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The Pinball Visual Quiz Show

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    #681 7 years ago

    Cross Country

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=598&picno=37898&zoom=1

    Someone else can post. I'd jus be taking something off IPDB right now.

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    #725 7 years ago

    I thought it might be Phoenix. Clawed hand and earlier game was about Phoenix Arizona. But I don't see that detail.

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    #752 7 years ago

    Party Monster? I don't remember seeing on EATPM or on Hot Shots.

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    #817 7 years ago

    Rack Em Up - I play one fairly often and should have known that sooner.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1902&picno=38241

    Easy one -

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    #823 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    Mick's tits
    of course

    Knew that as soon as I saw it. Also the strange color change.

    Here is a curve ball -

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    #825 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    want to say seawitch?

    Sweet. Yes, the upper head side.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2089&picno=19819&zoom=1

    you're up

    #827 7 years ago

    That is why I said curveball without saying too much. You still nailed it form color and style. I'm still mad my buddy sold his last year without offering it to me first.

    #833 7 years ago

    For those following but did not get it "Twin Win" had an adult version of the backglass

    PG version - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2689&picno=5906

    Easy one from the Pointy People era (backglass)

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    #835 7 years ago

    Williams yes. Those colors are from a much clearer promotional photo. Here is a tiny version from actual BG.

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    #857 7 years ago

    Aces & Kings

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=11&picno=18537&zoom=1

    (from the playfield)

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    #880 7 years ago

    Bowl-O

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=368&picno=13705

    This is from a backglass of a game I have never seen or played in person. But I want to because it has a certain feature I like on many games.

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    #899 7 years ago

    Moon Shot

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1627&picno=65648&zoom=1

    From the playfield.

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    #901 7 years ago

    Yes.

    #907 7 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    BEATEN AGAIN BY SECONDS!!!

    All good. I didn't check enough yesterday and missed some easy ones like DE Secret Service. Ones like those you either know or have no clue.

    We will go with your king.

    #914 7 years ago

    It was Magic Town (red credit window) while Magic City has white center.

    #918 7 years ago

    Texas Ranger (same playfield as the last Sheriff or Lawman)

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2527&picno=41847&zoom=1

    From the playfield. (I don't like this game)

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    #921 7 years ago

    Junkyard

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=4014&picno=11009

    Here is a great game - playfield art

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    #930 7 years ago

    I was away for a bit and missed a few. Let me catch up this morning -

    Space Ship

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2259&picno=2151

    #932 7 years ago

    Here is an easy one. At least I have seen a lot of these.

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    #936 7 years ago

    I wanted to leave a bit of her shoulder to make keep it from being too generic.

    Stop 'N' Go

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2386&picno=43108&zoom=1

    Backglass

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    #942 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    above looks like a GTB multiplayer from the mid to late 50s
    (chances are the gal has twin facing the other way)
    guessing Seashore
    not even sure that is an actual GTB pin name
    will have to peruse ipdb to verify.

    I had similar thoughts. I could picture another girl facing her on the other side of the wheel. Probably says Gotlieb in the center of the wheel.

    #959 7 years ago

    I can picture her Pegasus back half but can't think of the game right now.

    Is it that Loctronomotion or something?

    #963 7 years ago

    Should not be too hard. From the Playfield.

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    #965 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    Hey its Ted
    Nugent

    Too easy? Sorry.

    #972 7 years ago

    Checking in - Pretty Baby

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1863&picno=28315&zoom=1

    From the backglass (and not Hulk)

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    #974 7 years ago

    Hmmm, looks like something on a playfield back board rather than a playfield or backglass. And the font looks like something on a system-11.

    I was thinking something like this on MA - http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1635&picno=30843&zoom=1

    #988 7 years ago

    Tx Sector - I was playing one yesterday. Also missed out on the NBA. Played in a linked tournament yesterday.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2699&picno=53588

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    #993 7 years ago

    Whole playfield as a clue? Shamrock

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2107&picno=16365

    Here, a right slingshot

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    #995 7 years ago

    Monte Carlo

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1623&picno=1562

    Globetrotters is great. It is like a reverse standard sized Paragon.

    Here is another fun game.

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    #1020 7 years ago

    Wow, no way I would have gotten that game. From "Universal de Desarrollos". I never played any of these and would not recognize artist or anything. If we continue down the path of obscure games I am going to bail. Just not fun if I don't have a chance.

