Nice...you'll love the LEDs and sub in the Twilight Zone...I just sold mine last week after having it for over 5 years...Enjoy the Creech!

I spent a lot of time playing Terminator 2 when it came out... lots and lots of time.

That's was my favorite, in fact the only one I can really have identify as having played a lot. I know I played others but can't remember them. I'd buy it in a heartbeat for home but it's not supposed to have long legs at home unfortunately. Still a classic though.

Taylor34

Twilight zone was my favorite, I can remember skipping school and playing it all day.

If you love pinball, go to Vegas ans visit the Pinball Hall of Fame. i promise, you'll be in heaven.
They have a few hundred restored machines on display and they rotate more in over time.
I played a game from the 50's where you had to manually load the ball- totally cool! Miss the Kiss pinball game? Play it here, and the flippers have snap to them!
I was there last year and played Black Knight, Adams Family and a bunch from the 70's. This place is just so cool. Bring a roll of quarters and you'll have a good time. I brought my 14 year old daughter and she loved the place.
http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

http://www.pinballsonline.com/spyhunter.jpg

wow! the one of the Addams family is awesome but also this one is great....

http://www.pinballhispano.net/pinballworld/images_flyers/taf_f_med.jpg

Good God, +1. "theeeee MaaaaaaaMUUSHHHHHHKAAAAA!!!!"

Robert Wood and I got to talking about pinball machines, and it made me wonder what anyone's favorite would be. He listed this ancient relic that should be in the Smithsonian as his fave:

http://mirror1.ipdb.org/images/1173/1173f1.jpg

Me, I prefered these:

http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/southpark/southpark_pinball.htm

http://www.sternpinball.com/Lord-of-the-Rings2.shtml

Anyone else?

Whoa, a South Park pinball machine? Super cool, I'm going to have to find one around to here play. I bet you can kill kenny too, with that giant figure of him in the pinball machine and everything.

Whoa, a South Park pinball machine? Super cool, I'm going to have to find one around to here play. I bet you can kill kenny too, with that giant figure of him in the pinball machine and everything.

Horrid machine. Great example of Stern licensing a great brand and making a piece of junk pin out of it. Pinball fans generally know it's not the license that makes the game, it's the gameplay itself. There have been some great titles made into pins over there years but so many of them have been complete dogs unfort.

I have to say i'm not a huge fan of the STERN machines. They tend to feel a bit plasticy if that makes sense to any pinheads out there?!

Most of the Williams machines that are post 93' are my favourties. We're talking:

Medieval Madness - an awesome machine with a great range of toys, ramps etc afterall what other table has an exploding castle with a drawbridge and trolls!

Cirqus Voltaire - Pretty rare in the UK to be honest but the machine is one of the more beautiful I have seen (and I've seen a lot!)

But nothing can beat good old Adama Family! The multiball is by far the best multiball on ANY pin - ever!!! "IT'S SHOWTIME!!!"

I must say there is one machine I have a soft spot for and that is Bride of Pinbot. It falls out of my usual category of age but still a Williams machine. There is something a little bit sexy about it - or perhaps I am just a freak?! I'll let you guys decide. :)

If you love pinball, go to Vegas ans visit the Pinball Hall of Fame. i promise, you'll be in heaven.
They have a few hundred restored machines on display and they rotate more in over time.
I played a game from the 50's where you had to manually load the ball- totally cool! Miss the Kiss pinball game? Play it here, and the flippers have snap to them!
I was there last year and played Black Knight, Adams Family and a bunch from the 70's. This place is just so cool. Bring a roll of quarters and you'll have a good time. I brought my 14 year old daughter and she loved the place.

OMG, I went here in February this year and we had an awesome time. We spoke to the guy that runs the joint and he told us there we're moving to larger premises. We are from the UK and are actually heading out again next February and are definatley heading back..... hopefully to the new place and we can get to play on some of the more unusual pins that we rarely get to see in the UK. Black Knight was a great play as was Pinball Circus (only 2 EVER made!) I think I actually took photos of 80% of the pins there. How's that for geeky?!

It's like pinball heaven there for sure!

The gf and I are visiting LV in Jan...I will def use this as a surprise visit on her :)

I have to say i'm not a huge fan of the STERN machines. They tend to feel a bit plasticy if that makes sense to any pinheads out there?!

