"300"
Gottlieb, 1975
8 Ball
Williams, 1966
A-Go-Go
Williams, 1966
Addams Family, The
Bally, 1992
Aladdin's Castle
Bally, 1976
Alligator
Bally, 1969
Aztec
Williams, 1976
Bank-A-Ball
Gottlieb, 1965Quoted from dirkdiggler:Wife is watching a movie called Thank God It's Friday. I see a gottlieb Volley and another couple games at Jeff Goldblums disco
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Gottlieb Big Hit next to the Volley. Got any screencaps of the others? Will have to check this movie out, looks like fun
Quoted from Chrisbee:Name this one.
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I have 2 of these
Quoted from SteveP3:I still can't figure out what's in Donnie Brasco, there are multiple games throughout the movie. Someone mentioned 'Big Game' but it does not appear to be a match at all when referencing the ipdb.
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Watching this movie tonight and noticed pin as well, appears to be same one in Donnie Brasco movie 1997 but not sure if we named it.
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It's a Williams Honey. You can see it a little more clearly in other scenes.
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Just saw this on “Be Water” 30 for 30 Bruce Lee documentary on ESPN.
I have no idea what games they are.
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Ha! Watching it now, just took that same picture!
Quoted from xsvtoys:Ha! Watching it now, just took that same picture!
Funny how I stop down every time I see a pin on TV. I pause the DVR, hit this forum and search to see if it's been posted before, snap a pic and post if it has not, then on with the show.
I watched the Scanners trilogy over the weekend. In Scanners 2, the arcade had numerous pins. Highlighted were Space Invaders, Eight Ball original, and a Gottlieb coin door blowing off.
Quoted from hazmat7719:There is a machine in "Dirty Work" 1998 with Artie Lang and Norm MacDonald. It is in the scene where the bar fight takes place.
"Mazetti's" actually had two pins, a SS Bally Black Jack and a Space Shuttle. Full movie on YouTube. Dumb movie, but man, what a lot of cameos.
Quoted from Waxx:Talladega Nights, never saw this in the background.
Edit: it rotated the photo from my phone. I guess now I know why people’s images are rotated sometimes.
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Posted already:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/38#post-5546093
Quoted from Waxx:Good find, I didn’t see it in the gallery scanning through.
Don't use the image gallery. Use the topic index and sort by keypost summary. Alphabetizes every one in the thread so you can easily see what's there already.
Quoted from o-din:I don't know what it is and it looks to have some kind of sign on it. But the movie is from 1953. Perhaps a baseball themed game?
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It looks kind of like Home Run 1940, but it's hard to tell...
Quoted from ImNotNorm:Pawn Stars again. 1972 Line Drive pin.
The seller paid $800 for it and sold it to the Corey for $3,750.
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That's Steve from Fun Billiards and Gameroom in Mesquite, TX.
Quoted from cheshirefilms:That's Steve from Fun Billiards and Gameroom in Mesquite, TX.
Looks like he bent Corey over on that deal, lol.
Quoted from TopMoose:I was going to guess Chicago Coin Majors, 1939.
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Nope, you're right. The cabinet is a dead giveaway.
Yep, that looks like it! I was searching too new. 40s and up.
I don't think I need to tell most of you what movie that is.
Quoted from pinwiztom:"The Wienie Bunch?"
I think you got your wienies mixed up.
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Now I know Odins' last avatar. Could not figure it out.
I'd happily pay $10 for those backglasses.
I think someone was trying to score some backglasses cheap.
Quoted from dirkdiggler:I'd happily pay $10 for those backglasses.
I think someone was trying to score some backglasses cheap.
It looked like the only one that was in very good condition was the Playball one. the others had flaking, cracking and some bad spray paint toudh-ups.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:It looked like the only one that was in very good condition was the Playball one. the others had flaking, cracking and some bad spray paint toudh-ups.
The episode I need to find is the one where the locker had three quad runners and (drum-roll) a Checkpoint Pinball. They show it but it was totally ignored. 
Quoted from girloveswaffles:The episode I need to find is the one where the locker had three quad runners and (drum-roll) a Checkpoint Pinball. They show it but it was totally ignored.
I remember that one. They were all hot and bothered for the quads. Lol
Quoted from fnosm:The Americans
Season 2 Episode 8
"New Car"
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That episode takes place in 1982 or 83 as I recall, so props to the set designers for avoiding any anachronism with their choices.
But it is weird that there are two Flashes in that lineup.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:The episode I need to find is the one where the locker had three quad runners and (drum-roll) a Checkpoint Pinball. They show it but it was totally ignored.
Found it. Storage Wars S02E16 "Driving Miss Barry"
Turns out the quads we're only for sale and the Pinball wasn't included in the auction. They said it was "pending legal issues" regarding the pinball.
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Not sure about the bowler, but that woodrail is Gottlieb Queen of Diamonds. I recognize it because it has shown up a couple times in The Fugitive (perhaps it's even the same machine)
Quoted from LeChuck:Not sure about the bowler, but that woodrail is Gottlieb Queen of Diamonds. I recognize it because it has shown up a couple times in The Fugitive (perhaps it's even the same machine)
Thank you. I knew I recognized it, but had other things going on at the time to research it. The cash register and juke box also caught my eye. I'm amazed how violent a show like Adam 12 was as every kid I knew at the time watched it. But I guess most shows were and we were already conditioned for it.
The bowler showed up in "The Hustler" starring Paul Newman.
Quoted from o-din:I'm amazed how violent a show like Adam 12 was as every kid I knew at the time watched it. But I guess most shows were and we were already conditioned for it.
No kidding. I caught an old episode of Johnny Sokko where the 10-11 year old kid hero has a handgun and is in a shootout. I was like "Wha? I don't remember that." It would never fly today.
In these shows, somebody is more likely to die of an overdose than be saved.
Watch Alfred Hitchcock's episode "You're Dead" with a young Billy Mumy carrying a loaded handgun all over town when he thinks it's just a toy.
Personally, I prefer the in your face reality of the older shows, than some of the homogenized for children shit they come up with today. Same could be said for pinball.
Quoted from o-din:In these shows, somebody is more likely to die of an overdose than be saved.
Watch Alfred Hitchcock's episode "You're Dead" with a young Billy Mumy carrying a loaded handgun all over town when he thinks it's just a toy.
Personally, I prefer the in your face reality of the older shows, than some of the homogenized for children shit they come up with today. Same could be said for pinball.
Taking the shotgun away from Elmer Fudd in the new Looney Tunes on HBO is a PERFECT example of going too far. He's a HUNTER, for god's sake. It's not like he's hunting with an AR-15.
So Elmer's shotgun is bad, but dynamite in the mouth is ok? It makes no sense. Same thing with the ET re-edit where they took the guns away from the government guys and it was ridiculous, so they put them back.
Quoted from Wise_Guy:boogie nights had a few. What where they dunno
Yes watched it last night in bed but did not get pics
Quoted from ImNotNorm:Just watched "Dirty Work" with Norm MacDonald and Artie Lang.
1st scene is at Mazetti's bar has a Space Shuttle on the right. And looks like a black jack on the left?
2nd scene is at the movie theater but I can't tell what pin. Anybody?
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Creature From the Black Lagoon.
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