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#1 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:43 am

I see you lurking down there:

Have you ever gone to the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas? If so, is it worth seeing? I love pinball.
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#2 Post by tlynn78 » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:46 am

Hope things are looking up for you, Ray.


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#3 Post by minimetoo26 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:30 am

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#4 Post by minimetoo26 » Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:27 am

And bump encore
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#5 Post by Liberace » Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:29 am

There hasn't been anything in Vegas worth seeing since I kicked off, baby!

I can tell you Elton John in his Pinball Wizard costume is definitely worth seeing!!! Oooooh lala!!!! :D

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#6 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:50 am

Liberace wrote:There hasn't been anything in Vegas worth seeing since I kicked off, baby!

I can tell you Elton John in his Pinball Wizard costume is definitely worth seeing!!! Oooooh lala!!!! :D
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#7 Post by rayxtwo » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:17 pm

Just saw the post.

Yes, I have been there. It was like a trip down memory lane. Lots of old machines there (25 cents a game now). Some of the games are in real good shape, others, well...... on some of the games the flippers seem really weak ( I guess that happens to all of us though).

I found the link to the home page. It has pictures of a lot of the machines. It's located at Tropicana and Pecos, about 4 miles off the strip.



http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

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#8 Post by Mini [Bot] » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:01 am

Thanks! I've read about it, and it's highly rated by the few who rated it on LVA, but I was looking for someone who I "knew" who'd been there.

I love pinball, especially from the late 70's-early 80's. I hope they have a functional Black Hole machine. I'm not very good so the flipper quality won't be as much of an issue as my lousy reflexes.

There is a museum of calliopes and other old noise-making quarter-snatchers in Nevada City, Montana that just fascinated my kids. I usually have so many quarters in my wallet I walk like the Hunchback, so a dinner at Silver Diner is more of an outing than a meal after the kids load up the jukebox.
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#9 Post by littlebeast13 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:07 am

Mini [Bot] wrote:Thanks! I've read about it, and it's highly rated by the few who rated it on LVA, but I was looking for someone who I "knew" who'd been there.

I love pinball, especially from the late 70's-early 80's. I hope they have a functional Black Hole machine. I'm not very good so the flipper quality won't be as much of an issue as my lousy reflexes.

There is a museum of calliopes and other old noise-making quarter-snatchers in Nevada City, Montana that just fascinated my kids. I usually have so many quarters in my wallet I walk like the Hunchback, so a dinner at Silver Diner is more of an outing than a meal after the kids load up the jukebox.

Substitute late 80's/early 90's for the time period, and I'd be with you.....

Maybe there is something to like about Vegas......

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littlebeast13 wrote:
Mini [Bot] wrote:Thanks! I've read about it, and it's highly rated by the few who rated it on LVA, but I was looking for someone who I "knew" who'd been there.

I love pinball, especially from the late 70's-early 80's. I hope they have a functional Black Hole machine. I'm not very good so the flipper quality won't be as much of an issue as my lousy reflexes.

There is a museum of calliopes and other old noise-making quarter-snatchers in Nevada City, Montana that just fascinated my kids. I usually have so many quarters in my wallet I walk like the Hunchback, so a dinner at Silver Diner is more of an outing than a meal after the kids load up the jukebox.

Substitute late 80's/early 90's for the time period, and I'd be with you.....

Maybe there is something to like about Vegas......

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#11 Post by littlebeast13 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:13 am

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littlebeast13 wrote:
Mini [Bot] wrote:Thanks! I've read about it, and it's highly rated by the few who rated it on LVA, but I was looking for someone who I "knew" who'd been there.

I love pinball, especially from the late 70's-early 80's. I hope they have a functional Black Hole machine. I'm not very good so the flipper quality won't be as much of an issue as my lousy reflexes.

