The Aussie Pinball Arcade
Aussie Pinball Forums => Photo Gallery => Pinball nostalgia pics => Topic started by: ddstoys on April 25, 2009, 12:35:49 PM
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Morning all
Ive just found some photos from the penny arcade in echuca thought they might be of interest
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Beautiful machines - an Allwin or several is whats missing from my collection... but im working on it!
Thanks for posting those...ill take em all
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Want me to email you the full size pics PM me? Its something ive always wanted even before PInballs but way out of my price range. The guy who delivers our milk Pisses me off as he found 3 of them in a shed years ago he pulled them apart to do them up then never did it and threw them in the bin grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Awesome machines !!
I've been interested in replicating some of those style machine for a few years now.
(since i can't find any anywhere, or affordable).
Great pics, great reference.
MM.
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Me to marty i have photos of all the internals etc to try and make em but getting the cruved bits rolled has always stopped me
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You can easily buy sheetmetal curlers/rollers from real hardware stores (not bunnings hehehee).
In most cases you can use the supporting groove and/or nails to hold the metal in curved forms.
Are the pics on here (when clickked-on) the full size ones? are do you have bigger ones?
Probably too big to email, but if u can upload to a host-site somewhere, i'd certainly love some bigger pics.
I've wanted to build some of these ever since having the 'bug' to build an old golf game (2c) i'd talked about in another thread here somewhere....
MM.
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Are these actually in an old museum of some sort? curious about the numbers on the top corner of most machines, assuming they're museum-piece reference?
How long ago were these pics taken?, does anyone know if this place is still there?
Would be worth organising a day trip for AP members to meet up there for a look-see or something.
MM.
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Yes this place is still in echuca i go every year most of the locals will tell you its closed down but its not it in the old por area and well worth a look there are more machines aswell but you arent supposed to take photos WOOOPS Yes i have bigger photos they are around 2meg each pm me your email and ill email em off a few at a time
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Also Marty
I can take some detailed photos of my Golf game as they are so easy to build if you ask nicely i might even be able to paint you up a glass for it.
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Daniel, we may be talking about a different type of golf game?
I don't remember the glass being painted ??
It might have been called "Par 5" according to an old bumper-forum i was on years ago, a guy sent 'similar' pics to the game i remembered.
MM.
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the one i have is par 5
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And not all were painted i have a friend with one which isnt painted im guessing once it got broken they just replaced it with blank glass?
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Aahhh nice,
well that 'seems' to be the game i played a lot, and wanted to replicate in recent years....
However, the one i played wasn't painted like yours, i think it was a plain sheet of glass on the front (unpainted).
and a few golf balls/flags and guy tee'ing off were painted onto the wood, not the glass.
(i remember even back in the 80's analysing the game structure, and if i could build one up at tech school).
From memory, the playfield was an overall green playfield, with perhaps a slightly darker (olive) green in the coin paths.
It looked (at the time) to simply be a matter of laying small curved ply pieces onto a thicker backboard, the thickness of the ply was enough of an edge for the coin to roll along.
This would have been far easier than trying to cut out the paths with a router. *%*
Other than colouring, it certainly seems to be the same, coin slot on top-right, small groove to catch your coin at bottom, nothing fancy like a catchment cup etc.
I think the levers on the side were brass? and maybe 'cast' pieces, or flat plates with a lip on them?
Thanx for the pic.
Definately a 2009 project on my list... :lol
MM.
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I remember playing something very similar at Lake Tabourie caravan park when i was younger.
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Want me to email you the full size pics PM me? Its something ive always wanted even before PInballs but way out of my price range. The guy who delivers our milk Pisses me off as he found 3 of them in a shed years ago he pulled them apart to do them up then never did it and threw them in the bin grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Must admit I had a Penny machine simlar to these when I was a kid. My Dad gave it to me as his old relative was in to machines. I pulled it apart to do it up and never did. When I moved out of mum and dads, dad was cleaning out the garage and through it on the hard rubbish !!! Also had a Gelati Ice Cram bike complete with the big bucket thingy all painted and connected to the original push bike. This went to the hard rubbish as well !!!
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Great pictures Daniel - Thanks for sharing !
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I want one of these penny wall games for my shed.
I missed one on Trademe last week, see this pic
Its a booze barometer, this would work well in my shed as I like a few drinks....
sold for $256NZD
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Nice old boozometer %$%
Love to build something as simple too someday.
(i'll make you one while i'm at it hehehe).
No doubt i'll have no trouble finding a bunch of drunks to test it hahahahaha. :lol
MM.
