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

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#4251 10 months ago
Quoted from Oneironaut:

the movie Feast - 2005[quoted image]

Mylstar's Jacks to Open

#4252 10 months ago
Quoted from Oneironaut:

the movie Feast - 2005[quoted image]

Jack's to Open

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#4253 10 months ago

In Miss Congeniality (2000), there's an Independence Day and Starship Troopers in the background of a bar, about 14 minutes in.

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#4254 10 months ago

Can’t tell what machines these are but there are pinball machines in the new Five Nights at Freddy’s movie trailer-

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#4255 10 months ago
Quoted from johnnyutah:

Can’t tell what machines these are but there are pinball machines in the new Five Nights at Freddy’s movie trailer-
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I think the one on the right might be Card Whiz (Gottlieb 1976) and the center one looks like a Jacks Open or Lucky Hand (Gottlieb 1977).

ED: Pretty sure the one on the left is a Jumping Jack (Gottlieb 1973).

#4256 10 months ago
Quoted from johnnyutah:

Can’t tell what machines these are but there are pinball machines in the new Five Nights at Freddy’s movie trailer-
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Quoted from TopMoose:

I think the one on the right might be Card Whiz (Gottlieb 1976) and the center one looks like a Jacks Open or Lucky Hand (Gottlieb 1977).
ED: Pretty sure the one on the left is a Jumping Jack (Gottlieb 1973).

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#4257 10 months ago
Quoted from TopMoose:

I think the one on the right might be Card Whiz (Gottlieb 1976) and the center one looks like a Jacks Open or Lucky Hand (Gottlieb 1977).
ED: Pretty sure the one on the left is a Jumping Jack (Gottlieb 1973).

All look right to me. There's another off to the right that is more visible earlier in the trailer. Not exactly hard to ID the Genie. No idea on what's next to it.

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#4258 10 months ago

I was able to take my own screen shot, zoom in and lighten the image - you can make out more of the backglass and cabinet art here.
Pretty sure it's Jumping Jacks, Jacks Open/Lucky Hand and Card Whiz.

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#4259 10 months ago

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Season 12, Episode 4 (first air date: Jan 25, 2017) - At station WCYZ, the dressing room before going live to defend their company, Frank's Fluids, that is selling Wolf Cola to terrorists. Machines only visible in the reflection. One on the left can't make out. This was the best I can get for pictures. Any help on what the bigger one in the reflection is please?
Thanks in advance everybody!
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#4260 10 months ago
Quoted from pinball2020:

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Season 12, Episode 4 - At station WCYZ, the dressing room before going live to defend their company, Frank's Fluids, that is selling Wolf Cola to terrorists. Machines only visible in the reflection. One on the left can't make out. This was the best I can get for pictures. Any help on what the bigger one in the reflection is please?
Thanks in advance everybody![quoted image][quoted image]

Looks like a rethemed Black Knight 2000.

#4261 10 months ago
Quoted from pinball2020:

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Season 12, Episode 4 - At station WCYZ, the dressing room before going live to defend their company, Frank's Fluids, that is selling Wolf Cola to terrorists. Machines only visible in the reflection. One on the left can't make out. This was the best I can get for pictures. Any help on what the bigger one in the reflection is please?
Thanks in advance everybody![quoted image][quoted image]

The one on the left (as seen in the mirror) might be a High Speed 2.

#4262 9 months ago
Quoted from PinMonk:

Here's the Ozempic commercial with two pins in the background. Can't really tell what pins they were (or if they were faked up overlays) because the background is blurred.[quoted image][quoted image]

You’re telling me I can play pinball AND lose weight???

I just saw the commercial too and I can’t make out the backglasses, but since every other arcade game has a generic overlay too, I bet the backglasses are fakes as well.

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#4263 9 months ago

The Littlest Hobo - The Secret of Red Hill
S03E02

I can't name them, lol.
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#4264 9 months ago
Quoted from ImNotNorm:

The Littlest Hobo - The Secret of Red Hill
S03E02
I can't name them, lol.
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Pop bumper placement and colors, this one could be Solar City:

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#4265 9 months ago

Another shot shows a Night Rider to the right of the Solar City.

