Posts Tagged ‘LED’

My Story It had probably been 8 years since I had walked into an arcade when we decided to go to Dave and Buster’s one evening for something different to do.  Inside the game room area, was the typical layout of shooters, driving sims and kiddy redemptions.  Of course, what we went for was for […]

I’m a huge fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Silly, I know.  His movies are pretty campy and most of the products that bare the name seem to be marginal at best.  However, the Terminator series of movies (particularly Judgement Day) aligned well with the peak of pinball in the early 90’s to result in the creation of […]

  Ok, so what’s so special about Comet you say?  Well ok, it’s considered by most as an average pin from the 80’s.  Sure, I’ll concede that.  However, it WAS just an average pin from the 80’s.  Something changed my mind about this machine that was worth writing about. I see a lot of pinball […]

The “wedge head” pinball machines are part of a unique series produced by Gottlieb in the late 1960’s to mid 1970’s.  They are called this because of their unusual shaped back boxes.  As well, these machines are just a little bit smaller than machines produced by their competitors Bally and Williams in the same era. […]

Description Another excellent example of a Bally pinball machine.  This WPC generation pinball machine is one of the few sports related pinball machines of the era.  At first glance, this machine appears to look easy and simple minded as the apparent goal is to shoot pinballs past the moving goalie.  Play it a couple more […]

I’m a huge fan of LEDs in pinball machines for many reasons. First, they’re quick.  Pinballs seem to just jump to life.  The light show animations are more crisp and more alive. They’re brighter.  I have seen “purists” complain about the brightness, but that’s not me.  A machine from the early 90’s just seems to […]