PinBall Hall of Fame

One of my favorite spots to get away from the strip. Any other PinBall Wizards

I've spent many a quarter on them pinball machines when I was a teenager. Fun times.

I enjoy visiting that place.

Its amazing how basic the really old ones are. Did people really play those for great lengths of time? Some of them have like 2 bumpers and a few targets...and thats it.

There was a solid "pop" click sound when you scored high enough for a free game. I guess it was a solenoid doing its thing but it was a glorious sound.

Some machines were better and more fun than others.

I might not have been the best pinball player in St. Louis when I was in high school, but I was in the top two. I would hit the different pinball parlors all over town over the weekend and tear the machines up. It was nothing for me to go into a place, put a dime in a machine (most games were dime a game or three for a quarter. I only needed one game) and run the game up to the max credits (usually 15 games) then I would sell them for a dollar. It was not hard for me to make $30 to $50 a weekend.

I would get bored sometimes and play the games cross-handed, in the winter, I would put my coat over the top half of the glass of the machine and I would play teams (me on one flipper and a friend on the other).

Ray (or you can just call me Tommy SR.)

I've only been once but it's going to be a regular stop every visit to Vegas from now on, I could spend entire afternoon there. Last trip I ended up playing the centipede game for the last hour, had a blast. Man, that place brought back a lot of memory's.

That loud knock you hear when a free game is won is caused by a little 'hammer' that knock's the side of the wooden case, I saw it on one of those how it's made shows on discovery,science or one of those channels.

J

TextGotta Love the Artwork on these PinBall Machines. I think I took a hundred pictures.

Love the place but have only been twice, as there always seems to be so much else to do and not enough time when I hit the town. I was 7 when I played my first pinball machine, and I remember thinking you had to do something to make the ball bounce off the bumpers...luckily my older brother explained to me the machine did that part on its own.