It’s not every day when you can get a pinball machine that was in the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas, much less something so rare.
Category Archives: Pinball Stories
Pinball Stories #19: Random Discovery of Rare Game
I have a game in my collection that is in my “restoration queue” – it’s sitting in the corner of a back room and every time I look at it, I’m reminded I need to pull it out and take a look at it – and I am anxious to do this and share with you what I find. But there are a half dozen games in front of it so I can’t do it right now. But what I can do is tell you how I got it in this latest episode of “Pinball Stories”…
Pinball Stories #18 – My hate/love relationship with Sega South Park
Welcome to another episode of Pinball Stories. By the way, if you haven’t already please subscribe to my YouTube channel – every little bit helps!
Everybody probably has pinball machines they like, and some they don’t like, but what happens when you have a game that you alternately love in some respects, but can’t stand in others? This is one of those games for me, Sega/Stern’s Southpark!
Pinball Stories #8: I have to move that from where?
If you’ve been doing this for awhile, you’ll eventually run into your first set of “killer stairs” and vow you never want to go through that again. Also, the next time you ask a friend to help you pick up a game, they’ll suddenly have something much more important to do, like get their back waxed.
Pinball Stories #17 – Random phone call and random pickup
This just happened yesterday so it’s a timely addition to pinball stories. Got a call from a friend who had a bead on a retired guy who had two games in his garage. We’d each take one of the machines. What does he have? We don’t know – mystery game time!!
Pinball Stories #16 – Botched pinball sale?
As we all know, pinballs can be unpredictable. But what happens when you arrange a sale and then things go wrong? Can you salvage the deal? I try…
Pinball Stories #15 – Picking up a game and a bonus
A very common source for pinball machines is from storage lockers. And when you help someone clean out a storage locker, you never know what other kinds of deals there might be. This is the story of getting a pinball machine and something else (that makes a pinball machine seem puny).