"300"
Gottlieb, 1975
8 Ball
Williams, 1966
A-Go-Go
Williams, 1966
Addams Family, The
Bally, 1992
Aladdin's Castle
Bally, 1976
Alligator
Bally, 1969
Aztec
Williams, 1976
Bank-A-Ball
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
with Spencer Tracy, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Walter Brennan and Robert Ryan and Anne Francis
There is a 2-3 minute scene in a cafe diner with Robert Ryan playing a Genco Follies of 1940 in background
while Ernst and Spencer duke it out, actually the outmatched (one armed) Spencer uses karate/judo to combat the burly Ernst.
Movie takes place just after the end of WWII in a small desert town in California.
Quoted from Grayman_EM:Diet Dr Pepper commercial Expressway in the background can't make out the other.
I think the other one is a Classic Stern Flight 2000, with giant planet blocking out some of the BG artwork for copyright protection reasons.
Actually this new commercial is for Cherry Dr. Pepper (Diet and not) Cherry on!
Chariot, thus the tiny horse pulling a roman chariot.
Just saw the new Michael Myers movie with my wife on Halloween.
Fairly quick into the movie there is a scene (as mentioned in previous posts above)
of a sheriff playing a Back to the Future pinball machine at a Quicky Stop store for
about 10 seconds while some jive talking dude tries to psych him about never beating his high score.
The producers even gave the Data East Pin and Universal an end credit
(Universal owns the Back to Future franchise,
so that is probably why the game was intact without any cover up of TM materials.
This remake is released by Universal)
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:paid detailed attention to all the credits
Actually i was just waiting thru the final credits hoping there would be some easter egg
about what might be coming next from Michael Myers, (just some heavy breathing at the end)
and the pinball credit was near the very end and kinda stuck out like a sore thumb
compared to the usual very very end credits and acknowledgements.
Quoted from dmacy:Wonder if he really is into pinball.
I know that Q is into pinball,
as he helped host the Stern Pro circuit championship
earlier this month in Chicago.
Q is also part of the Pinball Twinz spoof.
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Quoted from Timerider:Subject of question on the BBC panel show "QI"
When i lived in the UK (Scotland) 2012-2013
i remember watching and enjoying this quiz show fondly,
but at that time Stephen Fry was the host.
It was always educational and informative and funny.
Not really a game show, as no one won money, as the contestants were all british celebs.
More of a comedy show than quiz show.
Quoted from OTTOgd:The third episode of the Swamp Thing has a pin which I can't immediately identify
The CAB artwork does confirm it is likely BLY Firecracker
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=855&picno=24064
the red/green at mid top of the BG might just be a reflection of some neon sign in the bar.
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:"pinball stereotype"
But the vast majority of the audience has not seen, let alone played or heard a EM pinball machine
with bells and chimes in over 40 yrs,
so basically anyone under 50 would not be familiar with said vintage pinball sounds.
I get where chimes and bells is more exclusive to pinball sounds,
but electronic sounds (without voice) from classic S/S pins ('78to'88) are also fairly unique to pinball or video arcade games.
TV/Movie producers that choose E/M sounds over actual pinball sounds on Pinball DMD games (1992 or newer)
is living with their heads in the sand.
Oregon State Lottery commercial on TV during LSSC.
Some random bar scene (studio) promoting the Lottery.
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One of the EM pins is GTB Surfer
the other looks to be a WMS western themed game. Maybe Rancho?
The 2nd pin is probably Sonic Prospector and not a WMS, upon closer inspection of another ORegon Lottery commercial.
Last night on TCM they showed the 1956 MGM movie starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack and Lauren Bacall, "Written in the Wind" In two scenes at a local oil field Texas dive bar, there are 2 pinball machines. One is a fliiperless pin I think, cannot make out name, but other is CCoin. The Thing, and in one scene the Thing actual gets played with some close up shots of balls bouncing around. Sorry unable to get any screenshots to post..
This WED Channel 6 KOIN Portland will be doing a profile on current Female IFPA champion.
or maybe it already aired last WED.
https://www.koin.com/entertainment-news/worlds-1st-top-female-pinballer-bends-luck-to-her-will/
From Route 66 show clip, it appears the pin closest (on the right)
is a WMS Reserve, mostly ID'd from Cabinet paint scheme.
