Review on Foosball Table For Home Or Office - Multiple Styles Available From ESPN Arcade by Mod Kindred

Pros:Beautiful table with the "look" of quality.Good instructions and relatively easy to assemble.Price is good all things considered.ConsRather poor qualityEasily damagedStill takes a bit to assemble.After reading how long it took some people to assemble I almost did not buy this table. I really want to give it 3.5 stars. It took me 5 hours to assemble it by myself, including three 1/2 hr breaks and responding to my kids demanding food and micromanaging my assembly. The instructions were well done and identification of the parts very easy with numbers on each packet (some fell off, but I could figure out the number). A few issues with assembly made it less than fun and showed the rather poor quality of the materials and structural design. Once assembled though, it is a beautiful table. Only time will tell how long it lasts use by my kids, but I am not that optimistic. Note that the instructions actually said it is not for children. Say what?!Issues- Some holes are not predrilled.- There is zero room for mistakes. Make a mistake, you will damage the particle board.- A predrilled leg bracket was out of alignment and tightening it resulted in it being stripped out of the particle board. Major issue that took a wood glue and nails to rectify and that part will be weak from now on.- Tightning bolts for players not prescored and can easily strip.- Brackets are easily split when tightening wood screws as mentioned by another reviewer.Advice- Take your time assembling. Can be done by one person.- Do not overtighten anything and don't use a power drill.- Preset all screws before tightening, carefully.- Confirm orientation of each piece before you make a mistake. Mistakes are about impossible to fix due to the poor quality of the particle board.- Be careful to check the orientation of the poles for the players and their relative positions and that of the spacers.- Make sure you slot in the space boards between the legs before you lock the legs in.- Do not move the table in any way by putting pressure on the legs. They are not strong. The strength of particle board is inversely proportional to its weight.- Lock your kids in a room so they don't drive you nuts with "why is it taking you so long. I'm hungry!"