Pinball!

[sth]

does anybody else play pinball? what are your initials? what's your favorite machine(s)?

i go by DAD... been using that since i was little. my dad was the first person to show me pinball so i guess that's appropriate
i like Radical, Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure, Fish Tales, Monster Bash, Attack from Mars and the new star trek game is growing on me but the machine at my regular bar is sort of on the fritz. i just started playing Circus Voltaire but i haven't really quite gotten the hang of it yet...

[SpAmRaY]

I played space cadet pinball when it was an included microsoft game but I don't think that counts

[jdcarpe]

Obligatory reference:

I love pinball, but I haven't played in years. We used to have arcades here...

[CPTBadAss]

I really like pinball but it's hard to find machines to play on. The arcades near me don't have pinball machines. I always post as Moo. Best place I ever played pinball at was at the Museum of Play's Arcade.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

I played space cadet pinball when it was an included microsoft game but I don't think that counts

x2. I also used to play Microsoft Pinball Arcade, this one was one of my favorites:

[jdcarpe]

I just remembered this:

When I was 5 years old, I asked Santa to bring me a pinball machine for Christmas. I imagined his elves making the machine at their workshop at the North Pole. You can imagine how excited I was to wake up on Christmas morning to find a new, kid-sized pinball machine (the kind without legs) under the tree.


That's also the year I discovered that Santa was really your parents. A few weeks after Christmas, I was snooping around in my dad's tool shed and found the packaging for the pinball machine behind a shelf.

[sth]

I really like pinball but it's hard to find machines to play on. The arcades near me don't have pinball machines. I always post as Moo. Best place I ever played pinball at was at the Museum of Play's Arcade.

nice, i like MOO what about bars? I rarely see them in arcades; mostly bars and stuff.

[CPTBadAss]

I've seen em in bars in New York but not out here.

[noisyturtle]

I adore pinball. It all stems back to a childhood memory of walking home with my dad from kindergarten everyday, and we would stop and get pie and play pinball at this little diner. My favorite machine has always been Twilight Zone for that reason, although I also have a soft spot for the T2: Judgment Day machine as well. There's so many great machines out there. Elvira: Scared Stiff, and South Park are some other awesome machines.

If you love pinball, check out the Pinball FX2 series on Steam. Lot's of great boards(and some not so great.) Or hunt down a copy of Balls Of Steel for the PC, the best digital pinball game I've ever played.

[dustinhxc]

My cousin in law has a pinball machine its pretty fun! I forget which machine it is though, only saw it a couple times.

I like playing Monster Bash, Addams Family, Aliens.  DAG

Also the app The Pinball Arcade on iOS is a pretty damn good replica of the machines, sound and movement everything!

[Tym]

Was about to post Pinball wizard...
...Jdcarpe beats me too it.



...again.

[Hak Foo]

My office has a Firepower machine, but it's dodgy.  The conclusion I came to when I poked at it like two years ago when it first arrived:  some of the sense-switches don't respond correctly, so it won't boot, concluding the balls aren't locked in the right position for a new game.

[noisyturtle]

My office has a Firepower machine, but it's dodgy.  The conclusion I came to when I poked at it like two years ago when it first arrived:  some of the sense-switches don't respond correctly, so it won't boot, concluding the balls aren't locked in the right position for a new game.

That's the ****ty part about owning a pinball machine, they break ALL the time and since Bally and Stern went under mechanics are super duper expensive for housecalls. Some of the tiniest parts can be integral and rare, and people who sell them want you to buy a bunch of other broken or scavenged parts from the same machine that you don't need.

Source: My buddy collects retro games and has 3-4 pinball machines which are all broken

[funkymeeba]

Of the ones I've played, Lord Of The Rings and Addams Family are probably my favorites. I want to check out more of the old Gottlieb boards, though.

[sth]

last night i played some machines i've never played before.

medieval madness is awesome. whitewater is also awesome. simpsons pinball party is pretty sweet but not as exciting as i was expecting.

[TheSoulhunter]

I remember having a fun time in my youth with one of these:

[terran5992]

Latest one i played is with lord of the rings theme

[CPTBadAss]

Of the ones I've played, Lord Of The Rings and Addams Family are probably my favorites.

I have a serious soft spot for the Addams Family machines. And I really like the LOTR machines as well.

[audioave10]

I played alot of pinball as a kid (we are talking in the seventies here). I also have the old Microsoft Pinball Arcade disc and that game still looks very good.

[HoffmanMyster]

I played space cadet pinball when it was an included microsoft game but I don't think that counts

You can copy that over from an XP install to Windows 7 to keep playing it on current machines.      

[SpAmRaY]

I played space cadet pinball when it was an included microsoft game but I don't think that counts

You can copy that over from an XP install to Windows 7 to keep playing it on current machines.   

[rowdy]

Last time I played pinball was on an Apple 2.

[HoffmanMyster]

Last time I played pinball was on an Apple 2.

   Nice...

[mr_a500]

I played pinball in the 70's before video games existed (besides the rare early games, which I knew nothing about). Then arcade video games started appearing around 79/80 and I remember they'd always take out a few pinball machines to make room for each new arcade game. Eventually, by 82/83 it was getting hard to find any pinball machines left. At the time, I didn't care because I preferred video games, but now I'm starting to feel nostalgia for those lost pinball machines.

I had no idea they made modern pinball games with The Simpsons, Lord of the Rings, Terminator or South Park. I think I'd prefer games from the 70's and earlier.

[Chau]

Talk about memories. I used to play a lot, all through high school and at uni. The uni bar was sweet with 2 pool tables and at least 1 pinball. I always prefered the older machines as you could slap them around a bit. plus it was only 20 cents a pop.

[noisyturtle]

When I went home for the holidays my dad and I stopped into what used to be a deli (now a bar) where almost every day we used to stop when he walked me home from grade school to play pinball, and was pleased to see an Addams Family machine in there still being used to this day.