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Game on the left appears to be a GTB Wedgehead. But can not ID yet.
Since the time for wedgeheads prior to mid 1963 is limited and studying ipdb.org
and looking at score reel placement within the BG frame,
I have deduced that the other game is GTB Tropic Isle.
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which i tried to show attached, I feel fairly confident that it is Tropic Isle.
I admit that in its fuzzy out of focus state, it is far from clear.
The score reels are in the correct spot for Tropic Isle
and from 1960 to 1963, GTB only had a couple dozen wedge heads released up until then,
& I eliminated all the pins with score reels in top half of the Backglass.
The Hawaiian beauty silhouette head and bust on the left of the BG is definitely there
and on the right the little dark blob is the parrot, the hi score to date is in the right spot.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:BTW, The "Blob" on the right is a monkey (IPDB).
The dark blob i was referring to is indeed a parrot.
The monkeys are Backglass light animation, as they climb the palm tree trunk
and only can be seen easily when the light bulb behind the Glass is lit up,
at each stage progression, (completing the ABCD spot targets each time).
Quoted from Honch:Gomez Addams on the 1960's TV show, plays a 1960 Dancing Dolls.
Was watching PlutoTV
Addams Family S2E3
Dancing Dolls.
Was pointed out previously on post#101, but without any photos.
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pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from bob_e:Young Sheldon, there was a Dukes of Hazard on the TV Sheldon was watching
Actually it was a flashback that his older brother (Georgie) was having, when asked by his sis (Missy)
if he ever had a crush on someone, when he was young.
I thought it was a Classic Stern, but was looking too yellow in the cropped photo,
probably from badly faded cabinet
or bad color TV set reception
The other pin looks like it could be a 4player EM, but so blurry it could be a S/S pin.
Quoted from Mardi-Gras-Man:The other one is a STRATO-FLITE
I think you are right.
4P EM
Score Reels are in correct place
and blurry image and name look to be good match.
late 70s GTBs 4P score reels are in a different configurations.
My wife was watching on the CW network last night a new show
Called Katy Keene ( part of the Archie Riverdale productions)
Anyway there were several scenes that take place in a Cabaret bar
( that is the regular hang out for the cast apparently);
and there was at least one EM pin in the background,
but i was not able to determine what game it was
nor to grab any photos.
An aside about the show,
It is kinda soap operaee,
with lots and lots of musical numbers that bring the story forward
or at least tries to bring it forward,
Not exactly our cup of tea,
if it did not have the song and dance every 5 minutes,
my wife said she might have tuned in again.
Quoted from Jackontherocks:I am starting to lose track.
Yup, I agree. As I saw a film last night that had a whole row of pins in a elongated scene featured promptly,
but am going to try to do a search in this topic
with movie name, to verify if posted before prior to me posting about it.
chances are it was posted before, but worth the try,
might add it anyway since i have fairly decent screenshots.
Well after a cursory search the movie
American Graffiti was cited previously in post#240
& #242 (with actual list of pin names from the scene),
but with no photos or screen shots
so see below for the scene.
One correction to post #242 list,
the WMS Pitch&Bat is Ball Park not Base Hit that is shown in the scene.
Scene is where Richard Dreyfuss character is forced to cover for the gang
"The Pharaohs" breaking into the machines for money,
they then take a liking to him and suggest he joins.
Wondering how many of the youth back in the day,
this exact scenario was their introduction
to the juvenile delinquent lifestyle.
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Assuming they spell it correctly.
Movies probably easier to search and sort thru,
TV shows maybe a bit harder as there are multiple episodes to possibly search thru.
It's a Zaccaria UNIVERSE. Good pull.
At least my instincts about it being a foreign make were right on.
The Fort Apache game ID pulls, I can see the strikes and spares but how did you get the other two, my eyes. Can not unfocus those details
I stand corrected, should have double checked on ipdb
You are exactly right, when i saw the colors of the CAB and flame on front,
I had Solar Ride on my mind, but you are absolutely correct.
