Want to buy a pinball machine

[SphinxnihpS]

Stick with Williams machines.

The best ones are:

Tales of the Arabian Nights
Medieval Madness
Monster Bash

 

[alkemyst]

LOL. Yea...um..it's kind of like a tattoo. Once you get one..you want more. I had 2 when we bought our house, and specifically house hunted for a house that would "house" many machines. LOL. I know people who's entire basements are lined with them.

When I was 17, I had a 1966 Mustang GT that was fully restored and that I kept spotless. This was prior to the whole 'detailing' craze today. I lived in an affluent area where at a red light or shopping mall someone would tend to ask "who takes care of your car?"

I did 'detailing' on the side at the time...I loved it then...today I find myself wanting to do other things.

I met a couple and they asked. We don't have basements (usually) in S. Florida. We agreed to have me drive over that weekend and polish and clean up their Ferrari. When I was done they offered up their 'arcade' to me in exchange for detailing costs.

Looking back it was sort of a lame deal, as games then cost only a quarter; but you had a hard time finding some. They had a lot of oldies and current favorites of 1990.

I had fun just the same. They got a free detail basically

 

[RearAdmiral]

Stick with Williams machines.

The best ones are:

Tales of the Arabian Nights
Medieval Madness
Monster Bash

heh I don't have that much money.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

heh I don't have that much money.

I haven't played a Gottlieb, Stern, or Bally machine worth owning. Save your shekels.

 

[spidey07]

I haven't played a Gottlieb, Stern, or Bally machine worth owning. Save your shekels.

It did seem like Williams made all the good games.

 

[KidNiki1]

Pinbot was the greatest table ever imo.

quoted for truth

bride of pinbot was pretty epic as well

 

[RearAdmiral]

I haven't played a Gottlieb, Stern, or Bally machine worth owning. Save your shekels.

There's a fishtales(williams) 1950 w/topper 1700 w/o topper.

 

[Craig234]

No lies, I had a game going on Adam's family that was easily 45+ minutes. A single game. Think I rolled the score, don't remember (I hit the max jackpot some 20 times, cleared the board 20 times). I had about 5 balls left and still going strong. A score that would surely have never been beaten.

Then this 10 year old girl came up while I was playing and hit the start button. The sheer laser beams out of my eyes and words or curse I don't remember, but she was crying within 5 seconds.

She was a 'vote Democrat' shirt, explaining quite a bit of what caused Spidey today.

 

[rivan]

We have Addams Family, Tron Legacy, and Avatar pinball games at work. Adams Family and Tron are pretty good, Adams family has a ton of stuff in it.

Best. Pinball. Ever. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[KeithTalent]

I know the guy that runs: http://www.vrpa.ca/ He buys and repairs pinballs all over. Is a master pinballer too; we used to spend hours playing pinball in his basement in high school. Good times.

Anyone played Whitewater? That's one of my favourite pinballs ever.

KT

 

[spidey07]

Best. Pinball. Ever. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

I loved when "Thing" would come out and grab the ball. There was one mansion room where he wasn't supposed to come out and it would yell "No, no, no! Thing!" and he'd put it back.

And nothing like that satisfying "knock" when you get a replay.

 

[dabuddha]

Fuck this thread! Now I've got the urge to look for a pinball machine lol

 

[The-Noid]

My Parents have Star Wars (Data East), Jurassic Park (Data East), Medieval Madness (Williams), Addams Family Gold (Midway), Fireball (Bally), Elvira and Elvira Scared Stiff as well as a Mame Cabinet and a few classic arcade games.

My parents always loved Pinball and when they built their house they put an arcade in.

The main problem they have had an always had is they aren't very electronically oriented and things break quite often. You have to be able to find an electrician that is able to work on things, otherwise what my parents did is find the name of a guy that fixes vending machines and they have him over after working hours. Generally speaking every time I go to their house, one or two of the machines will have a switch broken because they guy hasn't gotten around to coming over.

