on that side for as long as you can, and then rotate it again once you want to switch to playing another game for a while.
The downside of the table is what you'd expect - the quality of construction. The pool table surface is quite flexible, so no matter how carefully you screw it in, it won't be completely level, and balls rolling slowly will curve. The same is true, though less troublesome, with the foosball surface. The pockets in the pool top are also quite small (to match the small balls), making it difficult for adult hands to remove the balls (you have to reach in to remove them; there's no ball return). And make sure not to leave a foosball in the goal when turning the table, or it will fall inside and be difficult to remove (the only slight access is through the pool table pockets). Be careful with the air hockey plug, since it could get lost inside - there's a velcro holder to prevent that (I'd recommend tying something on to it to prevent this even still - I can't imagine how you'd remove it if it slipped in.)
So the only major disappointment is that the table isn't a full-sized slate pool table with professional level air hockey and ping pong tops - but we didn't get such a thing because we don't have a room large enough. (You need a LOT of space for a real pool table.) But the goal was to get something that we and our son would enjoy, and that it does well. If it breaks in a few years, well, it wasn't that expensive.
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