There is a museum of calliopes and other old noise-making quarter-snatchers in Nevada City, Montana that just fascinated my kids. I usually have so many quarters in my wallet I walk like the Hunchback, so a dinner at Silver Diner is more of an outing than a meal after the kids load up the jukebox.

Substitute late 80's/early 90's for the time period, and I'd be with you.....

Maybe there is something to like about Vegas......

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There's a poison for just about anyone there, and sometimes it's free. I'm just sayin'...

There was an arcade with all kinds of old games from my youth in Osage Beach when we went there 10 years ago. I coulda stayed there forever....

It took me a few tries to get as good at Out Run as I was back in my days as our bowling alley's Out Run champ.....

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littlebeast13 wrote:
Mini [Bot] wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Substitute late 80's/early 90's for the time period, and I'd be with you.....

Maybe there is something to like about Vegas......

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There's a poison for just about anyone there, and sometimes it's free. I'm just sayin'...

There was an arcade with all kinds of old games from my youth in Osage Beach when we went there 10 years ago. I coulda stayed there forever....

It took me a few tries to get as good at Out Run as I was back in my days as our bowling alley's Out Run champ.....

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#13 Post by littlebeast13 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:19 am

Mini [Bot] wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Mini [Bot] wrote:
There's a poison for just about anyone there, and sometimes it's free. I'm just sayin'...

There was an arcade with all kinds of old games from my youth in Osage Beach when we went there 10 years ago. I coulda stayed there forever....

It took me a few tries to get as good at Out Run as I was back in my days as our bowling alley's Out Run champ.....

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I'm still pining for my own personal Arkanoid machine. If only I could get it upstairs, and find a guy who has a lot of spare parts to keep it running....

When I was a kid, the best friend of my best friend's older brother had a real honest to God Mario Bros. arcade machine in his house. I have no idea how in the hell he got it either since it's not like they were obscenely rich or anything.....

There is a company that makes arcade games just a couple blocks from me. Unfortunately, they never left any laying around outside where they could be brought home.....

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#14 Post by ulysses5019 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:26 am

I noticed that they had Fireball which was a dorm favorite. And of course someone managed to rig it so we could play for free.
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#15 Post by minimetoo26 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:29 am

ulysses5019 wrote:I noticed that they had Fireball which was a dorm favorite. And of course someone managed to rig it so we could play for free.

The noive!


Okay, I had skinny hands and could reach up into the soda machines to retrieve the cans that got stuck on the way down. Mostly they got stuck because someone had already reached in to get the one that was waiting to drop....
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#16 Post by Sisyphean Fan » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:50 am

Mini [Bot] wrote:Thanks! I've read about it, and it's highly rated by the few who rated it on LVA, but I was looking for someone who I "knew" who'd been there.

I love pinball, especially from the late 70's-early 80's. I hope they have a functional Black Hole machine. I'm not very good so the flipper quality won't be as much of an issue as my lousy reflexes.

There is a museum of calliopes and other old noise-making quarter-snatchers in Nevada City, Montana that just fascinated my kids. I usually have so many quarters in my wallet I walk like the Hunchback, so a dinner at Silver Diner is more of an outing than a meal after the kids load up the jukebox.
I've never been to the Pinball Hall of Fame (maybe it wasn't there back when I used to go), but I've been to the Liberace Museum!

When my brother was out a couple weeks ago the kids were playing some online video game and we were reminiscing about our youth, which consisted of going to the Nickelodeon (an arcade) while my mom and dad were still finishing dinner at Furr's Cafeteria.

My machines BITD were Gorgar and Mata Hari. I still have a scar on my palm from when I slapped the plunger on Mata Hari and forgot it had a point on it. Ha!

I also owned my own pinball machine, but I can't remember the name of it. The LED machines were just taking over and it was one of the older models that still had the dials and they were selling it for like 75 bucks. Something to do with poker, I remember there being royal flush cards on the front. I'm going to have to ask my bro if he remembers the name of it. I wish I still had that machine now.
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Mini [Bot] wrote:Thanks! I've read about it, and it's highly rated by the few who rated it on LVA, but I was looking for someone who I "knew" who'd been there.