I have a basic understanding of soldering and have done some more complex things (modded my ps2, which back in the day had 19 or so hard wires) and gave up after a while on the pinball machines when I lived at home. I would say the average amount of time that a machine fully works after being fixed is 10-15 hours. There are simply a lot of switches and the actual ball knocking into things makes wires come lose.

You also have to clean and wax everything quite often otherwise the playfield gets slow.

Overall, it is great fun but has to be a passion rather than something you think you can turn on and off every couple of months and have everything work.

The new Stern stuff may work a bit better however being that it is new tech inside.

 

[Jeffg010]

My Parents have Star Wars (Data East), Jurassic Park (Data East), Medieval Madness (Williams), Addams Family Gold (Midway), Fireball (Bally), Elvira and Elvira Scared Stiff as well as a Mame Cabinet and a few classic arcade games.

My parents always loved Pinball and when they built their house they put an arcade in.

The main problem they have had an always had is they aren't very electronically oriented and things break quite often. You have to be able to find an electrician that is able to work on things, otherwise what my parents did is find the name of a guy that fixes vending machines and they have him over after working hours. Generally speaking every time I go to their house, one or two of the machines will have a switch broken because they guy hasn't gotten around to coming over.

I have a basic understanding of soldering and have done some more complex things (modded my ps2, which back in the day had 19 or so hard wires) and gave up after a while on the pinball machines when I lived at home. I would say the average amount of time that a machine fully works after being fixed is 10-15 hours. There are simply a lot of switches and the actual ball knocking into things makes wires come lose.

You also have to clean and wax everything quite often otherwise the playfield gets slow.

Overall, it is great fun but has to be a passion rather than something you think you can turn on and off every couple of months and have everything work.

The new Stern stuff may work a bit better however being that it is new tech inside.

Your parents have a Medieval Madness they looking to sell?

 

[Ns1]

My Parents have Star Wars (Data East), Jurassic Park (Data East), Medieval Madness (Williams), Addams Family Gold (Midway), Fireball (Bally), Elvira and Elvira Scared Stiff as well as a Mame Cabinet and a few classic arcade games.

My parents always loved Pinball and when they built their house they put an arcade in.

The main problem they have had an always had is they aren't very electronically oriented and things break quite often. You have to be able to find an electrician that is able to work on things, otherwise what my parents did is find the name of a guy that fixes vending machines and they have him over after working hours. Generally speaking every time I go to their house, one or two of the machines will have a switch broken because they guy hasn't gotten around to coming over.

I have a basic understanding of soldering and have done some more complex things (modded my ps2, which back in the day had 19 or so hard wires) and gave up after a while on the pinball machines when I lived at home. I would say the average amount of time that a machine fully works after being fixed is 10-15 hours. There are simply a lot of switches and the actual ball knocking into things makes wires come lose.

You also have to clean and wax everything quite often otherwise the playfield gets slow.

Overall, it is great fun but has to be a passion rather than something you think you can turn on and off every couple of months and have everything work.

The new Stern stuff may work a bit better however being that it is new tech inside.

thanks to this post i have now been turned off of pinball machines lol

i'll pay the 50c.

 

[The-Noid]

Your parents have a Medieval Madness they looking to sell?

It's my mom's favorite game.

I want to say when they bought it a few years ago it was ~$10g (was almost new and what wasn't, was restored). My dad keeps track of the worth of the machines, I could ask, how much were you looking to pay?

Edit: Just spoke with my dad, he said cost would be north of $15k now. He had some of the parts redone last year apparently, so it is now in fully restored condition.

 

[Born2bwire]

It's my mom's favorite game.

I want to say when they bought it a few years ago it was ~$10g (was almost new and what wasn't, was restored). My dad keeps track of the worth of the machines, I could ask, how much were you looking to pay?

