Huzzah!

*shakes table*

TILT

That deaf, dumb and blind kid not available for comment :(

/RIP, Pinball Wizard
//wishes the Pinball Arcade still was popular

/hot
//thanks old man I never knew

Hey, at 100 he got plenty of bonus rounds.

Hmm, if I had a vast pile of money I'd commission a study to see if playing real pinball has a positive benefit greater than standing while playing video games.

You know that if video games were the new thing today there would be laughingly misleading studies along those lines. But misleading science wasn't as scuzzily prepped when Atari hit the scene.

Craig Ferguson said when he reached 90 he got an extra ball.

I miss playing pinball.

FUNHOUSE?!?

Abox:

FUNHOUSE?!?

That pinball machine used to sit in my living room.

/get yerself a hotdog!

Let's see, 00....

30, 50, 10.

Dammit! No extra plays.

\RIP Elmer's Glue

jaytkay: RIP ELTON JOHN

FO.

Indubitably: jaytkay: RIP ELTON JOHN

FO.

P.S. I'm hunting you know...

Is this where the pinball nerds are hanging out?

I only have one right now - Speakeasy - but I used to have a nice collection. Monopoly is probably the best one I ever owned. Someday I'd like a Tommy and Addams Family.

CSB time, one of my friends from high school, an electrical engineering major, has an Addam's Family machine. He says he discovered a design flaw that prevented the third magnet from working properly... so he fixed it. He suspects he may have the only fully functional Addam's Family in the world.

/feel the POWER

Bazinga In My Pants: Abox: [www.silverballmaniapinball.com image 600x800]

FUNHOUSE?!?

That pinball machine used to sit in my living room.

/get yerself a hotdog!


Did it yell 'FUNHOUSE?!?' when nobody was playing it like in the arcade?

I've been doing pinball tournaments for the last 9 months. I've now bought 2 tables. A non-working Middle Earth & a White Force(some obscure pin from Spain). Trying to mount a PC on a wood plank for a hyperpin table.

My favorite:



If you haven't been to the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame, you've missed out on some cheap, well maintained pinball. Also, if I remember correctly, all the proceeds go to the Salvation Army.

Also a big fan of Funhouse and:



THE STORM IS COMING... RETURN TO YOUR HOME

turntable slave: My favorite:

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If you haven't been to the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame, you've missed out on some cheap, well maintained pinball. Also, if I remember correctly, all the proceeds go to the Salvation Army.

Also a big fan of Funhouse and:

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THE STORM IS COMING... RETURN TO YOUR HOME

Take shelter, friend.

;)

L.D. Ablo: One local arcade, that we biked to, had minature golf and a waterslide.

Today's gaming sucks in comparison.

When I was growing up, there was LeMans Speedway, which, in its earliest incarnation, had a zillion pinball machines and a bumper car track in the back. When you walked in, you could smell the ozone. Then the video games filtered in, and afterwards the bumper car track was ripped out for more games. Eventually it became Aladdin's Castle, before the mall found an excuse to get rid of it.

Now that entire section of the mall has been demolished... and last time I checked, what was left looked like a ghost town.

Spent 5 hours at Arcade Amusements in Manitou Springs, Colorado earlier today.
Great place with dozens of old pinballs, mostly in very good working condition.

BTW, PinballMap.com is a great resource for locating pinballs in many areas. Check it out.

/game over

Great, all this talk about arcades is making me miss the old Funland arcade in downtown Toronto.

/place shut down years ago
//now some women's accesories store

"....Roger Sharpe"

Guy knows his pinball.

He and I came up with this:

The Who's Tommy

Well, I just did a lot of the artwork.

Sucks the old dude dieded.

Abox: Bazinga In My Pants: Abox: [www.silverballmaniapinball.com image 600x800]

FUNHOUSE?!?

That pinball machine used to sit in my living room.

/get yerself a hotdog!


Did it yell 'FUNHOUSE?!?' when nobody was playing it like in the arcade?

Yep. I believe there was a DIP switch to toggle that off.

/Never did though.

//Never wanted to silence the little guy.

jaytkay: RIP ELTON JOHN

Who's on first!

/Keith Moon just met him

BadJazz: Spent 5 hours at Arcade Amusements in Manitou Springs, Colorado earlier today.
Great place with dozens of old pinballs, mostly in very good working condition.

BTW, PinballMap.com is a great resource for locating pinballs in many areas. Check it out.

/game over

*smooches*

;)

P.S. Try driving that in a tank. The mountains I mean.

mikdeetx: jaytkay: RIP ELTON JOHN

Who's on first!

/Keith Moon just met him

Triangulation, really,

;)

Sun Khan: God, I was such a pinball addict when I was a kid. I cut my teeth on Bally's Eight Ball Deluxe...by the time I hit college, the great boards were Pin-Bot (and The Machine, above), Cyclone, Whirlwind and Funhouse. They're rare to see these days, and not the art forms they used to be.

