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Offline pinnies4me

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Can someone name this coin game?
« on: October 04, 2009, 10:11:31 AM »
The foreman at my mates plastics/steel factory bent me up some stainless the other day for the HH resto, and asked about some pins. What he also asked about was the game that hung on a wall, and you put a penny (I recall them taking 2 cent pieces) and at each level you flicked the coin along an "uphill" path that had holes so the coin could easily fall inside and you lost it. I don't remember what (if any) was the payoff for getting it through the maze. Anyone recall these, and what they are called, and where one might be found?
“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2009, 10:20:09 AM »
I'm sure one of the more senior members here would be able to help!....I've never used a penny for currency in my lifetime!~

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2009, 10:25:49 AM »
I'm sure one of the more senior members here would be able to help!....I've never used a penny for currency in my lifetime!~

Me either, that's the way he described it. I remember as a little kid one of these on the wall of the fish and chip shop, and trying to get my 2 cents (I think) to the bottom many times.

Googling around I found this - way more complex, but the same idea. The ones he was talking about were not big like this - maybe a couple of foot high and were mounted to the wall, but same concept.

“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2009, 10:29:39 AM »
Is this what he was talking about nick???  These were on the fish and chip shop walls and if you got it to the bottom you would get free chips or a coke or something ^^^

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2009, 10:54:07 AM »
Is this what he was talking about nick???  These were on the fish and chip shop walls and if you got it to the bottom you would get free chips or a coke or something ^^^

That's the sort of thing! Don't tell me you got one mate?
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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2009, 11:01:48 AM »
Almost, but not quite
http://www.pinballnirvana.com/UpDownload-req-viewsdownload-sid-26.html

The last time I saw these type of games 'in the wild' was a cafe/milkbar ajoining a carpark at the Queenscliff lookout
they had a few wall mounted games, the prize was that you got your coin back
I think they also had an EM baseball machine, and maybe a few older pinball machines

It burnt down 25 years ago

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2009, 12:01:34 PM »
Is this what he was talking about nick???  These were on the fish and chip shop walls and if you got it to the bottom you would get free chips or a coke or something ^^^

That's the sort of thing! Don't tell me you got one mate?

Yep sure do Nick thats mine in the photo
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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2009, 12:21:24 PM »
wow.. the last teed off i sold.. one of my guys dropped it and broke the glass..


i had to rescan and put it back together..


so if you need the art work for one.. ill have it some where..


damien


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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2009, 12:26:05 PM »
wow.. the last teed off i sold.. one of my guys dropped it and broke the glass..


i had to rescan and put it back together..


so if you need the art work for one.. ill have it some where..


damien



Hi Damien
            If you can find the scan id love a copy just incase this one i hand painted as the original was broken.  If you dont mind me asking how much did you sell you one for??

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2009, 03:24:52 PM »
Nick,

You see these on eGay from time to time, they sell for around $200 - $400 - for the ones made after 1970

They were made as far back as the 1920s and they are worth good money

Be careful as they also made reproductions

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2009, 03:57:14 PM »
Nick,

You see these on eGay from time to time, they sell for around $200 - $400 - for the ones made after 1970

They were made as far back as the 1920s and they are worth good money

Be careful as they also made reproductions

What's the general name for these sorts of games, ie the equivalent of "pinball" for a search?
“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2009, 05:35:47 PM »
they were called Flipball machines in New Zealand
Pinballs in my collection Elvira, Stern Grand Prix, Bally Corvette, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Judge Dredd, Black Rose and Data East Guns n Roses.

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Re: Can someone name this coin game?
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2009, 11:30:58 AM »
The games you saw are called flipballs, skillballs or even flapballs.  They were derived from a UK game called allwins.

Check out my website page it has a few pics of a few of the wall mount games I own down the bottom.

http://pinballnz.webs.com/mycollection.htm#