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There was a Nip-It in Arnold's on Happy Days.
On House M.D., house had a some Bingo or pinball play-field resting on a dresser in his apartment.
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Not a Pinball, but has anyone noticed the pinball hardware on the current Tardis console on Dr. Who?
Most obvious part is the shooter rod. Also spotted some bumper bodies (minus caps). There also are sounds of a Bally SS pin chimes.
Not a real pinball, but:
In an episode of the Simpsons, Marge is having a discussion with Apu, and Homer breaks in with "Marge if I may, Play Devils Advocate?", and then the scene cuts away to Homer playing a Pinball called "Devils Advocate" 
Quoted from Chrisbee:Name this one.
Bally "Space Time" http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2262
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Quoted from KYpinhead:From the movie Dying young (Julia Roberts in the background). Eight Ball deluxe, Space Invaders, Wizard & let's see who can come up with the 4th machines title, I do know it.
Fourth machine is Captain Fantastic. You can see the pinball machines cabinet in the back-glass near the bottom left corner.
2 months later
Okay, So I'm watching "How I met Your Mother", and just noticed in Teds apartment, is a cabinet by the door, with a Bingo machine play-feild on top of it.
Early in "Blue Collar", Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, and Ed Begley Jr. are in a bar, and in the background are three pins. One is a solid state Night Rider. The other two are hard to make out, but the second is a wedge head of some sort.
Quoted from whisper:cant remember the name of the flick,but its got John Goodman and he becomes a king or a prince,from just a every day guy,its a comedy,but when he moves into his palace his got a kings of steel,i think and one or two more..
King Ralph
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Quoted from pinmanguy:After the apocalypse only wpt will survive. ...
... just shoot me now ...
Quoted from singlebanana:Also a Bally Rolling Stone in that arcade. Third machine, but can't ID it. Maybe someone else can (starts around 1:20) - » YouTube video
That's Golf 'n Stuff here in Norwalk CA, just within walking distance from my home. They used to have a bitchin' assortment of pins in the '70 and '80. saw Xenon (two of them) Black Hole, Firepower, Black Knight, and Flight 2000 there before I saw them anywhere else (found out years later from a friend that worked there that they were C.A. Robinson's biggest costumers, and they usually got any new game first from them. They even had the first three distributed Dragons Lairs there).
1 year later
Quoted from chalkup8:Buckaroo in Superman 2
There's also a Hurdy Gurdy right next to it on the left.
Quoted from DarkWizard:Criminal Minds - Season 10 Episode 8 from about a month ago - About 16:30 in.
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The First one appears to be an altered Stern Galaxy. The vortex and the title on the back glass are changed, but the planet and the two comets on the lower left are the same.
On the side of the cabinet where a red and yellow banner with the name Galaxy followed by a line of stars has been replaced by that yellow banner with blue stars.
Quoted from DarkWizard:Criminal Minds - Season 10 Episode 8 from about a month ago - About 16:30 in.
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So just caught this on another topic:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-the-movies-1#post-1768769
Go to post #46, and that same Galaxy is in it from a Movie!
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Quoted from ForceFlow:This showed up in The Mentalist (season 7, episode 11):
The machine was actually in the scene for several minutes.
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It appears to be a Flight 2000, with a bad player 3 display.
Okay, so I don't have a picture, but I remember back in the '80s on The Price is Right one of the prizes in a showcase was a Cosmic Gunfight (and it was a year or so after the game came out).
3 weeks later
Quoted from Domino7:on 'happy days' what was the pinball fonzie would hit to get free games?
It was a jukebox to get free music, but there was a Bally Nip' It next to it.
Quoted from MrBally:That was it, Flicker not Circus. This was after Champ. The Bally pins were donated by C. A. Robinson. I vividly remember their name in the scrolling credits.
I remember that as well. I remember seeing their name in the episode that they had the Cosmic Gunfight in a Showcase.
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Okay, not exactly seen, but heard this on the radio today. Listening to the Sound 100.3 in Los Angeles today. They have this thing at 10:00 AM / PM called the Ten at 10. Usually it's a set of ten songs from the same year, and may include some audio clips from the era.