Why the hate for Stern? I've owned most of the "A" Williams pins, Monster Bash, Medieval Madness, Addams Family, etc. While they are great pins, they are gone from my collection. I now have many Sterns, Pirates of the Caribbean, Spiderman, Lord of the Rings, 24, Family Guy, and The Simpsons Pinball Party. I also have Williams pins that I felt were/are a good value, White Water, BS Dracula, Bride of Pinbot, No Fear, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Congo, Party Zone, Johnny Mnemonic, Black Rose, and Fish Tales. Unless money is not an object, I'd rather have a larger variety of pins than a 6k+ MM, a 4K+ MB, etc...

There are people who love pinball, and there are people who are followers and only like the "A" Williams pins that every else tells them are the best. Open your mind.

Oh, I'm I'm a "Pinhead", I understand what you are saying about the "feel", but I also understand value for my money, and quality. Stern may feel different, but that doesn't make them worse.

I was able to secure my favorite pinball machine from when I was younger. A mint condition GORGAR :D It does not compare to the new games, with all their bells and whistles, but being the game of my childhood and the first "talking" machine this machine takes the number 1 spot for me.

Why the hate for Stern? I've owned most of the "A" Williams pins, Monster Bash, Medieval Madness, Addams Family, etc. While they are great pins, they are gone from my collection. I now have many Sterns, Pirates of the Caribbean, Spiderman, Lord of the Rings, 24, Family Guy, and The Simpsons Pinball Party. I also have Williams pins that I felt were/are a good value, White Water, BS Dracula, Bride of Pinbot, No Fear, Elvira and the Party Monsters, Congo, Party Zone, Johnny Mnemonic, Black Rose, and Fish Tales. Unless money is not an object, I'd rather have a larger variety of pins than a 6k+ MM, a 4K+ MB, etc...

There are people who love pinball, and there are people who are followers and only like the "A" Williams pins that every else tells them are the best. Open your mind.

Oh, I'm I'm a "Pinhead", I understand what you are saying about the "feel", but I also understand value for my money, and quality. Stern may feel different, but that doesn't make them worse.

In the games you stated there, you pretty much encapsulated all the of the good modern era Stern's, many of which ironically had design involvement from ex WMS designers.. I too have have 2 said modern Sterns FG and LOTR and love them. I did also have a POC for while and enjoyed it immensely. With that said game for games the 90's era Sterns were horrible to play compared to even the poorer WMS titles. Their flippers, along with the rule sets, art and design in too many cases was awful. Personally nowadays I'll buy a new Stern on it's individual merits. However, I still put my 90's WMS titles on a higher level, regardless if they are worth XX more than a brand new Stern or not. Having been through 30 odd pins since the late 90's, the ones that will never leave my collection are MM,TAFG,TZ,IJ,CC,CV, and FT. The value of certain 90's WMS machines is not all just 'pinhead' hype.

I was able to secure my favorite pinball machine from when I was younger. A mint condition GORGAR :D It does not compare to the new games, with all their bells and whistles, but being the game of my childhood and the first "talking" machine this machine takes the number 1 spot for me.


I was in the coin-op games business when Gorgar came out, and bought it new. They promoted it by distributing one of those flimsy, vinyl "45s" that had a lot of supposed Gorgar speech samplings on it, but most of them were not used by the actual game, which said very little. "You beat GORGAR!!""

Horrid machine. Great example of Stern licensing a great brand and making a piece of junk pin out of it. Pinball fans generally know it's not the license that makes the game, it's the gameplay itself. There have been some great titles made into pins over there years but so many of them have been complete dogs unfort. The biggest dog ever that was named after a successful movie was Bally's Tora! Tora!. In fact, I don't know for sure if they ever had an actual production run or canceled it after the prototypes were tested. Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, about half of the Bally pinball machines of that era flunked test marketing and never went into full-scale production.

In the games you stated there, you pretty much encapsulated all the of the good modern era Stern's, many of which ironically had design involvement from ex WMS designers.. I too have have 2 said modern Sterns FG and LOTR and love them. I did also have a POC for while and enjoyed it immensely. With that said game for games the 90's era Sterns were horrible to play compared to even the poorer WMS titles. Their flippers, along with the rule sets, art and design in too many cases was awful. Personally nowadays I'll buy a new Stern on it's individual merits. However, I still put my 90's WMS titles on a higher level, regardless if they are worth XX more than a brand new Stern or not. Having been through 30 odd pins since the late 90's, the ones that will never leave my collection are MM,TAFG,TZ,IJ,CC,CV, and FT. The value of certain 90's WMS machines is not all just 'pinhead' hype.