    #1025 7 years ago
    Quoted from aobrien5:

    I've played Mephisto. Knew I'd seen it.
    taxman that's how I feel about all the EMs!

    I only own one EM at this point. I am mostly a 90's Bly/Wms and pretty big on System-11 games. But EMs are around and available. At Pintastic I think close to 20% of the games in the Free Play area are EMs and I take advantage of that when I am there.

    Decades in the hobby I have never see a "Universal de Desarrollos" game.

    #1037 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    I did not think this clue was going to be so tough, either that or everyone has grown tired of the quiz game.

    I don't have a chance to look all of the time. I hate it when I come back and missed a few of them and knew a couple. But I will admit I didn't look forward to playing when I thought it would turn to obscure companies I had not change of knowing. Just not fun. The fun part is knowing you have probably played the game but didn't observe a section of the playfield or backglass. So you run game through your mind based on color schemes, post style . . .

    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    Anyway a helpful hint might be think of this game as what makes pinball
    the fun and competitive game of skill it is today.

    Beer?

    #1073 7 years ago

    Twilight Zone beneath the mini playfield.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2684&picno=37888&zoom=1

    #1076 7 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    Wow! Beaten by 30 seconds again! Way to go, Dave!

    Not very common, but we have one at The Sanctum to play (from the playfield).

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    #1078 7 years ago

    Wow, that was quick. Until The Sanctum go one last year I don't remember playing one. Cool looking game, but I don't particularly like playing.

    #1081 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    the main feature turret
    tends to slow it down some
    Also was it fair to reverse the image

    Sorry, I did not realize it was reversed when I took a quick snap shot from this picture -

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2739&picno=18211

    I just picked it because we have one to play and I know it has cool art but is uncommon.

    #1102 7 years ago

    Good morning.

    Bali-Hi

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=135&picno=38134

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    #1109 7 years ago

    All-Star Basketball

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=54&picno=42764&zoom=1

    This is easy if you recognize the ramp

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    #1118 7 years ago

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    #1121 7 years ago

    Six Million Dollar Man

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2165&picno=30612&zoom=1

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    Hint, while this might be very small on the playfield you still might just, recognize it

    #1123 7 years ago

    I did not want to say cartoon or you may have seen it on TV. But you saw that cabin at the beginning of each episode.

    #1131 7 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    Bally Future Spa?

    Yes, but when I owned one it did not have that nice of a look.

    #1137 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    Strato-Fliite
    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2398&picno=51238
    PF with common problem of inserts falling out due to skrinkage and age.
    Actually your clue about the shoot again insert
    being below flippers is misleading as while it is located in the drain area
    the insert is still placed a few cm above the flippers albeit to the left side drain.
    nice try

    What clue?

    #1143 7 years ago

    Good, then you will kick yourself when you find out what it is from. Domestic.

    #1146 7 years ago

    Feel the Power is such a Lawlor expression (Addams, TZ, Earthsharker and Whirlwind). But I don't think it is one those.

    I'm going to look at pictures of Roadshow. Nope, and I don't have pictures of Dialed-In.

    #1148 7 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    This may have been posted before. From the BG

    WMS Funhouse
    Someone else can post a pic.

    I knew it was Lawlor. I had not idea that was up there.

    #1150 7 years ago

    If no one is posting here is one -

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    Wow, this is one of 3 threads on fire this morning. I thought is was just a few of us having a bit of fun.

    #1157 7 years ago

    Once again. Is this going to turn into picking games we don't see and just try to stump each other?

    Going Nuts 10 made, Kingpin 9 made . . .

    If so posting a picture that will be more difficult than fun is easy.

    #1162 7 years ago
    Quoted from aobrien5:

    Both of them were guessed within 90m, and we always give clues if it takes too long. It's ok if you don't know every one of them.

    I do not expect to get even half of them. But when I don't I try to think of what I could have done to narrow it down. Artist, color scheme . . . But then when I realize I would not have ever gotten it without brute for IPDB searches I wonder what the person posting it was thinking. And if it is purely to stump people it loses a bit of the fun.

