Your favorite pinball machines growing up.
Goldenage
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Pictures if you are able. My two favorites that were at my local card store shop in the 1970s.
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Played pinball forever as a youth and into my teens. Got so many free games had to give them to the kids waiting to play. Can’t remember my favorite but if it was made in the early 70’s I played it and mastered it.
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
I always put my money in the Arcade games rather than pinball machines.
Games like Donky Kong, Galaxia, Ms. Pac-Man ? Is that an arcade game ?
No offense to anyone who loved Asteroids, but for me that game was very lame.
Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac Man was so much more fun and challenging to play.
Yes. Missile Command, Tempest, Scrambler ect..
I grew up in the 90s, so my favorites were the Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter games.
My kids loved Super Smash Brothers brawl. It's a brawling or fighting game, but with kids characters. They played it for hours. On the WII I believe.
Dad did play WII golf and baseball. WII golf and WII bowling are lots of fun.
@Goldenage, Yes Super Smash Bros Brawl is a fun game!
Forget what it was but the 7-11 by the apartment complex we first lived in had pinball and me and my brother would walk/ride up there and play - '78-79ish.
College the student center at UGA had a row of pinball. 1994 Guns N Roses machine I had high score my entire senior year. Right next to it was Star Trek Next Generation machine from 93, also had high score on that one the whole year basically. Between classes if I had an hour I could play either one of those off of 1 credit/50 cents and would always wind up leaving free games on them for whoever showed up after I had to hit class.
I stink at pinball.
If anyone ever vacations at the New Jersey shore (in the future), there is a SILVERBALL arcade in Asbury Park right on the boardwalk. It has all the old arcade games and pinball machines from the 60s, 70s, 80s. It's right next to the Stone Pony where Bruce Springsteen got his career started. I've been there quite a few times and it's lots of fun.
https://silverballmuseum.com/delray-beach/
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Spanish Eyes
Are the games still ten cents?
I was also a master of Super Mario Bros parts 1,2,3, for the original Nintendo back in the day. And I was a master of Mike Tyson's Punch Out. I could go all the way through the game and beat everybody. It took me a while to figure out how to beat Tyson himself, but I finally figured him out.
As a kid, my grandparents had a pinball machine in their basement from when my mom was a child. It was called "Mystic Marvel":
Then my parents got us our own machine for our basement, Strato-Flite:
When I got a little older and discovered more modern machines, I found the game which remains my absolute favorite to this day - Funhouse:
I absolutely love pinball. Play it on the PC and PS4 all the time. Someday I'll buy a virtual pinball cabinet.
This is what I played all the time at the bowling alley.
Ted Nugent pinball from 78
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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The two arcade games I remember most...
Here are three favorites.
"Tropic Isle" had cumulative way to win games. There were three monkeys that climbed up the palm tree,. Every time you hit four targets on the board one of them moved up. When one was at the top, you get a free game. When two made it, two replays and when all three got there, Three games. It also had special feature when you got all five gates at the top. You had to learn to work the plunger to aim the ball. to get those.
The Playboy machine was a lot of fun. I once impressed a girlfriend when won a slew of free games and almost flipped the score back to zero in one game.
Alpine Slide was a big hit in 1965. The buttons that ran up the center of the board were also a cumulative thing in a way. If you were really good, you could flip the ball straight up the middle and move them all up.
This machine had targets that lit up for the special. On most machines you had to go down the side chutes at the right time to win a game, which met you lost the ball. With this machine, once you get the target lit, you could just keep hitting it.