Today, it was ten songs from 1976. at the end of the set, they played an audio clip from the end of an episode of Hollywood squares. The last thing you hear Peter Marshal say is, "Stay Tuned for the Magnificent Marble Machine next! Goodbye!".
Quoted from o-din:In an episode of Police Story from 1976 they play Fireball.
» YouTube video
... Did they make the skill-shot?
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Quoted from dothedoo:The artist must be a fan of Banzai Run
Maybe Mr. MeeSeeks helped him make the hill climb. 
... and apparantly unlike Dave and Busters, "Blips and Chitz" HAS pinball!
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Caught a Space Odyssey and Skylab in the commissary in Meteor.
Quoted from cale:Spotted a Dr. Dude in the movie Clown
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... but not The Getaway and the Who Dunnit?
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Quoted from bob_e:In Men In Black III agent K enters Cosmic Lanes. There are 3 Pins there. Anyone have a clue? The first is a baseball game two player animated backbox. 2nd is a Gottlieb wedge head. the last one looks like another baseball themed game.
But they should not have been there since the ban on pinball machines in New York in 1969.
I caught those games as well, but didn't even think about the ban. Good catch!
Quoted from Bohdi:Strikes and Spares and Bobby Orr was also in Detroit Rock City, can't make out the 3rd.
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Stern Nugent.
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It's "Chain Carbon", not cannon. And there's a pattern of what look like molecules on the sides. There's also something else written below the word carbon on the lower right, but it's not readable.
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Quoted from Pinball_Nate:Here's an odd one. Couldn't find anything internet searching.
Screen captures are from the movie Naked Massacre, which is loosely based on the Richard Speck killings.
Main character enters a pub in Ireland and plays this machine.NakedMassPinball1_(resized).jpg1NakedMassPinball2_(resized).jpg1NakedMassPinball4_(resized).jpgNakedMassPinball3_(resized).jpg
Looks to be a retheamed Williams "Big Star"
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In the 1971 Warren Beatty / Goldie Hawn movie "$" a pier side warehouse has several pinball machines just inside the doors (most are unassembled).
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Quoted from DarkWizard:Criminal Minds - Season 10 Episode 8 from about a month ago - About 16:30 in.
Second one is molested Whirlwind, not sure what the first one is.
That same Galaxy was on Agents of Shield tonight as well as a Diner.
Quoted from PinJump:Just noticed that as well. What's even better is they we're playing it!
Yeah, but I don't remember Galaxy having chimes thou.
Quoted from ForceFlow:The editors tend to stick the chime sounds in no matter what the game is. I saw a mustang in a show, and it had chimes going off while the game was being played.
I know. It was just a joke. Even when the Tardis on Doctor Who had pinball machine parts in the console, it used the same sound effects.
1 week later
Spotted early in Deadpool in the arcade scene:
A Gottlieb Volcano,
a Gottlieb Strikes and Spares
and a Bally Joust
Quoted from pezpunk:Watching Daisy play Galaxy on Agents of Shield and hearing the EM sound effects reminded me of how every video game on TV up to and including Street Fighter and Doom used to have Atari 2600 Pac-Man sound effects slapped on them.
... or Crazy Climber and Omega Race. Hear their sounds used in a lot of T.V. shows and movies.
2 months later
Quoted from chucktee:In the movie "The Toy" starring Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor spotted a Gottlieb Volcano, Haunted House, and a Mars God of War (product placement perhaps?)
Probably. It was back in the day when Columbia Pictures owned D.Gottlieb.
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.
Here's two pics from the movie from different angles, if anyone can identify this that would be neat. So far the internet turns up nothing for me. Appears to be a 4 player EM.
It's a Williams Honey.
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Quoted from dmbjunky:That's some quality if Fish Tales made it to the future of Star Trek Voyager. Was there cabinet fade or did they solve that in the future?
The pin was in 1996, not 2374. The ship and crew went back in time.
1 month later
Quoted from StormyX73:A quick glimpse of an EM in the background in episode 5 of The Night Manager. A '77 Gottlieb Jungle Queen?
Yes, Jungle Queen.
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Quoted from arolden:Spotted this while watching Supergirl. Any ideas?
It looks like it's a retheamed Williams pin just like that video game is a retheamed Galaxian (it still has a Galaxian control panel).