    Don't read too much into my posts about this. I'm not trying to make a big deal. It is not my thread and everyone can take the game in any direction they want. But I'm just saying if I see it going in a direction of total difficulty I don't want to put too much thought into it. I purposely post a few easy ones because it is fun when you recognize it right away. Also helps to get more people playing. So I purposely posted some more recent games when it was mentioned that one person is not that good on the EM spectrum.

    #1165 7 years ago

    Easy-Peazy

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    #1177 7 years ago

    I posted the last one.

    #1181 7 years ago

    Beat me to it be seconds - Knew the Lazer War turd as soon as I saw it.

    http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1415&picno=32835&zoom=1

    #1193 7 years ago

    To me it looks like the edge of a plastic on a support. The left side of the picture is a plastic with the explosion and bricks. The upper right is the playfield below the plastic. The art looks slightly different.

    #1197 7 years ago

    Road Kings?

    #1198 7 years ago

    Yup. Pretty sure that it up there. No good close up on IPDB.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1970&picno=4539&zoom=1

    This will be easier.

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    #1207 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    Main reason i got the last one was cause clue was a bridge
    I associated bridge clue with San Francisco
    and Dirty Harry takes place in Bay Area

    I was debating taking the beams off the cropping and making it look like flying saucers. But I didn't want it too hard.

    Supersonic

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2455&picno=38490

    #1209 7 years ago

    Like most of these. They can be easy if you know it from seeing it often, recently or jst stuck in your head from a shop job or searching for a piece.

    This one might be tricky to some or easy to another.

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    #1217 7 years ago
    Quoted from Nilroc:

    Appeared in the 1956 movie The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
    It appears around 70 minutes into the film. (Hotel lobby scene)
    Can anyone here identify this pinball machine?

    Looks like a Wild West

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2785&picno=37536

    I checked the old Pin Geek website but he has the movie listed but a ? for identification. I emailed him in case he still updates the list.

    #1218 7 years ago

    I guess we are waiting so here goes one.

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    Hint: EM

    #1220 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    Look another Parker beauty!

    Yes, that narrows it down to a few hundred

    #1223 7 years ago

    Hurdy Gurdy

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1256&picno=30180&zoom=1

    You took the better picture from the Italian version

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=4776&picno=45202

    Probably too easy.

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    #1226 7 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    This is a very small, very fine detail on this game's BG. I always thought it was pretty neat.

    Killing me. I know I do not know those little smiles. So I am trying to picture what it might be framing. And the green being used.

    #1245 7 years ago

    Jacks to Open

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1282&picno=23715&zoom=1

    Wow, you guys went through a few. I left off on the pool table green for Pinball Pool.

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    #1248 7 years ago

    Checking Who Dunnit

    Yup - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3685&picno=8340

    I don't like it much either. But it is cool that I don't know any other game where you can lower your score (not just award or bonus) through betting.

    #1249 7 years ago

    This is obviously a detail from the plastics on IPDB. Edited a bit, I took the numbers off that might make look up too easy.

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    #1259 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    visual clue was clipped from a blank (unpopulated) PF

    Could tell that from the empty circled post hole.

    I was wondering if it is upside down. Since that is not how a "P" trap works.

    #1261 7 years ago

    I though so but I could not find it.

    #1266 7 years ago

    Damn, I didn't get it until I started thinking of a newer game with pops on a left orbit.

    #1268 7 years ago

    Yes, but I didn't know the pops were on the left until the updated picture.

    So here is a cow -

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    #1271 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    my next clue was going to be
    Water Works

    I owned a Monopoly for a few months and never saw that.

    No, but that is what I was hoping first thoughts would be.

    There are a lot of cows in pinball

    #1275 7 years ago

    Here is a hint with a bigger picture like you did.

    Two cows

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    #1278 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinballkim:

    Is it big buck hunter?

    Ding ding ding. We have a winner.

    Quoted from CaptainNeo:

    has to be a sega with the crappy art. ID4?

    You forget that crappy Sega art became crappy Stern art.

    #1285 7 years ago

    That is the Buck Rodgers ships. What threw me off was it is from the playfield.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=392&picno=7591

    This one is from a game I was going to buy, but The Sanctum got one. Then they sold theirs. I knew I should have grabbed one when I could have.

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    #1289 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    hopefully we can get some more people to jump on here
    with some guesses

    come on do not be shy
    join us
    otherwise it feels like it is just the 10 of us playing

    I like the way you are trying to get people to jump on the -

    Band Wagon

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=163&picno=51928&zoom=1

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    #1294 7 years ago

    Are we waiting on a new post?

