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Old Baseball Pinball Machines

nendeenendee Posts: 567 ✭✭✭
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Was looking these over - remember playing these?

First one is All Stars Baseball, the second is Slugfest....


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  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    image Nice looking pinball machines. Are they yours?

    I'm sure Stone has them in his basement. image
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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    I remember playing ones similar to the top one. Every once in a while the small metal ramp in the middle of the game would pop up and give you a chance for a GRAND SLAM! Used to cost a dime to play back then.
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  • nendeenendee Posts: 567 ✭✭✭
    I was thinking about picking one up. Something tells me they are like boats though - you're happy when you buy it, but even happier when you get rid of it......
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  • HeritageAddictHeritageAddict Posts: 3,266
    I also remember playing one similar to the top one, often thought about adding one to my collection....but I'm afraid that like so many other games it would be something I played the heck out of for the first month and then it wouldn't get used for the next 10 years.
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  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I was thinking about picking one up. Something tells me they are like boats though - you're happy when you buy it, but even happier when you get rid of it...... >>



    At least you don't have to fill it up with gas...LOL. If I had the room, the bottom one looks like its in great condition, but I agree the novelty would probably wear off after awhile.

    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭
    Those games look cool in a room even if they aren't always played. I have a full size Pac Man and Speak Easy (casino theme) pinball machine in my basement. My kids now are starting to like them. My daughter (5 years old) just finished the first screen at Pac Man by herself. Makes a Dad proud, never mind all that book reading stuff...Pac Man is where it is at.
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  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great looking baseball games...image

    With me if it were Pac Man, I agree with 72skywalker the novelty would never wear off.

    I'd have to get at least one game in every day...Donato
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  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Pac Man was good, but I'll take Space Invaders any day of the week. I could play that game until my thumb gave out...LOL.

    I still have my original Atari which still works. I told my wife it was for the kids to play with. image
    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • cwazzycwazzy Posts: 3,257 ✭
    Not as old (mid '90s probably?) but the Frank Thomas Big Hurt Pinball game was AMAZING! I've often thought of picking one of those up but don't have the room for it right now.
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  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
    That Frank Thomas machine looks awesome!! Never seen that before

    Wonder if Ross has one
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,609 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I was a kid, my father owned a pool room, or "billiard parlor" whatever ya want to call it, and of course it had quite a number of pinball machines there including the first one...I don't remember ever playing the second one, but that first one was certainly loads of fun.

    Hate to say this, but after awhile I got so good at it, that it became too boring, and I preferred other pinball machines that were much tougher.
  • nendeenendee Posts: 567 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, originally I started hunting for the top one - the classic Chicago Coin game - but as I was thinking about it, I thought the Williams Slugfest might provide more "longer" term fun.

    Anyway, I've now mentally taken the plunge and have a guy that is finishing a restoration of the newer Slugfest machine and I'll make a decision at that point. I'm willing to host the first annual New England Collectors Forum Cookout this summer and we can all play! image
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pinball machines are really cool.

    There's certain types that's I'm partial to - but they're not cheap - and one has to have a lot of space - which I don't.

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Deluxe Baseball - 1950s

    A favorite of mine:

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    If I had the space and 1500 bucks - and I would be there!
    Mike
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