just saw something recently with dialed in and another game in background. however can't recall.. Likely DC universe streaming Titans or Doom Patrol as was binging those during free trial
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I apologize for humblebragging, BUT I just had a surreal experience.
Last weekend I took the game me and my kids restored last year, to the Louisville Arcade Expo. It was filmed by a local news crew and we gave a short interview which aired on the Louisville CBS affiliate last Sunday night. Cute!
Then yesterday (Thursday) I was on Skynet News and in the "personalized algorithm" section (which I mostly ignore so as not to let them figure anything else out) a thumbnail caught my eye for looking oddly familiar. Except it was in Omaha. But then on refresh it went to Boston. And I've been told NY State and California.... so oooooops, it seems MY pinball machine was put on national TV news syndication. Yay?!
Despite this, I won't let it go to my head. Although I guess I can't fix that scratch in the backglass now because it PROVES my machine is the same "as seen on TV" 
Fort Worth, TX
Wild Things during the credits, someone will have to ID for me.
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Added over 4 years ago: Olympics (1975)
Quoted from goingincirclez:I apologize for humblebragging, BUT I just had a surreal experience.
Not a humblebrag at all. I only loosely followed your restore thread and it was great to see your progress and even better to see you guys interviewed with your Bad Cats.
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Wild Things during the credits, someone will have to ID for me.
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Chicago Coin "Olympics" (1975)
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1711&picno=35289
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Chicago Coin "Olympics" (1975)
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1711&picno=35289
Nailed it! Thanks.
Quoted from gliebig:Forged in Fire episode this Wed, they are making knives out of a pinball machine.
what sell is in there to harden? Besides Leg bolts and plungers
Calgary, AB
Quoted from bob_e:what sell is in there to harden? Besides Leg bolts and plungers
Got me. I guess just the legs. Seems odd.
Quoted from algrande:The Guest House
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Going out on a limb, but I'm going to say that was a Chicago Coin / Stern "Stampede"
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=5232&picno=25130
Quoted from gliebig:Got me. I guess just the legs. Seems odd.
i have the show being recorded, I drilled and tapped two balls for tables I made. I Needed carbide to cut a flat to drill into. even the cores were tough
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Does this count? Almost hate to post it, but here is a pin in Michael Jackson's arcade at Neverland filmed during the police raid. I need some help with ID, definitely a DMD game.
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Do you think he had the Moonwalker game in there?
Quoted from bob_e:i have the show being recorded, I drilled and tapped two balls for tables I made. I Needed carbide to cut a flat to drill into. even the cores were tough
I forgot to watch it.
Quoted from gliebig:I forgot to watch it.
I saw part of it. the game was "stocked" with flat steel in the playfield area and there was W-1 round stock inside the legs.
The cabinet of the game was repainted white.
I just saw Rick Alverson's new film THE MOUNTAIN. Jeff Goldblum plays a doctor in the 1950s that performs lobotomies at mental institutions. There's a scene where he's playing a 1947 Ballyhoo with a
Coed next to it. Makes me happy when production designers / set decorators actually take the time to find era-appropriate games.
Watching Carnival of Souls(1962), the Rifftrax version, noticed this in the background. It shows up halfway to the end of movie. This is the only picture I could find. In the colorized version I watched it was mostly green. You only see this end of the machine. Trippy flick. 
carnivalofsoulspin (resized).jpgPam Grier’s sons are playing Harlem Globetrotters when she finds them skipping school in Mars Attacks!
Quoted from MacroMegas:Pam Grier’s sons are playing Harlem Globetrotters when she finds them skipping school in Mars Attacks!
Too bad they weren’t playing Attack from Mars - that irony would have been quite the Easter Egg for us pinheads.
Quoted from gmanrulz46:the movie with jody foster had pinballs and arcade machines.. the accused. dont remember the games though...
Yikes.. not pinball’s Finest hour
Quoted from gmanrulz46:the movie with jody foster had pinballs and arcade machines.. the accused. dont remember the games though...