My experience echo's yours. I have the same games as you in my collection except a TAF not TAFG.
Also went out and got a few Capcoms. Tried to like Airbourne but couldn't. Ramp mania and all.
One of my pride and joy's is an (dont laugh pinheads) X-files.
It was the head programmers personal machine. Got 3 differently designed whitewood playfields in the caboodle.
Picked up lots of original X files pinball artwork along the way.
Wish it was an MM collection. It would be worth its weight in gold.:p

I was able to secure my favorite pinball machine from when I was younger. A mint condition GORGAR :D It does not compare to the new games, with all their bells and whistles, but being the game of my childhood and the first "talking" machine this machine takes the number 1 spot for me.


Gorgar was IT in the day. I remember seeing and playing one in the bar conveniently across the street.

Lifes too short not to have your favorite pinball machine. Congrats on the scoop.

Hi..
Thanks for sharing the information.. Its really good but sorry to say i do not have that machine for pinball...

I shopped out a Twilight Zone with most of the fix mods, rebuilt/modded clock, all new plastics, parts, etc. Gotta install the sub, battery mod kit, etc. It's my baby! :)

I am in the process of shopping a ST:TNG--got some custom built models for the ships to install and replacing all targets, etc. to do. Just need the time to get to it.

Still room for one more (TAF?)

i shopped out a twilight zone with most of the fix mods, rebuilt/modded clock, all new plastics, parts, etc. Gotta install the sub, battery mod kit, etc. It's my baby! :)

i am in the process of shopping a st:tng--got some custom built models for the ships to install and replacing all targets, etc. To do. Just need the time to get to it.

Still room for one more (taf?)

afm !

afm !

Hi, Lightguy:

:)

AFM was a cool concept, but (and this may be heresy)--I could never get used to the virtual targets in the second playfield. I guess I'm just too old school.

I'm in that "if you could only have one more pin" dilemma now since I literally have space for just one more. For some reason never liked MM (a little repetitive for me).

FWIW, I tried to look up the current rgp pin user rankings--I'm surprised more of the newer Sterns haven't cracked the top ten (other than Simpsons and LOR). The new Batman was pretty cool--at least for the first few games.

1 Twilight Zone
2 Medieval Madness
3 The Addams Family
4 Attack From Mars
5 Star Trek: The Next Generation
6 Monster Bash
7 Indiana Jones - The Pinball Adventure
8 The Simpsons Pinball Party
9 Lord of the Rings
10 Funhouse
11 White Water
12 Scared Stiff
13 Spider-Man
14 Cirqus Voltaire
14 Creature from the Black Lagoon
16 Theater of Magic
17 Tales of the Arabian Nights
18 The Getaway: High Speed 2
19 Whirlwind
20 PIN*BOT

Hi, Lightguy:

:)

AFM was a cool concept, but (and this may be heresy)--I could never get used to the virtual targets in the second playfield. I guess I'm just too old school.

I'm in that "if you could only have one more pin" dilemma now since I literally have space for just one more. For some reason never liked MM (a little repetitive for me).

FWIW, I tried to look up the current rgp pin user rankings--I'm surprised more of the newer Sterns haven't cracked the top ten (other than Simpsons and LOR). The new Batman was pretty cool--at least for the first few games.

1 Twilight Zone
2 Medieval Madness
3 The Addams Family
4 Attack From Mars
5 Star Trek: The Next Generation
6 Monster Bash
7 Indiana Jones - The Pinball Adventure
8 The Simpsons Pinball Party
9 Lord of the Rings
10 Funhouse
11 White Water
12 Scared Stiff
13 Spider-Man
14 Cirqus Voltaire
14 Creature from the Black Lagoon
16 Theater of Magic
17 Tales of the Arabian Nights
18 The Getaway: High Speed 2
19 Whirlwind
20 PIN*BOT

Spiderman will be in the top ten here pretty soon, it's just a fantastic game all around.

Taylor34

Spiderman will be in the top ten here pretty soon, it's just a fantastic game all around.

