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Williams, 1957
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Gottlieb, 1978
Monte Carlo
Bally, 1964
Super Soccer
Gottlieb, 1975
Travel Time
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I'm 56 - so mostly 70s EMs in my lineup... mostly Gottliebs, but I like some of the Williams and Bally games from the mid to late 70s just the same. I have a few SS games - KISS, Whirlwind, FATHOM but my heart is with EMs...
Starting to get into some really old EMs from the 40s and 50s too... there are some wonderful players in that era, just give them a chance. Like all games though, they have to be playing top notch to get a true feel for how great these games can be.
Don O
Quoted from ChipS:I'm in the over 60 group. Discovered EM pinball machines while a teenager in the arcades of Ocean City, Maryland (Playland, SportLand and the best pinball palace, Jim's Place!) during summer vacations. There were other arcades in Maryland that had pinball machines, but Ocean City was the only place where someone under 18 could play pinball without a parent or guardian present. (Because, you know, they were "gambling devices.") And it was HARD to convince my mother to take my brother and me to the smoke-filled arcades. So we spent most of our week in Ocean City playing pinball.
Just started collecting a few years ago and have focused on Gottlieb wedgeheads. I own Atlantis, Abra Ca Dabra, Jacks Open and one multi-player, Surf Champ. While I knew absolutely nothing about fixing/maintaining EMs when I started, the vets on Pinside have made it easy and I have grown to enjoy working on them.
Hey ChipS, we were probably in one or more of those arcades at the same time in OC back in the day. My parents would take us on vacation to either OC or Rehoboth from about 1970 to 1978, usually a two-week stint, and sometimes we could talk mom into a day trip or two each summer. I remember those arcades like yesterday, and spent hundreds of hours playing my favorite pins and pitch n bats. When I hit my 13th birthday my parents would let me take the city bus that ran from about 180th street down to where those arcades were... Id take off after dinner and get back around midnight. I bought my first pin in 1986 and still have it today, along with a small collection of mostly EMs and 3 SS games.
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