Classic Pinball Machines

That one is great, have played it. Would love to find this one somewhere in operation:

Molti, you would love my local pub then!

And coincidentally the T2 pinball machine was the best thing the Terminator series ever put out. Period.

Can't we all just enjoy classic pinball games without taking uncalled for potshots at T2? But yeah, I would like to go to whatever place you know of that has the DIRTY HARRY one.

Like I said in the B-Movie thread. This one owns all:



and I'd love to try this one:

Oops. No potshots intended, rather just pointing out that the T2 machine is pure greatness. It had a gun as trigger for gods sake!
But Ed might be on to some serious competition with the Twilight Zone machine.

Hell yes, I mean let's go beyond The Adams Family Pinball machine here.

What's going on in the world? TWISTER can get a pinball machine, so every movie should!



That looks really sweet.

I hope one day my travels lead me to this:

A Twister pinball game? Doesn't surprise me. There was an ID4 pinball game.

Oh wow, does it play President Whitmore's speech to get you fired up before you play?



"Freddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street" is easily one of my favorite horror-themed pinball machine designs. There's just so much going on in it that it's impossible not to love. On top of it all, Freddy talks shit to you with his usually array of cheesy one-liners while you play. What more could you ask for?



"Freddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street" is easily one of my favorite horror-themed pinball machine designs. There's just so much going on in it that it's impossible not to love. On top of it all, Freddy talks shit to you with his usually array of cheesy one-liners while you play. What more could you ask for?

This is officially a must-find for me now.

Wow, and there's an X-Files pinball machine next to it. Inspired me to look it up. I'd love to be able to play this pinball machine, and of course that Dirty Harry one too.

The 'image' on that X-FILES one is really excellent, I'd love a poster of it.

I'm pretty sure it didn't.

Houston, we have tilt:



It would appear Hanks wasn't fond of this. His image is replaced by generic astronaut man.

We have a new low:

I know all of you are dying to give this one a shot:

T2 machine was a tough act to follow but I see the gun control returned, and I spy an Arnie head!



I think that's the only one I've actually played. Good fun.

This will date me. I used to play this in our college game room all the time. To be fair, it was an old machine even then.

I have a sweet little number from the 70s in my parents' garage. The wiring is all kinds of funky now though i'd imagine.

Where I live now, if a car goes past, it sets off the tilt sensor. So, it's now in storage

My University's arcade had that one next to their World Cup Soccer pinball machine. I spent way too much money on those two machines. The Dalek voices were spot on in the Doctor Who game!

I was just reading an article in the LA Times about the Pinball Museum in Las Vegas. Check it out.

Also, last week on my way back from our family vacation in Tahoe, we stopped at a little burger joint that had a very good T2 machine. Playing that machine brought back a lot of good memories.

Also, FUNHOUSE pinball was awesome. That Rudy guy (if that was his name) was great. I used to quote him for a long time. "It's getting late." "I'm getting sleepy." "Oh, so sleepy." And then he'd yawn, and sleep with his mouth open, which you could then choke him by shooting your ball into his mouth.

Wow. That is scary.

Ryan, that World Cup pinball game was awesome. Fun as hell.

Probably the only Broadway musical to get its own pinball machine (unless there's some kickass Starlite Express machine that I've tragically never played):

Well D'uh.

I am pretty sure "Tommy" is not the only Broadway Musical getting it´s own pinball machine.

Just a general question, since it's always been a dream of mine to stock a room in my house with some classic game machines - are any of these pics from your homes?

Uh no.

The ones I posted are. And if you believe that, you also believe there are Richard Simmons juniors running around. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

There's "classic" and then there's CLASSIC.



The day I have more money and time than I know what to do with, instead of a trendy smack habit I'm putting a refinished, pristine one of these in the game parlor.

I've known about this one for a while and it's still at the top of my list.



It even got the patented Slash Seal of Approval!



Molt I love you for that reference, and if anyone doesn't get that reference they're missing out on a world of fun.

I enjoyed playing pinball much more than regular arcade games.

I've played many of the ones listed.

This list is incomplete without Robocop.
http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pin...op_pinball.htm

I'll third the love for the World Cup pinball machine.