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:dmbjunky spotted my personal Joust (Bally, 1969) in Deadpool (2016).
Is it famous now?!
Is it worth more $$$?
Not sure who bought the GTB Volcano from John's Jukes, LTD after the movie filming that was also shown in the shot, as I never asked.
My girlfriend wants me to print out the photo, laminate it, and put it in the coin box.
There was also a Gottlieb Strikes and Spares in that scene.
Quoted from neurokinetik:Saw a single player EM during Sons of Anarchy Season 7. Episode 6. It was on and lit, but never in focus in any of the shots, so hard to ID.
Season4, episode 2 of Sons of Anarchy, there is an Evil Kenivil SS in the "Club House". At least it's the first time I saw it in there.
Quoted from swampshroom:in the new-ish TMNT cartoon (2012) you can see the turtles have a pinball machine in the background. its called Space-Heroes and i looks to me like a re-themed Evel Knievel.
Caught this last night:
A 2014 episode of Squidbillies on Adult swim titled "Taint Misbehaving" Dan Halen has a piled collection of "Post war Hitler memorabilia" that includes a Hitler themed pinball called "Flipper This Fuhrer". It's shown twice in the episode.
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Quoted from kvolak:Okay this one is driving me nuts. It's some coin-op game in Friday the 13th Part II. Next to the Kiss pinball machine. Anybody?
It's a Williams "Topaz"Topaz (resized).jpg shuffle bowl game (1978)
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I'm trying to get a still from a current AT&T commercial that has a quick shot of a Williams Skylab / Spacelab in it.
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Quoted from TheLaw:Watching a little $ale of the century today and an instant bargain came up for a Pennant Fever
Yours today for the low low price of $15
Now there's a game show I'd like to see make a comeback.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Does anyone recognize this game, as seen in the recent music video by Pierce The Veil of their new single, Floral Fading?
That same Galaxy has shown up in several shows (and pictures of it are thruout this topic).
Forceflow posted a picture of it in an episode of Agents of Sheild a while back (post #461) and Darkwizard posted a picture of it in an episode of Criminal Minds (post # 216).
Not a real pin, but this from a 2011 episode of Robot Chicken:
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... Unfortunatly, if you know what this character is you know what he's about to do ...
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/playlists/best-of-the-humping-robot/humping-pinball/
2 weeks later
In Strange Invaders at a diner, a Pinball machine can be heard, and an old wood rail can be partially seen by a doorway for a couple of seconds. (couldn't identify it though).
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Someone just posted this picture from the Moonwalker Genesis / Mega Drive game on Twitter:
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Quoted from mswhat:This on an episode of CHiPs
Just looked at the picture again. isn't that Bryan Cranston?
Quoted from Guinnesstime:Midnight Madness. Name them.
Trident, Fireball, World Cup, Mata Hari SS, Eight ball, Dragon and Power Play
... oh, and a Dynamo Air Hockey and Atari 2 player Football.
3 weeks later
In "The Enforcer" (1976) about 1:12:00 into the movie Harry Callahan is playing pool in a bar. In the background is a Big Indian and a second 1 player pin (unidentifiable because most of the back glass lights are out) in the background.
Quoted from Colsond3:Hot Shot GTB, although this site doesn't mention the Big Indian.
http://www.pingeek.com/film/film.htm
Right movie, right manufacturer but wrong pin. You can see the Big Indian backglass over Harry's back as he is leaning over the pool table. Other than being a four player pin it looks nothing like Hot Shot.
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I'll admit that it's possible it's not Big Indian, but not likely, but it definitely not Hot Shot:
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The other pin is only a 1 player, so it also can't be a Hot Shot.
Quoted from TopMoose:The one with the dark backglass looks like a Gottlieb Spin A Card.
That it does. Good eye!
2 weeks later
Quoted from swampshroom:Psych S03E03 Shawn is playing Solar Ride.
Quoted from Colsond3:That thing has some tall legs on it...or he is really short.
The pin is raised up so you can see it in the shot. if it were at the regular height you wouldn't be able to see him "playing" it in the scene.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Caught this last night:
A 2014 episode of Squidbillies on Adult swim titled "Taint Misbehaving" Dan Halen has a piled collection of "Post war Hitler memorabilia" that includes a Hitler themed pinball called "Flipper This Fuhrer". It's shown twice in the episode.