Now what is the other one behind the black gal playing pinball.?
Found this in another recent pinside thread ( Mata Hari Club)
Movie
When a Stranger Calls 1979
Bar scene
Hot Tip and Mata Hari
see post #461
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mata-hari-club-em-and-ss-all-are-welcome/page/10#post-5582347
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Quoted from pinwiztom:Quoted from o-din:
The first person that can tell me which pinball machine I saw in a ski resort in an early Mission Impossible gets a bisquit or a cookie.CCoin Sun Valley??
since MI TV series started in 1966
Can I change my answer to WMS Ski Club or Alpine Club
or maybe BLY the Wiggler
Quoted from ThatOneDude:Single Parents
Betting background pin is a classic Stern Galaxy, with revised altered artwork on BG.
though background pin's CAB artwork is something i do not recognise or match to Galaxy.
The game the gal is playing appears to have habitrails, but bet you a dollar
the sounds were bells and chimes.
WMS Skill Pool - reverse wedgehead
Show : Last of Summer Wine
The classic British sitcom
longest running show with 31 seasons (series) 1973-2010
Series4 Episode8
"The Bandit from Stoke-On-Trent"
Foggy feels threatened by Norman and Compo's old friend Amos, who is as great a blow-hard as himself.
There is some concern that Amos may be back in the village to rob the bank.
Photo is from scene where the boys are playing snooker at the pub.
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Quoted from girloveswaffles:Not sure about the Zig Zag,
I think TopMoose is correct about ZigZag (or Wing Ding)
definitely a reverse wedgehead, score reel placement match up and colors on BG make sense.
not that many reverse wedgeheads to contradict .
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
About 1hr2min into the movie when he enters the biker bar
where he does his iconic tequila dance
There is a solid state pinball machine (probably a early 80s WMS).
The one screen grab i got is very blurry.
You can tell its a pinball machine but hardly anything else,
might be easier to ID if viewing for the whole 2 seconds its on screen.
Might be able to ID from the CAB artwork.
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Looks like WaffleGirl found out it was Blackout!
Tuned into TCM and was watching a 1948 movie called "Embraceable You"
Scene is two thugs enter a soda fountain and rough up a old man running the place,
In the background in a couple of shots are 2 flipperless pinball machines,
but no view of PF or BG, just some CAB side art.
Doubt we can determine what games they are especially being in B&W.
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S3 Ep13
Betty goes Steady
Robert Vaughn pre Man from UNCLE
Playing a college COED dweeb
Some sort of woodrail baseball themed game
Have not figured it out yet,
betting its a GTB or CCoin
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One is WMS Cyclone
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=617&picno=50848
The Two player EM pin looks like it may be GTB Top Score or Soccer with a new artwork Backglass
As it has the balls added BG animation feature or so it appears.
Quoted from PinMonk:Prior mentions were likely not added due to lack of pictures. No pictures, no index entry.
I think you need to add posts #2358 and #2364 to the Bad News Bear key posts list
as they have different view perspectives with more games shown and also posts surrounding
those posts have actual pin ID info. Whereas post #799 has no pin ID info.
Quoted from frenchmarky:2019 REELZ channel 'documentary' about Eddie Murphy's ups and downs,
I am thinking the pin against the wall might be GTB Street Fighter II.
what do you guys think?
Notice the placement of the Gottlieb Logos and the white leg kick on the center left and arm of the female fighter on the right
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Quoted from setzkor:"Impractical Jokers Dinner Show," they are showing what is apparently Q's collection.
Brian Quinn is quite the pinball enthusiast.
He makes up half of the dynamic duo
the Pinball Twinz
along with Bryan Johnson
(of Comic book men and Tell 'em Steve-Dave podcast fame).
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Romano's friend, a rookie officer, is wounded while working undercover against PCP dealers targeting high school kids.
Drug kingpin hideaway front is a Coin-Op Pinball operator outfit.
I spyed a WMS Phoenix and a GTB Black Hole, plus a few video games and jukes.
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Quoted from phillyfan64:Supergirl 2 nights ago. This has been shown several times but I still have no idea what it really is. It says Cosmic Goddess.
