Posts Tagged ‘Pinball’

You would think it would be easy to keep up to date with monthly news.  I don’t know where the Summer has gone. We’ve been busy with a lot of custom orders and will have some restoration articles coming very soon on the following machines: Prototype F-14 pinball Full restoration of a very very bad […]

Bally (Midway / Williams) thankfully had the foresight (or dumb luck) in allowing the designers to bid on their next pinball machine.  Rather than go the simple route of making a product tie-in to some current fad or movie release, the Bally/Midway/Williams company realized that not all great ideas came from top down. The result […]

Among the pinball collectors and enthusiasts, the Demolition Man machine is considered a “B” title and thus does not get that much attention.  Often, that also means it stays on route longer collecting money where the “A” titles are consumed, restored and put away forever.  This is yet another case of – the collectors got […]

1967 was at the height of the space race and everyone wanted to share in celebrating the United States’ remarkable technical prowess.  The Williams Apollo pinball machine was created to capture and relive these moments for patrons in the back alley bars and bowling alleys.   About This Machine This machine was produced in limited […]

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 […]

Busy is good, right?  So with that we have all kinds of different stuff coming and going. New for June: Ferrari F355 Challenge by Sega – TWIN sit down driving simulator.  This machine comes with two separate driving simulators with CRT monitors.  Full pedals, controls and shifting.  Linked together with the F355 Challenge topper that […]

  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. […]

February must be pinball time.  Well, I’m thinking it’s pinball restoration and repair month anyway. In the queue: Firepower (the classic solid state game from Williams) Star Wars (very fun game, maybe my favorite DE after playing it a little) Aladdin’s Castle (nice EM) Playball (old old EM, very cool game) The Shadow (oh boy, love […]