    Alright, here is a real easy one -

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    #1304 7 years ago

    I am way behind

    #1319 7 years ago

    Gorgar

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1062&picno=15035&zoom=1

    From the playfield.

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    #1321 7 years ago
    Quoted from CaptainNeo:

    tales of the arabian nights.
    backboard area
    http://mirror2.ipdb.org/images/3824/image-11.jpg
    next is.....

    Not the backboard. Right on the main playfield

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3824&picno=22069

    #1337 7 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    HINT: The original T Z

    Sorry I slacked on this thread this weekend. At least I was playing pinball.

    Hmmm, the original TZ to me would be the show "The Outer Limits" but there is no pin I know of. Then I was thinking the "Time Tunnel" but that came after. And the pin was called Space Time but no dice.

    Ah, Tri Zone.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2641&picno=2508

    Sorry for the quality. From the Backglass.

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    #1344 7 years ago

    Totem

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2607&picno=19715&zoom=1

    Just a minute. Shoving down dinner before league tonight.

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    #1377 7 years ago

    Hint - It is Hot Shotz

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3161&picno=2790

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    #1379 7 years ago

    I thought I might trick people by using a picture not taken from IPDB

    #1381 7 years ago
    Quoted from CaptainNeo:

    normally you would have, but I've had to restore a lot of fathoms for people and that is a part I always have to touchup, so I knew it the second I saw it.

    That is cool. It is so high up I figured people think of the game as an underwater scene and not what people look at generally. But if you're touching up these things had to stick in your head. I love the fact that you (as in me) can see a playfield or backglass for years and not see some of the details.

    #1390 7 years ago

    Looks like the famous hidden Godzilla on Breakshot.

    Confirmed

    http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3784&picno=31972&zoom=1

    #1391 7 years ago

    Here is an easy one. Too early to try hard.

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    #1399 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    man
    u guys aint got it yet?
    ...

    You know some of us have a life don't you?

    I don't, but some do

    #1428 7 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    ...Want to say Stern Sting Ray.

    Nope. Here is a hint. The picture is of a plastic

    #1489 7 years ago

    Corvette? Nope, never mind.

    #1553 7 years ago

    Soccer

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2233&picno=12256&zoom=1

    I don't know how this got on the playfield - Tricky one since I do not see it visible on any IPDB pictures. (Edit, I found it on one picture but not nearly as clean as this one off a bare playfield)

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    #1557 7 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    The DE version of reversed Addams Family (Baywatch)?

    Nope. This is just how it is on the playfield position wise, just under a pretty congested area of a 90s Bally/Williams.

    #1558 7 years ago
    Quoted from Taxman:

    Nope. This is just how it is on the playfield position wise, just under a pretty congested area of a 90s Bally/Williams.

    That was not enough?

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    #1568 7 years ago
    Quoted from Mardi-Gras-Man:

    Bally Boomerang, also by Christian Marche.

    Huh? Wha?

    #1587 7 years ago

    My first thought was Road Kings but I guess not.

    #1595 7 years ago

    Not a Pinball. Even the listing on IPDB says.

    Looks like MM bolts from the cabinet or back plane.

    #1598 7 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    Scared Stiff, I believe.

    Yes, damn. The Monster Lab pops.

    #1603 7 years ago
    Quoted from lmsybiatb:

    Can we make a rule that the machine must be listed on ipdb as a pinball? I spent way too much time on a snipe hunt.

    I would love a set of rules. I take a break from the thread every once and a while after an obscure post. It can be fun to kill some times when you're sitting around but it is frustrating when you don't have a chance.

    Obscure companies, low production, non pinball, conversions and concept games . . .

    If the thread really wants people to join it can't be next to impossible. And the poster has to pay attention when too much time is going by and no one seems to have a clue. You might need to give a clue like "Cabinet, BG, plastic or playfield". Also if you guess you really should post and not pass it on to someone.

    #1614 6 years ago

    I'm going to guess it starts with a "V". And if I buy a vowel it would be "e".

    http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2723&picno=19737&zoom=1

    (are we still on this one? Sorry, I keep dropping off the radar)

    This from is from one of the regular 3 companies - Bally/Midway/Williams/Data East/Sega/Stern/Gottlieb/Premier/Mylstar

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    #1616 6 years ago

    sorry, missed one of the big 3 - Alvin G.

