Pinball Machines

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orange parmejohn

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anybody else miss the wonderful and almost extinct pinball machines? any of you guys own one? what was your favorite machine from back in the day?
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When I was a kid we had one of those sit down table Pac Man arcade games we got from a friend who closed his pizza place. Wish I kept it.
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Never played much pinball, not enough for any machine to stand out.

Rampage was my favorite coin op game back when.
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I'm an unreconstructed ex-pinballer. I go to Barleys almost every time I'm in Knoxville because they have an Attack From Mars machine upstairs. It isn't in great repair, but it's pinball. It kills me that on-location pinball has basically vanished and been replaced everywhere by the ubiquitous idiocy of Golden Tee.

I've thought several times about buying a machine, but I just don't know that I'm prepared yet to get into the maintenance involved. Which of course is why bars dumped all their pinball machines in favor of things like Golden Tee that they just have to plug into the wall. These days I simulate most of my pinball via Visual Pinball. It isn't the same, obviously, but it's fun.

Favorite machines were, of course, all Williams machines: Tales of the Arabian Nights, Bride of Pinbot, Funhouse, Medieval Madness. And specifically the Earthshaker and Taxi machines in the Electric Wizard on the Strip back in the day. The tilt was basically turned off on Earthshaker; you could throw that whole freaking machine eight inches one way to save a ball and it would let you play on. Beautiful.
 
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So is it me or the graphics for Golden Tee really haven't changed since 2001 or so? Do they just stick a new year banner on a machine and raise the price for 18 by a quarter annually?
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The 4 player Ninja Turtles game was sweet too.

I remember we went to Quebec City as a kid, and it downpoured the whole time, and the indoor pool at the hotel was drained for whatever reason. With nothing to keep us occupied, my dad gave us $20 and me and my sisters played pinball all day. About my only pinball memory.
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wounded mullet said:
So is it me or the graphics for Golden Tee really haven't changed since 2001 or so? Do they just stick a new year banner on a machine and raise the price for 18 by a quarter annually?
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I think you're right. Graphically it doesn't compare to the EA golf arcade game.
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These.days its Big Buck Hunter or the touch screen bar top games. I'm rarely in the bar long enough to get a game in.
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My bar days are far and few between now. I developed a love for darts those last few years, try and play when I have a chance.
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wounded mullet said:
My bar days are far and few between now. I developed a love for darts those last few years, try and play when I have a chance.
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I can appreciate that. Darts is pretty fun. Enjoyable to have a little to drink and throw metal darts. Very safe!
 
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crusse10 said:
I can appreciate that. Darts is pretty fun. Enjoyable to have a little to drink and throw metal darts. Very safe!
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It's rare to find metal darts these days, then again maybe I went to the wrong bars. Always got the mangled plastic tips.
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My mom and dad used own the restaurant at the old Union 76 truck stop in downtown Chattanooga. About all I remember about it is the pinball machines. I used to watch the truckers and local guys that would come in and play for money. Those guys were unbelievable.A lot of money was bet on pinball games.
 
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JTrainDavis said:
These.days its Big Buck Hunter or the touch screen bar top games. I'm rarely in the bar long enough to get a game in.
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You shiatheads who will put actual US money into something like Big Buck Hunter are the reason pinball is dead. DIAF, FOAD, etc etc etc.
 
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wounded mullet said:
It's rare to find metal darts these days, then again maybe I went to the wrong bars. Always got the mangled plastic tips.
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I leave my $15 set from Target in my car. Whenever I luck into being in a sports bar that has cork targets, I'll bust 'em out. The weight makes it much easier
 
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Pretty certain pinball was dead in bars before I was hitting them up.

Wouldn't be surprised if they made a comeback. I saw one on tv, they were restoring it, holy crap they're a mess on the inside.
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crusse10 said:
I leave my $15 set from Target in my car. Whenever I luck into being in a sports bar that has cork targets, I'll bust 'em out. The weight makes it much easier
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I always said I would invest in some darts of my own. Yet didn't want to be "that guy" who showed up with their own darts.Not knocking it, we just sort of had a unspoken rule of playing with house darts. Made it more interesting..
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Vercingetorix said:
You shiatheads who will put actual US money into something like Big Buck Hunter are the reason pinball is dead. DIAF, FOAD, etc etc etc.
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There are two crappy ones (T2 and Indiana Jones) at the local theater here. Every time I go watch a movie me and my kids end up spending 5 bucks on pinball though. My teenagers think they are the funnest arcade games to play. I told them that those games don't hold a candle to the old ones.
 
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