Taylor34

Spider-man does look cool (looks like it has some Steve Ritchie trademark characteristics)--don't know of one near me unfortunately :(

Do you think it would be good for home use in terms of maintenance?

there was a star wars one i used to play at a bowling ally i really liked

Hi, Lightguy:
FWIW, I tried to look up the current rgp pin user rankings--I'm surprised more of the newer Sterns haven't cracked the top ten (other than Simpsons and LOR). The new Batman was pretty cool--at least for the first few games.


I'm not surprised given people's low chances of finding one. Although I found Spider Man to be a fine game (apart from the attempt to run digitized video at 128x32) I've only played one in working condition. T3 might be a better T2 but the only one I've played had problems on one of the ramp shots because a flipper needed rebuilding and the playfield was filthy. Family Guy might be great but the only one I played didn't have a working mini-playfield.

People are a lot more likely to have run into the Bally/Williams titles in working condition because the Sterns are being sold in an environment with 1/10th the market size (100K vs 10K per year), most of what's left (50%) going directly to home users, and operators are running more profitable machines with lower costs (counter top touch screens) in locations like bars that used to get pinballs.

Most of the top 5 all had 5 figure sales with only a few r.g.p nuts buying machines new-in-box for home use.

TZ sold 15,235 units; TAF 20,270; and ST:TNG 11,728.

MM and AFM were past the most recent Pinball zenith in 1992-1993 and sold just 4016 and 3450 respectively.

In 2008, Gary Stern said Stern was moving just 10,000 machines a year total. With 4 titles sold in a year you may be looking at 2,500 units per. Stern also stated that 50% of new sales were home sales (up from 20% as of 2005 and 10% in 2000) so maybe 1250 of those are ending up on-location. With 40% of sales being exports, on-location new Sterns may average just 15 per state.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/us/25pinball.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=stern+pinball&st=nyt&oref=slogin

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/business/02game.html?fta=y

The other thing here is that in the early 1990s there was a healthy rec.games.pinball usenet group producing thorough peer-reviewed rule sets so you could appreciate all that your skill let you get to within a small number of games and quarters.

To use a simple example, No Fear has 691 lines of text in its rule sheet. Twilight Zone has 2025.

That's no longer the case. For games like Spider Man a web search gets you two pages of shot map and the instruction card.

When you compare new Stern games with that little information to Williams/Bally titles with 10-30 pages of rules they don't stack up well.

Hi, Lightguy:

:)

AFM was a cool concept, but (and this may be heresy)--I could never get used to the virtual targets in the second playfield. I guess I'm just too old school.


You're thinking of RFM Revenge From Mars, the Pinball 2000 sequel to AFM Attack From Mars which IMHO is the best WPC 'flow' game out there.

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=Attack+From+Mars&sortby=name&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#3781


There are faster games (No Fear) and more complicated games (ST:TNG).

AFM does a better job combining a variety of flow (the three ramps, locks feed back to the left inlane return via the VUK, a five way combo is required for Rule The Universe) and target shots (M-A-R-T-I-A-N which is needed for RTU, the saucer, and stroke of luck).

It does a better job of providing goals at various distances from the start button. Ruling the Universe takes playing multi-ball well/long enough to collect the super jackpot, the five way combo, completing the standups and then four martian shots to get Martian Multi-ball, and obviously conquering mars.

Relatively few games really do anything significant to change play, especially without being more random. TZ has the Power Ball with great speed and interaction with the magnets. AFM has Strobe Multiball.

The whole thing is a better package.

I think it's a better game than Medieval Madness too and might speculate that MM scores better because geeks are disproportionately Monty Python fans and it feels a little like an unlicensed Holy Grail theme.

I shopped out a Twilight Zone with most of the fix mods, rebuilt/modded clock, all new plastics, parts, etc. Gotta install the sub, battery mod kit, etc. It's my baby! :)

I am in the process of shopping a ST:TNG--got some custom built models for the ships to install and replacing all targets, etc. to do. Just need the time to get to it.

Still room for one more (TAF?)

If you have a TZ you don't need a TAF in a 3-game collection because TZ is pretty much what TAF aspires to be with more interesting physics (the power ball), more horizontal shots, better kinetics (you can get into a great rhythm using the magnets to alternate camera and jackpot shots for 500M multi-balls) and more toys.

