Before video games, there was Pinball!
 

Here's a list of my favorite pinball machines. Anyone remember any of these?
Xenon
Black Night
Addams Family
Funhouse
Firepower
Flash
Eight Ball Deluxe
Gorgar

For those interested, here's a bunch of pinball links:
The Ring of Pinball

I love pinball, but I keep braking the tables !

The Adams Family is quite good, I also liked the South Park one, and Demonlition Man. Junkyard is also a brilliant table.

Thanks for the link.

The greatest though-- the Tommy pinball game. As in the Who and Pinball Wizard, Tommy. They used to have it in the union where I go to college, and I always wanted to play it blindfolded and see how I would do. :D

There were actually two machines based on the movie, Wizard and Captain Fantastic. Both great games!

Demolition Man was a great machine. As a sidenote Tommy is a great movie!

i wish i had a pinball table. pinball is teh fun.

Why don't you buy one? They cost anywhere from $200 to $2000 used. I've got a few. :)

I've got one, a No Good Gofers, which is actually really really good.. I just need to replace some of the bumpers etc... any one know of a good site to buy that stuff as well as cleaning supplies?

I learned how to play pinball on some oldies, but then I didn't get good on pinball until Elvira Mistress of the Dark.... I definitely love the Williams pinballs machines... hate the Gottleib ones.

Addams Family, Fun House were great! Also T2 was a good one.

Terminator 2 was a great machine.

I was actually certified to repair williams machines.
They are great things to own, but a bitch to upkeep if you have kids, or play rough. It's sad that pinball companies went out of business/ got bought up by 2 or 3 main corporations. It's also sad that there are rumors tthat most companies will stop making pinball machines in the near future.. They just dont make sense when you look at their cost to upkeep vs. revenue brought in.

No doubt about it, Williams pins were always the best! I just thought of another one I liked; Silverball Mania.

Never heard of it. Who’s the manufacturer? Do you know what year it was made?

Damn! You guys got me wanting a machine now! I would luv to buy , Adams Family, or Fun House or a T2. Do you think i could find a good one? Where would i look, local or on the net? Wonder how much? What about the up keep? Sure would be nice! I would hate having one and it not run properly.

It's a williams... i think its a 96 or 98 machine... Not too sure off the top of my head though.

It's a total Caddyshack rip, even with a ripoff rodney dangerfield type character... alas no bill murrey though.


edit: http://www.pinball.wms.com/games/gofers/

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I LOVE this game

Man! i just love pinball machines. My favorites are:

Whirlwind
Earth Shaker
Joker's Wild
Fish Tales
Twilight Zone
Addam's Family
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom

... Man, there have been so many!

Very Nice. I was thinking it was an older game (my pins are all much older). Any game made by Williams is excellent!

You're talking big bucks for those machines! Check out these prices: TNT Pinball

You might do better by keeping an eye on your local want ads. Or better yet, go to an auction:
US Amusement Auction

Indiana Jones
Star Wars (from Data East)
Guns N' Roses
Hook
Apollo 13 (the 13 ball mulitball was crazy)
Lethal Weapon 3
Twilight Zone
Getaway - High Speed II

Too bad that pinball machines are about as rare as they come these days. Visual Pinball satisfies the habit pretty well though :)

Thanks Wondash! I found some nice ones on ebay too. If fact a guy is selling
them close to me on ebay. Your right lots of $$.

Eight or so years ago you could find pins and old arcade vids dirt cheap. Now that everyone thinks everything is worth collecting, it's hard to find them cheap. Pins can also be very difficult to keep in good working order.

Pinball fucking rules.

its about the only old school arcade games i like (but then again i can't fucking REACH most arcades).

I have played pinball many, many hours!
that would be a neat thing to get for the house one day.

as far as which version was best, i liked em all my fave is prollt the T2 and Jurrasic park ones.

Williams machines would have to be some of the better ones I've played on.. I remember when I was down on the gold coast and I discovered Monster Bash.. I never clocked it, but it just go to easy, paying for one and then getting 3 extra credits is just too much.. :D:cool:

The southpark ones are good too, but the new simpson table is supposed to rock :D

Addams Family and T2 are the l337 pinball machines

Addams Family is the greatest ever. I may have played a few thousand games of it.

I vow to one day own my own Addams Family Machine.

God I love playing pinball. I remember anytime I saw a new machine I always had to test it out. It's kinda sad in the movie tommy they smashed so many nice vintage pinball machines. Hopefully for the place i'm moving in I can convince my roomates to get one :)

I remember watching that scene and thinking, what a waste! But I'll tell ya, at the time they filmed Tommy, I'm sure there were thousands of broken down old electro-mechanical pins gathering dust in warehouses up and down the east and west coasts. I used to be able to pick them up in Asbury Park (NJ) for about $100 a machine!

Just had a nice surprise. Stopped into a bar for some brews and wings, and way in the back was a ole pin by it self.
High Roller Casino by Stern. What fun it was, considering not one of my favorite pins. Got lots of extra balls, free games, multi ball. No high score thou. Machine was in great working order and was a gas to play! An added bonus was some good tunes playing in the background. Iron Butterfly! LOL! Good times, Damn! I want one of these pins bad.

I go through this every few years. I'm refinishing my basement (around the pool table!) and the final plans call for one or two pins. Great link!

Peetster? Go thru what? Final plans? How do you plan on buying one and how much?

I had the high score on addams family pinball at my local watering hole for awhile, it was the proudest two days of my life, one of the only times I didn't enter my initials as ASS or SEX. (on a side note, anyone notice how you can't do that on newer game machines? What if my initials really were ASS or SEX?)

my initials have BJ in them.... a lot of arcade games, specifically Capcom games see that and erase my initials... Damn bastards. But yes I too used to use ASS. Why'd they have to ruin our fun.

Bumping up an old thread.

Good to see some other pinball fans out there. Just played some good pinball this afternoon on a new Lord of the Rings table. Great game lots of fun. Check it out here.

Some of my other favourites:

White Water
Medieval Madness
Attack from Mars
Roller Coaster Tycoon
The Simpsons Pinball Party

Many more I can't remember at the moment. I'll be getting a couple tables as soon as I can afford too. I'd love to have one or two of these in my basement.

A lot of great tables listed. I used to really love the Indiana Jones one, and a personal favorite is still Street Fighter (even has a little car you could whack for bonus points). The place I used to work had Batman Forever, but we only had the machine about a month before a ball got stuck someplace it shouldn't be, and the boss was too damn cheap to get it serviced.

MY favourites were the addams family, the creature from the lagoon (not it's real name, probably) and corvette.

Not many people know this, but it is possible to emulate pinball machines using Pinmame and VPinball. The result is quite satisfactory, though it's obviously not the same as playing a real machine. I have a copy of the addams family pinball on my harddisk that I play quite often, for example.

Glad to see this thread bumped.

Never heard of pinball emulators. I'll have to try them out. Thanks titsmurf.

I remember in college, there was a small game room, and they had the T3 pinball game...I loved playing that.

Anyone have links/sources for those pinball emulators? I've got MAME Rom's for pinball, but if the other emulators are better, cool!

Roms and table files: http://www.vpforums.com/vptables/

You'll find all you need there to get 420 great pinball games on your hard disk.

It's a bit more complicated to install than just unzipping, but with this guide you should get it set up: http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/pinmameguide.htm

Have fun!