    #1666 6 years ago

    Stage Coach

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2336&picno=2216

    Keeping with the theme

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    #1690 6 years ago

    I was thinking more Paul Faris type scroll work. Paragon, Lost World, POTO type stuff. Mostly near apron.

    #1701 6 years ago

    Wow, that should no have taken that long. Nice one.

    #1705 6 years ago

    Elvis

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=4983&picno=27938&zoom=1

    Playfield - If you know the artwork is should not be too hard.

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    #1706 6 years ago

    I hate to give a hint too early. But since I won't be back for at least 12 hours this will give you the size and placement.

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    #1715 6 years ago

    Morning all.

    Black Pyramid -

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=312&picno=21396&zoom=1

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    #1757 6 years ago
    Quoted from AvidListener:

    It has a pair of pop bumpers down near the flippers.
    A slightly expanded photo view:

    Where is this picture from? That light stripe below the hand does not appear anywhere I can see.

    #1760 6 years ago
    Quoted from AvidListener:

    As I look back at the photo I posted, the hand on the stripe almost appears to be a sport theme excerpt (track?), and I apologize if that stripe took anyone down a wrong search path.

    Funny stuff, that is exactly what I was thinking (and very confused). I was trying to think of aliens at the starting block of a sprint.

    #1763 6 years ago
    Quoted from CaptainNeo:

    pabst blue ribbon?

    No, I was told when the playfield art was shown for approval the only change requested was "More Cigarette Butts".

    #1789 6 years ago

    Frontier

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=959&picno=3189

    Easy one, it is early.

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    #1814 6 years ago

    There are dice all over Aerosmith, but not those. Also I don't think Jeremy would screw up the die with (2) sets of 2 on the same die.

    Looking back at what I missed I see Royal Flush Deluxe. I own that game over 15 years but rarely look at the backglass.

    #1819 6 years ago

    Three Deuces

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2536&picno=28653

    Darn, I did a quick look at Monopoly but not the unpopulated playfield

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    #1826 6 years ago

    Congo - from the backglass

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3780&picno=5693

    I thought BMX was a bit annoying to play with the in-lane gimmick.

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    #1829 6 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    Michael Jackson meets Lucille Ball?

    He was a teen at the time this game came out and the "Here's Lucy" show was on TV. So maybe.

    This is on the playfield.

    #1846 6 years ago

    Travel Time

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2636&picno=2501

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    This picture is right in the center of the playfield.

    #1847 6 years ago

    It is a Premier.

    #1858 6 years ago

    No Fear

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2852&picno=6658

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    Hint - Backglass

    #1859 6 years ago

    Hint: Game is from the 90's

    I know I took the picture from a little known part of the backglass because it is slightly different from the rest of the backglass but is it really that hard? Or is everyone busy this weekend?

    #1860 6 years ago

    Another hint: I am bringing one to The Sanctum tomorrow for people to play for a while. (in other words it is in my collection)

    #1862 6 years ago

    That is why I picked it. The style of the sewer alligator did not match the rest of the artwork.

    Waiting for the next . . .

    #1863 6 years ago

    Well, pinwiztom seems to have disappeared. I hope he is alright. But he dropped out without posting so I will go again with an easy one to get us going again.

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    #1865 6 years ago

    That should be Sheriff or Lawman.

    Confirmed (I think we had that one a month ago) - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2116&picno=64570&zoom=1

    This might be hard - from the playfield

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    #1867 6 years ago

    I don't want everyone to kill themselves. This backed out picture is from Pinball News.

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    #1880 6 years ago

    Sorry, forgot to come back here.

    Class of 1812 - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=528&picno=31734&zoom=1

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    #1886 6 years ago

    Good one. I owned Future Spa long enough to know it is not there. Artwork looks like late 70's 80's and color scheme like Playboy.

    #1890 6 years ago

    Giving the thread another kick start -

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    #1893 6 years ago

    Thread is dying here. Kind of why I throw in an easy one or big hint once and a while.

    Is it a known manufacturer or something rarely seen?

    #1898 6 years ago

    Super Mario Bros Mushroom World

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3427&picno=23859&zoom=1

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    #1900 6 years ago
    Quoted from CaptainNeo:

    that looks like whitewater.

    I knew I would get someone to take the bait.

    But I won't drag this out since it is a bit of a trick. It is not a commercial game. (home only, made in Chicago)

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    #1907 6 years ago

    This game is too mainstream to give any hints at this point.

    #1911 6 years ago

    No, we were still discussing TOTAN. So you got it twice.

    Mousin Around

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1635&picno=30843&zoom=1

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    #1918 6 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    Bow and Arrow
    Come on now
    you were not even trying to be subtle
    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=362&picno=28202
    I tried to stay away for a while only managed a couple of days,
    This next clue probably has been used before too.

    I know, I know. It was a quick drive by to the thread.

    Go to be the Diner register. (I own 2 almost bought a 3rd and have a pf in my living room

    Yup - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=681&picno=67267&zoom=1

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    #1920 6 years ago

    Welcome back my friends to the show that never end . . .

    Hint: Backglass over 20 years old

    #1921 6 years ago

    One the backglass, more than 20 years old but less then 30 (1987-1997)

    Don't make me give the company. Too easy then. Let me see if I wider cropping will make it too easy -

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    #1926 6 years ago

    Has to be Orbitor 1. brb.

    Yup - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1725&picno=18704&zoom=1

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    #1928 6 years ago
    Quoted from Atari_Daze:

    Silverball Mania
    I'm restoring one right now, literally!
    Shall post another shortly.

    Funny, most SBM machines I have seen look like the one in your picture.

    #1930 6 years ago

    Has to be Hardbody background

    Yup, but I don't see the picture you took it from.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1122&picno=42059&zoom=1

    #1932 6 years ago
    Quoted from Atari_Daze:

    Image came from the one I rebuilt the cabinet for late last year, but yes it is HB.
    (Hope that is not considered cheating)

    Nope, as long as you can find it in an IPDB picture. I posted one that shows most of it.

    Here, you won't find a picture this nice on IPDB either. You will see it, but not this clear.

    #1938 6 years ago

    Black Rose head decal

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=313&picno=14295&zoom=1

    pf

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    #1939 6 years ago

    Pretty much middle of the playfield. This side is above the left flipper.

    #1941 6 years ago

    Really? OK, took too long. It is a Data East.

    #1969 6 years ago

    Morning all. Cucumber what!?!

    Millionaire

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1597&picno=10065&zoom=1

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    #1972 6 years ago

    Valiant

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2715&picno=34727&zoom=1

    There is absolutely nothing on T2 I can take a screen shot of that does not instantly give it away.

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    #1974 6 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    new clue looks like a classic Stern
    IF i had to guess i would say Cosmic Princess

    That is because the person who did the art did some very familiar stuff for a bunch of the top companies.

    #2006 6 years ago

    Touchdown

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2610&picno=65719

    Edited section of a plastic.

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    #2020 6 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    This is definitely a Gottlieb from 1977 or newer. Not certain what it is w/o looking.
    Jim

    My thought also. I did a quick scan on IPDB of Gottlieb 68 up EM and from titles nothing struck me.

    #2026 6 years ago

    Okay, so pinwiztom has put us on track

    Post it!

    #2030 6 years ago

    You have to admit it is a pretty funny backglass.

    #2071 6 years ago

    That guess is leaving a lot to be desired. You should include a link. Just sayin

    #2073 6 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    #2069 is from the PF
    if you hadn't guessed yet.

    While the insert is a big give away as a PF picture, I have not had time to think or look. I'll guess early 70s Williams, but that is just a quick thought.

    #2100 6 years ago

    I have not been checking in regularly anymore. But another Sonic? I guess I'll not check back as much

    #2114 6 years ago
    Quoted from Gott_Lieb:

    Not certain if this was used or not.

    Carnival

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=450&picno=430

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    #2116 6 years ago

    Probably Skateball

    yup - http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2170&picno=18745&zoom=1

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    #2118 6 years ago
    Quoted from dothedoo:

    Ok....well.....I USED TO dislike Hook!

    What happened to make you like it? Alzheimer? Head injury?

    #2123 6 years ago

    That is a plastic under Fish Tales? I don't remember seeing it and I own one. I checked yesterday and didn't see it in the pics it is so hidden. But the "L" insert for the LIE lanes did it.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=861&picno=12490&zoom=1

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    #2126 6 years ago

    You got it. Here is your proof. No way from IPDB pictures.

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    #2130 6 years ago
    Quoted from LeonSpinkx:

    My initial thought was Charlie's Angels, but I was close: http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=536&picno=19292
    From the playfield:

    I thought it was Chicago Coin Hee Haw

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1152&picno=19438

    But there are differences above the Feature Wheel. This should narrow it down if reused.

    Never mind, it is Hee Haw, just taken from this picture with the inserts missing.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1152&picno=14430&zoom=1

    From the playfield

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    This might be tough so let me know if hints are required.

    #2132 6 years ago
    Quoted from pinwiztom:

    no guesses in 2 days = hints required

    Sorry, not paying attention. 90's classic.

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    #2134 6 years ago

    Sorry if that was too difficult. I really thought the background alone would give away a lot.

    #2141 6 years ago

    That would be Playboy. This is off the Stern Backglass

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=4506&picno=62806&zoom=1

    I'm still laughing at the Star Wars. The X-Wing fighter made it easy. But I never knew about the peace sign.

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    #2145 6 years ago

    Rescue 911

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1951&picno=27900&zoom=1

    Part of a plastic not on the game

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    #2152 6 years ago

    Hint: Backglass

    1 week later
    #2164 6 years ago

    I stopped paying regular attention when the clues got stupid. Games like "sonic" and stuff just sucked the fun out. When I do a hard clue I drop hints.

    I have not even looked at the current clue or what happened with the past few. I just saw the thread come up and joined for old time sake.

    #2168 6 years ago

    Looks like something that would be a Captain Harlock or Masters of the Universe. But if it is a 1 off again oh well.

    #2172 6 years ago
    Quoted from pinballkim:

    Thousands of units so far from a 1 off.

    Captain Nemo sold thousands of units?

    Mr Black?

    #2179 6 years ago

    And so a thread dies.

    #2181 6 years ago

    It was a good run. I did not join until post 641 but we went hot a few times and I got in about 10% of the over 2,000 posts we did have.

    #2185 6 years ago

    Viking - did not need the zoom. Easy to recognize. We just got one at the Sanctum.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2737&picno=48602&zoom=1

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    #2212 6 years ago

    I thought this thread was killed off?

    What a bunch of Bone Heads. Oh.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=348&picno=19381

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    #2216 6 years ago

    TOTAN

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3824&picno=2990&zoom=1

    I guess we are not totally dead, yet

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    #2220 6 years ago
    Quoted from LeonSpinkx:

    Nice! Did the second glue give it away?

    No, I have one in one for years. I think I paid $1,900 if that give you an idea how long.

    #2234 6 years ago

    80's Williams

    I think the thread fell apart and we just don't care as much anymore.

    #2240 6 years ago

    I'm thinking El Dorado and the City of Gold

    You, not a great picture but top center

    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-pinball-visual-quiz-show/page/45#post-3904209

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    #2242 6 years ago

    Oooppss, let me get this one then. Does look familiar.

    Arena

    http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=82&picno=11603

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    #2243 6 years ago

    Hint:

    This is from a 2 player EM.

    There was another 2 player game made with the same name.

    #2248 6 years ago

    Start the morning with Medusa

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1565&picno=52778&zoom=1

    From a blank playfield so you may not recognize this game.

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    #2250 6 years ago

    First thought - Sorcerer

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2242&picno=53359&zoom=1

    Sorry for the delay. Lost network connection.

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    #2252 6 years ago

    Hee Haw

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1152&picno=14430&zoom=1

    From the pop section of a bare playfield.

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    #2255 6 years ago

    Good morning. That looks like a Taxi drop target from behind Marilyn.

    Confirmed - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2505&picno=40669&zoom=1

    I hope this is not too easy, I'm sure it will be for someone -

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    #2269 6 years ago

    Hint, tomorrow I will post a clearer picture. At that point the colors and artwork should be a big giveaway.

    #2274 6 years ago

    Looks like Comet

    Yup

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=548&picno=30124&zoom=1

    recognized the style but had a hard time finding a pic on IPDB

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    #2276 6 years ago

    Beat Time

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=213&picno=65829&zoom=1

    I need to bookmark this thread to my favorites. I usually only see it when it comes to the top. When I look for it I do it through my post history.

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    #2284 6 years ago

    Thread on life support.