For something completely different a late model single-player EM Gottlieb drop-target game would be great.

Late model games have 3" flippers and by the 1970s were getting lots of drop targets. Hot Shot/Big Shot have 2 7 banks. El Dorado has a 10-bank horizontally and 5-bank vartically with 4 flippers.

The single player games have better rules than the 2 and 4 player machines because they don't reset state between players.

If you want to stick with the dot-matrix era you might do something with more flow than ST:TNG like Attack From Mars.

I have a 1974 Gottlieb Sky Jump (single player EM wedge-head), Twilight Zone (best ball control game ever), and No Fear (fastest Steve Ritchie flow game with a pleasant price tag).

I'll probably look for an El Dorado next year and add an AFM when the kids have started careers.

FWIW, putting pinball machines at your office lets you own and operate more than you have room for at home. Your co-workers and their kids will love it too.

FWIW, putting pinball machines at your office lets you own and operate more than you have room for at home.

Plus you can make $$$ off them as long as it's only during break or lunch?:D

HH

You're thinking of RFM Revenge From Mars, the Pinball 2000 sequel to AFM Attack From Mars which IMHO is the best WPC 'flow' game out there.

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=Attack+From+Mars&sortby=name&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#3781



Hi, Drew:

Thanks for the helpful comments.

You are absolutely correct--my bad--my memory must be fading (see I told you I was "OLD" school :)

I did have a fun time with AFM in Omaha Nebraska a couple of years ago--Embassy Suites near the ball park, if memory serves. I'll have to keep my eyes open for any auctions around here and try to play it again to see if I'd want one for home.

If you have a TZ you don't need a TAF in a 3-game collection because TZ is pretty much what TAF aspires to be with more interesting physics (the power ball), more horizontal shots, better kinetics (you can get into a great rhythm using the magnets to alternate camera and jackpot shots for 500M multi-balls) and more toys.

For something completely different a late model single-player EM Gottlieb drop-target game would be great.

Late model games have 3" flippers and by the 1970s were getting lots of drop targets. Hot Shot/Big Shot have 2 7 banks. El Dorado has a 10-bank horizontally and 5-bank vartically with 4 flippers.

The single player games have better rules than the 2 and 4 player machines because they don't reset state between players.

If you want to stick with the dot-matrix era you might do something with more flow than ST:TNG like Attack From Mars.

I have a 1974 Gottlieb Sky Jump (single player EM wedge-head), Twilight Zone (best ball control game ever), and No Fear (fastest Steve Ritchie flow game with a pleasant price tag).

I'll probably look for an El Dorado next year and add an AFM when the kids have started careers.

FWIW, putting pinball machines at your office lets you own and operate more than you have room for at home. Your co-workers and their kids will love it too.

I hear what you're saying about TAF and TZ. However, TAF is such a classic that it would be hard to pass up. I'm not familiar with No Fear, so I'll have to look that up.

The EM machines are intriguing, but are they hard to maintain? (I've only worked on 1990's era machines).

Part of me also wants to like some of the newer Sterns, but I'm not sure if their gameplay would hold up long term in terms of interest and replayability. Any ones you like in particular?

When all is said and done, if I could find an 8 Ball Deluxe in primo condition, I'd probably buy it in a heartbeat.

The EM machines are intriguing, but are they hard to maintain? (I've only worked on 1990's era machines).


My Sky Jump seems to run OK once up but is a pain to get working after moving and having a period of disuse.

The switches have a self-cleaning wiping action so this makes sense.

On modern machines all the logic is in software. When a switch doesn't work it's probably just the switch. Rarely you get a problem with a switch which gets grounded or has its diode fail shorted which shows up as problems with other switches.

On EMs the logic is implemented with relays, the score motor, and oodles of switches on both. For instance 500 points means a relay activates with one of its contacts in series with the relay coil and a normally closed switch on the score motor which opens after 5 pulses. When things don't work you need to trace through the schematic and bypass things with test leads until you find the problem.

It's a very different and worthwhile game experience (EM games have lots of targets to shoot at and are designed to be played at a shallower angle than modern games) but not always plug-and-play.


Part of me also wants to like some of the newer Sterns, but I'm not sure if their gameplay would hold up long term in terms of interest and replayability. Any ones you like in particular?