The game in the notorious scene was a Space Invaders, but re-themed by the production with a basketball theme. Can't imagine Bally (or Atari) would ever want their license seen in that setting.
Quoted from bob_e:I saw part of it. the game was "stocked" with flat steel in the playfield area and there was W-1 round stock inside the legs.
The cabinet of the game was repainted white.
They used a Gottlieb Sunset 1962 which has the 5 captive balls in the center of the playfield like the much hated Williams Darling/Jubliee
Playfield platics were replaced with bars of 5160 steel
Legs were cut and then W-1 steel welded in them.
The game itself took no real damage.
Quoted from TopMoose:The game in the notorious scene was a Space Invaders, but re-themed by the production with a basketball theme. Can't imagine Bally (or Atari) would ever want their license seen in that setting.
Strange that same game keeps showing up in so many movies
Quoted from Pablito350:Watching Carnival of Souls(1962), the Rifftrax version, noticed this in the background. It shows up halfway to the end of movie. This is the only picture I could find. In the colorized version I watched it was mostly green. You only see this end of the machine. Trippy flick.
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That is a great film. Only seen it once or twice. But, its worth the watch. I just want to rewatch the classics with a girlfriend... Sadly the last few I had hated horror movies. That's almost as big of a no no for me as if they hated pinball.
Woh woh, well here's an obscure one(more like super obscure)that I noticed about three or four years ago. In what is probably the only time anime is ever going to be mentioned in this thread(I can think of maybe one other instance, but it's more of a reference to the directors other work and the machine's not even real). And what is also probably the only time on the internet this has ever even been pointed out about this particular show before. I give you an anime from the mid to late 80s that features a scene in an arcade with no less then four references to real pinball machines in the background. I'll let you guys figure them out yourself. The one on the left is obviously the easiest. With the one on the right taking me a good half an hour to figure and then feeling stupid when I finally did get it. Bonus points if you can name the show(f-ing impossible).
The guy who drew this background was probably having a good time (or more likely just working off a reference photo). Lawyers probably would have had something funny to say about this too if it was pointed out to them back then.
orange (resized).jpgQuoted from Diospinball:That is a great film. Only seen it once or twice. But, its worth the watch. I just want to rewatch the classics with a girlfriend... Sadly the last few I had hated horror movies. That's almost as big of a no no for me as if they hated pinball.
I'm no fan of gore filled horror (unless it's over the top and so bad/it's funny type). I really appreciate the atmospheric suspense type movies, which this definitely is. I love Hitchcock's work and you can certainly see this movie's influence on other films like Suspiria. I go out of my way around Halloween time to find movies like this. They certainly stick with you. In this case, I've been binge watching MST & Rifftrax and it came on.
Quoted from Link_Standard:Woh woh, well here's an obscure one(more like super obscure)that I noticed about three or four years ago. In what is probably the only time anime is ever going to be mentioned in this thread(I can think of maybe one other instance, but it's more of a reference to the directors other work and the machine's not even real). And what is also probably the only time on the internet this has ever even been pointed out about this particular show before. I give you an anime from the mid to late 80s that features a scene in an arcade with no less then four references to real pinball machines in the background. I'll let you guys figure them out yourself. The one on the left is obviously the easiest. With the one on the right taking me a good half an hour to figure and then feeling stupid when I finally did get it. Bonus points if you can name the show(f-ing impossible).
The guy who drew this background was probably having a good time (or more likely just working off a reference photo). Lawyers probably would have had something funny to say about this too if it was pointed out to them back then.
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Paragon
Mars God of War
Flash Gordon
Firepower
The show? I think the subtitles says it all. But it looks vaguely familiar.
I have not seen a post about the pinball in Captain Marvel. A Space Invaders sitting in an alien spaceship? Nice!
