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Pinball in movies or TV shows? Name a game you have seen in the background?

By Jackontherocks

11 years ago


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#3451 2 years ago

Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver: The NCAA (An old episode from 2015)

X-Men in a game room at Alabama's football facility.

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#3452 2 years ago

Endgame S1:E5 "Gold Rush"

There is a Dialed In and a Space Mission in a guy's house.

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#3453 2 years ago

My Three Sons S1:E16 "Bub Leaves Home". William Frawley, the guy who played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy, goes into a bus station and plays Nags (1960). Includes a clip of the rotating center playfield. Google the episode and watch it, the pinball machine is near the beginning.

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#3454 2 years ago

The Buddy Holly Story (1978). Busey was terrific and did all his own vocals.

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#3455 2 years ago
Quoted from Manhattan:

The Buddy Holly Story (1978). Busey was terrific and did all his own vocals.
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Looks like a 1971 Williams Swinger in a movie set in the 50's.

#3456 2 years ago

They have Medieval Madness in Silent Hill (check out the 1:50 mark):

#3457 2 years ago
Quoted from jonesjb:

They have Medieval Madness in Silent Hill (check out the 1:50 mark):

Or for those not wanting to have to scroll through the video, here is the time link:

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#3458 2 years ago

Not a pinball, but a pinball arcade sign. They never did show it though.

The movie was released just prior to the Rush song.

Dirty O'Neil (1974)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155671

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#3459 2 years ago

Mannix, TV show season 7 episode 13. Not sure what game

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#3460 2 years ago
Quoted from kingpinman:

Mannix, TV show season 7 episode 13. Not sure what game
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Either Monte Carlo (4 player) or Odds & Evens (Single player)

#3461 2 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

From the new March 7 episode of American Dad. Klaus's Secret Lair.

That pin in the American Dad episode is most definitely based on Elvira HoH.

#3462 2 years ago

Early in Ghostbusters Afterlife, there is a Fireball Home Pinball in the Spinners diner. It's hard to see because it's not in focus, but you can just make it out in the 4K version.

#3463 2 years ago
Quoted from Jackontherocks:

Forensic files older episode #216 Or so had a Jurassic Park in bar

Quoted from Ceckitti:

Saw a Data East Jurassic park on an episode of Forensic files the other night. Didn’t have phone on me for picture. Will try to grab one and post it.

Forensic Files - "Four on the Floor" S10E20 (episode 235)

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#3464 2 years ago

sorry if this has been posted... My brother is a big nascar fan & sent this to me

#3465 2 years ago
Quoted from ImNotNorm:

Forensic Files - "Four on the Floor" S10E20 (episode 235)
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Just watched another episode and they had same DE JP for a bar scene. So it looks like they use that bar for multiple scenes/episodes throughout the series.

#3466 2 years ago

Vegas, TV show, S3 E13, Backlash.
Arcade Scene, fremont street, Las Vegas

Blue Max
Old Chicago
Hollywood
Don't know the one next to Hollywood

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#3467 2 years ago

one on far left might be BLY Knockout
as it looks like boxing gloves on the front of the CAB

#3468 2 years ago
Quoted from kingpinman:

Don't know the one next to Hollywood

I would say Top Score (Gottlieb, 1975) except the bottom front of the backbox frame doesn't match up.

Quoted from pinwiztom:

one on far left might be BLY Knockout
as it looks like boxing gloves on the front of the CAB

Yes, Knockout (Bally, 1975).

#3469 2 years ago

Beautiful Buckaroo in 70s TV show "The Pretenders" starring Roger Moore of James Bond fame and Tony Curtis (not in this photo)
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#3470 2 years ago
Quoted from mbeardsley:

There is a pinball machine in the new "Ghostbusters - Afterlife" film. I think it was a Fireball Home version, but without being able to stop the film and see, I can't be certain.

Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Early in Ghostbusters Afterlife, there is a Fireball Home Pinball in the Spinners diner. It's hard to see because it's not in focus, but you can just make it out in the 4K version.

