Anyone collect pinball machines?
 

I just got into them a couple months ago...now that we have a little more space (new house). I'll probably go crazy after the basement's finished, but I have 3 for now: Playboy (2002), South Park, and Indianapolis 500. Even through up a blog to document my new habit.

http://www.pinballblog.com/

Post em if you got em! Lensman, come on, you gotta have a Playboy machine, right?

I just have a few of the big arcade games.

WWF Wrestling
Arkanoid
Ms Pacman
Final Fight

I picked up all 4 up from an arcade that was closing a few years back,
I paid $500 for all of them.

That is my next collection...

I want the PlayBoy original, Star Trek and Evil Knievel for starters - all old favorites of mine !

ALL signs of a mis-spent youth.

;-)

I just traded my 1978 Star Trek for South Park. :P

Wow, that's cheap. Wrestling and Final Fight are only worth about $100 each but Ms. Pacman in nice shape will get you $1k and Araknoid in nice shape will get you $500.

Those old originals are getting scarcer than hens teeth down here in Oz.

:(

pinballs :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Lucky for you then that Star Trek is not only cheap (around $1k) it's also more common than any of the new pinball machines being made today (they made 16,000 of the buggers). So if you can't find one in Oz, you can probably have a mint one shipped in by boat for $1k+maybe $600 for shipping.

Sweet !

The collection may have to start earlier than later !

The original PlayBoy down here is worth over $10k.. people get that one and never sell.

:-(

Hmm...buy one from the states on Ebay and have it shipped there. It might take a little time to find some one who will ship internationally, but the big companies that sell online always will. It should only cost you around $1k plus shipping like the Star Trek.

I don't get the attraction to those old games though...maybe because they came out around the time I was born. For me, the 2002 Stern Playboy is a lot more fun. Even the 35th Anniversary Playboy from the eighties is a lot of fun, but this 1970s games all have 3 bumbers and a few drop targets. I want a digital display, digital sound, ramps, multi-ball, and all the bells and whistles.

CuriousToyBoy = Old School

Rictor = New School

:winkwink:

Hell, I'm thinking if the demand is there, maybe I should start an Australian pinball import company. Cheaper to ship them by the boatload anyway. Main question is, what are you import tariffs/taxes like? Wholesale, you can get games like Playboy and Star Trek from the 70s for well under $1k, and when shipping a whole boat load, shipping only runs around $50 a game.

No but i was chasing an original pacman machine :winkwink:

Hmmmmm.

Let me check that out... as 2nd hand the issues should be much less.

I'll hit you up in a couple of days.

:thumbsup

To me old school is anything from the eighties, which is the decade I grew up in. Sounds like you grew up in the seventies. To some one older, the games from the fifties or sixties are probably the ones they want. Pinball dates back to the thirties in one form or another.

But pinball is like any other form of entertainment, the old ones have a certain amount of charm, but the new ones have better production values and newer special effects.

Go with a MAME machine instead. It will take up the same amount of space, you can make it look just like an original Pac-Man but it will also play 5,000 other games for the same price a Pac-man would run you.

The wrestling one is awsome cause it 4 player.

All my friends want to do when they come over is drink my coronas and play battle royal. :1orglaugh

I turned 13 in 1980, I Truly lived the 80's to the fullest.

But my mispent youth and love of pinball probably started when I was about 8 or 9 in the 70's.

:thumbsup

I'd convert that sucker into a MAME cabinet. That particular game makes for an awesome MAME cab because of the 4-player setup. You can still play Wrestling on it after the conversion, but you can also play about 5,000 other games including a bunch of 4-player games like X-Men, Avengers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gauntlet, etc.

when i played with my band we had this one in our studio:

http://www.xmission.com/~daina/images/jb/bk2k_bg.jpg

Black Knight 2000 :)

I turned 3 in 1980. I learned about the 70s in history class and from the pictures of my parents in bell bottoms and my dad with his afro (funnier because he's white).

Nice. That's a classic.

That is exactly why I shave my head.

I shit you not.

:1orglaugh

I want a South Park pinball machine but I have nowhere to put one atm. Definitely when I get a house though.

I was going to sell it. :pimp and that wouldn't work with me because of the authenticy

Yea,,,one of my friends was just telling me to do that.

He said the wood cabinet is worth more than the game itself. :1orglaugh

Got any links on how to convert it?

cool :) we gotta play pinball one day... I had many many machines, even had 4 in one room some yrs ago on a wooden floor lol...

It just so happens that I also have a Game Room blog with a ton of MAME links on it: http://www.gameroomblog.com/

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/...1078167307.jpg

thats the oldest I restored, a Gottlieb one player woodie, pretty hot for those days, a whorehouse and a girl with a fan, you had to play the fan away and get a glance at her boobs... sold it for a lotta money still it was cool :)

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_de...M&game_id=3830

Thanks for the info Ryan :winkwink:

A 4-player MAME cab will fetch $2-3k easy with a nice computer in it. The cabinet itself is worth $100 or so empty to the right person or $0...depends on where you live...these get thrown in the trash all the time...the wrestling game might fetch $5 on Ebay if you pulled it out of the cabinet. The monitor might fetch $100.

You can restore games? I wish I could...I'd save a lot of money.

Gauntlet aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh the memories.
Spend a lot of time and money playing that

good stuff! you know "Whirlwind"? it had rotating discs and when the ball hit that discs it was absolutely unpredictable where it goes...

http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pin...nd_pinball.htm

:)

My Playboy game has a similar feature, there's a Tease screen on the back of the game, if you hit the bumpers enough the panel slowly slides down to reveal a Playboy model. Right now I have the family-friendly PG-13 artwork installed on the game. It came with 2 nude sets of artwork though. When you get multiball a centerfold unfolds.

I did for many years yes, mainly electro mech ones, say 50s to 70s, newer ones too, but keeping the game in shape isnt that hard, new rubbers, polish the field, keep it clean n all, just look out for the mushrooms while the games on, lost fingernails twice lol

oh and if youre gonna start, one hint : NEVER remove the glass and turn the game on and play, Ive seen a guy go knock out when he got the ball against his face, esp the newer ones, the Data East ones are pretty fast.

You definaley want to get this one as well, my favorite in the early 90's! :thumbsup

http://www.bmigaming.com/Images/fishtales.gif

Uhuh... THE STOOOOOOORM IS COMINGGGGG lol yeah like I said I play a lot :)

That disc is actually pretty old school, theres a game they even re-issued it it, like 70s, if you have that one its worth like 25k nowadays. Ninja turtles had it too. But I prefer the whirlwind its cool :)

its nice but a bit boring after a while, Im gonna get a phantom of the opera one day, its older but a really cool game.

http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/cgi...i?pkpcode=poto

it has an organ opening and turning pretty cool, not even a dot matrix game yet

Hell, my Indianapolis 500 already has a general illumination problem. Half the lights behind the backglass don't light up. I know what the problem is, bad connection somewhere on the board, but hell if I know how to fix it. I've never soldered anything in my life.

I just picked up a soldering iron and a couple "learn to solder" kits on Ebay. Probably pick up a few more kits in the coming weeks...put together some robots and cheap crap before I try my hand at fixing a $2,000 game.