The placement of the score reels on the BG do not align with any normal conventional EM pin.
Saw this pin in the background while watching the Friends reunion show on HBOMax. It is actually from a segment depicting Jennifer Aniston in the show she was in just prior to Friends called Muddling Through, where she is a waitress/bartender. The game looks like a WMS solid state from the 80s, maybe Firepower ?
from look of CAB art.
From the far right going to the left from Bowling alley scene in the movie, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle.
#1 do not recognize, probably WMS Pitch&Bat baseball
Then
Grand Slam
Target Pool
BLY Expressway
2001
Some GTB Multiplayer name escapes me (its Skipper)
then god knows what is located in the center of that (GTB Aquaris ?) wedgehead
looks like lemur??
My wife and I were just watching on REELZ a true crime program called "I lived with a Killer" S1E9
This episode was about some Mafia thug, that was a partner in a pool hall that also was a front for a sports bookie.
Anyway in several scenes thruout, they showed the inside of the pool hall and they had 6 pinball machines in the background,
all were very blurry, but on occasion one or two came into focus.
One was a Shadow and another Walking Dead, and another was maybe Black Knight 2000.
The scene was supposed to take place in late 80s, early 90s, so of course, some of the machines were not era appropriate.
Unfortunately the photo I took of the screen was way too blurry to post.
Quoted from frenchmarky:folks playing pins in the 70s
Short shorts and tube socks. Never out of style.
Love the guy standing next to the Atari Middle Earth, trying to act cool, while really scamming on the ladys playing pinball.
Also think that is a WMS Pat Hand about 3 pins from the left? Then again maybe not.
Roseanne S4E11
Scene with Mark and Dan
at grocery store *arcade section in front of the store) where they confront
a junior manager of store that was giving Becky a hard time (possibly calling her a slut or worse)
(she just started new job as cashier).
When Dan came to confront the manager to maybe bust his chops,
Mark had already been there and hit the kid in the stomach, ( taking way Dan's thunder)
Mark was playing a video game, when Dan finally arrived.
Game was actually a Baby PacMan Flipper video hybrid game
with the graphics on the marquee changed to say Marvin (hiding the name Baby Pacman)
But you can still clearly see the characters of Baby and one of the ghosts (Inky?).
OK, I checked the key post topic list, could not find anything for TV show Mike&Molly. My wife is one who found this yesterday on CMT, but forgot to get season and episode number. Looks like a slightly altered GTB Spot? POOL or is it Roto Pool.
It's Roto Pool
Probably from season 3 or 4
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Just started watching "My Life as a Rolling Stone" Documentary (Ep1 Mick Jagger) on EPIX.
And in the first few minutes it has video of Stern's Rolling Stones pinball machine
interlaced with Mick Jagger talking over the footage, in the doc's intro
explaining what they hope to show with this "new" documentary.
Was not able to grab a screen shot
Was watching it thru free preview via SlingTV via Epix channel, only 1st episode is free.
Or watch it free (1st Episode) on EPIX NOW app on Roku.
https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/0e7174bc0dc9408ab772b0467762afe1/watch
about 1-2 minutes into the start,
has several prolonged snippets of video of the game in play
while narrators discuss how pivotal the Stones were.
Thanks for getting screen grabs,
Yeah always with the classic EM chimes
whenever pinball is depicted on TV or Movies.
I found it somewhat amusing when Mick says something about his dance moves
they then immediately go to the pinball with Jagger standup target moving across the Playfield.
Quoted from HC2016:Watching it now , probably posted already …
IS that Archie Bunker's Place or All in the Family?
and do you know the Season and episode number?
Does appear to be new pin machine siting for those shows,
as the tavern seems to have a rotating series of games on display (routed)
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
From Discovery+ streaming show
Oddities : San Francisco S1 E6.
A show spout people and the weird things they collect.
This is of course Capt Fan and Buckaroo.
The thing they were after though was a cows cojoined twin calf with extra legs growing out of its shoulders.
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One of the hoss is dressed like Mortica Addams and is called Wednesday.
too many games to name in this movie
Just released
PINBALL: The Man who Saved the Game
It is a cute little movie.
