We underestimated the amount of time it would take to put this game together! It took two of us approximately four hours to get the game ready to play, so be prepared! Once it is put together however, it is incredibly fun to play! Everyone has enjoyed it so far. Other reviews noted that the balls will get stuck sometimes - this is the case with our game as well, but a quick and easy rap on the back of the game will send the errant ball flying back down ready for another round. Additionally, some of our pieces arrived with very deep scratches in the plastic siding which is unfortunately an eyesore. Without those scratches, this game would've been five stars!

This skeeball machine took about 4 hours to put together. All my friends and family love it!
We some tape over the speaker as it's very loud. 5 stars

The media could not be loaded. The black & blue unit has the corner 100 point buckets. This was very important to me because it adds a level of difficulty. The machine is impressively large at 9ft long, 2ft wide, and the backboard stands 5ft tall - this machine is probably the closest you'll get to the real arcade!

Unboxing (45 minutes):
The box weighs roughly 190lbs and took 4 large trash bags and an entire recycling container of cardboard to toss. The packaging also contains thin 1/8" wood for better shipping. Unfortunately, despite the heavy wrapping, some parts were scratched - including the front plexiglass. I'm OCD, so the unboxing and cleanup alone took me 45 minutes.

Assembly (3-4 hours):
I've assembled a lot of things in my time, including remodeling a half bath. The assembly is not easy and some instructions were a bit vague. You need to really study the pictures to understand exactly how some parts fit together because there are times where the drill "holes" do not exactly match up. You will absolutely need a power drill and absolutely need a couple of large clamps because the boards will not line up otherwise. Even after this, I still had small 2mm gaps in some sections and even had to use my body weight a few times. Some of the predrilled "holes" are not holes at all - more like pin-needle notches in the wood that you have to carefully find. Use a marker to outline the holes to make them easier to spot.

Overall Quality:
The score point sensors seem to be very flimsy plastic. If you have a cat or a kid and they reach down into one of the holes and pulls their hand back out - they will bend the sensor and break it. Sometimes, the balls get stuck under the scoring pad (easily fixable) but my wife reached down into one of the holes to move a stuck ball and without thinking started pulling her hand out! The scoring panel with buckets is made of plastic - so the sound of the balls hitting that portion of the board has a very cheap sound to it. It doesn't sound solid. The wood is mostly MDF and some of the boards were warped but the machine is overall well balanced once everything is installed. I would be very careful to lift it by all legs at once - I fear that lifting one end will result in some cracking. However - the machine does seem pretty solid as it stands.

Gameplay:
Like the arcade, you roll 9 balls and the points go 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 (in a straight line) and 100 buckets in the back corners. All of the point buckets are the same size. The alley length is 7 feet long making it a perfect length for difficulty and the "ramp" works very well to shoot the balls up. Like I mentioned, sometimes the balls get stuck under the bucket pad and I think I can easily fix that by making a ramp out of tightened cloth rather than the wood one it comes with. I wish the LED board showed how many balls left you have. The LED board does not save the historical highest score.

Overall, I'm quite happy with this purchase and it's going to be a great addition to our basement arcade. I can't wait to surprise our boys this Christmas! (I have it hidden in our utility room and it's on wheels so I can roll it out Christmas morning).

My husband has wanted a skee ball game for as long as I've known him, but we have a limited space. This was the first machine I was able to find that would fit in the space we have.
My only complaint is that I scheduled delivery for the week of my husband's birthday, and it showed up nearly a month early, ruining the surprise.
It is not easy to assemble. The instructions are easy enough to follow, but the pre-drilled holes aren't always in the exact right spot, so sometimes things don't line up perfectly.
However, once the thing was assembled, we've had endless fun with it. It's not perfect, but it's great for the price, and it functions as it should!

A little bit bigger and heavier than the ones that came with my skee ball unit, but overall good.