What's your favourite pinball machine?

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For me, it's a toss-up between The Addams Family and Guns 'N' Roses.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:41 (twenty-three years ago)

ADDAMS FAMILY EVERY DAY!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

The Simpsons is a good one, too. Apu chanting "Come again!" was so encouraging.

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:44 (twenty-three years ago)

My uncle has a Twilight Zone one in his basement, so, that one.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Pinball!!!!!!!!!

in college we had an Addams Family that would give you free games if you kicked in exactly the right spot, so I like that one cause I'm REALLY good at it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Twilight Zone! That one's a classic. That had all kinds of revolving passageways and stuff, right? It's been a while...

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Reading the above thread I was reminded of that fine game, Theatre of Magic. Long, long games on that one!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I was really excited a couple of months ago when a local bar got the Playboy pinball machine. It was actually pretty good. Though a baseball one soon replaced it and this was a thrilling game.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

You know why I gave up pinball? I began to get this intuition that the pinball player is, in effect, jacking off in public.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Right Prude, and you can get multiple balls going--one of them being a ceramic one that doesn't get affected by the magnets.
If you unlock all the doors or whatever in one round you 'get lost in the zone', ie all 4 (5?) balls get released at once--and get re-released if they go past the flippers--and all the lights flash.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"That deaf dumb and blind kid / Sure does like his balls."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 28 July 2003 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops: Yes! And the magnets created this weird limbo-effect. That was cool.

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 28 July 2003 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Funhouse.

Rudy is a bastard.

Williams machines are the best!

― Bosse-De-Nage (Bosse-De-Nage), Monday, 28 July 2003 06:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Addams Family, Terminator (2?), Hook!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 July 2003 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Terminator 3!

― Simeon (Simeon), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

The pinkpanther one, obv!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't they all pretty much the same? All classic then

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to have a Tomy Pinball Wizard machine - tiny version of the real thing you plug into the wall and play on. I broke the score-counter in the end.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

At Glastonbury some hippies had an old Bride Of Pinbot table powered by vegetable oil. Because it had been on all night being played by fried festival goers the replay score was outrageously low. Heaven! Except we went off and did something else and gave our remaining credits to a small child because we'd been infected by the vibe.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

you mean your pinball buzz was harshed? oh man

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quite the reverse! It was my 'Glastonbury moment' this year!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.pinball.ch/replay/flyers/pinkpanther-flyer2.jpg
http://www.pinball.ch/replay/flyers/pinkpanther-flyer1.jpg

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"Inside Pink Panther's Secret Passage lurks a captive ball hole"

― Awake Dan Perry Awake (Groke), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah and your point?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Seems a good a time as any:
If you know of any London pubs that currently have a pinball table , can you dish the dirt please?

― Simeon (Simeon), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Except we went off and did something else and gave our remaining credits to a small child because we'd been infected by the vibe.

Glastonbury was like 28 Days Later?

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 28 July 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

hurricane (?)
funhouse
addams family
twilight zone
#1 STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION

― ron (ron), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

creature from the black lagoon was outstanding, in fact it's the only one I've played in any great quantity

― chris (chris), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

You know why I gave up pinball? I began to get this intuition that the pinball player is, in effect, jacking off in public.

Umberto Eco to thread!

(does anyone else remember the passage from Foucault's Pendulum about the importance of using your groin when playing a pinball machine?)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

hurricane (?)
funhouse
addams family
twilight zone
#1 STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION

The middle three (and a game called Whirlwind), were designed by Pat Lawlor, whose new game is Rollercoaster Tycoon, which I was pleased to find in that place with the 15,000 song mp3 jukebox in New York.

That's all I know about pinball, except that my friend in Boston has The Twilight Zone in his guest bedroom and it rocks long and hard.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

THE

BLACK

KNIGHT

WILL

PLAY

YOU

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Funhouse! That's the one that was in Motor City Bar, Ally.

Star Trek: Next Generation is really good.

No Fear.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks andrew, i mean whirlwind and not hurricane

― ron (ron), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I always liked old pinball games best when I was little, mostly because they gave you more plays for your quarter. For some reason my dad got into restoring really old pinball games when I was in high school. They were similar to pachinko machines and had no flippers:

http://www.sandsmuseum.com/coinop/games/ritz/index.html

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i also kind of like judge dredd

― ron (ron), Monday, 28 July 2003 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Glastonbury was like 28 Days Later?

