Bought a pinball machine today

[Habu]

I have been thinking of getting one since I was a kid. Today I finally did it.

Anyone here into pinball?

I bought a 20th aniversary Monday Night Football.

[spitfiremkv]

mine came with Windows.

[Habu]

Here is the link to the machine I bought. I will pick it up on Monday. Can hardly wait to play it. As I kid I was totally addicted to pinball.

Monday Night Football

[Mini D]

You need to head over to the fatdrunkbastards.com forums and chat with SOB. He's into that.

[Lizking]

Sweet-I have had a few, and some video games too.  They were cheap a few years ago, but now they are not.

[NUTTZ]

Yes, I also can rebuild the old ones.
I have a 1933 ( humpty Dumpty) 6 flippers Facing the opposite way
3 games for 5 Cents, 5 balls per play (old plunger for balls and ball shoot)

And a 1952 (Harbor Lights) 2 flipper
10 cents for 3 games, 5 balls per game, ( plunger for balls, and shoot)


In excellent working order.
The biggest supplier of parts Is 10 minutes from me.
The place has THOUSANDS of old machines, you walk in the wearhouse and pick one, then they rebuild it for you.
They also rebuild old juke boxs, the old wirlitzers bubble ones are EXSPENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NUTTZ

Originally posted by Habu
I have been thinking of getting one since I was a kid. Today I finally did it.

Anyone here into pinball?

I bought a 20th aniversary Monday Night Football.

[Mickey1992]

Congrats!  I have a '92 DE Star Wars.

[Habu]

Went to the store today to pay for the machine and arrange a delivery.

While there I decided to buy another machine "Phantom of the Opera" as well as a Betty Boop slot machine. I am having them all delivered to a cottage in May and they shop is going to have them all refurbished and as new.

I played them all and had a blast. Phantom of the Opera is an intermediate level skill game with lots of action and great sound. Monday night Football is a more difficult machine to hit certain features but has a great game board.

Both are very fun.

They had a Start Wars machine there as well but not the one that you own. It had a button instead of a plunger and did not have R2D2 in it but some of the ships from the early movie. It also had a death walker I believe. Anyway not as much fun as Phantom and the same price so I gave it a pass.

I decided to get real pinball machines for the cottage instead of a Game Cube or Nintendo as I think the total number of hours the kids will play the pinball machines will be less that if they sat and veged all day playing Nintendo. I am going to put the slot machine on the corner of the bar. It takes real quarters as well. Should be cool as I can play it for an hour then open the door and get all my hard earned (quickly lost) money back.

[Siaf__csf]

Yeah I'm definately going to get one to my pool room corner.

[Torque]

A Pinball machine makes for a good alarm clock come sunday morning.

it said the vendor was in Toronto, thought you were in the Ottawa area?

[Habu]

I live just north of Toronto.

I picked that guy because he was nearby and I could play the actual machine I bought on Ebay before paying for it. Now I realize that his prices are better than the other places that are in the US.

For instance I paid 750 Cdn for the Betty Boop slot machine. An identical one sold for over 700 USD on ebay yesterday. Link for that auction is here:

Betty Boop Slot Machine


I did not bid for the slot machine on ebay just made a deal for it in the store.

[Staga]

We have Lethal Weapon III at the club with some other (not so good) pinball machine; thinking about swapping it to "The Shadow".

Finnish site we're using: http://flipperit.net/

[Habu]

Ok I am done.

Buying any more machines that is.

After winning another auction on Ebay yesterday I now own a very nice condition Cyclone.

In addition I also have

Attack from Mars (the last one they made with the TV screen that works like a hologram)

Phantom of the Opera

Monday Night Football

And a Betty Boop slot machine.

I bought them all though a dealer in Toronto and was there today with the family playing them all and noteing any defects for them to fix before they deliver them next week.

Now if only a nice Twilight Zone machine comes up for sale with a Pinball Lizard replacment clock my collection will be complete.

[Habu]

Staga

Looks like a nice communtiy you have over there. You need a support network when you buy a pinball machine. The parts are hard to find sometimes.

I tried to read some of the forums but english seems to be non existant.

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by NUTTZ
Yes, I also can rebuild the old ones.
I have a 1933 ( humpty Dumpty) 6 flippers Facing the opposite way
3 games for 5 Cents, 5 balls per play (old plunger for balls and ball shoot)

And a 1952 (Harbor Lights) 2 flipper
10 cents for 3 games, 5 balls per game, ( plunger for balls, and shoot)


In excellent working order.
The biggest supplier of parts Is 10 minutes from me.
The place has THOUSANDS of old machines, you walk in the wearhouse and pick one, then they rebuild it for you.
They also rebuild old juke boxs, the old wirlitzers bubble ones are EXSPENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NUTTZ

Where is this place? I remember playing the ones that were 2 games and 5 balls for a quarter back in the 70's, I would be interested in one of those. If it is in PA I wouldn't mind taking a trip there.