Edit: Just spoke with my dad, he said cost would be north of $15k now. He had some of the parts redone last year apparently, so it is now in fully restored condition.

Yeah, the price of some machines like Medieval Madness and Addams Family is just astronomical these days. I love pinball. I'm in a league in town and some of the guys in the leagues have their own veritable arcades with all the machines they have. It's so fun to check them out.

 

[QueBert]

I haven't played a Gottlieb, Stern, or Bally machine worth owning. Save your shekels.

Gottlieb made the SF II table, which I think is super fun. And didn't Stern make Rocky & Bullwinkle? That's one I always use to play. Stern also made the Family Guy which imho is ownable. Williams did have Whirlwind & Funhouse, both I'd LOVE to own.

 

[Born2bwire]

I know the guy that runs: http://www.vrpa.ca/ He buys and repairs pinballs all over. Is a master pinballer too; we used to spend hours playing pinball in his basement in high school. Good times.

Anyone played Whitewater? That's one of my favourite pinballs ever.

KT

Everybody seems to love whitewater. I just don't get the appeal. A guy I know just fixed up Road Show. Holy shit that thing is packed. Four flippers, two talking heads, wide body, one hell of a shaker, and a lot of modes. I really like The Machine: Bride of Pinbot, Theater of Magic, Funhouse, and Black Knight 2000. There's an Elvira Scared Stiff machine in town that's really fun and a few Whodunnit? which is a fun concept (though a really easy table but they have finally changed the settings where we are no longer getting 8 Billion point games).

 

[Jeffg010]

It's my mom's favorite game.

I want to say when they bought it a few years ago it was ~$10g (was almost new and what wasn't, was restored). My dad keeps track of the worth of the machines, I could ask, how much were you looking to pay?

Edit: Just spoke with my dad, he said cost would be north of $15k now. He had some of the parts redone last year apparently, so it is now in fully restored condition.

10g? holy crap I was looking for a deal but don't think I could play what you guys would want.

 

[KeithTalent]

Yeah, the price of some machines like Medieval Madness and Addams Family is just astronomical these days. I love pinball. I'm in a league in town and some of the guys in the leagues have their own veritable arcades with all the machines they have. It's so fun to check them out.

Oh I freaking love Medieval Madness. So classic, though I was never particularly great at it.

Everybody seems to love whitewater. I just don't get the appeal. A guy I know just fixed up Road Show. Holy shit that thing is packed. Four flippers, two talking heads, wide body, one hell of a shaker, and a lot of modes. I really like The Machine: Bride of Pinbot, Theater of Magic, Funhouse, and Black Knight 2000. There's an Elvira Scared Stiff machine in town that's really fun and a few Whodunnit? which is a fun concept (though a really easy table but they have finally changed the settings where we are no longer getting 8 Billion point games).

I love how frenetic Whitewater is, plus I've always been very good at it, so that increases my love for it. Could play that thing for hours.

KT

 

[Jeffg010]

Yeah, the price of some machines like Medieval Madness and Addams Family is just astronomical these days. I love pinball. I'm in a league in town and some of the guys in the leagues have their own veritable arcades with all the machines they have. It's so fun to check them out.

My coworker got a Addams Family at a pinball convention in Cleavland for $ 2,100 about 2 years ago. He has been been modding it to make it custom for him. I have not talk to him for about year now. Lucky bastard!

 

[Ns1]

Oh I freaking love Medieval Madness. So classic, though I was never particularly great at it.



I love how frenetic Whitewater is, plus I've always been very good at it, so that increases my love for it. Could play that thing for hours.

KT

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAP...tGAoG3rc9W%2FlTKRvF50%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Only 2500

 

[NuclearNed]

I would love to have a fully restored Haunted House machine

That and one of those old-fashioned pinball/baseball games

 

[Ns1]

Addams Family for <10k:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=addams+family+pinball&_sacat=13725&_odkw=&_osacat=13725