I rarely run into pinball machines in the wild. I've played Spider Man a few times and liked it a lot. It felt like other Steve Ritchie games. I played Sopranos and can't say that there was anything distinctive about it.


When all is said and done, if I could find an 8 Ball Deluxe in primo condition, I'd probably buy it in a heartbeat.

Good game. I like the in-line drop targets. Williams Whirlwind is still fun too.

Atttack from Mars and Lord of the Rings are probably my favorites.

However, I love my other games as well:

White Water
Twilight Zone
World Poker Tour
Monster Bash
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Simpsons Pinball Party
Family Guy

I'd also like to get my hands on a Circus Voltaire and Theater of Magic

Atttack from Mars and Lord of the Rings are probably my favorites.

However, I love my other games as well:

White Water
Twilight Zone
World Poker Tour
Monster Bash
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Simpsons Pinball Party
Family Guy

I'd also like to get my hands on a Circus Voltaire and Theater of Magic

Is LOR hard to maintain? Does it have enough variety to keep you coming back for more?

LOTR is one of the deepest pins out there. (behind TSPP)
There is always something to keep you coming back for more. (Valinor is extremely tough)
It's not hard to maintain either.

I consider SM and LOTR the best of the Sterns, but I play my SM more these days. (It's newer to me so that might change over time)

LOTR is one of the deepest pins out there. (behind TSPP)
There is always something to keep you coming back for more. (Valinor is extremely tough)
It's not hard to maintain either.

I consider SM and LOTR the best of the Sterns, but I play my SM more these days. (It's newer to me so that might change over time)

How is the voice talent on SM? It's sort of a plus in LOTR's favor they actually use some of the real actors.

I did have a fun time with AFM in Omaha Nebraska a couple of years ago--Embassy Suites near the ball park, if memory serves. I'll have to keep my eyes open for any auctions around here and try to play it again to see if I'd want one for home.



I hear what you're saying about TAF and TZ. However, TAF is such a classic that it would be hard to pass up. I'm not familiar with No Fear, so I'll have to look that up.

The EM machines are intriguing, but are they hard to maintain? (I've only worked on 1990's era machines).

Part of me also wants to like some of the newer Sterns, but I'm not sure if their gameplay would hold up long term in terms of interest and replayability. Any ones you like in particular?



I much prefer B/W over Stern. Have FG, LOTR, and TSSP. Sterns "best".
Somehow the quality of B/W comes through in design, feel, and play.

So you have STTNG and TZ. Both fantastic games and killer in Bang for the buck.
If adding just one more I'd mix it up with a MB, CV, AFM, or SS. All a little more modern with great themes, better sound, and lots of flash.
They are all so special.
Best hobby on the planet.

first post here are my pins cv is the newest.cv is my fav next to spiderman.

cirqus voltair with leds installed.

cirqus voltair with leds installed.

I've got a CV with all LEDs.
Its a neat game to look at but gets tiring to play in the long run.
LED's strobe versus an incandescents constant glow.
If it bothers you change out the slingshot and other constant "on" GI lamps and leave the LEDs for inserts etc.

CV is a killer game !

lightguy can you help me score some pinball machiens on the cheap

lightguy can you help me score some pinball machiens on the cheap

It's not hard. Look on craiglist and ebay and be patient if you want deals.

any new pins out there

I'm still playing:

ST:TNG
TZ
TAF

I've turned over ST:TNG and TAF, but haven't turned over TZ. TZ has a lot of quirks that need to be fixed, like the gumballs dropping two at once and other annoyances, so I've been avoiding playing it. Thus, why I haven't turned it over yet....

I bought my first pin two nights ago. Its a 1980 Spiderman by Gottlieb. I have been having a blast playing it, but i'm starting to look for a game from the 90's. Something a little newer with ramps and just more to do. Attack from mars looks awesome but I just cant justify the cost. Im hoping to find a pin in good condition for $1,500 to keep at my house. Something fun and from the 90's or newer.

I picked up a Shadow and Judge Dredd this past week as I was down to 3 pins.
I think the Shadow might be the best deal in pinball.

I bought my first pin two nights ago. Its a 1980 Spiderman by Gottlieb. I have been having a blast playing it, but i'm starting to look for a game from the 90's. Something a little newer with ramps and just more to do. Attack from mars looks awesome but I just cant justify the cost. Im hoping to find a pin in good condition for $1,500 to keep at my house. Something fun and from the 90's or newer.

