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

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11 years ago


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#3951 1 year ago

Just found a TNA in this. The back glass is a little different but it's definitely TNA. At about 51:30 in the movie they have chimes dubbed in while it's being played lol.

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#3952 1 year ago

Has the indexing of pins for this thread been stopped?

#3953 1 year ago

This fantasy football show NFL on NBC with Matthew Berry heavily features a Popeye. Kind of a weird choice IMO.

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#3954 1 year ago
Quoted from ImNotNorm:

Has the indexing of pins for this thread been stopped?

Yeah
I think the fella doing it previously (on a regular basis)
probably got busy doing something more rewarding.

Post #3769 was last post that was added to key index about 3 months ago

#3955 1 year ago

Italian-British movie "Deadly Sweet" , alternate Titles "I Am What I Am" or "The Girl from Carnaby-Street" - italian title "Col cuore in gola" - german titles "Ich bin wie ich bin" and "Das Mädchen aus der Carnaby Street" from 1967.

Pictures 1,2,3 - Williams - 8 BALL - "MAGIC CITY" - HOT LINE or BIG STRIKE
Pictures 4,5 - Bally - GAY CRUISE - Gottlieb's CENTRAL PARK - Williams FULL HOUSE - Gottlieb's BANK-A-BALL - Bally BAZAAR
Picture 6 - the same Williams 8 BALL as above, seen from the outside.

Filmed on Location in London near Piccadilly-Circus in the Summer of 1967.

Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin.
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#3956 1 year ago

I just noticed that so far no one put this well-known pic of STEVE McQUEEN, playing a 1952 Gottlieb's SKILL POOL, into this toppic...
It's from the episode "HUMAN INTEREST STORY" of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, aired in 1959.
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Some Woodrails and a Bowlingmachine can be seen in another HITCHCOCK PRESENTS-Episode, "Appointment at 11" from 1959.

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#3957 1 year ago

On Young Sheldon tonite.works.
S6 E7
Batting Champ
At comic book store where his sister eorks.

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#3958 1 year ago
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#3959 1 year ago
Quoted from fuseholder:

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#3960 1 year ago
Quoted from fuseholder:

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Blue Chip on the far right, far left is clearly a Gottlieb single player wedgehead, 4 square I think..

#3961 1 year ago

Walking Dead and Avatar on a
Episode of Home Alone on discovery+S1E1

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#3962 1 year ago
Quoted from Mardi-Gras-Man:

STRANGE DAYS, filmed in 1994, with ELVIRA and PIN-BOT.
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Outstanding movie!!!

#3963 1 year ago
Quoted from gdonovan:

Blue Chip on the far right, far left is clearly a Gottlieb single player wedgehead, 4 square I think..

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#3964 1 year ago
Quoted from mooch:

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https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/odds-amp-evens

Odds & Evens

Edit- Monte Carlo

#3965 1 year ago

Not really, it is a 4 player Monte Carlo.

#3966 1 year ago
Quoted from pinwiztom:

Not really, it is a 4 player Monte Carlo.

I should have caught the extra score reels!

#3967 1 year ago
Quoted from gdonovan:

Blue Chip on the far right, far left is clearly a Gottlieb single player wedgehead, 4 square I think..

Yes. That Gottlieb is a Four Square:
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#3968 1 year ago

A Bronx Tale (1993)

Mentioned 9 years ago but no pictures.

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#3969 1 year ago

EM adult themed game seen in the international horror/thriller Born for Hell, filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland 1976.
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#3970 1 year ago

French movie "Les 7 Peches Capitaux" from 1961

Gottlieb's FALSTAFF in a Cafe in Paris.

Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Laurent Terzieff.

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#3971 1 year ago
Quoted from sunnRAT:

EM adult themed game seen in the international horror/thriller Born for Hell, filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland 1976.
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https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/9#post-3031320

#3972 1 year ago

Saw this guy playing pinball on a eye medication commercial. Can't remember the name of the medication

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#3973 1 year ago
Quoted from dirkdiggler:

Saw this guy playing pinball on a eye medication commercial. Can't remember the name of the medication
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Quoted from ImNotNorm:

Specsavers commercial. (2022)
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YouTube link

^ previous page

#3974 1 year ago

Who knew John Dean was a pinhead?

Gaslit (Series - 2022)

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#3975 1 year ago
Quoted from dirkdiggler:

Saw this guy playing pinball on a eye medication commercial. Can't remember the name of the medication
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Black Knight 2000

#3977 1 year ago

In the movie The Ghost Writer (Ewan McGregor, Pierce Bronson), there is a scene with a Diner and a Centaur ... in a diner

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#3978 1 year ago

MTV Cribs S19 E01 Dwight Howard has his custom Skittles machine (Flash retheme) and an Avengers Pro.