I love pinball, especially from the late 70's-early 80's. I hope they have a functional Black Hole machine. I'm not very good so the flipper quality won't be as much of an issue as my lousy reflexes.

There is a museum of calliopes and other old noise-making quarter-snatchers in Nevada City, Montana that just fascinated my kids. I usually have so many quarters in my wallet I walk like the Hunchback, so a dinner at Silver Diner is more of an outing than a meal after the kids load up the jukebox.
I've never been to the Pinball Hall of Fame (maybe it wasn't there back when I used to go), but I've been to the Liberace Museum!

When my brother was out a couple weeks ago the kids were playing some online video game and we were reminiscing about our youth, which consisted of going to the Nickelodeon (an arcade) after my mom and dad were still finishing dinner at Furr's Cafeteria.

My machines BITD were Gorgar and Mata Hari. I still have a scar on my palm from when I slapped the plunger on Mata Hari and forgot it had a point on it. Ha!

I also owned my own pinball machine, but I can't remember the name of it. The LED machines were just taking over and it was one of the older models that still had the dials and they were selling it for like 75 bucks. Something to do with poker, I remember there being royal flush cards on the front. I'm going to have to ask my bro if he remembers the name of it. I wish I still had that machine now.
There's a machine named Royal Flush. That may be it...

My son really wanted a Pirates of the Caribbean machine, but they're too expensive.
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#18 Post by Liberace » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:55 am

Sisyphean Fan wrote:I've never been to the Pinball Hall of Fame (maybe it wasn't there back when I used to go), but I've been to the Liberace Museum!

It's the highlight of everyone's Vegas trip!

I love it when someone hits my bumpers until I tilt!

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#19 Post by minimetoo26 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:56 am

Link to Royal Flush machine:

http://www.marvin3m.com/gtb/rflush.htm
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#20 Post by Sisyphean Fan » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:01 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
Sisyphean Fan wrote:
Mini [Bot] wrote:Thanks! I've read about it, and it's highly rated by the few who rated it on LVA, but I was looking for someone who I "knew" who'd been there.

I love pinball, especially from the late 70's-early 80's. I hope they have a functional Black Hole machine. I'm not very good so the flipper quality won't be as much of an issue as my lousy reflexes.

There is a museum of calliopes and other old noise-making quarter-snatchers in Nevada City, Montana that just fascinated my kids. I usually have so many quarters in my wallet I walk like the Hunchback, so a dinner at Silver Diner is more of an outing than a meal after the kids load up the jukebox.
I've never been to the Pinball Hall of Fame (maybe it wasn't there back when I used to go), but I've been to the Liberace Museum!

When my brother was out a couple weeks ago the kids were playing some online video game and we were reminiscing about our youth, which consisted of going to the Nickelodeon (an arcade) after my mom and dad were still finishing dinner at Furr's Cafeteria.

My machines BITD were Gorgar and Mata Hari. I still have a scar on my palm from when I slapped the plunger on Mata Hari and forgot it had a point on it. Ha!

I also owned my own pinball machine, but I can't remember the name of it. The LED machines were just taking over and it was one of the older models that still had the dials and they were selling it for like 75 bucks. Something to do with poker, I remember there being royal flush cards on the front. I'm going to have to ask my bro if he remembers the name of it. I wish I still had that machine now.
There's a machine named Royal Flush. That may be it...

My son really wanted a Pirates of the Caribbean machine, but they're too expensive.
I went to the site that Ray provided and was scrolling down the pictures and spied (ha!) a Mata Hari machine!

I went to the machine list and am going to have to check out all the Mata Hari facts later. No Gorgar, though. Or Charlie's Angels. If Mata and Gorgar were taken I usually played that one and it treated me rather kindly.