... and I finally got a picture of it:Squidbillies Season 9 Episode 3 Taint Misbehavin Watch cartoons online, Watch anime online, English dub anime (resized).jpeg
Except I see the title is actually "Flippers von Fuhrer".
1 month later
Quoted from pezpunk:Pocket Pool looks like a mid-70s Williams game ... that allows up to 5 players...?
Slugfest.
Looks more like early SS. It looks like it has 7 segment displays.
And did anyone notice that the one on the left looks like it has a bill validator?
Quoted from sd_jameson:Don't know if this counts but I was watching Sanford & Son, Fred and Lamont go to a bar and Fred complains about the place not having a pinball machine and he walks out yelling at them to "get a pinball machine!"
Starts at about 13:00
» YouTube video
I'd say it counts.
1 month later
Quoted from CNKay:» YouTube video
At around 39min mark Dom DeLuise is playing?? Close encounters. He has 61000 you hear scoring sounds but I see no ball no flipper action he actually is just leaning on machine nowhere near flipper buttons.
If you never saw it Hot Stuff is worth a watch.
Love the music. Wonder why Burt wasn't in this one.
Yes! saw it on "Movies!", They show it every now and then.
Quoted from CNKay:I don't think I have ever seen it on regular TV and rarely see it on movie sites. Seems to be a forgotten movie for sure.
I saw it in theater when it came out.
Smokey and the bandit days.
That's the sweet thing about Movies! They show lesser known films a lot of time, most in wide screen (if it's a wide film), many at 1 X 1.78 with few commercials. I'd never heard of Hot stuff until i caught it on Movies! one day. They're available in many markets over the air, and on may cable systems.
http://moviestvnetwork.com/wheretowatch/
Quoted from pinsanity:Buckaroo and Hurdy Gurdy in the diner scene of Superman 2.
Been a while since I watched it, but I believe the guy gets thrown onto the Buckaroo. I'll have to go back later and check.
Quoted from Colsond3:Man, the cabinet on that thing looks so nice. Given the year, it was probably NIB.
And it was a Columbia film (Gottlieb was owned by Columbia Pictures at the time).
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Quoted from barakandl:saw pinball in s2e25 of Golden Girls (don't judge!)
Funfest and some Gottlieb game i am not familiar of. Looks like system 80, so no wonder its turned off =P.
The Gottlieb is a Roller Disco:
Quoted from hawkmoon:Watching Kurt Russel in the remake of "The Thing" and there is a "Heat Wave" in their break room!
I know that one has been mentioned before, but I'm surprised nobody has linked it yet.
Quoted from Darcy:The key is that it was put there on the set or CGI into a scene. It looks like a pinball machine and not an arcade Game. So, it counts.
It's a model. The figures are real, not CGI (although some CGI effects are used).
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Quoted from Darcy:To quote a previous post.
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Sorry, didn't notice it was posted before, thanks.
Yeah, that one was about 600 post back (and two years ago). My post was to someone that posted the same reference to TBBT that I had made two posts previously (with a picture).
Don't know if anyone else has seen this but there is a current commercial for COSENTYX (an arthritis medication) withseveral pins can bee seen in a game room, but predominately a Pin*Bot played by a gentleman named Mike.
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Also on their website is a testimonial video for CONSENTX with Mike that has him playing a Bally Expressway and him talking about playing pinball.
(Link to website and video) https://www.cosentyx.com/psoriatic-arthritis/index.jsp?site=VH000009&utm_medium=display&dclid=CKXguM-mgdgCFcdpwQod39QLqA
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Just saw a 1962 two player Midway Target Gallery pitch and bat "picked" on American Pickers tonight. Bought for $90, appraised at $700.
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Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Same drug commercial as Pinbot - Getaway and another.
It's already been mentioned twice in the last 15 posts.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/19#post-4117786
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Yes, but I added the visual.
I added a link to the commercial AND to an additional video.
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Quoted from janus:There is a black hole in the cafeteria of the elsinore brewery in strange brew
There's also a Superman right next to it (under something draped over it).
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