Bought a pinball machine today

[Habu]

They delivered Mars Attacks to my house yesterday.

It is a combination pinball machine and video game as there is a TV reflected on the main board at the top that has changing targets and plays clips.

So my 6 year old daughter and 4 year old son quickly got the hang of the game.

This morning instead of having to drag them out of bed to get dressed and eat, both were up and dressed and had eaten in 10 minutes. So they could play pinball till the school bus arrived.

I have created a monster.

[GreenCloud]

well...my name..in here...

BGB..those are my pinball initials..



My favorites....Top 3


Twilight Zone

Indiana Jones  (has 13 ball multi ball)

Midnigth Madness



Medevil Madness..dam i love thsoe games

[Habu]

Traded in Phantom of the Opera and bought a new machine.

Elvis Gold edition.

Nice game. Elvis dances if it plays certain songs. Elvis is a 7" high plastic action hero type doll that shakes its hips as it moves down the playfield.

I am sure after I have played 100 games or more on it Heartbreak Hotel will drive me nuts but right now I am enjoying the fun.

[SOB]

Damn, somebody's going pinball crazy!  That's a Revenge from Mars that you have, and it's pretty fun...I think it's the last game that Williams made - that or Episode 1, which is also a Pinball 2000 (with the video screen projecting on the playfield glass).  Cyclone is pretty fun too.

Not all that crazy about the new Elvis from Stern, but then I'm not an Elvis fan.

If you run into any problems or need any help, let me know, or throw a post up on the rec.games.pinball newsgroup...lots of knowledge there!

I had a beautiful Addams Family up until a month ago, but had to sell it to pay college bills.  Fortunately, I have a friend who's pinball crazy, so I've got plenty to play.  He's got:

Medieval Madness (just picked it up)
Funhouse
The Simpsons Party Pinball
Earthshaker
Whirlwind
Taxi
Black Knight 2000
World Cup Soccer '94
Firepower
Skyjumper (older electro-mechanical)

Fun Stuff!  When I get a real job I'll be buying an F-14 to fix up with an NOS playfield I have.

[Toad]

The Willie O'Club had a few when I was a student.

One was King Kool.



Friday nights we'd head over to the Stag Bar and drink and play "team" pinball.

5 guys shooting one ball each in a batting order. Always played for more drinks, of course. We had a pretty good team.

We graduate, years go by. My best friend and teammate from UPT comes across this used King Kool in a shop while he's at Luke AFB, across town from Willie.

It's the same one; it has some hacks and scratches we put in it accidentally during some drunken incidents.

I visited him on my way down to Anderson last fall; he's in Foat Wuth now. Got to play King Kool against him again on the old machine almost exactly 30 years since we played at Willie.

Won a replay on my first game.  

Ain't life grand?

[SOB]

Life is good, that's pretty cool.

[DREDIOCK]

If IO had the room for em there are two I  would love to have from my youth

First and formost is the Harlem Globetrotters.

Spent many many hours during my heavy duty partying dayshanging out in a local bar with a good friend getting tanked up and playing this thing.
Once while we were both tripping, she took one paddle and I the other. It was wild. it felt like we were both part of the machine and each other. and we were all totally in tune with one another.
We managed to turn the score over opn the first ball.

Totally wild experiance



The other is Pinball Wizard.

Freshman year in High school me and a buddy would get up extra early and head down to a little mom & pop owned luncheonette. that was about a block and a half away form our school.
The guy that owned it would have us do some odd jobs, Take out the garbage,sweep/mop the floor,shovel the snow, whatever. Then he would make us breakfast and give us bunch of quarters marked with red nail polish to play the machine then shoo us out the door in time to get to school on time.

Ahh the memories the memories

[SOB]

Neat, another friend almost scored one of these for $150 last week, but his co-worker got to it first.

-edit- Globetrotters, that is.

[SOB]

BTW...for anyone wanting to look up that machine they banged around in their youth, check out http://www.ipdb.org/.

[Habu]

Wow 150 for a machine is excellent.

I remember playing Skyjump. It was one of my favorites as a kid.

I think your friend has a great collection SOB. Taxi and Whirlwind and Fun House are excellent machines. I also like Addams Family and Twilight Zone.

One word of advice. Pay more money and get mint machines if you are going to get one. They will appreciate in value. I made the mistake of buying some less than mint ones at the begining and now I regret it.

I love the Cyclone and Revenge from Mars. My Revenge from Mars cabinet is not that great as some of the sticker has come off.

Elvis seems to be a cool machine. You have to collect gold records by getting the ball on the upper field and opening the doors at the back.

Have you played it much?

[SOB]

I've gotta disagree on buying the mint machines, but it definitely depends on what your interests are.  I love to tinker and restore 'em as much (maybe more) than I like to play 'em.  There are LOTS of resources out there for replacement parts and enhancements, even repro parts that were never available originally.  Buy one that needs a little work without paying a premium, then fix it up to look as good as new.  Addams Family was my first purchase...I bought it in great condition, and paid waaay too much for it on eBay, but definitely got plenty of use out of it.

I only played Elvis a couple of times in one sitting at the local nickle arcade...the theme really turned me off, and I thought the wiggly legs was kinda cheesey.  But I've seen a lot of people who just love it.  I haven't been all that crazy about a lot of the new Stern pinballs, except for The Simpsons PP, and although I've only played it 'em a few times, LOTR & T3 were pretty fun.