DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) Anyone else grow up playing these? In my day was 10 cents a play. What old 50's-60's arcade machines did you play? Before anything digital came in..... Dave.. Edited January 25, 2020 by DrB 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Mostly flipper pinball 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 "You have to use your hands?!? That's a baby's toy!" I've still got my 1960 pinball machine. Still works. I spent many a ill-spent years hanging around pinball arcades. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 And yes Pinball. I spent a ton of money playing this machine amongst others. Dave.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 Nothing can beat the relays clicking, the flipper sounds, the ding ding ding and the number wheels clacking up . Good times in my youte.. Dave.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Whenever I get near a beach with a boardwalk, I'll actively search out the antique pinballs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASH Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 played this at the beach arcade all the time . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, DrB said: Nothing can beat the relays clicking, the flipper sounds, the ding ding ding and the number wheels clacking up . Good times in my youte.. Dave.. We once drilled a tiny hole in a quarter and tied fishing string to it. It worked. A little too good. We knew the machines made a loud WHACK! sound when you put the quarter in. As we very slowly lowered the quarter in, it hit the sweet spot and started, WHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACK..... and caught the attention of the owner (a little news store / diner-counter) and when we tried to pull it out, the string broke and it stuck there.... WHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACKWHACK..... The wheel went up to 50 games. But we got kicked out and didn't get to play them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASH Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 we got busted pulling out drinks out of drink machines . you could reach your arm up to elbow and grab a drink and pull it out , but if you did not pull it out right something popped a hole in the side of can and you had to drink the drink sideways lol . thats why drink machines from the 90ties til now has that big dumper at bottom built on to people from getting hands in there now 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, ASH said: thats why drink machines from the 90ties til now has that big dumper at bottom built on to people from getting hands in there now We once went overnight stealth-fishing at a private lake that was closed for the season. We got into the concession building. After working on the candy machine a while, we just turned the whole thing upside down and shook everything out of the spirals. Then laid it on it's face, and turned it upright. We didn't even have to defeat the dumper-door. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 26 minutes ago, ASH said: played this at the beach arcade all the time . I wanna play that.. That looks like fun.. Dave.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 Any places like this still open? I would take a vacation there to play the old games. Dave 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 4 hours ago, railfancwb said: Mostly flipper pinball Ours were all a Nickle. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) Like a few here, I sent a fair amount of time in the campus recreational center and a wall of pinball machines. The first lad in every semester put a dime in and the machine still had 50 free games at the end of the semester with nary another dime inserted.. The company would send technicians out to widen the bumpers, dull the reactive elements, slow the flippers, but to no avail. One day i was watching him and I mentioned, You do know that we're all engineering students, right? He just rolled his eyes, buttoned up the machine and I guess the company decided that they weren't going to get rich off of those machines. This is the same college that brewed 80 gallons of coffee on the first day of the semester and never again, just kept it hot for three months. That is where I learned my tolerance for really terrible coffee. Ah, to be young again. Edited January 25, 2020 by tous 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 In College I was not into the party or drug scene, but if anything was going to flunk me out was my addiction to the pinball machines. I spent many hours with that damned silver ball. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 The Silver ball and these sounds do get in your blood and never leave........ Something like the smell of gunpowder in the air on an early fall morning.... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Those machines started eating my money (that which I could appropriate from my parents bedroom) before I turned double digits. 1961 or 2 when I became aware of the lure of the arcade machines. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I played the shooting games at Kennywood Park in my youth. The Gottlieb pinball machines were in mom and pop stores and cost a nickel. Later in the local bar they had a pinball machine that cost a quarter. tom. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 I spent a lot of time on one of these bowling games when I was a boy. My parents and grandparents took us to this little mom and pop tavern that served fresh just out of the fryer "Chicken in a Basket" Came in a wicker basket lined with a cloth towel to soak up the grease. Chicken and hot french fries cooked to order and so hot you could hardly touch at first. That food was damn good. While the food was cooking as the adults had a few beers/drinks my grandfather would take me to this machine along with his beer and we would play. Big can of corn meal you could sprinkle on the lane to make it slick for the puck... Good times and good fresh hot food for a boy. Dave.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Not sure what caliber they are, but does anyone remember those full auto air rifles at carnivals where you had to shoot the star out of the center? I want one of those! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, DrB said: I spent a lot of time on one of these bowling games when I was a boy. My parents and grandparents took us to this little mom and pop tavern that served fresh just out of the fryer "Chicken in a Basket" Came in a wicker basket lined with a cloth towel to soak up the grease. Chicken and hot french fries cooked to order and so hot you could hardly touch at first. That food was damn good. While the food was cooking as the adults had a few beers/drinks my grandfather would take me to this machine along with his beer and we would play. Big can of corn meal you could sprinkle on the lane to make it slick for the puck... Good times and good fresh hot food for a boy. Dave.. We'd go to a local tavern to drink beer, eat sandwiches and play the bowling machine after Lodge meetings. tom. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Maser said: Not sure what caliber they are, but does anyone remember those full auto air rifles at carnivals where you had to shoot the star out of the center? I want one of those! BBs. tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Baseball was my favorite. One person could pitch and another could hit. Then change places. For a kid, it was awesome. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) Bally had a few pinball machines made and advertised by Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Mistress of the dark. "Scared Stiff" and "Party Monsters".. I hesitate to post those advertisements, here because..... well it's Elvira and I don't want to get this thread locked. Dave.. Edited January 25, 2020 by DrB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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