I would stay with Bally/Williams unless there is a theme out there you cant live without like Tales from the Crypt, Jurrasic Park, Godzilla, or Southpark.
B/W 90's games in that price range;
Who Dunnit, NBA; (no)
Judge Dread , Dr Who (meh)
Shadow, World Cup soccer, Jackbot (YES !)


My advice ?
Buy the game YOU want. Its "free" in that you get all your money back when sold. Vs .2% interest at your friendly local bank. Friends like that who needs enemies.
And spend a bit more and get a creampuff.

lightguy can you help me score some pinball machiens on the cheap

Sorry.
The on the cheap days are over and I missed them too by about two years.
But I can retell the stories ! (up to the very early 2000's).

Dont sweat it however as Pinball is starting to develop a real collector interest. IMO its the best hobby out there and I've done a few. These things are alive.

Look to your local collectors for a good value. Forget cheap. Cheap buys trouble. You want a nice sorted machine you can be proud of and trade up when the time comes. The collectors will have sorted the wheat from the chaff and you can get a nice game for a few %'s over a clunker. You will gain knowledge over time. Be patient grasshopper.
Go to recgamespinball and find people/parties in your area.
You can also post WTB's at MrPinball.
Most collectors are proud to show you their stuff and educate you.

Have fun.
In pinball its hard not to,

We are owners of the Jokerz Pinball machine and a Bally's One armed Bandit (1960's), both have gotten a lot of play. The Jokerz is a great game but we're having to sell both because we're downsizing to a smaller house :(

If you know of anyone interested in buying either let me know.

The eighties and seventies were a great time for pinball machines!

PS. I'm new here, nice to meet all of you,

Diane

can you help me
I have a tales from the crypt pinball machine, and the display has gone tits up.
The diplay has stopped working after i moved the machine to free a ball.
The display now shows -display version- crypt a3.00 12/16/1993
thank you

can you help me
I have a tales from the crypt pinball machine, and the display has gone tits up.
The diplay has stopped working after i moved the machine to free a ball.
The display now shows -display version- crypt a3.00 12/16/1993
thank you

Turn your machine off, unplug it, open the front headboard panel and male sure all of the cables are properly seated (including the display panel...).

Knight Rider was the best!

To hard to pick just 1. Earthshaker, Black Knight, Taxi, Adams Family, and funhouse were some of my favs. ;)

I loved Atlantis, Jive Time and Outer Space. Spent lots of time in the park playing them.

I currently own:

Theatre of Magic
Revenge From Mars
Monday Night Football
Independence Day

Gone, but not forgotten:

Twilight Zone
Maverick
Star Wars - DE
Simpsons - DE
Jurassic Park
Flash Gordon
Party Zone
Wipeout
Genesis
Earthshaker
Apollo 13

Of all these my favorite is Theatre of Magic. I'm currently doing a complete restoration on my second favorite the Monday Night Football.

I would love to find a Creature from the Black Lagoon. And, I'm really looking forward to seeing the new Pirates of the Carribbean pin from Stern this summer.

Cheers,

Brad

That is an awesome collection. I just saw this thread and had to reply to this email :)

All those are great and agree - Theatre of Magic is one of my all time favorites.

On the 100 list I am surprised that Who Dunnit didn't rank higher and I also think the World Cup soccer was a lot of fun

Anyone remember a mid to late 80's machine that had like 8-10 balls during multi-ball?

I really like my current Creature from the Black Lagoon machine but I think I will try to get a GnR machine next.

Anyone remember a mid to late 80's machine that had like 8-10 balls during multi-ball?

Apollo 13.

i gots teh DR Who...pretty fun but i think my fav is Funhouse.

Theater of Magic...

i gots teh DR Who...pretty fun but i think my fav is Funhouse.

I scored a DR Who last summer while not really looking for one but this one was in near perfect condition. Hard to find in a Dr Who.
Must say that the game has really grown on me.

T2 Judgement Day is always a great one! "load the cannon!!"

After owning Addam's Family, STTNG, and Twilight Zone for some time now, I have to say that I think STTNG is my favorite. At least right now...

Just got an Ironman.
Need to start a new thread;
Least Favorite Pinball Machine ;)

Harley davidson series 2.

the oldschool 90s ones :)