In terms of the greatest pinball machine of all time, my vote is Theater of Magic!!! Check out the ridiculous promo video here. Oh man, there was nothing like getting the trick box to spin and hear the Count Count voice yell, "Multiball!!!"

Also, I'd punch puppies to play that Guns'n'Roses machine.

Not the first pinball game I remember, but likely the one I spent the most quarters on as a kid.

Some great choices all around, Played most of them.
this was a common combo at local arcades. Loved shooting those guns.


Also deserve notice, The Star trek ones.

GnR pinball. One of those machines that, the first and only time I played it, I owned it.

My Old School Favorites:

Another classic from my youth. If I recall correctly, it yelled various threats at you. Not to mention it seems to celebrate demon rape.

I heard Slash actually designed that GnR machine. Also, I hate to be a nerd, but the Star Wars pinball was pretty awesome.
Blowing up a planet = multiball

Damn, I thought nobody was still making pinball machines, but Shrek 3 and T3 machines gives me hope that the industry is only a Terry Schiavo vegetable and not a Jesse Helms corpse. Even if Smails is right and the Sterns product stinks.

Though while looking up pictures online, I saw this Sterns that I'd forgotten once reading about in Maxim(yes, I DO read Maxim when I need to replenish...)...



The theme song plays during the game, so there's THAT.

As for favorites,



When your game was over, Marian says, "See you tomorrow, Indiana Jones."



Along with the Phantom Menace one(I know, I know...), I really dug those later hologram games. This one was particularly sweet, with a mini-game where a giant Abe Lincoln fought a giant chicken. Seriously.



Video game icon enters the pinball world. I remember only seeing this once at the NY State Fair and think it was the awesomest thing in the history of things. Includes an awkward part where you play SMB level 1-1 on the marquee with flippers.

Man, to have disposable income to get some machine to set up in a swinging bachelor pad.

The strange thing is that for how much I enjoy pinball, I really suck at it. I have the magic ability to make the ball sail right through the flippers like Adam Vinatieri splitting the uprights whenever it approaches the bottom.

I was getting worried about the "no machines before 1992" rule here until some folks finally posted some shots of so-called "old-school" tables.

And Trav McGee restored my faith in humanity.

And the GnR table can go fuck my sisters. Why can't Slash die of a heroin overdose or complications from syphilis already? There's no justice...

For those who don't know about the aforementioned World Cup game:

Ah yeah! I owned that bad boy, had it yelling "Goooooaaaaaalllll" like my name was Cristiano Ronaldo (for you Manchester fans out there).

So many memories here. Adding my love for Pinbot, World Cup, Twilight Zone, and Indiana Jones. But this was the monster that ate all my change in the early '90s:


I only got to play this one once, and I doubt there are many still operational, but it had the most original layout I've ever seen:

That's right, the ball-trap bonus is a mirror universe set beneath the deck. How utterly awesome.

Jesus Ratty, what other weird shit was going on in the early 80s?

But I once again would like to re-assert just how awesome the World Cup pinball game is.

Street Fighter II Pinball had a similar "below the playing field" thing going on. There was a flipper that you would use to repeatedly bash a small metal car with a pinball, in a nod to the "destroy the car" bonus levels in the video game.

GORGAR!

Fuck yeah! Man, I still, without CHUD MB prompting, occasionally fantasize about owning my own Black Knight machine, but crap does that Gorgar pic bring back the fond local-pizza-place memories.

I wonder if there's any way to find out if the graphic artist for that machine also contributed to the first-edition D&D books. Cause, I mean. /doff nerd cap

ETA: Singer, glad to see someone else out there recognizes [eta: one of] the first real groundbreaker[s]. Multi-Level Action. MAGNA-SAVE!

And lookit here, on Black Knight's own wikipedia page:

Fuck. Yeah.

Aaand I just noticed the Whirlwind machine on the left. With the fan and the spinning turntable. I'd love to play that one again.

"The. Black. Knight. Will. Play. You. HAHAHAHAHAHHA!"

I blew so many quarters on BK, and those roller coaster-based machines. Plus, this was a classic at my old bowling alley I used to play all the time.