Yes, Fireball Home Pinball - screenshot below

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#3471 2 years ago

Three german movies featuring GOTTLIEB-machines...

* TV-Series ST. PAULI LANDUNGSBRÜCKEN - Episode "Immer Lustig" from 1979 - Actor Gilbert-Andre Ehoulan with SUPER SOCCER and ROYAL FLUSH in Hamburg.

* DAS MÄDCHEN VON GEGENÜBER from 1977 with FAST DRAW in a restaurant in Essen (excuse the very bad picture-quality - it's from a VHS-Tape)

* KEIN BUND FÜRS LEBEN, filmed in 2006. JUNGLE QUEEN in the private room of a young couple in Munich. Actress Maren Scheel.

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#3472 2 years ago

I'm 16 min into this B horror movie "Clowns in the Woods" and had to share this, I'm not sure the game. I wish you would see newer or well known titles in movies like in "Kickass 2"IMG_1060 (resized).jpgIMG_1060 (resized).jpg

#3473 2 years ago
Quoted from Donnyman:

I'm 16 min into this B horror movie "Clowns in the Woods" and had to share this, I'm not sure the game. I wish you would see newer or well known titles in movies like in "Kickass 2"[quoted image]

1978 Bally Lost World

#3474 2 years ago

How big was it? A Fish Tales Pinball at the beginning of the Netflix movie, "The Bubble".

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#3475 2 years ago

Thanks, the movie wasn't that great as predicted. I love "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" and other

Quoted from Mathazar:

1978 Bally Lost World

#3476 2 years ago

There are 2 in Metal Lords currently playing on Netflix, Metallica and I think AC/DC. Sorry didn’t get a pic. They are in the main character’s house and are visible in a number of scenes, with one pretty good closeup.

#3477 2 years ago

WWF RAW - June 18th, 2001. (S09E25)

Kane smashes the glass of a claw machine and there appears to be a Star Wars Phantom Menace pinball behind him.

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#3478 2 years ago
Quoted from Aphex:

sorry if this has been posted... My brother is a big nascar fan & sent this to me

Can you screencap the part with the pinball machines? Linking video is bad because if the video is removed later, it breaks the link and picture in the video in this thread.

#3479 2 years ago
Quoted from Mardi-Gras-Man:

Three german movies featuring GOTTLIEB-machines...
* TV-Series ST. PAULI LANDUNGSBRÜCKEN - Episode "Immer Lustig" from 1979 - Actor Gilbert-Andre Ehoulan with SUPER SOCCER and ROYAL FLUSH in Hamburg.
* DAS MÄDCHEN VON GEGENÜBER from 1977 with FAST DRAW in a restaurant in Essen (excuse the very bad picture-quality - it's from a VHS-Tape)
* KEIN BUND FÜRS LEBEN, filmed in 2006. JUNGLE QUEEN in the private room of a young couple in Munich. Actress Maren Scheel.
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You can't gang multiple shows into one post because only one can be entered in the index. One show per post.

#3480 2 years ago

TV Show, Collectors Call S3 E3, Charlie's Angel's

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#3481 2 years ago

Movie, The Asphalt Jungle 1950, Diner scene.

No idea what game.

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#3482 2 years ago

Netflix…METAL LORDS
Iron Maiden
Metallica

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#3483 2 years ago
Quoted from kingpinman:

Movie, The Asphalt Jungle 1950, Diner scene.
No idea what game.
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Interesting! cait001 would probably know that woodrail..

#3484 2 years ago

TV Movie, Nash Bridges The Movie, 2021

First fight scene in the movie, Shot on location at the
Musee Mecanique Arcade in S.F. Pier 45.

Unknown Pinball, Good shot of cabinet art.

A bunch of other arcade games in the fight sequence.

A Very cool place to visit.