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#4266 9 months ago
Quoted from pinball2020:

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Season 12, Episode 4 (first air date: Jan 25, 2017) - At station WCYZ, the dressing room before going live to defend their company, Frank's Fluids, that is selling Wolf Cola to terrorists. Machines only visible in the reflection. One on the left can't make out. This was the best I can get for pictures. Any help on what the bigger one in the reflection is please?
Thanks in advance everybody!
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Guardians in the recent S16 E7 episode

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#4267 9 months ago

A Jack-Bot in the background of 13 Going on 30

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#4268 9 months ago

Thank you. I saw the episode -filmed at Corbin Bowl (in Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley) no less and was trying to see if they showed clips of pins and glad you found one

Quoted from briyau15:

Guardians in the recent S16 E7 episode
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#4269 9 months ago

Pawn Stars (S19E01 - Pawn Jam)

Pearl Jam signed pinball themed poster.

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#4270 9 months ago

Does this count?

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#4271 9 months ago

Bally Supersonic and Globetrotters in the horror nightmare that is Possession (1981).

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#4272 9 months ago
Quoted from Oneironaut:

Does this count?[quoted image]

Well the "ROCK STAT" pinball was actually a Gottlieb wedge head.

#4273 9 months ago

S03E04 of Taxi.

Williams Fun Fest and Bally Night Rider EM in a bar scene with Alex.

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#4274 9 months ago

Saw the movie 'Before Sunrise' mentioned in its own thread but its never been called out here before. Two strangers meet on a train and decide the spend the night walking around Vienna just discussing life, part of which takes place in a bar playing an Atari Spaceriders.

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#4275 9 months ago

2003's "Pact With the Devil" starring Malcolm McDowell. The main dude in the movie has a Getaway pin in his cool pad full of exercise equipment and a jukebox etc. Only watched it for a couple of minutes but the machine was in several shots, maybe he even plays it, I dunno.

** found a better pic of the game when I skipped thru the movie on Freevee to see if the game is in it more. He's a 'pretty boy' type of character and I didn't see him play the game - he just has a photographer chick come over and snap a few shots of him posing with it, oh brother what a fraud. Also it was noted that the date was supposed to be 1990 in the scene, but the game wouldn't be built for another two years.

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#4276 9 months ago

Episode 6 of American born chinese in the bowling alley-

Right looks like a Meteor with a custom BG and left a Galaxy with a custom BG?

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#4277 9 months ago

Finished watching the Ted Lasso series on AppleTV+.
It was previously mentioned here that Wizard of OZ pinball was featured in a season 2 episode,
But the same game showed up several more times in the pub scenes in the last few episodes of season 3,
and featured prominently in one scene with Ted's mom visiting. episode titled "Mom City" S3Ep11

#4278 9 months ago
Quoted from pinwiztom:

Finished watching the Ted Lasso series on AppleTV+.
It was previously mentioned here that Wizard of OZ pinball was featured in a season 2 episode,
But the same game showed up several more times in the pub scenes in the last few episodes of season 3,
and featured prominently in one scene with Ted's mom visiting. episode titled "Mom City" S3Ep11

Jason Sudekis is a big pinhead, he brought that game to the Uk for use in those pub scenes. There’s and interview of him and Beard talking about the games they shipped in

#4279 9 months ago
Quoted from Oneironaut:

Does this count?[quoted image]

Sure! Why not. It's pinball isn't it?

#4280 9 months ago
Quoted from koji:

Episode 6 of American born chinese in the bowling alley-
Right looks like a Meteor with a custom BG and left a Galaxy with a custom BG?[quoted image][quoted image]

Yes. Galaxy and Meteor. That Galaxy has been in many T.V. shows, and I posted a picture of the same Meteor from an episode of Dreamcorp LLC on Adult Swim a couple of years ago:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/49#post-5930612

At this point that Galaxy deserves it's own topic!

