(Topic ID: 26437)

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

By Jackontherocks

11 years ago


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#3501 2 years ago

I think some thought went into this scene since the pinball backglass shows a lady touching a sad clown and that parallels the plot in the episode. But on TV nobody would have seen this detail! Here is an CGI enhancement of the scene.

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#3502 2 years ago

Movie, Rock "N" Roll High School (79).

Back stage after the show.

Game Unknown
Shot of cabinet, Backglass has issues.

Unknown arcade game.

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#3503 2 years ago

Here it is:

https://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1722 Op-Pop-Pop - check out the cabinet side art and compare .

Quoted from kingpinman:

Movie, Rock "N" Roll High School (79).
Back stage after the show.
Game Unknown
Shot of cabinet, Backglass has issues.
Unknown arcade game.
[quoted image][quoted image]

#3504 2 years ago
Quoted from kingpinman:

Movie, Rock "N" Roll High School (79).
Back stage after the show.
Game Unknown
Shot of cabinet, Backglass has issues.
Unknown arcade game.
[quoted image][quoted image]

Damn. Haven't seen that movie in years. Rock rock rock rock rock in roll high school. I don't give a damn about history...

#3505 2 years ago

How it might have (sorta) looked without the obstruction. Perhaps they realized the image would be too busy if they didn't cover it. And only realized it after they set up the scene for filming. Here is a modified image.

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#3506 2 years ago

TV Series, Adam Eats the 80s, S1 E9, History Channel

Ghostbusters
Stern Star wars, What Version?

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#3507 2 years ago
Quoted from kingpinman:

Ghostbusters
Stern Star wars, What Version?
[quoted image]

Both games are Pro editions.

#3508 2 years ago

Home Economics Animatronic Gorilla episode

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#3509 2 years ago

TV Series, Adam Eats the 80s, S1 E1, History Channel

81 Stern, Catacomb
81 Stern, Split Second

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#3510 2 years ago
Quoted from kingpinman:

TV Series, Adam Eats the 80s, S1 E1, History Channel
81 Stern, Catacomb
81 Stern, Split Second
[quoted image]

Is that a young Adolph Hitler enjoying pinball!

#3514 2 years ago

Can't believe this one slipped past us this long: There's a Firepower and a perennially out of order Pinbot at the grocery store in the 2010 sitcom Raising Hope. They are visible almost every episode, this shot is S1E8. I'm still working on season one, and will report back if they change or Pinbot gets fixed!

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Welp, I just searched and they have been mentioned, just never made it into the keypost list.

#3515 2 years ago

music video not a show but this one has a LOT of games in the background

#3516 2 years ago
Quoted from DanQverymuch:

Can't believe this one slipped past us this long: There's a Firepower and a perenially out of order Pinbot at the grocery store in the 2010 sitcom Raising Hope. They are visible almost every episode, this shot is S1E8. I'm still working on season one, and will report back if they change or Pinbot gets fixed!
[quoted image]
Welp, I just searched and they have been mentioned, just never made it into the keypost list.

You're the first post to follow the thread rules and actually post a screenshot. One of the prior posts mentioning it is a perfect demonstration of why video links aren't allowed - the youtube link in that post is broken now.

Screenshots are hosted locally on pinside and will not break when remote content is taken down or moved.

Yours is in the keypost index now.

#3517 2 years ago
Quoted from GolfKill:

music video not a show but this one has a LOT of games in the background

Post a screenshot and I'll add it to the index. Remote video links are unreliable.

#3518 2 years ago

More pins in Raising Hope: here's a Whitewater and a Fish Tales at an arcade in S1E15.

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#3519 2 years ago

Malcolm in the middle! Cactus Canyon!

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#3520 2 years ago
Quoted from Zartan:

Malcolm in the middle! Cactus Canyon!
[quoted image]

Someone else beat you by 3 years. Already in the index.

#3521 2 years ago
Quoted from PinMonk:

Someone else beat you by 3 years. Already in the index.

They also already identified the one next to it, a NGG.

#3522 2 years ago
Quoted from DanQverymuch:

More pins in Raising Hope: here's a Whitewater and a Fish Tales at an arcade in S1E15.
[quoted image]

So strange they censor out the Williams logo in Fish tales (or SH_ALES) but left the W alone on Whitewater.

#3523 2 years ago

My apologies I saw it and got excited!

#3524 2 years ago
Quoted from Zartan:

My apologies I saw it and got excited!

Understandable, we've all been there. Just change your flow from "get excited -> post" to "get excited -> check topic index -> if not there, post"

#3525 2 years ago
Quoted from Zartan:

My apologies I saw it and got excited!

Once I started posting in this thread my wife now is on the look out too and when she shouts out from the other room "Pinball!" I know she found one. I think she is disappointed if I have to tell her that one has already been posted

#3526 2 years ago
Quoted from ReadyPO:

Once I started posting in this thread my wife now is on the look out too and when she shouts out from the other room "Pinball!" I know she found one. I think she is disappointed if I have to tell her that one has already been posted

Ha! Same thing happens here.

She's bummed when it's already been posted. Too funny.

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#3527 2 years ago

Spotted a few on a episode of pickers. Return of the impala

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#3528 2 years ago
Quoted from dirkdiggler:

Spotted a few on a episode of pickers. Return of the impala
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Wait! in the last picture: Is that an Orbitor 1?!?

Also see a Williams Penny pitch (or Ringer).

