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Any Pinball Fans Out There?

Isn't that you in the middle Steve?
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I have a Bally's Old Chicago (1976). Works well, I have a bumper to repair soon.

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turbine68rt said:
Picked up this Bally Playboy from a neighbor's estate sale last fall. He had it since the late 80's and never really put any money into it. After a thorough cleaning, replacing the main power and sound boards, resoldering some loose bulb wiring, replace all bulbs, rebuilt flipper mechs, new LED scoreboards, and a new rubber kit, it plays like it's 1979 again. One of the nice features of the early solid state scoring machines is the ability to show self diagnosing fault codes. This was a very popular machine in those days with a run of 18,250 units.
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I played that one back in the day - thanks for the memories. Cool find!
 
We went to the Silverball Retro Arcade in Delray Beach last week. They have a great selection of pinball machines ranging from early types up to modern games as well as several vintage arcade games. They also rotate their games so it's not always the same ones. You pay a flat rate for an hour, 1/2 day or full day and all the games are free play.

We don't go often because we can play ours at home for free, but it's also fun to play something different. We spent several hours there playing and had a blast.

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Use to be 30-40 years ago
had several pinball machines in my spare room too
sort of rotated them out when I got bored
had the one, 'the Who' sang about too, had in the video
'Pinball Wizard', forget the name of it
gave them away, to friends
when I moved like 3 times back now
a few were worth some $$$, along with my barber chairs from the 40's too
 
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These days I need a stool to sit on.....will probably have to fix my knees pretty soon. Not gonna like that much.
 
When I was a lil' kid like 10-ish to like 13-ish, my Mom was a great bowler,
not a pro, but should've been,
many a 300 games, 259 & 289 was a norm, she was crazy good
trophies everywhere when I was kid
(a guy named Duke Wheeler was her coach at 1st, he was amazing)
we'd go to local area
Concord, Antioch, Pittsburg, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill (Calif.) Bowling alleys
she'd win just about every tourney she entered :poke:
there were 'a lot' of them too, just a housewife that could roll that rock
anyway;
I'd get bored watching her, go to the pinball gallery
spend some $0.10 dimes or later it was $0.25 quarters, I was pretty good too
spend like a dollar & play all day...
 
Back when the GTX was new, I played at the Penn State student union center, in addition to the ping pong tables. I got really good at a 1965 Gottlieb bank a ball machine, and would play it for free after the first few warm up games, until some college jerk would put his nickels on the glass, and tell me to scram before he beat my ***…
 
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copper67sat said:
We went to the Silverball Retro Arcade in Delray Beach last week. They have a great selection of pinball machines ranging from early types up to modern games as well as several vintage arcade games. They also rotate their games so it's not always the same ones. You pay a flat rate for an hour, 1/2 day or full day and all the games are free play.

We don't go often because we can play ours at home for free, but it's also fun to play something different. We spent several hours there playing and had a blast.

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They have another location in Asbury Park, a couple blocks from the Thursday cruise night location.
 
Had a paper route when I was a kid, The Cleveland Press and Plain Dealer, spent all my money and tips at a location
called "Donna's and Julies, had about 8-9 pinball machines, was a soda shop. The one I played almost exclusively and would own today...was Tommy, Pinball Wizard, there are several variations over the years, never found the one i played again.
 
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