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Offline Creech

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What was the first pinball you played?
« on: September 23, 2008, 09:25:57 PM »
Can anyone remember the first pinball they played?

My only memory is my Dad giving me 10 cents to have a 5 ball game of some Gottlieb EM in the early 70's in a Continental Deli as he waited for his prosciutto to be sliced. All I remember is that I furiously double flippered that game and had my mouth open the whole time in awe of the pop bumpers and chimes. Would love to know what game it was. I can still hear those chimes to this day.
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2008, 09:29:11 PM »
Your memory might just as well be mine Creech, exactly the same sort of memory, something with chimes that took maybe 5 cents a game (could have even been 2 cents!)

Ding, ding, ding!!!!
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2008, 09:48:43 PM »
My mates mum worked in a greasy cafe called "Eats cafe" in south London - in there was a pin that we used to play, was a Wms Travel Time,

Few years later, im sitting in the pub talking to a mate over a beer or 5 and i happen to mention that id love to own a pinball. Mate replied that he had a non working one in the shed and it was mine if i wanted it.
I jumped at the chance! Pinball was a Travel Time but the Segasa version. Got it home and within 1/2 hr had her working 100%. I was happy as can be - mate was really pissed that id got it working and he had given it away.
That was over 20 years ago - i still have the pin in my collection and its by far the best condition pin i have.
me and "mate" havent spoken for over 20 years
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2008, 09:53:26 PM »

Thats a hard one - We had pins in the family before I could walk. My earliest memory was Gottlieb Showboat, and Gottlieb Super Score.

That was a looong time ago !!

However, I STILL remember the day we drove down to the docks to pick up NIB KISS, Paragon, Mata Hari etc etc...

I still have the KISS and Paragon.
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2008, 09:59:05 PM »
Dang!!!! 3rd person to mention SUPER SCORE in under a week! Somethings going on here...
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2008, 10:01:04 PM »
It's the pinball gods telling you to buy one.
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2008, 10:20:35 PM »
For me it was Addams Family... right after I fixed it - my first ever pinball repair.

I can remember playing it once it was working, and seeing the ball come down the centre of the playfield, and then go straight back up the way it came... I was AMAZED  :o

That's what got me right in to repairing them... I had to know HOW that happened  :D
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2008, 10:30:23 PM »
Quote from: Creech on September 23, 2008, 10:01:04 PM
It's the pinball gods telling you to buy one.

I know.......its worrying me
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2008, 11:27:45 PM »

I do want a Super Score - But not right now !

To really finish my collection, I want a Woodrail, Super Score and Olympic Hockey.
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2008, 01:11:57 PM »
I have no idea what game it was but, my parents used to send me and my brother to the milkbar to grab a few things and give me and my younger brother 20c each to buy some lollies.  I of course would get a huge bag of lollies and con my brother into putting his money into one of 2 pins that were located in the rear of the milkbar.  I of course would "help" him play.  The money was gone in a few seconds as ball after ball drained  :(
I sometimes gave him a few lollies to make him feel better ;)
I feel bad about it now but what are big brothers for!! ;D
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2008, 11:44:38 PM »
I was a bit of a late starter getting into pinnys, but KISS was the first one for me.. this was about 1988, and i was 20 at the time. it was in the Star Hotel (i think) in Macksville, on the NSW midnorth coast. Im a musician (guitarist) and the band i was playing in at the time was playing there, and one of my bandmates talked me into having a game with him. Needless to say i was hooked! Its one i'd definitely like to own one day, being the first game i ever played. Second game i played was Stern's Dracula, which i recently acquired from a guy in Wallsend.
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2008, 06:38:00 PM »
the first i actually remember (and looked for elsewhere when on holidays or in melb etc)mainly because of the rules(f**king magna save !) ...pharoah
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2008, 08:45:07 PM »
My favorite machine which stays vividly in my memory was Gottlieb 'Sweet Hearts' which I loved to play in the late 60'/early 70's and would love to own one. (Showing my age)
Millsy
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2008, 10:32:39 PM »
Captain Kidd   - 1977 in Fremantle at the White Ensign club   
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Re: What was the first pinball you played?
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2008, 04:04:40 PM »
Mustang at a fun parlour in Foster on the NSW Mid North Coast

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