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#3485 2 years ago
Quoted from kingpinman:

TV Movie, Nash Bridges The Movie, 2021
First fight scene in the movie, Shot on location at the
Musee Mecanique Arcade in S.F. Pier 45.
Unknown Pinball, Good shot of cabinet art.
A bunch of other arcade games in the fight sequence.
A Very cool place to visit.
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Looks like a Fun Land or Fun Park.

#3486 2 years ago

Pinball map says the museum has a Fun Land and the side art matches.

Definitely a thumbs up to visiting though. Lots of cool old coin op things there.

#3487 2 years ago

Saw some games in a fitbit ad on youtube, not sure what they are. Maybe rethemed for the ad?

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#3488 2 years ago

The guy who is next to the closest guy is at a Ms. Pacman game I know.

#3489 2 years ago
Quoted from snowy_owl:

Saw some games in a fitbit ad on youtube, not sure what they are. Maybe rethemed for the ad?
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All 4 pins are definitely rethemed a bit. Based on the display/speaker height, they all seem to be Spike era Stern pins.

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#3491 2 years ago

I saw this on a Perry Mason from me-tv the other day. The episode was released on Nov 4, 1964 as 'The Case of the Bullied Bowler'. I don't know the name of the machine. Maybe someone does? The setting is a bowling alley. The one thing that struck me is that bowling alleys seldom have only one machine - usually a bank of them. So they economized a little on setting up this scene.

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#3492 2 years ago
Quoted from algernon:

I saw this on a Perry Mason from me-tv the other day. The episode was released on Nov 4, 1964 as 'The Case of the Bullied Bowler'. I don't know the name of the machine. Maybe someone does? The setting is a bowling alley. The one thing that struck me is that bowling alleys seldom have only one machine - usually a bank of them. So they economized a little on setting up this scene.
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San Francisco (Williams 1964).

#3493 2 years ago

This should be in the you know you’re old when” thread! Lol!

Quoted from algernon:I saw this on a Perry Mason from me-tv the other day. The episode was released on Nov 4, 1964 as 'The Case of the Bullied Bowler'. I don't know the name of the machine. Maybe someone does? The setting is a bowling alley. The one thing that struck me is that bowling alleys seldom have only one machine - usually a bank of them. So they economized a little on setting up this scene.
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#3494 2 years ago
Quoted from Zartan:

This should be in the you know you’re old when” thread! Lol!

Also in this episode the main conflict centered on whether bowling corrupted the morals of our youth and the pinball machine would show just how dangerous a bowling alley could be! The prop stuck with Perry's California setting too - a nice touch. Now, in all fairness, the Summer of Love was just three years away so maybe the antagonist (who lost the battle in the episode )was right about that bowling alley after all! <g>.

#3495 2 years ago

Here is another Perry Mason episode. The pinball machine is in the bar where the lady villain will conspire to wiretap her boss. But what machine?

The Case of the Telltale Tap
Episode aired Feb 4, 1965

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#3496 2 years ago
Quoted from algernon:

Here is another Perry Mason episode. The pinball machine is in the bar where the lady villain will conspire to wiretap her boss. But what machine?
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Better yet, what's the episode title so I can look up the season and episode number for the index.

#3497 2 years ago

Here it is:
The Case of the Telltale Tap
Episode aired Feb 4, 1965.

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#3498 2 years ago
Quoted from algernon:

Here it is:
The Case of the Telltale Tap
Episode aired Feb 4, 1965.[quoted image]

Got it, thanks. Season 8 Episode 18 (this is from olden times when scripted series seasons were 30 or even 40 episodes long, not the 8-10 we get on streaming)

#3499 2 years ago
Quoted from algernon:

Here is another Perry Mason episode. The pinball machine is in the bar where the lady villain will conspire to wiretap her boss. But what machine?
The Case of the Telltale Tap
Episode aired Feb 4, 1965
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Gottlieb Gigi (1963)

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#3500 2 years ago

Square Pegs S1:E19 “No Joy in Weemawee” -aired 2/21/1983

1974 Williams Skylab

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