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I sure miss those days. I saw so many concerts in Seattle in the 70's and early 80's...when arena rock was thriving and we all stood in line for hours to go in general admission. All those great bands for less than a $20 ticket...I didn't ever see any pinball machines in Seattle Center Coliseum or that area.
Got derailed in the cheap shipping thread by lots of pinball love, so here's some space for us pinheads to gather. I apologize if this topic has been covered, I didn't search admittedly.
I'm a former pinball/arcade collector; I've had lots of machines and would love to have more even though I can't remotely afford the hobby anymore. (Well, not that I could *easily* afford it to begin with, but credit was way more loose and easy back in the early 00s.)
My favorites of all time are probably Medieval Madness, Twilight Zone, Funhouse, Demolition Man (my first machine at home) and Fish Tales... but I love almost all of them.
What do you play? What do you love? What do you have? What do you hate?
What say ye?
I'm a former pinball/arcade collector; I've had lots of machines and would love to have more even though I can't remotely afford the hobby anymore. (Well, not that I could *easily* afford it to begin with, but credit was way more loose and easy back in the early 00s.)
My favorites of all time are probably Medieval Madness, Twilight Zone, Funhouse, Demolition Man (my first machine at home) and Fish Tales... but I love almost all of them.
What do you play? What do you love? What do you have? What do you hate?
What say ye?
I don't own any machines, but I probably could with the money I've spent in them. There's a couple of pinball arcades that have popped up here in the past few years. Normally I'm too busy gigging to get over there more than once or twice a year.
My 3 favorite games:
Whitewater
Funhouse
Roadshow
My 3 favorite games:
Whitewater
Funhouse
Roadshow
I've got an original Medieval Madness, but I don't play it half as much as Attack From Mars.
So much clever weirdness to keep you interested, like trapping the ball behind the forcefield, then driving the ball forward by hitting the forcefield with the second ball. The saucer is destroyed, and the display says "DIRTY POOL". Who would even think up crazyness like that?
(Brian Eddy)
Testing the General Illumination before re-installing restored playfield on Time Warp:
- Oct 7, 2000
- 18,619
- 38,939
- Disclosures
- Endorsing artist: Musicman basses
This was my favorite pinball machine of all time, as well as my first drug 
.
I fiended for quarters to play that game, snuck into dangerous cafes to play it when I was a kid, neglected responsibilities as a school crossing guard, showed up late in grammar school... it was really an addiction.
And I was great at it. Used to rack up tons of free games that I had to walk away from.
Das all.
One day I think I'm going to find one and buy it. No room right now though.
.I fiended for quarters to play that game, snuck into dangerous cafes to play it when I was a kid, neglected responsibilities as a school crossing guard
, showed up late in grammar school... it was really an addiction.And I was great at it. Used to rack up tons of free games that I had to walk away from.
Das all.
One day I think I'm going to find one and buy it. No room right now though.
LOL you do have a point - I just like more stuff on the playfield even if it's a fan-shot game. Though, the dirty pool reference comes from dropping a ball behind the bookcase while still closed in Addams. (Now that I say that, I assume you must know that already, seeing as you know pinball.)
Heh if you ever want to move that Medieval... I'll try to start socking away nickels now, might be able to get it when I'm old enough to retire. Did that one company ever succeed in rereleasing MM? It wasn't Jersey Jack, was it IPB?
Less fun: I just can't believe Stern is selling all their machines with home collectors squarely in their sights now - now it's like $5k for the "we took out half the features" edition, $7k for the "this is the actual game" edition, and $9k for the "we goldplated the legs and rails" edition. I know pinball is expensive to run on location, but good googly moogly. I still wanna play some of them though, if I can find them.
My absolute favorite:
Played this for hours-long stretches at an arcade on ‘The Strip’ across from NTC Great Lakes in 1981.
Played this for hours-long stretches at an arcade on ‘The Strip’ across from NTC Great Lakes in 1981.
It's a minty MM with perfect original cabinet (no cheesy decals), perfect playfield (I did clearcoat it because the factory clear had started to wear through in the upper arrows) it looks like glass. I have the original unbroken dragon, portcullis and all the plastics in a box - I use repros for everyday use, lol.
And yes, Chicago Gaming did re-make MM back in 2014, looks a little different under the playfield:
Silver Ball Mania was the first FAST Bally game.
Super hit for them, the made over 10,000 of those.
Bally sent out a service kit that all the techs were supposed to install to make it harder. If you play it and it still has the metal posts in front of the horseshoe, you have not played the final, badass game. Most of the ones I service are still the metal posts.
The plastic beehive posts are installed on the deadly version:
Well, I found one for sale, but I’d have to sell all my guitars and guitar amps to buy it....so, it’s just going to remain a memory of my youth
In my teens, we used to play Airport back in the mid 60s. If you got the ball in a high number, you could gently lift it and hold the ball in position to rack up huge scores and earn free games without tilting the game. We would then sell the games to a younger kid and go buy some munchies. It was a great summer. 
Well, I found one for sale, but I’d have to sell all my guitars and guitar amps to buy it....so, it’s just going to remain a memory of my youth
There is a guy in Detroit that has 4 restored SBM games, he'd probably sell you one if you tell him it was your all time favorite...
How about Future Spa for 70s insanity?
It's big:
It's big:
I thought Future Spa was a hilarious machine theme.
I liked the older solid state games plenty - hell my first plays were probably the Bally KISS machine and Gottlieb's Haunted House (a LEGENDARY machine I think these days) - but man, once things got to, say, Hurricane/Whirlwind/Funhouse levels I was hooked, and then the dot-matrix-display classics that ruled the 90s absolutely won my heart and my dollars.
Course, I'm not a very GOOD pinball player - best i ever did in the wild was 5 free games on a Jurassic Park in a single session, I think - but I love it. Just like bass, come to think of it.
Man! You'll wake up all us old folks with this one.....................
Joker Poker
loved Big Hit and the other baseball game with the actual bat not the flippers
multi ball Balls-a-poppin'
the other ones with multiple paddles up the sides that I cant remember
...................good times................
Dave
Joker Poker
loved Big Hit and the other baseball game with the actual bat not the flippers
multi ball Balls-a-poppin'
the other ones with multiple paddles up the sides that I cant remember
...................good times................
Dave