/sad, suddenly

There was an Eight Ball Deluxe at a cafe in Ceggia, Italy when I was stationed there in the early 1980's, and we would wear that thing out on a Friday night. It was about 10 cents for a 5 ball game.

I've owned quite a few neat machines in my day...

~TAF
~TZ prototype/demo. Different playfield/upper playfield art, third magnet, white clock, signed inside the cabinet.
~ ST:TNG imported from the UK complete with a pound coin mech.
~ No Fear
~ Lost World
~ Meteor
~ Hurricane/Cyclone/Comet set.

Last pin I had was a Bally Game Show that belonged to a friend and was a bit run down. I ended up storing it for him and shopping it out. By far the hardest jackpot/multiball ramp shot of any pin I have played in my life. I used to curse and yell at that machine constantly.

These days I get my fix with FuturePin/pinMAME/Visual Pinball.

/Bk2k soundtrack for my ringtone
//Would kill for a Stern Simpsons.

FTA: "I had more fun in this business than anyone could believe"

For some reason, I really liked that.

moike:

Last pin I had was a Bally Game Show that belonged to a friend and was a bit run down. I ended up storing it for him and shopping it out. By far the hardest jackpot/multiball ramp shot of any pin I have played in my life. I used to curse and yell at that machine constantly.

These days I get my fix with FuturePin/pinMAME/Visual Pinball.

/Bk2k soundtrack for my ringtone

I flipped Game Show a few weeks ago. What's so hard about it?

Granted, I know a cheat that gives 26 million jackpots...
//Would kill for a Stern Simpsons.

BadJazz: moike:

Last pin I had was a Bally Game Show that belonged to a friend and was a bit run down. I ended up storing it for him and shopping it out. By far the hardest jackpot/multiball ramp shot of any pin I have played in my life. I used to curse and yell at that machine constantly.

These days I get my fix with FuturePin/pinMAME/Visual Pinball.

/Bk2k soundtrack for my ringtone
//Would kill for a Stern Simpsons.

DAMMIT TO HELL!

I flipped Game Show a few weeks ago. What's so hard about it?

Granted, I know a cheat that gives 26 million jackpots...

Sun Khan: God, I was such a pinball addict when I was a kid. I cut my teeth on Bally's Eight Ball Deluxe.

Quit talkin' and start chalkin'.

I miss Time Machine pinball.

/more pinball...
//shoot again!

And if you're in the SF Bay Area... this joint on the main drag in Alameda is worth the trip out... http://pacificpinball.org/ (new window)

First time I'd ever laid hands on a Xenon before.

turntable slave: If you haven't been to the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame, you've missed out on some cheap, well maintained pinball. Also, if I remember correctly, all the proceeds go to the Salvation Army.

My favorite part of my last trip to Vegas was gambling on pinball with my friends.

BadJazz: BadJazz:
I flipped Game Show a few weeks ago. What's so hard about it?

Granted, I know a cheat that gives 26 million jackpots...

No matter how much I adjusted the flipper angle on the left flipper I could never get it to a point where there was a consistent predictable sweet spot to hit that right ramp to load up multiball/jackpot. And even with a fresh flipper kit I couldn't backhand it from the right flipper. The center ramp I could do from either flipper with my eyes closed.

What's this cheat? I have a nice copy of GS under Vpin 9.x that I play often.

End of line, man.

moike: BadJazz: BadJazz:
I flipped Game Show a few weeks ago. What's so hard about it?

Granted, I know a cheat that gives 26 million jackpots...

No matter how much I adjusted the flipper angle on the left flipper I could never get it to a point where there was a consistent predictable sweet spot to hit that right ramp to load up multiball/jackpot. And even with a fresh flipper kit I couldn't backhand it from the right flipper. The center ramp I could do from either flipper with my eyes closed.

What's this cheat? I have a nice copy of GS under Vpin 9.x that I play often.

I'm not so sure it's a "cheat" as much as a "glitch". But anyway, try this: when you get ball 1 locked and ball 2 is at the plunger, semi-plunge it a dozen or so times so that the ball tracks over the trigger (sorry, don't know the tech terms). I usually bounce it for thirty seconds or so. Then, when you launch the ball up top, it won't go all the way to the multi ball staging area, it'll just drop into the lanes like usual. You can play all you want, or just lose the ball. After you lose the ball, there will be a delay until the it starts "finding" the lost ball, and ejects the first locked ball. The jackpot lite will be lit solid, and there will be no fanfare. Then just hit the ramp and watch your score go berserk.

I first figured this out in Oregon when I was a kid, and it works on this machine out here in Colorado, so it's probably a programming error.

Ok, I gotta try that... Thanks.