A love story really,
two actually
The love Roger had for the game of pinball
and the love Roger had for Ellen
his future and present wife.
Really well made, the writing, acting and direction were all very good.
Buy the movie online for $10 or rent it.
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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
I checked the key post topic lists, and did not see mention of 2005 Johnny Knoxville movie The Ringer.
Scene in dorm game room with 3 pins where his special buddies convince him to take them all
to the movies prior to Special Olympics,
that they are all competing in.
Fish Tales , the Getaway and No Fear.
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Quoted from pinball2020:Swearnet the Movie 2014
Unknown EM machine - anyone have any ideas from the side art? Thanks!
Quoted from BMHouze:
(edited)I also spotted an EM at the front of Bubbles' garage when I was watching Swearnet.
I believe it is 1969 WMS Suspense
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pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from pinball2020:We can wait and see when the PPM decides to sell it off
The PPM will only sell donated games, if they have a double of the pin already,
and unless given express permission by donor to sell machine.
At least that is the deal, I worked out with the PPM for games I have donated.
Just saw a commercial promo for Disney+ new show (5 episode Series)
ECHO (Daredevil/Kingpin)
where there is a scene where an obvious prop pinball machine (Legends of the Coyote)
is smashed to bits in a fight.
Looks to be a re-themed wedgehead EM pin.
No idea which episode it will actually air with this scene.
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From the looks of the scene, it seems the whole environment is created via CGI
Quoted from o-din:You tell me!
Some confusion is caused by the bells (pinball foley) sounds that one hears in background,
But when the fellas leave the bar and walk by the game , I do not see any flipper buttons
and when the one guy returns to the bar and enters the phone booth inside the bar
the game cabinet is painted a solid grey but you can tell by the way the head is mounted
it is a bingo and again no sign of flipper buttons.
From the reverse image in the back bar mirror it looks like it might be a 3 card bingo machine.
I am going to guess United Triple Play
Cause the positions of the cards look like they line up and green banners at the top of BG
and the light towers on the PF.
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2651&picno=55775
Quoted from o-din:I never watched that show when it was first on
I was not the usual hour long action drama series watcher,
but I do remember watching this series on occasion.
Maybe more so after I recognized that Michael Douglas
was producer of One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest.
Really like the theme music.
also enjoyed trying to recognize SF landmarks,
since I lived in the South Bay Area back in those days.
Quoted from SonicZone:between Sound Stage and "300" looks like a Bow and Arrow (Bally, 1975).
Was thinking that also
And obviously the Playfield shots are from Jacks Open
But still wondering about the game at the disco? Likely Solid State.
Not with my Wife, You Don't 1966
Tony Curtis and George C Scott
Fight in bar scene during Korean war
A bingo (likely Bally Beach Club)
and a 2or4 player pinball obviously not era appropriate.
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Weird thing was in scene prior to fight breaking out,
the WACs playing the bingo were wiggling their butts to the tune of pinball chime and bell sounds
Quoted from mooch:Looks like a 1960 Gottlieb Melody Lane.
As good a guess as any.
shame the freeze frame i got was so blurry, but best i could do.
But think you may be right
despite some of the coloration differences
most likely due to out of focus of shot
or movie prop masking.
ELVIS 1979 with Kurt Russell (as Elvis) when he was supposedly dating Natalie Wood
Elvis visits (his?) arcade with dozens of pinball and other EM arcade gun and driving games
I see Delta Queen and Abra Ca Dabra and maybe SweatHearts, Old Chicago, some GTB 4 Player
Quoted from pinballslave:you have no idea what kind if idiot you're trying to guide here!
more like an idiot savant
when it comes to recognizing (guessing)
the clues on the visual pinball clue game
(Pinball visual Quiz show)
we play.
From one idiot to another, I think I may have solution to your search problem. After you click on the key posts and then show all 1262 key posts. One needs to sort the key posts list by chosing Display key posts list sorted by : Key post summary, not post date or user name. Key post summary is defacto alphabetical, then ddo a quick scroll of list via 0-9 and A thru Z
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