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Re: which pinball parlour was your favourite when growing up ?
« on: November 24, 2009, 10:31:27 PM »
did they update there machines at the kiosk from year to year? I played my first electro ,in 1978 i think it was an eldorado, it had all the targets across the top of playfield ,but a lot of the electro,s back then i remember having weak flippers etc,any williams pinballs  amongst that kiosk lot tony.... $#$

There was around 12 pinballs and 5 or 6 EM arcade games such as gun games etc. There was also 2 pool tables and a soccer table. All of the games were very well looked after. The operator used to buy new EMs and nearly all of his games were no older than 5 years old.

Yep - there were Williams EMs - Olympic Hockey, Spanish Eyes, Klondike and Solids n Stripes come to mind. Then they were mostly Gottlieb's and he even had a Buckaroo there until around 1975. Can remember going for a surf with my mates and Alex (the Op) had just installed a brand new Chicago Coin Sound Stage - we all thought that was the cooooolest game back then. What were we thinking?

The place used to be packed in Summer and as mentioned it was opened before and after school as well.

Oh they were the days  *%*