Over at Something Awful, there is a great collection of photoshop created pinball machines. Apparently, they put a call out to their forum members to create some pinball machine parodies based on current themes. Well, they definitely took the job on and created a ton of fake pinball machines with themes ranging from the Iraq War to TurboTax (!?)
Anthony Donnelly, 42, of Hurstville, NSW, Australia, has a collection of more than 250 pinball machines that apparently has gotten to be too much for his mother to handle. So he is going to auction off about 100 of them including machines from the 1950's to present day Stern pinball machines.
While this is an extremely sad story, there is possibly one good thing that will hopefully come out of this: Mr. Donnelly says that he hopes to use the money he gets from selling his pinball machines to open a pinball museum!
Let's all hope that the auction goes well and he gets top dollar for his pinball machines. Another pinball museum like the one in Las Vegas would be a good thing.
Nick named The Overkill Arcade by one of Prescott's friends who realized that he has a bit of an obsession (some might call it a problem) with arcade games and pinball machines. The Overkill Arcade is located in his basement and contains everything from poker tables to shuffle bowling alleys and, of course, pinball machines. There are eight pinball machines in total including Dirty Harry, The Twilight Zone and Lord of the Rings.
With pinball machines, video games, big screen TV and even a jacuzzi, this sounds like somewhere I would never want to leave!
Monday, June 25 2007 @ 12:11 AM EDT Contributed by: pbwiz
For anyone who's ever wondered what goes into the production of a real pinball machine, here's a video tour of the last remaining pinball manufacturer, Stern Pinball:
It's amazing to see how manual the process really is -- I though it would have been much more automated than this. Definitely shows one reason why new pinball machines are so expensive -- anything this labor intensive to manufacture can't be cheap.
For those who aren't familiar with it, The Pinball Hall of Fame is a pinball museum located in Las Vegas, Nevada that has on display what is arguably the largest pinball collection in the world. Not only are these vintage pinball machines a work of art, they all work and can be played by visitors to the Hall of Fame!
The three articles by GameSetWatch highlight a variety old and (relatively) new pinball machines and are part pinball history lesson, part picture gallery.
Don't miss these great tributes to the history of pinball -- the pictures alone are worth the visit!
Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 12:40 AM EDT Contributed by: pbwiz
According to this AP story, the French government thinks that Pinball Machines may be the solution to the upcoming Smoking Ban and expected loss of business at French Cafes. In France, Pinball machines and similar games that are in Cafes are heavily taxed by the government -- so much so that many have been removed to avoid paying the taxes. But with the upcoming Smoking Ban in Cafes, Pinball may help to replace cigarettes. This sounds like a Win Win situation to me.
Friday, September 01 2006 @ 12:54 AM EDT Contributed by: pbwiz
Check out the arcade in this video -- this is a Pinball Fanatic's dream. It reminds me of the arcades I used to go to in the late 1970's that were packed full of Pinball Machines. And these aren't all new Pinball Machines in this video -- I think I spotted a KISS machine and even a Bally Space Invaders.
The Pinball Factory will start taking pre orders for New Cactus Canyon Pinball Machines starting October 1st, 2006! While the cost may seem high -- a $2500 deposit at order time with the balance of $2500 due prior to shipping for a total of $5000 -- just compare this to how much a new Cactus Canyon pinball machine goes for on eBay.
While it remains to be seen if The Pinball Factory manufactured Cactus Canyon machines will be on a par with those made by Bally, I sure hope they are good. If they are, I'm sure will see more Bally remakes from The Pinball Factory.
Thursday, August 24 2006 @ 01:38 AM EDT Contributed by: pbwiz
I Know it sounds too good to be true, but now you can make $10,000 playing pinball and you don't even have to get out of your chair!!
Dream Pinball 3D is a new pinball simulation for your computer from German game publisher Zuxxez Entertainment. To promote the new game, they are offering $10,000 to the person who gets the highest score on one of the pinball tables from the game. This table is available as a free download from their website and is for Windows based computers.
