Pinball arcade at the Desert Trip Festival 2016 Indio, CA

It was definitely an experience as we were invited to setup 20 pinballs machines for their free play arcade at the Desert Trip Festival. There was another company that provided machines but the clients wanted 40 machines total. Before everyone went to the concert each night they would pack the pinball tent.

I brought machines from the 1960s - modern Stern

Met some collectors from around the world as well as people who haven't played pinball in 20 years.

I reset the audits on Family Guy and NBA and they both finished about 1400 plays each for the 2 weekends.

Definitely the games saw some good use.

Just wanted to share some photos. I should have taken pictures when the place was packed each day and it was standing room only!

Also got interviewed and they put a small story in the Orange County Register newspaper.

Thanks for looking

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#5 7 years ago

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Fourbyracer

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Indio, CA

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Very cool! Wish I would have known ahead of time, live less than 5 miles from there.

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Did you go to the concert?

#7 7 years ago

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pinmister

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I heard this festival being called "Geezer Palooza" and I had to chuckle. I actually went on You Tube to watch the highlights of the Rolling Stones concert and I gotta say The Rolling Stones still have it. They are rocking hard for their age, I hope I am still rocking as hard when I get to be their age.
I also want to thank you for doing something like this and putting your pins out there. It is events like this that help the masses see that pinball is still a thing and that it is fun and cool. Thanks-It looked like a great time.

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Other than rubbers breaking and broken drop targets, the machines did alright.

Definitely majority of the crowd appreciated pins. It was funny watching people in their 20's not know how to push the start button to play. It was all brand new to some

#9 7 years ago

fireball2

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I was there Thu-Sun. It was beauty! The Mousin Around was set on 9ball. That was the other guy's machine tho. Great job keeping the machines working under such conditions. Thanks for bringing them.
Here's the article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/desert-732313-trip-indio.html
I was the one who plugged the Big Deal back in and told the dude out front. Had to school a lot of noobs, but they all loved it.
So killer, even if it was a bit hot in there.
Oh yeah. The shows were killer too. The sound was GREAT. It was a lot of fun and the pinball was the icing on the cake.
Check SpewTube for videos. I was at the second weekend and camped four nights.

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surfsidedetail

People thought Big Deal was broken as it has a manual ball eject

Also some couldn't figure out how Blackwater 100 works and you need to shoot up 3 balls to start the game.

The heat was killer especially with tons of people inside.

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Quoted from surfsidedetail:
People thought Big Deal was broken as it has a manual ball eject

Hipsters. lol.

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