From the looks of the styles and number mechanisms I think my machine was probably early 60's! Now I REALLY wish I still had it....... In about another hour my brother will be at lunch and I can call and ask him if he remembers the name.
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#21 Post by Sisyphean Fan » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:03 am

minimetoo26 wrote:Link to Royal Flush machine:

http://www.marvin3m.com/gtb/rflush.htm
You must have been posting this while I was typing my message! That is way more modern than mine was, but the name seemed right and I remember mine had the A-10 markers that you had to knock down. So I wonder if it was some earlier version of this machine.
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#22 Post by minimetoo26 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:05 am

Sisyphean Fan wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
Sisyphean Fan wrote: I've never been to the Pinball Hall of Fame (maybe it wasn't there back when I used to go), but I've been to the Liberace Museum!

When my brother was out a couple weeks ago the kids were playing some online video game and we were reminiscing about our youth, which consisted of going to the Nickelodeon (an arcade) after my mom and dad were still finishing dinner at Furr's Cafeteria.

My machines BITD were Gorgar and Mata Hari. I still have a scar on my palm from when I slapped the plunger on Mata Hari and forgot it had a point on it. Ha!

I also owned my own pinball machine, but I can't remember the name of it. The LED machines were just taking over and it was one of the older models that still had the dials and they were selling it for like 75 bucks. Something to do with poker, I remember there being royal flush cards on the front. I'm going to have to ask my bro if he remembers the name of it. I wish I still had that machine now.
There's a machine named Royal Flush. That may be it...

My son really wanted a Pirates of the Caribbean machine, but they're too expensive.
I went to the site that Ray provided and was scrolling down the pictures and spied (ha!) a Mata Hari machine!

I went to the machine list and am going to have to check out all the Mata Hari facts later. No Gorgar, though. Or Charlie's Angels. If Mata and Gorgar were taken I usually played that one and it treated me rather kindly.

From the looks of the styles and number mechanisms I think my machine was probably early 60's! Now I REALLY wish I still had it....... In about another hour my brother will be at lunch and I can call and ask him if he remembers the name.
I have a video poker machine from the 80's, and that sucker is HEAVY! There's like a TV inside, and the hopper is solid metal and weighs half a ton itself. My son picked it out as a gift for me, but it's an 8-5 Jacks or Better which I would never play in a real casino. 9-6, or I'm walking.....
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#23 Post by Sisyphean Fan » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:08 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
Sisyphean Fan wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote: There's a machine named Royal Flush. That may be it...

My son really wanted a Pirates of the Caribbean machine, but they're too expensive.
I went to the site that Ray provided and was scrolling down the pictures and spied (ha!) a Mata Hari machine!

I went to the machine list and am going to have to check out all the Mata Hari facts later. No Gorgar, though. Or Charlie's Angels. If Mata and Gorgar were taken I usually played that one and it treated me rather kindly.

From the looks of the styles and number mechanisms I think my machine was probably early 60's! Now I REALLY wish I still had it....... In about another hour my brother will be at lunch and I can call and ask him if he remembers the name.
I have a video poker machine from the 80's, and that sucker is HEAVY! There's like a TV inside, and the hopper is solid metal and weighs half a ton itself. My son picked it out as a gift for me, but it's an 8-5 Jacks or Better which I would never play in a real casino. 9-6, or I'm walking.....
Hey, somebody besides me that actually looks at the pay tables before you sit down! And, now that I think of it, my pinball machine might have been called Jacks or Better...
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#24 Post by minimetoo26 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:11 am

Sisyphean Fan wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:Link to Royal Flush machine:

http://www.marvin3m.com/gtb/rflush.htm
You must have been posting this while I was typing my message! That is way more modern than mine was, but the name seemed right and I remember mine had the A-10 markers that you had to knock down. So I wonder if it was some earlier version of this machine.
That sounds a bit like Aces High, which is a real oldie...
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#25 Post by minimetoo26 » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:15 am

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