#4281 9 months ago

They're playing Wizard of Oz pin in a few different episodes of season 3 of Ted Lasso. Very prominently part of one of the episodes

#4282 9 months ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Yes. Galaxy and Meteor. That Galaxy has been in many T.V. shows, and I posted a picture of the same Meteor from an episode of Dreamcorp LLC on Adult Swim a couple of years ago:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/49#post-5930612
At this point that Galaxy deserves it's own topic!

Never saw a backglass that was modified two times for two different shows!

#4283 9 months ago

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you...Ralph Kramden, the human pinball machine.

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#4284 9 months ago
Quoted from Oneironaut:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you...Ralph Kramden, the human pinball machine.
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Bang! zoom!

#4285 8 months ago

its an arcade anyway.

#4286 8 months ago
Quoted from Jamesays:

its an arcade anyway.

And they're all Atari games. (It was a Warner Bros. movie)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086006/

#4287 8 months ago

Probably doesn't count, but Space Shuttle's sound effects can be heard in the 5th episode of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They're used as generic "sci-fi" noises

#4288 8 months ago

Pinball in Antique Archaeology, as seen on the American Pickers TV show:

1935 Bally Golden Harvest
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#4289 8 months ago
Quoted from roffels:

Probably doesn't count, but Space Shuttle's sound effects can be heard in the 5th episode of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They're used as generic "sci-fi" noises

Great catch! This counts in my book ... I had a similar one back in this post (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/47#post-5819946) where I heard Space Shuttle in the background of a Rick & Morty episode.

#4290 8 months ago

Ghost Adventures - S25E03 - Fear in Flagstaff

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#4291 8 months ago
Quoted from Oneironaut:

Ghost Adventures - S25E03 - Fear in Flagstaff
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From the cabinet front around the coin door I think it's TMNT Pro (Stern, 2020).

#4292 8 months ago
Quoted from SonicZone:

From the cabinet front around the coin door I think it's TMNT Pro (Stern, 2020).

Great job, I concur.

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#4293 8 months ago

I didn't know, I just spotted it.

#4294 8 months ago

Mysteries at the Museum - S23E05

Located at the American Classic Arcade Museum in Laconia, New Hampshire.

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#4295 8 months ago

“Ugliest House in America” series on HGTV. The second house in the Season 4 “Ugly Southwest” episode has a 1969 Bally Op-Pop-Pop.

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#4296 8 months ago

Some pics from Claudine Auger (Miss France 1958 / 2nd in the 1958 Miss World Contest and most famous for her role in Thunderball) bodypainted / pinballpainted / bodypinballed in the italian movie "Escalation" filmed in 1967 - one of those very cool Pop-Art-Movies from the mid-60ies...

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#4297 8 months ago

Goodfellas - Different scene than previously posted - where Joe Pesci shoots the kid in the leg for not bringing him his drink. Then in the next scene Pesci kills him for insulting him. Wasn't sure at first, but from later scenes it is a Captain Fantastic (which was mentioned only in name in original post, but no screenshots were provided).
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Later scenes
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#4298 8 months ago

Pawn Stars - "Pawn Stars & Movie Stars" - S18E16

A flipperless Exhibits Ranger. (Not in the pinside database? 1947)

Seller asking $1100
Sold for $350

Rick's restoration guy said it'll take $2000 to restore.
Claims its worth $4500 after restoration.

Rick also giving a history lesson on pinball.
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#4299 8 months ago

Pawn Stars - "The Rick-Sy rebellion" - S21E07

Heavy Hitter (1948)

Seller asking $1300
Sold for $1000

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#4300 8 months ago
Quoted from pinball2020:

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Season 12, Episode 4 (first air date: Jan 25, 2017) - At station WCYZ, the dressing room before going live to defend their company, Frank's Fluids, that is selling Wolf Cola to terrorists. Machines only visible in the reflection. One on the left can't make out. This was the best I can get for pictures. Any help on what the bigger one in the reflection is please?
Thanks in advance everybody!
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Here’s something fun I noticed while rewatching Always Sunny tonight.

Season 2, Episode 1 Charlie is wearing a Pinball Legend shirt. We’re commenting on pins in a few other episodes, but no one apparently caught this shirt. I know it’s not a machine, but it’s relevant.

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