But then Pete would have hated it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 July 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Funhouse was the last pinball machine I truly loved.

http://www.pinthugs.com/funhouse/justface.jpg

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 28 July 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Attack From Mars and the Universal Monsters one where for the multiball they have a moshpit.

re what Colin said about jacking off in public: probably, but no more so than playing electric guitar.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah yes! Attack from Mars with the little laser animations on it. I liked that one, except it had that magnet in the middle of the board that made the balls always go right down the center, right past your flippers

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 28 July 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

that's the beauty of playing a regular pinball table (I mean, something like that sucks), you learn to compensate for all the crappiness of that specific game. Like sometimes one flipper is weaker than the other or it sticks. Bring it on.
This used to be my number one source of stress relief until I became obsessive and it became a new stress.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 July 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Simpsons is my favorite modern one, but I suck at pinball.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 28 July 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

another Addams Family vote. Are there other pinball tables? I played this one daily for two years while drinking giant quarts of beer. I tried to play it again the other night sober and was miserable.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 28 July 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I've only played computer pinball games in recent years. I imagine I've mentioned (probably several times) that on the standard Windows one, Space Cadet, I may be the world's best. I'd welcome challenges on this claim, as it might motivate me to play it some more. If anyone has a version that behaves sensibly at the top rank level and at scores over 200,000,000 I'd be very grateful for a copy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.ipdb.org/images/2005/2005f4.jpg

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 23 August 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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― BLACKOUT '03! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 05:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 23 August 2003 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 23 August 2003 05:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 23 August 2003 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 23 August 2003 05:59 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 23 August 2003 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

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bummerz

― Mr. Que, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

it means Balrog doesn't work

― Mr. Que, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

Avatar game was at the entrance to CA Extreme this year. nobody I know played it.

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

crabtowne looks awesome, i might have to go there tomorrow

http://www.pinballnews.com/games/lotr/IMG_0457.jpg

^balrog

― am0n, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:53 (fifteen years ago)

am0n beware, the crabtowne machines are usually in crappy, horrible shape

― Mr. Que, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

you should go to volleyball house, if that place is still around

― Mr. Que, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

IIrc, you hit Balrog three (four?) times and he clears the central ramp for you to shoot down the middle.

― em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 16 September 2011 19:59 (fifteen years ago)

hmm ok

what is this all about? "private collection" "invite"?

Greggs Place
Directions & Other Information:
Private collection located near White Marsh Mall. Email for info and invite ggiblinATcomcastDOTnet

― am0n, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:59 (fifteen years ago)

IIrc, you hit Balrog three (four?) times and he clears the central ramp for you to shoot down the middle.

― em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, September 16, 2011 3:59 PM

i was quoting someone's comment about the machine at that location i.e. that part of the game isn't functioning

― am0n, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:01 (fifteen years ago)

what is this all about? "private collection" "invite"?

it's some dude's garage/rec room and you email him to ask him to play his machines. ahem. i never did this--seems kinda crazy but fun i bet.

― Mr. Que, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:05 (fifteen years ago)

but what if he touches me in the ~bad place~

― am0n, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

The flipper?

― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Friday, 16 September 2011 20:24 (fifteen years ago)

just don't let him near your plunger ;)

― Mr. Que, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

TILT

― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 16 September 2011 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

nudge the balls

― am0n, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:33 (fifteen years ago)

maybe if you bring a friend you can get multiball

― Mr. Que, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:46 (fifteen years ago)

i googled his email and there's a gamesforum post

Crabtown USA, save your time and money IMO. I live right north of
Baltimore right off 95 and have 8 games if you want to stop by. email
me at ggib✧✧✧@comc✧✧✧.n✧✧.

--
Gregg in Baltimore

― am0n, Friday, 16 September 2011 21:02 (fifteen years ago)

only 8? pfft

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:04 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

museum in baltimore is open now

― am0n, Saturday, 11 February 2012 02:29 (fourteen years ago)

I somehow wound up with the owner's manual for the KISS pinball machine made in the late '70s, though I've never played that particular table.

I was a total pinball addict in my early teens, even though video games were taking over the arcades by that time.

― Lee626, Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:37 (fourteen years ago)

wowwwwwwwww way upthread, that theatre of magic promo video is awesome. Makes the game seem way more boring than it is - I haven't played that table in six years but I remember it vividly, all time favorite easy. I like all the gimmicked-out tables of that post-Addams-Family era - - Medieval Madness was another great one.

