pinball

[aceofspades7]

<p>i just responded to the 90s arcade game poll and was thinking of the great pinball they had in the commons building in college (1990-1994). My favorites were (in order):</p><p>1) Dr. Who</p><p>2) Twilight Zone</p><p>3) Adams Family </p><p>I always said that one day I would buy a Dr. Who machine. That is still on my to do list. That game was so freaking good. Anyone else have favorites? Pinball seems like a dying thing - isn't Bally out of business?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>edit - i just looked it up - bally stopped making pinball machines - they are still in business - very big in casinos.&nbsp; also in 2005 a company called the pinball factory bought the rights to re-make old bally machines.&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by aceofspades7 on 3-14-07 @ 3:36 PM</span>

[Knowledged_one]

<p>I remember reading in Maxim maybe 3 years ago that the last two pinball games that would be made was like Start Wars II and some other retro monster from the 50's type machine.</p><p>I love the original Star Wars Pinball Game</p><p>Twilight Zone was also a good one and same with Adams Family</p><p>But i will always love the old school 80's pinball machine that used to say</p><p>&quot;Ride the Ferris Wheel&quot;</p>

[Sarge]

The Adams Family was by far the best, but F14 Tomcat was also a great one.

[aceofspades7]

<a href="http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=dr+who&amp;sortby=name&amp;search=Search+Dat abase&amp;searchtype=quick#738">this </a>site has so much pinball info - amazing - the link goes to dr who

[JustJon]

<strong>Knowledged_one</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I remember reading in Maxim maybe 3 years ago that the last two pinball games that would be made was like Start Wars II and some other retro monster from the 50's type machine.</p><p>I love the original Star Wars Pinball Game</p><p>Twilight Zone was also a good one and same with Adams Family</p><p>But i will always love the old school 80's pinball machine that used to say</p><p>&quot;Ride the Ferris Wheel&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;You're referring to the Ballys 2000 machine, which would allow the arcade operators to swap out different pinball machine graphics and whatnot wihtout having to compltely replace the machine.&nbsp; The only two made were Star Wars Episode One and the mars attacks type one, whose name escapes me at the moment.</p>

[Fezticle98]

Fireball awaits you! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Ritalin]

<p>Man, I was a huge pinball player. Chicago is a pinball capital of sorts, because they made the machines there. My favorites:</p><p>&lt;&gt;Addams Family - classic. great shot alleys and great jackpot variety. They had this machine in a bar I spent a lot of time at, and when the time what right we would all yell &quot;THAAAA MAAAA MUSHKA!&quot;</p><p>Fish Tales - just awesome, and great sound.</p><p>Terminator 2 - This game had this ball launcher that you'd have to use to start the jackpot. Fun.</p><p>I will defintely own at least 2 pinball machines in my lifetime. &nbsp;</p>

[mdr55]

<p>I always liked the theatre of Magic pinball machine I think it was called.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.txpinball.com/images/flyers/tom_flyer.jpg" border="0" width="480" height="311" />&nbsp;</p>

[PapaBear]

<p>The only one I was ever good at was Space Shuttle. I could play that thing forever.</p><p><img src="http://pinball.flippers.info/spaceshuttlerightside(small).jpg" border="0" width="451" height="506" /></p>

[OGC]

<p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">My favorite pinball machines would have to be.</font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">Addams Family</font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">Funhouse</font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">Twilight Zone&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">Hook</font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">I spent soooo many quarters at the local arcades getting to know these machines, but after a while I could keep the games going for quite a while.</font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">When I met my wife, pinball just faded away for me and I hardly ever played. Until a coupld of years ago when we went on vacation and it rained for 3 days straight and I found that the laundramat nearby our vacation spot had an Addams Family machine and I was hooked all over again.</font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">I saved up my nickles and dimes and last fall I bought an Addams Family machine which was in fantastic shape. I now have my eye on a Hook machine and&nbsp;am trying to figure out how to break the news to my wife.</font></p>

[STC-Dub]

Loved Xenon -- scary that I remember the actual name from that longs ago.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2821&amp;picno=3173">http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2821&amp;picno=3173</a>&nbsp; Space Shuttle was a good one also.