lets hear it for pinball machines. that round steel bearing slamming into bumpers and kickers and traps is downright hypnotic. the crashing and ringing and beeping as the points spool upwards bumping into infinity. downright pornographic the amount of joy they serve up

does the wolf's den still have em? i know i dumped a paycheck's worth of quarters into the indiana jones machine they had back in the day

every game system should be fitted with a klaxon. end of story

9/9/2009 8:13:02 AM

I play by sense of smell.

9/9/2009 8:13:58 AM

I have an old school pinball machine. it's pretty fun, though nothing like modern machines. I'm estimating that this thing has to 50+ years old. Maybe I should research it...

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9/9/2009 8:40:44 AM

I think it's a shame that most places have been getting rid of their pinball machines.

As an aside, if you ever want a pinball machine a good place to look is the drug seizure auctions on Hillsborough. Every time I went over there there'd be at least one pinball machine up for auction. I guess drug dealers like pinball machines too

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9/9/2009 8:42:36 AM

EDIT THAT SHIT OUT


I WANT THOSE PINBALL MACHINES FOR MYSELF

9/9/2009 8:47:38 AM

I LOVE PINBALL MACHINES....One day i will have one. The best is the ridiculously high score!

120,000,000,000

9/9/2009 9:10:12 AM

whichever one i one day end up owning MUST have a multiball mode. i seem to do better when there are several balls rolling around than just one. i guess maybe because i dont have to time to think and fuck things up, but its so damn fun

9/9/2009 9:16:58 AM

That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball

9/9/2009 9:27:52 AM

what is that some kinda rock band or something

9/9/2009 9:33:45 AM

growing up my dad had the terminator 2 : judgement day pinball machine in what i guess would by today's standards be considered a man cave, we just called it the bar

9/9/2009 9:35:26 AM

i play by intuition

9/9/2009 9:38:46 AM

I've got:

williams Grand Lizard
williams Swords of Fury
bally Space Invaders (widebody)

also have a midway Haunted House shooter game.

Wish I had space and money for more

9/9/2009 9:42:19 AM

9/9/2009 10:06:21 AM

a million times better than video games

the only arcade games i'd ever want to own are SFII:CE and NHL Open Ice 2-on-2

but i can name dozens of pinball machines i'd love to have

9/9/2009 10:14:21 AM

arcade and pinball auction in winston salem on saturday as a matter of fact. (9/12)

9/9/2009 10:16:35 AM

i'd be all over that shit if i had a place to put a machine

9/9/2009 10:17:26 AM

9/9/2009 10:20:31 AM

^^^^^

I've got that DVD. Excellent inside story.
What killed pinball was the videogame. First the arcade ones. after decades of pinball
and mechanical arcade games the vid was just so new and exciting. games like defender, pacman, and the early racing games were awesome for the time. Also, vids were A LOT cheaper and easier to maintain. hardly any moving parts. Nowadays the amusement company will stick a pinball on the "route" and just leave it unattended until it finally dies, filthy, with half the lights burned out.

and what killed the arcade was the home videogame.

Kind of Darwin like, I guess.
But to me there is nothing cooler than a pin machine all lit up in the dark.

9/9/2009 10:41:53 AM

From Soho down to Brighton, I must've played them all.

9/9/2009 11:55:27 AM

^^^I would love to have a bubble hockey table and Super Off Road coin-op too. As for my favorite pinball machines...

South Park
Rescue 911
Stargate
Motor Cross (The one where the ball gets lifted into the score board)

9/9/2009 12:28:20 PM

fuck disabling embedding by request

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-YcBVEnLT8

9/9/2009 12:32:24 PM

^^ Was that game called Motor Cross? I def. remember the game Banzai Run which had a back glass playfield. Easily my favorite pinball machine of all time.

9/9/2009 12:38:29 PM

^
correct

9/9/2009 12:48:55 PM

i never was a big fan of pinball. maybe that's because i suck at it.

9/9/2009 12:49:44 PM

9/9/2009 1:40:02 PM

pinball wizard

9/9/2009 1:41:15 PM

ok, apparently mine is only about 34 years old... dang, though it was older.

9/9/2009 1:43:43 PM

http://www.futurepinball.com/

Eventually all pinball games are going to be restorations and home brew.

9/9/2009 3:50:52 PM

give it up for



and

9/9/2009 3:54:32 PM

Quote :

"^ correct "

It was like that only it was a motorcycle themed pinball machine.

9/9/2009 3:56:34 PM

Quote :

"I play by sense of smell."

iswydt

9/9/2009 4:32:53 PM

http://goodnightraleigh.com/2009/09/love-for-a-timeless-classic-playing-pinball-in-raleigh/

9/9/2009 4:36:46 PM