#3529 2 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Wait! in the last picture: Is that an Orbitor 1?!?
Also see a Williams Penny pitch (or Ringer).

A Ringer, a Williams Hot Line, a CC Hollywood, A Williams Palooka.

The Stern I can't say.

#3530 2 years ago
Quoted from PinMonk:

Yours is in the keypost index now.

Cool, but didja miss how I found different pins in a different episode?

Quoted from DanQverymuch:

More pins in Raising Hope: here's a Whitewater and a Fish Tales at an arcade in S1E15.

I was happy, though, to see they did "fix" the Pinbot, which has traded places with Firepower, as of S1E19! Still pretty dark, though.
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#3531 2 years ago

Evel Knievel from the 1977 movie Star Babe...

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#3532 1 year ago

This never was uploaded with the Captain Marvel movie from three years ago and thought it might be nice to have in the database. Towards the end of the movie in the Kree science space station used by Mar-vell (the scientist, not Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel is the heroine pictured below. ).

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#3533 1 year ago
Quoted from gdonovan:

A Ringer, a Williams Hot Line, a CC Hollywood, A Williams Palooka.
The Stern I can't say.

It's either Orbitor 1 or Dragon Fist. Orbitor 1 has a black cabinet with silver stripe and logo, Dragon fist is Dark Blue with white stripes and logo.
If we could see where the shooter was, it would have been more obvious if it was Orbitor 1 or not.

#3534 1 year ago
Quoted from pinball2020:

This never was uploaded with the Captain Marvel movie from three years ago and thought it might be nice to have in the database. Towards the end of the movie in the Kree science space station used by Mar-vell (the scientist, not Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel is the heroine pictured below. ).
[quoted image]

The "Alien" back-glass isn't original, or has been modified.

#3535 1 year ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

The "Alien" back-glass isn't original, or has been modified.

That's hilarious. I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out. They made its claw hands into more of crab pincers and playschool'd its face. Weird.

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#3536 1 year ago

Maybe to foreshadow the flerken in the movie.
And to avoid a lawsuit from owners of Alien license at the time that it was too similar . Had Disney bought Fox out yet? That was 2019 when the merger took place. Captain Marvel just was coming out in 2019 so filmed prior to Disney owning the Alien assets or whatever they own/license from the purchase.

Quoted from PinMonk:

That's hilarious. I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out. They made its claw hands into more of crab pincers and playschool'd its face. Weird.
[quoted image]

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#3537 1 year ago

Chicago Coin’s Thing and another Woodrail in Written On The Wind (1956)

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#3538 1 year ago

Couple more on a best of episode of pickers. New Orleans 2009

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#3539 1 year ago

Edit: nevermind, already claimed!

#3540 1 year ago
Quoted from SkyKing2301:

Checked here, a few others mentioned it but no photos, so I guess I get to claim it:

Post #3470

Quoted from ReadyPO:

Yes, Fireball Home Pinball - screenshot below

#3541 1 year ago

Caught an episode of Kolchack: The Night Stalker on Me TV last night that started in an arcade (episode 6: Firefall).
Several pins and lots of EM games in it:
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Confirmed that Swinger and Four Square in it as well as a Williams Gridiron pitch and bat. There's another pin next to the Foursquare (a Williams) that I can't identify.

#3542 1 year ago
Quoted from PinMonk:

Understandable, we've all been there. Just change your flow from "get excited -> post" to "get excited -> check topic index -> if not there, post"

Well, ideally check the key posts first, but sometimes you can sneak a duplicate past the bouncers like someone did a year ago, getting a key post for the pins in "Grown Ups" despite it being already keyposted three years ago.

Not saying you should! But I just happened to discover the dupe when checking whether I was first, as I just spotted the pins in the movie myself, after David Spade mentioned it in his new special and I realized I had never seen it.

(I wasn't going to say anything, but that recent post gave me the perfect opening.)

#3543 1 year ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

There's another pin next to the Foursquare (a Williams) that I can't identify.

Williams Travel Time?

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#3544 1 year ago
Quoted from DanQverymuch:

Well, ideally check the key posts first, but sometimes you can sneak a duplicate past the bouncers like someone did a year ago, getting a key post for the pins in "Grown Ups" despite it being already keyposted three years ago.
Not saying you should! But I just happened to discover the dupe when checking whether I was first, as I just spotted the pins in the movie myself, after David Spade mentioned it in his new special and I realized I had never seen it.
(I wasn't going to say anything, but that recent post gave me the perfect opening.)

If you see a duplicate in the index, let me know and I'll take out the newer one. SOMETIMES if the older one has a really crappy screen grab and the newer dup has a pristine one, I'll delete the crappier one. But I try to keep the oldest one as the one that gets keyposted.

#3545 1 year ago

Has anyone started watching “High score” yet?!

#3548 1 year ago

Beerfest.

Is this a fictional backglass? I can't find a pin called Shark's Corner.

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#3549 1 year ago

Looks to be a modified 1966 Williams 8 Ball.

#3550 1 year ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Caught an episode of Kolchack: The Night Stalker on Me TV last night that started in an arcade (episode 6: Firefall).
Several pins and lots of EM games in it:
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More are seen at the forty minute mark:[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]
Confirmed that Swinger and Four Square in it as well as a Williams Gridiron pitch and bat. There's another pin next to the Foursquare (a Williams) that I can't identify.

I saw that episode and the pinball machines. I think I said something about it in an earlier post about year ago or so. Isn't that the one where he burns the place down with all those pins inside! That is a horror story!!!

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