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 February 2012 06:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_pinball/deco/13002302.jpg

― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 11 February 2012 06:03 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

i went to the nat'l pinball museum here. the exhibit portion is pretty weak unless you like reading tons of placards. you're not supposed to take photos but i snuck some anyway. the "gallery" on the 2nd floor has ~35 games to play. i paid the 2hr. admission which i think could be a little cheaper if they want to bring people in. mostly played twilight zone and avatar (lol). my wrists hurt for days after from all the flipping.

― lebron traveled (am0n), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.pinballarcade.com/

― ╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮ (am0n), Friday, 20 April 2012 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

Did you see any Rock N' Roll Pinball ?

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

oh yeah they have the guns n roses machine at the museum but i forgot to play it

― ╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮ (am0n), Friday, 20 April 2012 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

GnR game is kinda lame imho

would be funnier if the goal of the game was to replace as many bandmembers as possible

― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 April 2012 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

GNR and the Who were pretty good pinball games.

I'm trying to think of a band that could earn the honor of being to pinball what Journey was to home video games.

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 20:42 (fourteen years ago)

hmmm

now I'm wishing there was a Beach Boys pinball game

― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 April 2012 20:44 (fourteen years ago)

http://rockbrat.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/nuge_pinball1.jpg

Gonna put this one in at the deer lodge.

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

http://rockbrat.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/rolling_stones_1.jpg

I remember seeing this one when it was out, having only a vague idea of who the Stones were. I knew enough to be freaked out a little bit by it sitting in a mirrored corner by iteslf, black plastic ashtray sitting on its glass.

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nFAGnx0hN1U/TCHw6UrYDmI/AAAAAAAABgg/UY1CHQwTLUw/s1600/iPhone+Screenshot+2.jpeg

got excited about this one until I learned that it's a SPOILER.

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:09 (fourteen years ago)

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/69/deb48711f5164e4bb7ff400a3f613f3f/l.jpg

Hahahaha, next.

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:10 (fourteen years ago)

I've seen that Nugent one but never played it. Stones one is creeeeepy

― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 April 2012 21:16 (fourteen years ago)

Could rattle off a bunch of creepy pinball games that I still see in my dreams every once in awhile. That Stones one. The Space Invaders one with the lights all around it. Xenon, the robot girl who wanted you to hit her bumpers.

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.stickycarpet.com/pinx/_images/pinglow.jpg

Going back to play Donkey Kong, thanks anyway!

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

oh I've played a lot of Xenon

wtf that Space Invaders is such an Alien knockoff! never seen that

― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 April 2012 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

I don't what know what you're talking about; it looks just like the video game, can't you see?

― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

There's a laundromat 'round these parts that has:

Indiana Jones
Funhouse
Whitewater
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Theater of Magic
Medieval Magic
Addams Family
and one of the Pinbot games, maybe Jackbot

...AND I saw Circus Voltaire and ST:TNG being serviced by the owner. Man. It's a little out of my way but I can see that becoming a serious regular detour and quarter-drainer. Dude has taste in tables.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:28 (thirteen years ago)

Wow yeah those are all solid, especially ToM and MM.

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 01:29 (thirteen years ago)

Teed Off!

― Lover (Eazy), Thursday, 17 October 2013 01:44 (thirteen years ago)

? I dont know that one

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 01:44 (thirteen years ago)

A gopher talks shit to you while you play, kind of a cross between Funhouse (the machine) and Caddyshack (the movie).

― Lover (Eazy), Thursday, 17 October 2013 01:49 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC74TQMNJtc

― Lover (Eazy), Thursday, 17 October 2013 01:49 (thirteen years ago)

That is some quality gopher action

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 01:53 (thirteen years ago)

Never seen Teed Off before! Not sure I could deal with that gopher. But that reminds me, he also has a World Cup Soccer table. Really a gold mine over there.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 October 2013 02:59 (thirteen years ago)

this place in the Bay Area rules, $15 for unlimited play all afternoon/night, four rooms, rotating selection: http://pacificpinball.org/

― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Thursday, 17 October 2013 09:49 (thirteen years ago)

this is also very useful in the US: http://pinballmap.com/

― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Thursday, 17 October 2013 09:50 (thirteen years ago)

Oh, WOW. That looks really, really promising. I wanted to start something like that in 2005 or 6 but all I knew how to do was basic HTML via FrontPage, so it just was a kind of review index of the tables in Athens, whether they were fun to play/out of order or not...

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 October 2013 12:00 (thirteen years ago)

ten years pass...

^^^ along the way, it became an app, and a darn handy one at that. i don't play nearly as much as i once did, but I still do enjoy a session here and there.

― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 02:27 (two years ago)

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