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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dan of Orange on July 27, 2011, 08:01:14 AM
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We call them Pinnys in Australia, mines 'Star Wars'...''Deathstar approaching''.
(http://gameroomwarehouse.com/pinball/images/star_wars_de.gif)
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Adams Family and it's not even CLOSE. I probably spent about $3,000 of my college food account money playing that game in my dorm's arcade. The last time I played it was at some pinball bar in Seattle. I dropped about $40.
I love pinball so much. I really want to go to the Silverball Museum but I'm so friggin' scared I'll put in a whole paycheck into that game.
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I liked "Cyclone."
KISS Pinball is the best theme but actually a boring game. I played it at G.C. Murphys in Crabtree Valley Mall in a past decade. I can't remember if they had it at the Las Vegas Pinball Museum.
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The Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball machine is great, I spent a small fortune on that when it was at my local bar.
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Can't decide between Road Kings and Space Invaders. It was difficult to narrow it down to those two!
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The Cyclone is a favorite. You, Sir! And you, Madam!
I'm also a fan of the Doctor Who pinball game.
But Cyclone is best.
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The Cyclone is a favorite. You, Sir! And you, Madam!
I'm also a fan of the Doctor Who pinball game.
But Cyclone is best.
Hey you! With the face!
There was one in the Student Union and one at Spring Garden in Carrboro.
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The Jurassic Park one was pretty great.
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There was a Tommy pinball machine at the Chuck E. Cheese I worked at. It said "Touch Me, Hear Me, Play Me" on the sides. It SUCKED though.
NFL Coach Dan Reeves dropped about $8 in quarters once when it was out of order. I had to reimburse him. He called me "son."
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@Greggulator, the great thing about the Silverball museum is you can not go broke there, all the machines are on free play, you pay admission (1/2 hour, hourly or day pass, it's between 7.50, 10.00, 20.00 with free re-entry all day). Check it out at silverballmuseum.com where you can see a listing for all their machines. The Addams Family and the Simpsons machines are great, I seem to recall some nine balls at a time chaos in one or both of those. The vintage machines are pretty amazing too, especially the primitive baseball one where you have to pitch the ball and bat while your runner goes around the bases.
Tell me, anyone, where is this Doctor Who pinball machine???
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(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/BallyFireball.jpg)
Also, why am I awake at 3:33? In my dream I was walking around downtown when I was witness to a terrible incident in which a guy set a child on fire with gasoline and matches. I picked up the child and threw it into a fountain, enraging the person with the gasoline, who snarled at me and told me he was going to get "the boss". I went into a sub shop, and after a few minutes, "the boss" came in with his own flaming bucket full of gasoline, immediately singled me out by pointing at me, and began to chase me through swirling surreal "streets" threatening to set me on fire. "The boss" is Patton Oswalt. So I woke from a horrible nightmare world, being chased by Patton, who seriously wants to light me on fire. Which reminded me of this pinball machine.
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Whoa! What a terrible dream, better luck next REM state. Cool looking machine though.
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I'm with Greggulator. Addams Family.
There was a "Bally's Wizard" pinball machine at Silverball Museum which I can only assume was not approved by the Who. It had a Roger Daltry-as-Tommy character holding a scantily clad woman. Yecch. 1970's pinball machines were generally sleazy as hell.
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I don't understand. What's sleazy?
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I don't understand. What's sleazy?
"When Lit"
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I used to love Funhouse. There was a cheap pizza joint my friend and I frequented in college and we spent our meager paychecks on $2 pizza, Ms. Pacman and Funhouse. The Rudy was a little run down, so it gave the illusion he was swearing at us. I still don't know what he says. The pizza place closed suddenly (probably due to health code violations) and Funhouse disappeared. I'm still bummed about it.
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The Cyclone is a favorite. You, Sir! And you, Madam!
I'm also a fan of the Doctor Who pinball game.
But Cyclone is best.
Hey you! With the face!
There was one in the Student Union and one at Spring Garden in Carrboro.
Samesies! They had it at the student union at Mizzou as well. "Ya pay ya' money, ya take ya' chances"
I also liked Funhouse. Nothing was more satisfying that shooting your ball right down that loudmouth's gullet.
Addams Family is my favorite game that's easy to find to play.
Probably my all-time fave is The Machine II Bride Of Pinbot - you turn a robot into a real girl and she has sex with you! Plus it's a super fun and very challenging game (at least at my skill level).