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#3979 1 year ago
Quoted from Daditude:

From the movie Home Alone, a 1966 Williams Full House (great tie-in with the movie, by the way).[quoted image]

It seems that just about every year someone mentions the pinball in Home Alone.

Tis the season

#3980 1 year ago

Opportunity Knocks (1990)

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#3981 1 year ago

Rocky V (1990)
Stalone plays a Bally Future Spa...
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And a Bally Fireball classic can also be seen:
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Edit: Added Video link.

#3982 1 year ago

NCIS S20 E8 last night. Not sure which game it is.

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#3983 1 year ago
Quoted from Bortino:

NCIS S20 E8 last night. Not sure which game it is.
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It's the same Moded Galaxy that's been seen in many T.V. Shows recently.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/68#post-6758845

#3984 1 year ago
Quoted from Fezmid:

In The Christmas Chronicles, there are a couple of machines in the background of the thugs' hideout. I don't recommend the movie (it went from sappy Lifetime movie to "am I high?" halfway through).
I can't tell what machines they are though.
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I see a black knight, road kings, and I'm not sure what the third one is

Edit: The third one is Moon flight. Not one you see everyday...or even in a lifetime.

#3985 1 year ago

In a new series on Netflix "Teenage Bounty Hunters", episode 8 about half way through has a Captain Fantastic and Elvira machine in the background. One other machine can also be partially seen, but I couldn't identify it. A few moments after I posted this, the 3rd machine was vaguely shown and I think it was a Tri-Zone.

#3986 1 year ago

Polly pocket season 1 episode 10 “sugar rush”

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#3987 1 year ago

Royal Rumble on Young Rock.

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#3988 1 year ago

There is a fairly new movie out right now that is supposed to have 3 of my machines in it.. I haven't seen the movie yet, but Armegeddon Time is the name.

#3989 1 year ago

Italian Adriano Celentano -movie "La giovane Europa" from 1963.
Williams FRIENDSHIP"7" (and an AMI Continental) in a scene filmed in England.
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Italian Adriano Celentano -movie "Lui e peggio di me" from 1984.
European, licensed single-player version of Williams' Strato-Flite / Super-Flite called STAR-FLITE by Segasa-Sonic.

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#3990 1 year ago

Christmas Story Christmas (2022), there's a machine in Flick's bar. The movie is set in the 70s and this machine definitely looks the size / shape of modern Stern. Looks to be a rethemed backglass, as I don't recognize it. It says "BOOM!" with some superhero-esque characters.

Just watching the movie right now so I'll add more screenshots if there are any more to be had.

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#3991 1 year ago
Quoted from SkyKing2301:

there's a machine in Flick's bar.

Thought I heard a pinball in there, but they never focused on the game, glad you caught a screen grab

#3992 1 year ago
Quoted from SkyKing2301:

Christmas Story Christmas (2022), there's a machine in Flick's bar. The movie is set in the 70s and this machine definitely looks the size / shape of modern Stern. Looks to be a rethemed backglass, as I don't recognize it. It says "BOOM!" with some superhero-esque characters.
Just watching the movie right now so I'll add more screenshots if there are any more to be had.
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The cabinet looks like a Williams System 9 or system 11.

#3993 1 year ago
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#3994 1 year ago

Just saw on The Waltons S05E03 two machines Guys Dolls (1953) and A-B-C (1951)... And this episode was supposed to be in 1937

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#3995 1 year ago

There's a pinball machine visible in a early scene of Violent Night (2022) ... definitely rethemed backglass but the cabinet looks like it could be original, I just don't recognize it offhand. Looks like a wolf howling at the moon in a forest maybe?

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#3996 1 year ago
Quoted from SkyKing2301:

There's a pinball machine visible in a early scene of Violent Night (2022) ... definitely rethemed backglass but the cabinet looks like it could be original, I just don't recognize it offhand. Looks like a wolf howling at the moon in a forest maybe?[quoted image]

That was posted a couple months ago.... https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/78#post-7179502

#3997 1 year ago

Doh, thanks, my bad! Here's a few more pics I just took, for good measure. Ho ho ho!

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#3998 1 year ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

However, you can easily miss a movie or TV title because it listed under T (for "The...").
And it's not consistent. Even in the picture of the list you posted, "The Fugitive is listed as "Fugitive", but there's a lot of titles listed under "The"
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So if I go to look up "The Enforcer" (which I have listed) Where do I look? Under THE Enforcer, or Enforcer?
Anything that starts with The should be listed more like this: (Enforcer, The) , or else half the list would end up under "The".

I'm gradually converting the list over to "title, the" for affected titles. That's why the list seems inconsistent. It's a work in progress.

#4000 1 year ago
Quoted from ImNotNorm:

Has the indexing of pins for this thread been stopped?

No, just too busy for the last few months. Should be caught up now.

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