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I want one of these penny wall games for my shed.
I missed one on Trademe last week, see this pic
Its a booze barometer, this would work well in my shed as I like a few drinks....
sold for $256NZD
So if you can get to the other end you are ok to drive home?? :D *)* *)*
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I've been to the penny arcade in Echuca prob over 15 years ago, great setup with heaps of games to play and an old fortune teller machine from what I can remember, be interesting to see if they have a web site with all of thier games listed.
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As i said earlier, assuming the place is still there, and full of machines, it might be a good "AP-day-trip-meet" some weekend whenever??
MM.
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Id be up for that i love the place
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Hey Marty
I have a guy here at the moment who wants to build a golf game so while ive got it off the wall ill take a few more pics and draw up some plans for you its really basic i might even build a few more myself
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Thanx Dan,
That'd be great...
MM.
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Ive even found the original broken glass for it i might have to scan it and make some decals for em
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As a kid, we went on a holiday to South West Rocks on NSW north coast. These pics brought back memories of a machine in the general store where you put in a 2c coin, flicked a ball around a spiral, and depending in which slot it landed, you could get a pay out in 2c coins (I think i once got 5 x 2c coins when 10c was a princely sum)
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Nice one Dan with the original glass....
10c would buy you a nice bag of mixed lollies back then %$% *%*
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Yeah i was happy with the find but realised i really did have to much free time i remember sitting there when it arrived and piecing back the shattered section of glass so i could copy the picture lol. The guy luckily put the broken section in a snaplock bag so when it smashed in the mail i didnt lose to many bits
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Just looking a the top of glass at the "Tee Off" logo, that's what i remember the game as.
For some reason i never recalled "Par5", maybe the one i played wasn't labelled like your glass....
Anyway, Tee Off or Par5, it's def a rebuild waiting to happen here %$%
MM.
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Here's a Penny Arcade story . Me and a couple of mates playing pins in the arcade at Luna park when I found the pin I was playing as much as I shook it it wouldnt tilt. So we had turns at one guy on the left side of the pin the other guy on the right side of the pin. When it looked like going down the guts the guy's would lift up the front of the pin and save the ball from going down. After a few free games this huge guy that worked there approached us and escorted us all to the front door and said " Now f**k OFF you are all banned ^.^
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Another trick (on some machines) As the score wheels were resetting,flick the power point switch on & off & the score would stop at youre desired score -great for adding some credits. #*#
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Hehehehe there's always someone to ruin "Free Fun" aint there??
I remember a night with a mate in a Kew pub, it was a quiet night (tue?) only about 6 people in the whole pub, and the seperate pool room was empty, so we pumped $1 into the table and played a game, and noticed later that the table hadn't been locked, so we could lift up one end of the table-top, and sneak a hand into the coin detection to relaunch the next set of balls.
I think we played 50+ FREE games that night, only to have it ruined by some backpacker knobend, who decided to watch us play a few games over drinks, but then run to the bar and report it.....
The manager returned and locked up the table, and suggested "we've had enough games for the night" please return to the bar or leave.
Damn Backpacker Hippies, they're only good for testing bullets on..... #*# *)* !*! :lol !!!
MM.
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Oh the memories!
We used to take drinking straws and take a mouthful of water (or Coke etc) and place the drink straw down the coin entrance. Once in place we would then blow the water down the straw slowly and keep doing that until the contact for the coin would be soaked. That would complete the circuit and we would then kick the door and it would add credits. So if a game like Bally's Star Trek it would pop 40 times until it maxed out on credits.
We would start to worry when this happened - especially when there was a pool of water under the front of the game from the water that was coming from the coin return :lol :lol :lol
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We used to take drinking straws and take a mouthful of water (or Coke etc) and place the drink straw down the coin entrance. Once in place we would then blow the water down the straw slowly and keep doing that until the contact for the coin would be soaked.
I bet you don't do that to your own machines hahahahahahahahahahaha !*!
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SO next time i get a machine with the front bottom floor rotted out ill send Tony the bill lol
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Hey Marty spotted this on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Penny-Arcade-coin-flick-machine_W0QQitemZ220407698063QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_15?hash=item220407698063&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A5|294%3A50
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Hey Marty spotted this on ebay
Did you notice the one-armed bandit???
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Hmmmm interesting Auction, start price of $495, then asks "make me a good offer" for the 1 arm bandit??
HArd to read if the pokie is ADDITIONAL or INCLUDED ! WTF !!
Well spotted, but for $495 i'll make 10 of those puppies :lol