Used to play them quite a bit, but to the annoyance of my friends or the GF. That was because I could make 50p last for about 2 hours of play when the table was in a good mood (as we all know they cheated you).
Used to play them quite a bit, but to the annoyance of my friends or the GF. That was because I could make 50p last for about 2 hours of play when the table was in a good mood (as we all know they cheated you).
Myself and a couple of friends could easily make 50p last us all night. We would just beat the highest score (gives you three replays) then tilt the rest of the balls.
Many a time we would leave the machine with 20+ credits on.
I haven't played them for ages, probably last time was 15 years ago or something since they are extremely rare to find nowadays, at least here. But I do really like them!
I haven't played them for ages, probably last time was 15 years ago or something since they are extremely rare to find nowadays, at least here. But I do really like them!
Most of the ones here in the UK are now in the hands of private collectors. Some of the prices are crazy, ?5k for a top end machine. :-?
I bought a part for my Addams Family. It cost ?500. And it was a piece of plywood !
my dad made us one when we were a kid, it had nails instead of bumpers, and your arm istead of a spring, gravity istead of flickers, and your imagination instead of sound effects.
my dad made us one when we were a kid, it had nails instead of bumpers, and your arm istead of a spring, gravity istead of flickers, and your imagination instead of sound effects.
:razz:
I had a bagatelle too ! Quite a big one made of wood with nails too.
I cannot upload pictures yet but when I can I will upload some photos of my machines.
I had a bagatelle too ! Quite a big one made of wood with nails too.
I cannot upload pictures yet but when I can I will upload some photos of my machines.
ah right,
never knew it had a name, just searched for it, and it looked exactly the same, maybe my dad didn't build it then, he was always making up lies like that. lol
I used to subscribe to a magazine called Antique Arcade Magazine, which was mostly just an auction catalogue with the odd feature, good read all the same though.
Unfortunately my love of motorcycles is too expensive to support my passing interest in coinops.
I am new to the forum and apart from a love of the Spectrum I also collect pinball machines.
I currently own seven.
Anybody else into pinball ?
Take it easy,
Andrew.
Hello by the way. :)
I can (sometimes) get high scores on Adams Family and Lethal Weapon 3, not very good at Star Wars, apart from one flukey game, where I just shot endless ramps for 30 minutes, some of the older machines I can do well sometimes.
My dad taught me how to hit the sides of the machines with my palms without setting the tilt off.
Problem is, if you do find an arcade with a pinball in, chances are it's not properly maintained, and the flippers don't have enough bounce, or there are other problems.
Even though I live by the sea, pinball machines are very rare. I only know of 3 in the town (CSI Batman: Dark Knight and a Terminator one I think), but I've never played them because I'm not very good at real tables.
I was pretty good at the WWF Royal Rumble table though and I was very upset when the arcade sold that machine on :(
But, the glorys of PinMAME allows me to play that table again at my leasure. It's a bit of a bugger to get PinMAME up and running, but once you've got it going, it's a great program :)
As far as games go, I've always loved Pinball Dream/Fantasy on the Amiga, Revenge of the Gator on the Gameboy and House of the Dead on GBA. Pinball FX2 on XboxLive is well worth checking out too ;-)
What decent pinball games are there on iPod touch? I have a 4th Gen, so it should play anything really. I did have a trial version of one, but I thought it was overproced and the trial kept bugging me to buy the whole thing, so I deleted it :(
I can (sometimes) get high scores on Adams Family and Lethal Weapon 3, not very good at Star Wars, apart from one flukey game, where I just shot endless ramps for 30 minutes, some of the older machines I can do well sometimes.
My dad taught me how to hit the sides of the machines with my palms without setting the tilt off.
Problem is, if you do find an arcade with a pinball in, chances are it's not properly maintained, and the flippers don't have enough bounce, or there are other problems.
I had been doing some repair work on my Addams Family a couple of weeks ago and thought I would have a quick test game. I ended up with 2.6 billion. My previous best ever was about 954 million. 45 minutes on one game, my wrists were killing me when I had done !
Even though I live by the sea, pinball machines are very rare. I only know of 3 in the town (CSI Batman: Dark Knight and a Terminator one I think), but I've never played them because I'm not very good at real tables.
I was pretty good at the WWF Royal Rumble table though and I was very upset when the arcade sold that machine on :(
But, the glorys of PinMAME allows me to play that table again at my leasure. It's a bit of a bugger to get PinMAME up and running, but once you've got it going, it's a great program :)
As far as games go, I've always loved Pinball Dream/Fantasy on the Amiga, Revenge of the Gator on the Gameboy and House of the Dead on GBA. Pinball FX2 on XboxLive is well worth checking out too ;-)
What decent pinball games are there on iPod touch? I have a 4th Gen, so it should play anything really. I did have a trial version of one, but I thought it was overproced and the trial kept bugging me to buy the whole thing, so I deleted it :(
Pinball Arcade is pretty good as it has real tables.
