As Women’s History Month comes to a close, let’s look at a February visit to the Pinball Hall of Fame, on the Strip in Las Vegas.
This is essentially a big warehouse filled with old arcade games, indifferently maintained and many powered off. That said, it is a large enough collection that there are probably some playable games within that you’ve never seen and never played.
Here’s a supersized Flintstones machine from 1994 that is better as a concept than as a game:
A prototype machine for squirrel-hating golden retrievers… Goin’ Nuts:
Speaking of hate and haters…
Those who appreciate fruit crate art will like this 2015 retro Stern Whoa Nellie!
Machines are priced at whatever their original price was, e.g., some as low as 25 cents and quite a few at 50 or 75 cents per play.
Let’s close with a 1995 Gottlieb Strikes ‘N Spares machine, dressed up in Big Lebowski garb.
Tip: Get there right when it opens if you want to be able to hear the machines’ callouts and music clearly. Don’t be put off by the surly ladies who run the place! (I’m not sure why they’re there because one of them said that she didn’t like pinball and never played any of the machines.)