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Dan of Orange

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Favourite pinball machine?
« on: July 27, 2011, 08:01:14 AM »
We call them Pinnys in Australia, mines 'Star Wars'...''Deathstar approaching''.
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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2011, 09:52:50 AM »
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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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2011, 11:18:36 AM »
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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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2011, 11:49:42 AM »


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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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2011, 01:16:55 PM »
Can't decide between Road Kings and Space Invaders.  It was difficult to narrow it down to those two!
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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2011, 01:20:41 PM »
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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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2011, 01:55:03 PM »
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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There was one in the Student Union and one at Spring Garden in Carrboro.
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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2011, 01:55:34 PM »
The Jurassic Park one was pretty great.

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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2011, 01:56:53 PM »
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.

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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2011, 11:32:25 PM »
@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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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2011, 03:38:24 AM »


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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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2011, 04:19:23 AM »
Whoa! What a terrible dream, better luck next REM state. Cool looking machine though.
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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2011, 10:22:30 AM »
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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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2011, 03:53:31 PM »
I don't understand.  What's sleazy?
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Re: Favourite pinball machine?
« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2011, 03:54:49 PM »
I don't understand.  What's sleazy?

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