Hi Pinsiders,
I'm curious if there are public locations (arcades, museums, bowling alleys, etc.) that specialize in electro-mechanical pinball or arcade games. A couple of major examples would be...
Clay's VFW Pinball Museum near Ann Arbor, MI
Tim's Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, NV
...but your examples don't have to have hundreds of E.M. games. Let's set the definition of "specializing" in E.M. games as having at least 5 examples and being accessible to the public (not as interested in learning about private collections...just yet).
So, let 'er rip! What have you guys seen out there?
Thanks for your help,
Ryan Claytor
Edit: A quick-list based on suggestions below...
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U N I T E D . S T A T E S
~California~
- Pacific Pinball Museum Exposition(Alameda, CA)
- Arcade Expo(Banning, CA)
- Playland Not-at-the-Beach(El Cerrito, CA)
- Musee Mechanique(San Francisco, CA)
~Colorado~
- Penny Arcade(Manitou Springs, CO)
~Deleware~
- Red Lion Inn(Bear, DE)
~Florida~
- Silver Ball Museum(Asbury Park, NJ & Delray Beach, FL)
- Replay Museum(Tarpon Springs, FL)
~Georgia~
- The Pinball Palace(Brunswick, GA)
~Illinois~
- Pinball Paradise(McLean, IL)
~Indiana~
- Main Street Amusements(Lafayette, IN)
~Maryland~
- Fun Unlimited(McHenry, MD)
- Spinners Pinball Arcade "Pinball EDU"(Frederick, MD)
~Massachusetts~
- Salem Willows Arcade(Salem, MA)
- Western Mass Pinball Club(Three Rivers, MA)
~Michigan~
- VFW Pinball Showcase(Ann Arbor, MI)
- Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum(Farmington Hills, MI)
- B's Bowling Center(Flint, MI)
- Richfield bowl(Flint, MI)
~Minnesota~
- Bobby and Steve's(Minneapolis, MN)
- Can Can Wonderland(St. Paul, MN)
~Nebraska~
- Hollywood Pinball & Arcade (and Candy) Museum(Omaha, NE)
~Nevada~
- Pinball Hall of Fame(Las Vegas, NV)
~New Hampshire~
- Half Moon Amusement Arcade(Weirs Beach, NH)
~New Jersey~
- Remember When Pinball Palace & Retro Arcade(Wildwood, NJ)
- Silver Ball Museum(Asbury Park, NJ & Delray Beach, FL)
~New York~
- Strong Museum(Rochester, NY)
- Silverbird Woodfired and Gastropub(Yan, NY)
~North Carolina~
- Appalachian Pinball Museum(Hendersonville, NC)
- Asheville Pinball Museum(Asheville, NC)
~Ohio~
- Superelectric Pinball Parlor(Cleveland, OH)
- Cedar Point Amusement Park (Sandusky, OH)
~Oklahoma~
- Bricktown Candy Co.(Oklahoma City, OK)
~Oregon~
- Blairally(Eugene, OR)
- Blackbird pizza (Portland, OR)
~Pennsylvania~
- Gameseum(Ephrata, PA)
- Old Sled Works(Duncannon, PA)
- Pinball, PA(Alliquipa, PA)
- Pinball Parlour(Earlington, PA)
- Pinball Perfection Museum(Pittsburgh, PA)
- Village Arcade(St Peters, PA)
~Rhode Island~
- Spring Lake Arcade(Glendale, RI)
~Tennessee~
- Chattanooga Pinball Museum(Chattanooga, TN)
- Flipside Retro Arcade and Museum(Bristol, TN)
~Texas~
- Lone Star Pinball Museum(Hockley, TX)
~Vermont~
- Pastime Pinball(Manchester Center, VT)
~Virginia~
- Roanoke Pinball Museum(Roanoke, VA)
~Washington~
- Seattle Pinball Museum(Seattle, WA)
~West Virginia~
- The Scohy Bros' Flashback Arcade(Vienna, WV)
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C A N A D A
- North Star Pinball(Montreal, QC)
- The Pint - Public House(Toronto, ON)
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E U R O P E
- Paris Pinball Museum(Paris, France)
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Edit Again: Thanks to jeffc we now have an EM Pinball GoogleMap featuring the locations listed above.
Click here to be taken to an interactive map that looks like this: