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Show us your EM Bowlers, Mechanical, and old Electrical Toys in your Gameroom!

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#1201 5 years ago

ok heres my 2 cents...

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#1202 5 years ago
Quoted from out-of-order:

ok heres my 2 cents...

Nice line-up on the gun games. Which is your favorite? My son has a Shoot Out. They don't get much better than that.

#1203 5 years ago

probably the coney island.truth be said the bowler gets more play than any of the other games.i think thats the same with most game rooms with a ball bowler.

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#1204 5 years ago

Wow what a great thread so many amazing games out there.

My non pinball collection include
1890 mutoscope what the butler saw
1890 salta scales
1900 Mills electricity is life
1933 new era jumping jack
1905 pepsin gum penny drop
1940 silver king duck hunt
Fratntz pot of gold kicked catcher
Imp trade sim
1952 genco 400
Rowe Tropicana Jukebox
1950 team ticket vendor
1930 gottlieb grip tester
1940 sky jump
1940 conveyor
1930 electric eye rifle
Seeburg coon hunt
Midway chopper
Bally roadrunner
1940 Bryans clock
1945 Williams circus romance
Bally 809 bandit
1950s fortune teller
1950 Us marshals
1940 Como Holly crane
1930s exhibit rotary merchandiser
1950 tank buster
40s/50s Hi ball
3d artorama peepshow
Sega punching bag
1933 Bryans trickler
1940s sanitary napkin dispenser
30s/40s skill wheel
30s/40s penny patience
1940s win a nestle Alwin
Williams Ten Strike 7 foot
Williams mini golf
United bonus bowling alley 20foot
Genco motorama
Allied leisure Daytona 500
Transatlantic steer a coin
Dale engineering cops and robber
Mike Munves bike race
Chicago coin par golf

That’s what i remember off the top of my head and here’s a few photos

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#1205 5 years ago
Quoted from Ddstoys:

My non pinball collection include

holy crap. Wow.

#1206 5 years ago

I have a nagging nostalgia for that Silver Dollar gun game. I swear I must have seen one when I was very very young. The cast iron saloon beckons some kind of deeply buried memories, like a smell you remember but can't quite place.

What is that small countertop plinko-like machine next to your Ten Strike?
thanks so much for sharing.

#1207 5 years ago
Quoted from cait001:

I have a nagging nostalgia for that Silver Dollar gun game. I swear I must have seen one when I was very very young. The cast iron saloon beckons some kind of deeply buried memories, like a smell you remember but can't quite place.
What is that small countertop plinko-like machine next to your Ten Strike?
thanks so much for sharing.

To the right of ten strike is a Frantz kicker and catcher called pot of gold but sadly the original glass was broken

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#1208 5 years ago
Quoted from Ddstoys:

My non pinball collection

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Good mercy! An enviable collection indeed. Thank you for sharing, Ddstoys.

#1209 5 years ago
Quoted from Ddstoys:

To the right of ten strike is a Frantz kicker and catcher called pot of gold but sadly the original glass was broken

Backglass repros for this kicker-catcher are available. At least, the repro is available for the similar Baker version.

#1210 5 years ago
Quoted from Ddstoys:

the right of ten strike is a Frantz kicker and catcher called pot of gold

too bad it's not actually Kicker Catcher, I saw a great backglass for one of those for sale recently

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#1211 5 years ago
Quoted from Ddstoys:

My non pinball collection

*sigh* Alright, Ddstoys, I guess SOMEONE has to follow that doozy of a post. I'll start the bar low this time.

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In all seriousness, I'm pretty excited about this 1977 United "Thunderbird" shuffle bowler. I bought this as a project a while back with a lot of things to figure-out. I managed to source a missing score reel, missing pin reset motor, busted pins, missing puck, and disassemble/clean all 87 score reels. However, thanks to a visit from a one, bingopodcast , it is now in working order and QUITE fun! It's such a great change of pace from pinball.

Don't get me wrong, I love me some pingames...

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...but there's something to be said for a game that allows for a 5 second turn before passing the buck...er...PUCK to the next player. bingopodcast 's family and mine played a number of games where many members of our respective crews, regardless of age, were quite invested in their games. Lots of entertainment value here.

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It may not be the prettiest, but it's up and running, and at some point I'll aim to make it a little nicer. I'm also looking forward to the day we're able to finish that unfinished basement where it currently sits, so that it can join its coin-op cousins. In the meantime, we're enjoying it quite a bit. Coming in at the tail end of the electro-mechanical era, it's got fair number of different game types to play (Regulation, Flash, 6th Frame, Strike 90, and Strike Bonus), and in a space too small for a ball bowler, this is a helluva close second.

#1212 5 years ago
Quoted from RyanClaytor:

*sigh* Alright, Ddstoys, I guess SOMEONE has to follow that doozy of a post. I'll start the bar low this time.

In all seriousness, I'm pretty excited about this 1977 United "Thunderbird" shuffle bowler. I bought this as a project a while back with a lot of things to figure-out. I managed to source a missing score reel, missing pin reset motor, busted pins, missing puck, and disassemble/clean all 87 score reels. However, thanks to a visit from a one, bingopodcast , it is now in working order and QUITE fun! It's such a great change of pace from pinball.
Don't get me wrong, I love me some pingames...

...but there's something to be said for a game that allows for a 5 second turn before passing the buck...er...PUCK to the next player. bingopodcast 's family and mine played a number of games where many members of our respective crews, regardless of age, were quite invested in their games. Lots of entertainment value here.

It may not be the prettiest, but it's up and running, and at some point I'll aim to make it a little nicer. I'm also looking forward to the day we're able to finish that unfinished basement where it currently sits, so that it can join its coin-op cousins. In the meantime, we're enjoying it quite a bit. Coming in at the tail end of the electro-mechanical era, it's got fair number of different game types to play (Regulation, Flash, 6th Frame, Strike 90, and Strike Bonus), and in a space too small for a ball bowler, this is a helluva close second.

Ooooohhhh penny pitch

#1213 5 years ago
Quoted from ZNET:

Backglass repros for this kicker-catcher are available. At least, the repro is available for the similar Baker version.

Thanks Bruce I’ll have to do a search. I havnt bothered yet low priority game at the moment

#1214 5 years ago

Where do you guys find this stuff? I live in a machine desert. I'm lucky to come up with the occasional pinball.

#1215 5 years ago
Quoted from browne92:

Where do you guys find this stuff? I live in a machine desert. I'm lucky to come up with the occasional pinball.

When you're a collector in this thread, sometimes collecting means driving across the continent for the pieces you want.

#1216 5 years ago
Quoted from browne92:Where do you guys find this stuff? I live in a machine desert. I'm lucky to come up with the occasional pinball.

Quoted from cait001:

When you're a collector in this thread, sometimes collecting means driving across the continent for the pieces you want.

Collector is a nice word for addict!!!! Most of have been on those long journeys to get the machine they wanted, some have even shipped them from overseas.

BUT to cait001's point...if you truly want a game you'll go and get it!

#1217 5 years ago
Quoted from cait001:

When you're a collector in this thread, sometimes collecting means driving across the continent for the pieces you want.

...or shipping across continents!

#1218 5 years ago
Quoted from wayner:

...or shipping across continents!

on that note I am looking for a Bell-Fruit Cascade machine and am willing to pay stupid amounts shipping to get it here, if anyone can assist.

Quoted from meSz:

Most of have been on those long journeys to get the machine they wanted, some have even shipped them from overseas.

Yep, there is that constant vigilance of searching and working towards the pieces you want. Also lots of networking amongst likeminded coll--- addicts-- looking out for each other! I have a selection of people in my phone who I call/text right away if I find stuff I think is in their wheelhouse. Likewise I sometimes get messages from people that have spotted curiousities they think I want.
And when that coveted piece becomes available a few thousand miles/kilometres away, you have to see how much you truly want it then!

#1219 5 years ago

cait001 I think you came up with a new name for us, "Colladdict"

#1220 5 years ago

only takes 1 clown to ruin the fun for everybody.

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#1221 5 years ago
Quoted from out-of-order:

only takes 1 clown to ruin the fun for everybody.

Good looking alley cat! What's its name?

#1222 5 years ago

Ive got a williams strike master that Ive rethemed to a "Starlite Bowl" with black lite and cosmic pins. It even has a blue LED dmd. Im am looking to move it out if anyone is interested.

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#1223 5 years ago
Quoted from Pinstein:

Ive got a williams strike master that Ive rethemed to a "Starlite Bowl" with black lite and cosmic pins. It even has a blue LED dmd. Im am looking to move it out if anyone is interested.

Location? Price?

#1224 5 years ago
Quoted from DennisDodel:

Good looking alley cat! What's its name?

that would be "lucky"and relaxing on the alley is one of her favorite pastimes.especially when anyone wants to bowl.

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#1225 5 years ago

This is my Bally Bowler. That’s a contact bowler. The ball actually makes contact with the pins. No switch actuator on alley. Very fun to play…

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#1226 5 years ago

Very nice.
I really hope to get a ball bowler someday.

#1227 5 years ago

I played that on a few years ago. Fun at its best.