One cool idea for a game that I played once at a now-defunct Coin-Op Museum in St. Louis was Monday Night Football. You moved the ball down the field by scoring points. Then when you scored a touchdown a ramp raised out of the floor in front of a goalpost and you'd have to shoot the ball through the uprights. More often than not, though, it slammed against the glass and went off at some funky angle.
Speaking of St. Louis, they now have a GREAT bar/pinball parlour called The Silver Ballroom in south city.
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Speaking of St. Louis, they now have a GREAT bar/pinball parlour called The Silver Ballroom in south city.
YES.
My band stopped off there after a show a couple of months ago and it was tremendous. We played the heck out of that new Rolling Stones table.
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(http://arcade.thejadedgamer.net/images/bramstokersdracula_main.jpg)
This was another I used to play, $5ea in, winner takes all with friends, ha, the 90's!
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I had some time to kill at Port Authority the other night. Instead of hanging out in the men's room staring at people (the main hobby for Port Authority denziens), I went to FRAMES -- the completely insane (and inane) bowling alley/bistro/dancehall/lounge near the gates to get to Pompton Lakes.
(The above paragraph is further proof that North Jersey rules. Even though PA is in NYC, I count it as North Jersey.)
Anyways, they also have a pretty crummy arcade at Frames. They had the NO FEAR pinball machine there.
A few things:
1) You can't just simply put in quarters or a single and play. At Frames, you have to put in money in some vending machine which gives you a card to play, ala Dave & Buster's. This is fine but the last thing I need is proof I hung out at Frames, since I always forget to leave those things out.
2) The card reader on the machine was not of the highest quality. It takes about 900 swipes before you can actually play the dumb machine.
3) NO FEAR is really, really, really dumb. The game says things seemingly at random like "Jason Winters, X-Treme Water Skiing." Also, the game play itself makes no sense. I wasn't playing particularly well but I kept getting multi-balls. I don't mind getting multi-ball but it didn't feel earned.
4) Also, I hate the machines where you hit a button to start. I guess it's easier for maintenance then the pull-back lever. But I always like a game where a good shot with the pull-back lever can get you some kind of bonus. NO FEAR naturally had the button.
I didn't see any other tables at FRAMES.
It's such a personal dilemna! I never really hang out in the city after work (I'd much rather hang out in Montclair or Caldwell or Ridgewood -- better restaurants). But on the rare occassion that I do, I almost always JUST miss the bus which means I'll have about an hour to kill. Sadly, I believe this will lead me to play more NO FEAR.
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(http://arcade.thejadedgamer.net/images/bramstokersdracula_main.jpg)
This was another I used to play, $5ea in, winner takes all with friends, ha, the 90's!
I had one glorious night with one of these machines. I lit that sucker up. Only time I played it. When that coffin lights up...
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For LA FOTs or anyone planning on coming to LA anytime, there's a groupon today for an arcade that's got a buncha pinball machines.
http://www.groupon.com/deals/family-amusement-corporation?post_purchase=true (http://www.groupon.com/deals/family-amusement-corporation?post_purchase=true)
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There was a pinball and classic gaming convention in Seattle in June, the kind of thing where you pay admission and all the games are free. I saw for the first time the Black Hole pinball machine, and it was phenomenal. It had an awesome spinning disc design for the backboard and this really incredible lower level beneath the main playing surface where you played in reverse, hitting the ball towards you. It's hard to describe, but I found this YouTube video that shows what I'm talking about: Black Hole pinball lower level multiball (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PU5fpSUPLE#)
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Very cool indeed.
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I've been playing Tron Legacy at Shorty's in Seattle a lot lately. Had to find something to do to with myself to recuperate after oral surgery, and going to a bar that only serves crappy 7-11 style nachos seemed perfect!
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sorry if this has been mentioned but the who's "tommy" pinball machine was great. i also liked the addams family one, and i remember the simpsons machine being pretty fun.
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I always enjoyed the simpsons pinball game. Oh actually, the best one Ive played was probably the terminator 2 game, that was really cool
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Yeah! Did it have the big silver skull in the middle?
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Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure. Two of the highlights were that the plunger was a revolver you had to pull the trigger on to put the ball in play and the audio of Kate Capshaw screaming "I hate the water and I hate YOU!!!" Great machine.