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Name pinball machines based on real historic events or people

By nosro

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AC/DC (LE) Stern, 2012
AC/DC (Premium) Stern, 2012
Al's Garage Band goes on a World Tour Alvin G. & Co, 1992
Ali Stern Electronics, 1980
Apollo 13 Sega, 1995
Army Navy Rockola, 1935
Attila the Hun Game Plan, 1984
Bad Cats Williams, 1989

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#1 9 years ago

OOO

Apollo 13 strikes me as unique. The theme is, for all intents and purposes, based on historic non-fiction. (Technically, the theme is based on the movie, but the movie is directly linked to a real historic event.) Are there any other machines like this?

For the sake of discussion, we could expand the discussion to include people of historical importance, for which I could think of Mata Hari and Elvis.

My wife suggested that somewhat should create an "Einstein" pinball machine. I don't know about the appeal of that, but I'm willing to bet that Neil deGrasse Tyson would offer unlimited free consultation for anyone willing to attempt such an endeavor.

#2 9 years ago

GON

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FIRE!
Captain Fantastic

#3 9 years ago

DIE

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A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Seriously though, I saw some custom pins based off of real businesses. Those count, even though they were one-offs?

#4 9 years ago

FRX

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Linked a few I think are applicable...

#5 9 years ago

TOM

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World Fair
World Cup Soccer

#6 9 years ago

TAR

pinwiztom

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similar topic was discussed on RPG, only singular people.
Like Dolly Parton, Evel K, Attila the Hun, Roy Clark
But if you include groups or event
need to include all the music groups GnR, AC/DC etc
and Harlem Globetrotters
what about TV shows Charlie Angels or $6 Mil Man
OR games named after Cities or States San Francisco or St.Louis or Oklahoma or Texas
Blackwater 100 or Indy 500
Space Station, Friendship 7 or Space Shuttle or Skylab

#7 9 years ago

ODB

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I500.
Its a great day for racing, and a great day for pinball.

#8 9 years ago

OOO

nosro

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Elvira is certainly fun, but to me it is an actress playing the role of Elvira and hence is fiction, just like Demolition Man is fiction, even though Stallone is a real person.

#9 9 years ago

SLY

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World Poker Tour. Gotta love a machine with Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten.

#10 9 years ago

CCM

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NASCAR

High Speed (Steve Ritchie has said: "It was based on a true story. I was actually chased by the cops at 146 mph in my 1979 Porsche 928." ) - from ipdb.org

#11 9 years ago

OOO

nosro

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Quoted from pinwiztom:
what about TV shows Charlie Angels or $6 Mil Man

Those are real TV shows, but the shows are works of fiction (e.g. the theme of three gorgeous female spies or a cyborg man are fiction).

#12 9 years ago

OOO

nosro

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I just remembered Mario Andretti.

#13 9 years ago

DAV

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Frank Thomas' Big Hurt. About to become a Hall of Famer as well.

#14 9 years ago

DAV

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Harlem Globetrotters are real people even though their games aren't. Just seen this is already here.

#15 9 years ago

YOB

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I have to add this :>>>>> If you're going to mention Elvis, shouldn't Jimi Hendrix be in the mix as well, which brings me to this question, has there ever been a Hendrix pinball machine?, and if not, WHY NOT??

#16 9 years ago

FTZ

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Mata Hari.

#17 9 years ago

MGE

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Verne's World is based on the works of Jules Verne.

#18 9 years ago

TDK

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Independence Day!

#19 9 years ago

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Spanish Eyes. Based on the eyes of a Spanish girl.

#20 9 years ago

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Apollo 13, sure it was a movie....but it was obviously based on real events

#21 9 years ago

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I added 10 to 12 or so to the games linked list above.

#22 9 years ago

DOC

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Space Shuttle

#23 9 years ago

DEL

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Quoted from Mancave:
I have to add this :>>>>> If you're going to mention Elvis, shouldn't Jimi Hendrix be in the mix as well, which brings me to this question, has there ever been a Hendrix pinball machine?, and if not, WHY NOT??

If no Hendrix pinball machine was made, why even mention him?

#24 9 years ago

EMM

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Ali and Elvis
Spirit of 76

#25 9 years ago

YOB

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I was just asking the question, i dont have knowledge of all pinball machines ever made!

#26 9 years ago

?Z?

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Most all of the games built during WWII fall into this category.

http://ipdb.org/search.pl?mfgid=331&searchtype=advanced

#27 9 years ago

EDH

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There are so many world war 2 EM machines it would not even possible to list them all.

#28 9 years ago

PVW

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operation dessert storm

#29 9 years ago

TAR

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what about all the special edition NFL teams

#30 9 years ago

TAR

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world cup
olympics
not historical but real (Wheel of Fortune)
or RBION

#31 9 years ago

WEN

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Quoted from pascal-pinball:
operation dessert storm

Yeah, dessert. Like a banana split!

#32 9 years ago

WEN

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"Friendship 7"
edit: oops, already mentioned.

#33 9 years ago

OOO

nosro

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Quoted from TigerLaw:
There are so many world war 2 EM machines it would not even possible to list them all.

That is interesting to me. It would seem that pinball machines moved away from being reflections of our real lives and towards escapism.

#34 9 years ago

?Z?

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OP
Quoted from nosro:
That is interesting to me. It would seem that pinball machines moved away from being reflections of our real lives and towards escapism.

Patriotism was rampant during the war. The link I posted above was for Victory Games. These days, you support the troops, but it's perfectly acceptable to not support the war. Back then, everybody supported everything about the war. They were all in. Both of my parents signed up as soon as we got involved. It was a much different world back then.

#35 9 years ago

YOB

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Evil Knievel

5 months later

#36 9 years ago

MPV

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I could always be wrong, but I currently believe that Gottliebs 1956 "Fair Lady" and 1966 "Mayfair" were based on the "My Fair Lady" production.

NGG theme is based on "Caddyshack". Caddyshack had a great group of people as cast members.

#37 9 years ago

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Quoted from phishrace:
Back then, everybody supported everything about the war.

Not everybody. Most did. But not everybody. Jeanette Rankin voted against both WW1 and WW2. She was the first woman in Congress. And a pacifist.

The Amish as a whole probably opposed it.

There were some who thought we had no business in Europe, but most supported war with Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

LTG : )™

#38 9 years ago

MPV

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Curious what the first pinball title made after WWII. Was it a Bally?

#39 9 years ago

RPL

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Gay 90's

#40 9 years ago

KJM

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Nugent

#41 9 years ago

MMM

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Old Chicago

-2

#42 9 years ago

???

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They could make a new pinball machine based on AirAsia Flight QZ8501. You'd launch the ball and begin playing a game, but at some point the ball would disappear under the playfield and never come back up.

#43 9 years ago

???

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Coronation (Gottlieb, 1952). "This game was released in anticipation of the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II which took place June 2, 1953."

#44 9 years ago

???

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Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons

#45 9 years ago

DAN

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Lord Howard Hurtz, who the F... are you?

#46 9 years ago

TWP

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Royal Rumble and the upcoming WWE table. Tip toeing the line between fact and fiction, perhaps.

But

#47 9 years ago

MPV

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Wasn't Gottliebs 1954 "Dragonette" based on the show Dragnet? Or vice versa? Just the Bare facts Mam!!

#48 9 years ago

CBZ

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Comet is technically based on a real life rollercoaster, does that count?

#49 9 years ago

ALX

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Gorgar?

#50 9 years ago

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