Zen pinball is good too as is HD Pinball.
Nice. A friend of mine has Indiana Jones, it's a very good game.
I currently have:
Demolition Man
Indianapolis 500
Twilight Zone
Addams Family
Star Trek The Next Generation
Whitewater
Roadshow
And sadly no more space for any more:-(
Twilight zone of of my favourites. My favourite of all time is a Dr Who one, not because I'm a huge DR Who fan, but because of its functionality. I remember it having a 3 tier mulifunction pop up
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but i loved the pinball games on the amiga, if that counts. :-)
You can't beat the real thing.
Although you don't have to have a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering to keep an Amiga running. ;)
Saying that, there are some decent pinball games for the iPad.
Andrew.
Myself and a couple of friends could easily make 50p last us all night. We would just beat the highest score (gives you three replays) then tilt the rest of the balls.
Many a time we would leave the machine with 20+ credits on.
Andrew.
Most of the ones here in the UK are now in the hands of private collectors. Some of the prices are crazy, ?5k for a top end machine. :-?
bit of plywood, pane of perspex and some balls.
cant be that hard to make. im sure you can by giant springs on ebay. ;)
There used to be one in practically every pub. Not the case any longer sadly.
If only :razz:
I bought a part for my Addams Family. It cost ?500. And it was a piece of plywood !
yeah, not proper gambling machines i guess. much more to be had with a quiz that slowly reveals an fhm cover babe.
my dad made us one when we were a kid, it had nails instead of bumpers, and your arm istead of a spring, gravity istead of flickers, and your imagination instead of sound effects.
:razz:
I had a bagatelle too ! Quite a big one made of wood with nails too.
I cannot upload pictures yet but when I can I will upload some photos of my machines.
I'm pretty sure I posted picture of my pinball table :(
This was around Xmas 2003 I think, didn't have it that long under a year
ah right,
never knew it had a name, just searched for it, and it looked exactly the same, maybe my dad didn't build it then, he was always making up lies like that. lol
Unfortunately my love of motorcycles is too expensive to support my passing interest in coinops.
thx, tatoos, and bikes, thas how you are filed in my brain. :p
I love the artwork on the older games but not the gameplay.
This should bring back some memories for you:
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=Aerobatics&sortby=name&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick
Hello by the way. :)
I can (sometimes) get high scores on Adams Family and Lethal Weapon 3, not very good at Star Wars, apart from one flukey game, where I just shot endless ramps for 30 minutes, some of the older machines I can do well sometimes.
My dad taught me how to hit the sides of the machines with my palms without setting the tilt off.
Problem is, if you do find an arcade with a pinball in, chances are it's not properly maintained, and the flippers don't have enough bounce, or there are other problems.
Drool, very nice. My friend has an more modern Indiana Jones one.
It's rubbish. :D
Guilty secret time.
I loved that game back in the day. It was even before I had ever played a real pinball machine though.
Nice. A friend of mine has Indiana Jones, it's a very good game.
I currently have:
Demolition Man
Indianapolis 500
Twilight Zone
Addams Family
Star Trek The Next Generation
Whitewater
Roadshow
And sadly no more space for any more:-(
I was pretty good at the WWF Royal Rumble table though and I was very upset when the arcade sold that machine on :(
But, the glorys of PinMAME allows me to play that table again at my leasure. It's a bit of a bugger to get PinMAME up and running, but once you've got it going, it's a great program :)
As far as games go, I've always loved Pinball Dream/Fantasy on the Amiga, Revenge of the Gator on the Gameboy and House of the Dead on GBA. Pinball FX2 on XboxLive is well worth checking out too ;-)
What decent pinball games are there on iPod touch? I have a 4th Gen, so it should play anything really. I did have a trial version of one, but I thought it was overproced and the trial kept bugging me to buy the whole thing, so I deleted it :(
I had been doing some repair work on my Addams Family a couple of weeks ago and thought I would have a quick test game. I ended up with 2.6 billion. My previous best ever was about 954 million. 45 minutes on one game, my wrists were killing me when I had done !
Used to love the Addams Family, used to play it in a pub in Peterborough. others that spring to mind [ that i seemed to play a lot]:-
Big Guns and I Robot were in the Union Bar at Poly,
Space Invader at the local WMC.
Black Knight various Arcades
Pinball Arcade is pretty good as it has real tables.
Zen pinball is good too as is HD Pinball.
Twilight zone of of my favourites. My favourite of all time is a Dr Who one, not because I'm a huge DR Who fan, but because of its functionality. I remember it having a 3 tier mulifunction pop up