Pinball Machines

#51
#51
read somewhere that some guy makes custom one of a kind, pinball tables and sells them for a fortune to rich people and celebrities. thought that was pretty interesting.
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#52
I played a lot of different pinball machines in my day, but that was in the 60's and the 70's. Two I remember were a bowling pin type machine and some kind of a Pirate themed machine. Was I good? No often. But sometimes I would get in the zone where everything seemed to be moving slower than I was and I could beat the machine so bad it got a little boring. But it didn't last long and then the machine needed more quarters.
 
#53
#53
I love the sound of the old, analog machines. The first machine I can remember playing that had LED scoring windows was an Evel Knievel themed one.

Williams' "Flash" was probably my favorite.
 
#55
#55
When a student at UT, the Vol Market on the strip had the machine with all the holes and sliding screens, and the high score for the week won $5 worth of merchandise. (1967) I won it so many times, they made me sit out a week ever so often.

When in Junior High and HS, I lived near a bowling alley with machines and air conditioning (rare in those days). We would put a nickel or dime in a machine that we sat the legs on our toes to level it out. The ball would catch in a gate and run up the score until the max number of free games was reached. Then we could play all day for that one coin.
 
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#56
MWR said:
Pinball all the way. The difference is that you can have some input on a pinball game. The ability to push, shove, pull, kick, and other subtle nuances are an art form that can have a major influence on your game. On the other hand, you can do all these things and more to a video game and it's still the same, a pattern to learn and memorize.

Back in the day, mid 60's, I would go visit my Aunt and her family in Severville. She had a pretty good sized store out in the country and she had a pinball machine. She didn't really care a lot about the machine - or what I did with it.

So I would go to the shelf in the store where the little cat food cans were stocked and get me a can of cat food and sit it in the floor next to the leg of the pinball machine. Then I would insert a quarter, punch up a game, fire the ball and lift up the machine until it tilted. The ball was still on playing field, and I would lift and pull until the ball hung up on one of those rollover things. Then I would use my foot to push a can of cat food under the leg of the machine and slowly ease it down on the can. Sometimes it took several tries, but when I got it right, things started happening. I would punch off a new game and the score would start rolling up. BAM! 15 games. If a customer happened to enter the store, I would take hold of the flipper buttons and commence to flip them work around like I was really playing. Some of them were impressed by the numbers I was putting up.

Played the whole week I was there for less than a dollar. Can you do that with a video game?
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rbroyles said:
When a student at UT, the Vol Market on the strip had the machine with all the holes and sliding screens, and the high score for the week won $5 worth of merchandise. (1967) I won it so many times, they made me sit out a week ever so often.

When in Junior High and HS, I lived near a bowling alley with machines and air conditioning (rare in those days). We would put a nickel or dime in a machine that we sat the legs on our toes to level it out. The ball would catch in a gate and run up the score until the max number of free games was reached. Then we could play all day for that one coin.
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See? When you use the cat food can instead of your toes, then you didn't have to post in the ingrown toe nail thread. Unless you wore steel toed boots to play the pinball machine. Not that I ever did that......
 
#58
#58
rbroyles said:
When in Junior High and HS, I lived near a bowling alley with machines and air conditioning (rare in those days). We would put a nickel or dime in a machine that we sat the legs on our toes to level it out. The ball would catch in a gate and run up the score until the max number of free games was reached. Then we could play all day for that one coin.
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And as an adult you went back and gave the bowling alley the approximate value of all the free games, correct?
 
#59
#59
My uncle used to have the black knight. I thought it was pretty good
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#61
JTrainDavis said:
And as an adult you went back and gave the bowling alley the approximate value of all the free games, correct?
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Well not exactly, but my family spent thousands of dollars at the Bristol Speedway that the bowling alley owner also owned. And I dated his daughter once.
 
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