#1228 5 years ago

contact bowler.as good as it gets.

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#1229 5 years ago

Just finished restoring my second Duncan 50 parking meter-it is a really nice example. Created a stand & using to hold a Tropics flyer & to guard the bowler against 'overstays'!

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#1230 5 years ago

Just spent an interesting 10 minutes reading about parking meters and, specifically, the "Police will not turn handle" sticker... thanks!

#1231 5 years ago

A couple of English arcade games, that might interest you.

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#1232 5 years ago
Quoted from EMGaz:

A couple of English arcade games, that might interest you.

Yep, tell us more-

#1233 5 years ago
Quoted from EMGaz:

A couple of English arcade games, that might interest you.

I'm currently fascinated by English arcade games. The history of coinop is the history of local gambling laws, and it seems that American laws pushed that industry in vastly different directions, and English games were able to keep the focus on gambling payouts. I love me a good Allwin machine, but if you compare photos of American arcades in the 60s vs English arcades in the 60s, I'm definitely biased towards to the American pinball renaissance.

#1234 5 years ago

Kind of related to this thread. I have an apollo moon shot rifle game, and im trying to clean 50 years of nicotine off the sides. Whats the best way? I tried mean green and magic eraser, but felt like too much paint was coming off. I tried tsp, but that too seems like paint is coming off. How does everyone do it??

#1235 5 years ago

Bottom is an after pic with mean green magic eraser

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#1236 5 years ago
Quoted from amkoepfer:

mean green magic eraser

On cabinets, the combination I found to work best also!

#1237 5 years ago
Quoted from Mopar:

On cabinets, the combination I found to work best also!

Thanks. I was just worried about paint loss, but i dont want to put it into the basement until its clean!

#1238 5 years ago
Quoted from amkoepfer:

I was just worried about paint loss,

I thought about maybe fading also, so I do a small area at a time, and as soon as
it does it's job, I wipe it all off right away, and sometimes with a slightly damp cloth
after also..

#1239 5 years ago
Quoted from amkoepfer:

Kind of related to this thread. I have an apollo moon shot rifle game, and im trying to clean 50 years of nicotine off the sides. Whats the best way? I tried mean green and magic eraser, but felt like too much paint was coming off. I tried tsp, but that too seems like paint is coming off. How does everyone do it??

It's really tar. I like to use ammonia. But like everything else there's many ways to do it.

#1240 5 years ago
Quoted from amkoepfer:

but i dont want to put it into the basement until its clean!

Yeah, I think I am busy that day. Holy f*** that thing looks heavy.

#1241 5 years ago

Maybe you can utilize this before trying to move it to the gameroom,

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#1242 5 years ago

Guys I don’t own any non pin EM stuff but really want to. I never seem to find any of that stuff around here tho. Any suggestions on where to look/how to search for these kinds of toys? I know y’all have secrets about finding things, but anybody willing to share search tips?

#1243 5 years ago
Quoted from seshpilot:

Guys I don’t own any non pin EM stuff but really want to. I never seem to find any of that stuff around here tho. Any suggestions on where to look/how to search for these kinds of toys? I know y’all have secrets about finding things, but anybody willing to share search tips?

I've purchased from word of mouth, Craigs list and also E-Bay has been good to me on occasion. It might be worth it to you to hit a couple of the Chicago shows. They have a couple big coin op shows including Expo for pinball. There are also Coin Op forums to join although I have none saved in my work computer, but I'm sure many others can steer you in a good direction.
Good luck on your search

#1244 5 years ago
Quoted from SirScott:

Maybe you can utilize this before trying to move it to the gameroom,

I moved it to the garage myself! How bad can steps be? Ya, its heavy!

#1245 5 years ago
Quoted from seshpilot:

Guys I don’t own any non pin EM stuff but really want to. I never seem to find any of that stuff around here tho. Any suggestions on where to look/how to search for these kinds of toys? I know y’all have secrets about finding things, but anybody willing to share search tips?

Google- coin-op collectibles, trade stimulators, antique coin-op, antique candy machines etc...

#1246 5 years ago

Ok, its at least clean enough to move inside. Not perfect, but i can do the rest downstairs. Tsp and magic eraser

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#1247 5 years ago

Its downstairs finally. It took the spot of chicago coin mini baseball, so now i have to find a new spot for that

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#1248 5 years ago

Andy, I have a spot for it.

#1249 5 years ago

Looks beautiful and it fits right in! I would love to get a Chicago Coin Mini Baseball one day.

#1250 5 years ago

Its in decent shape. I need to get a repro glass for it as the artwork is missing, but its fun. Needs a little love, but ill get to it. Sorry howie, not for sale yet!

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