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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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Post #9 Van Wilder (2002) Posted by dmacy (11 years ago)

Post #22 What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) Posted by kwiKimart (11 years ago)

Post #34 ABCNews Damon Lindelof Interview Posted by gweempose (11 years ago)

Post #38 Bad Santa (2003) Posted by davewtf (11 years ago)

Post #40 Eastbound and Down S?? E?? Posted by pzy (11 years ago)

Post #52 Big Daddy (1999) Posted by gweempose (11 years ago)

Post #58 Goodfellas (1990) Posted by Wise_Guy (11 years ago)

Post #60 Wire, The S01 E?? Posted by jahbarron (11 years ago)

Post #65 Miami Vice, S01 E04 Posted by vulture (11 years ago)

Post #70 Crow, The (1994) Posted by poopdotcom (11 years ago)

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#676 7 years ago
 
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Nitro Ground Shaker visible for about two seconds in 2005's War of the Worlds.

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#692 7 years ago
 
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Quoted from Darcy:

Here is a new one. Bobs Burgers 'Like Gene for Chocolate'. 2 cartoon pins in the office where Gene meets the grandson of the chocolate factory, founder. Grand son is playing one of them. One pin name is Rockstar, the other BACCARAY?

You sure that didn't say BARRACORA?

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Half an Aztec backbox visible in 1980's "Gloria". That's Gena Rowlands and the weird little kid in the doorway.

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#830 6 years ago
 
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Stern Lightning in Pink Floyd The Wall.

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#904 6 years ago
 
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"I Am Wrath" scene with John Travolta and Chris Meloni. Doesn't everyone have a Medusa in their basement gun room / shooting range?

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#908 6 years ago
 
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Just a little aside here: it always bugs me that, no matter what era of pin is shown in a movie or tv show, even if it's an SS, AN, or DMD, if it's being played the sounds you'll hear are an EM's ding-ding-ding. I understand why, with speech and callouts and such, the moviemakers don't want to interrupt the actors' dialogue with "Lionman!" or "Oooh, bitchin!" or whatever in the background. But still.....very anachronistic.

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#961 6 years ago
 
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Quoted from TopMoose:

For years my brothers and I would quote the opening line in Mick Jagger's accent: "A'right... Let's do it." We still find that movie hilarious.

Holy cow....I could have written this exact same post. My brother and I had to turn it off right after this scene, it was such a steaming pile of crap. But even after 20+ years I'll say "let's do it" in that stupid accent and he'll crack up.

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#986 6 years ago
 
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Close Encounters in the 1979 Jerry Reed / Dom Deluise bomb "Hot Stuff". Cops set up a bogus pawn shop, I knew at some point a pin would turn up.

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Disco Fever and Space Invaders tucked in the back of a bar in the Styx video "Too Much Time on My Hands".

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#1190 5 years ago
 
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Eight Ball Champ in the REM video "Man on the Moon".

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#1192 5 years ago
 
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Revenge From Mars in the final scene of "Ready Player One". Also visible are the videogames Robotron:2084, Space Invaders, and a rare and cool Joust cocktail.

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#1261 5 years ago
 
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An Eight Ball Deluxe doesn't ever actually show up in MST3K, but this is the second reference I've seen them make to it.

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Quoted from ImNotNorm:

That 70's show
Season 5 episode 1 - Going to California
Future Spa in the background[quoted image]

Looks like an unfaded pink on that cabinet too, which is uncommon for Future Spa.

Striker Extreme and Alien Poker in Elektra, using the incorrect EM chime sound effects of course.
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Agents of Shield S3 E19. This machine has been mentioned before in post 216. Cab artwork similar to Galaxy, Stern-ish red & black apron, playfield that I don't recognize, and even though it doesn't have a name on it, it looks like a real backglass, as it's mirrored and has the spidering common to many older backglasses. The bumper caps appear to be from a Bally Star Trek. Just what is this thing?? There was also a Diner in the background five seconds earlier.

Oh yeah, and utterly cringe-worthy pseudo-pinball dialogue that no real player would ever say.

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#1960 4 years ago
 
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Mousin' Around and Bally Game Show somewhere in the Hard Rock Cafe in "L.A. Story".
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#1964 4 years ago
 
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Quoted from o-din:

Thanks! Great movie that has aged very well. A classic.
Not pinball, but this is from another movie I watched last week.[quoted image][quoted image]

Soylent Green!

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#2860 3 years ago
 
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From an episode of Dukes of Hazzard, this one is a combination of the backglass from "Sheriff" and the cabinet of "Jungle". Plus, there's Daisy Duke in a French maid outfit.
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Quoted from frenchmarky:

1988 TV movie "In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders" with David Soul, Michael Gross and Ronnie Cox, I still remember watching it on TV back then because it had a small sub-plot where these two murderers tried out being pinball machine operators but it doesn't work out cuz the games were all flaky. Soul kicks over an Eight Ball Deluxe and destroys it when he gets fed up, and a little later he sticks a gun in the face of the guy who sold them the business (who has more pins laying around in his front yard) and says "We're not interested in your pinball machines anymore." I loved that line. Pretty good movie too from what I remember, Soul is a real mean and creepy SOB in it. Found it on youtube, pinball stuff starts at 10:00 mark to about 13:30. Look for the higher rez version. He kicks a Rolling Stones pin too, Mick wouldn't like that!
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I see a Mars God of War, Flash Gordon, probably the same Eight Ball Deluxe and Rolling Stones as earlier, and a couple others I can't identify in op's front yard. How that EBD backglass didn't break when the machine was kicked over is a mystery.

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Quoted from frenchmarky:

Isn't that inside the Boar's Nest on 'Dukes of Hazzard'? Pretty sure there were quite a few episodes featuring scenes in that dive, with that pin in the background.

It was from a Youtube video. Probably the only episode that had Daisy in a French maid's outfit, shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

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Barely visible Phoenix and Paragon, and Bally Star Trek way behind Corey Haim, in the comic book shop in "The Lost Boys".

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Lisa Eilbacher and her gorgeous head of 70's hair, fixing a Bally Freedom in "On The Right Track".

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#4431 5 months ago
 
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Quoted from SonicZone:

This was previously posted & indexed two years ago:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-in-movies-or-tv-shows-name-a-game-you-have-seen-in-the-background/page/53#post-6074733

Jeez dude, sorry I didn't comb through four thousand posts to make sure I wasn't wasting your time.

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