Quoted from ThatOneDude:I have not seen a post about the pinball in Captain Marvel. A Space Invaders sitting in an alien spaceship? Nice!
couple pages back
Quoted from Pablito350:I'm no fan of gore filled horror (unless it's over the top and so bad/it's funny type). I really appreciate the atmospheric suspense type movies, which this definitely is. I love Hitchcock's work and you can certainly see this movie's influence on other films like Suspiria. I go out of my way around Halloween time to find movies like this. They certainly stick with you. In this case, I've been binge watching MST & Rifftrax and it came on.
I hate goreno. I hate it. Its morally reprehensible. And a good horror movie at its core is still a morality tale. Friday the 13th, Halloween. Can make the case that they're showing what teen sex and drug use does. Gets ya killed by a maniac with a huge knife... Also the Freddy movies are a bit old testament sins of the father. I'm just lightly touching on the subject here... But, there is more to it.
But, I find films like saw and hostel to lack morals and suspense. And just exist to shock. I love gore. Big fan of Tom Savini. In my youth I wanted to be a horror fx artist... But, the medium is dying and basically dead. So I love monster and horror effects and to a certain extent GORE! But, it has to have its context. And just butchery for the sake of it. No thank you.
If you like those films great. More power to you. You can watch them all you want. I will not.
I love the classic Hammer films as peter cushing and mr Lee(a man who loved heavy metal btw) are two of my favorite actors of all time. I own most of their work. And all of Hammer's classics. I'm excited that Quartermass and the Pit is coming to bluray. Can't wait. As I only got a bad bootleg dvd of it.
Might want to check out Horror Hotel if you never saw it. Just great atmosphere in that film. But, truth be told one of my all time favorite horror movies with horror in the title is Horror Express. Film is a gonzo horror film that feels like a hammer film on steroids. Just a great film.
Quoted from s1500:The latest season of Arrested Development has 3 reskinned machines. Here's one of them. They put in the EM sound effects even when nobody is playing them.
No idea what the "Wrench" is. Not sure if it's a reference to something within AD.
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WHOA! I am literally watching this right now. "Wrench" is a show-within-the-show sitcom about a detective named "Frank Wrench" (played by Rob Corddry) who has a huge weapon; it's a parody of the awesome show "Sledgehammer" from the 80s
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:WHOA! I am literally watching this right now. "Wrench" is a show-within-the-show sitcom about a detective named "Frank Wrench" (played by Rob Corddry) who has a huge weapon; it's a parody of the awesome show "Sledgehammer" from the 80s
I swear they switched machines around in the episodes.
I'm also convinced Flight 2000 is one of a handful machines the prop department of tv shows have.
Watched a movie called "overdrive" last night on hulu...lo and behold...a gottlieb cue ball wizard was in the background of the guys bachelor pad
Quoted from s1500:I swear they switched machines around in the episodes.
I'm also convinced Flight 2000 is one of a handful machines the prop department of tv shows have.
Yep.. isn’t there a Flight 2000 in The Flash as well?
1 week later
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:The new AMC Series, "Lodge 49", has an Aztec dominantly displayed and another pinball game "Out of Order" covered in the tavern room. The mystery cabinet is clearly visible (only backbox is covered with a sheet), but I would have to research which game, as it looks original.
I sold those 2 games to them back in 11/2017. I could tell you what the other game is but I'd have to kill you. 
It does work but they "finally fix it" in a future episode.
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Couple movies I've seen recently. Not sure if they've been mentioned already?
The Toy with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason. The kid has a Volcano, Haunted House and a Mars God of War in his bedroom 
The Rose with Bette Midler. Towards the end of the movie she stops at a honky tonk bar and there's a unidentified pin in the background.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:The Rose with Bette Midler. Towards the end of the movie she stops at a honky tonk bar and there's a unidentified pin in the background.
Big Brave. http://www.pingeek.com/film/film3.htm
Quoted from d0n:I could tell you what the other game is but I'd have to kill you. It does work but they "finally fix it" in a future episode.
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Fan-Tas-Tic and please don’t kill me!
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