    -1
    #2290 6 years ago
    Quoted from o-din:

    You guys have gotten real good at figuring out obscure EMs from 60 or 70 years ago, and foreign jobs that you may never see in your lifetime, but one from the last 30 years, made in the USA by one of the top manufacturers has you all stumped? I'll give another hint then. It is a prequel to a sequel.

    I kind of lost my enthusiasm due to some of the reasons you said. I don't want to "dig" IPDB without looking and getting and idea about company artist or theme. I hate the posts from a company whose games I have never seen or only a handful were made.

    When it comes to hints it is sometimes only apparent when you know the answer. Obviously 7 posts in 6 days did nothing to advance this. Sorry. I stopped looking and when this thread comes to the top I look to see if we moved on.

    #2299 6 years ago

    Agreed, Blackwater 100 was a very good pic. Yes, I have played it many times.

    Clues like the one about the bands gave me a headache. But those are my issues

    #2313 6 years ago

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    #2319 6 years ago

    I knew Taxi as soon as I saw the yellow. Then Santa's foot was a quick confirmation.

    This next one is TOTAN. I will look for a picture, but I have a playfield in my spare bedroom so I know this 100%. Upper right corner of the playfield around pops. "The Rocs".

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    #2327 6 years ago
    Quoted from Piratedan200:

    Early Bally SS. It's a title from either my collection or wishlist.

    Bally narrows it down to AFM, Skateball and TZ. But it does not look like one of them.

    #2340 6 years ago

    I thought this thread was dead.

    Jungle - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1331&picno=7293&zoom=1

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    #2354 6 years ago

    So I saw the thread was alive and checked in. (knew the 911 without looking).

    But, was a new picture posted or did the language just change?

    1 week later
    #2370 6 years ago

    I'm not going to post. Sorry about the WNBJM picture. I did not realize it was still on me. I'm used to the thread popping up, not having to search for it so I though it died.

    #2392 6 years ago
    Quoted from Mardi-Gras-Man:

    This must be Gottlieb's Tribute to Sir Roger Moore from 1980.
    Next one - this might be rather difficult so here's a hint - it's a european one.

    The odd-ball ones I have little chance of ever having seen is a big reason I kind of lost interest in this thread.

    But this one is Rock 2500

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3538&picno=52918

    There is not one picture I could take from the new Star Wars that is not easily recognizable clip art.

    Here is one from a game I might be playing tonight. If I disappear again send me a PM.

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    #2394 6 years ago
    Quoted from Mardi-Gras-Man:

    Well done!
    I'm rather new in this Forum and I thought it would be rather annoying for most of you to post pictures of 'well known' games so please excuse me

    I think that is the secret to why this thread went into the thousands of posts. Creatively selecting a picture from a well known game, but having it be a "not so well know detail". Or even if the game is not well known but something in the picture gives away enough detail to figure it out. The style of the artist, the piece that gives away the theme or even the shape of a playfield part to narrow the company and era.

    Some of the participants here have done playfield restores and see these small areas we glance over. I am constantly finding things I have not noticed in games I have owned for many years.

    1 week later
    #2395 6 years ago

    It was made in the past couple of years. This was a fist title released by the company. I am hoping to finally play their second title (Alien).

    #2401 6 years ago

    I recognize that from the movie

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3792&picno=9664&zoom=1

    Yup, Goldeneye

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    #2403 6 years ago

    A-Go-Go

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=27&picno=5983

    This is as much of the backglass as I can show without giving it away.

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    #2405 6 years ago

    Williams, good guess on the era. I don't know the artist.

    Just a little more gives it away.

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    #2410 6 years ago

    Zoomed out a little more

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    #2411 6 years ago

    Okay, okay Drop-A-Card. I didn't want to post.

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=735&picno=709

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    #2413 6 years ago
    Quoted from aobrien5:

    Finally! One I know!

    But you didn't say what it was.

    So I will beat you to the punch. It was is -

    #2415 6 years ago
    Quoted from aobrien5:

    I can't post a follow up at the moment so I was going to wait.

    Just busting it on you.

    Just post the answer and say next clue coming up. No one usually has one ready to go.

    I usually edit 3 times. I post answer, Edit for link. Edit for next pic.

    #2419 6 years ago

    What's wrong with Bally's Circus? Its got pops and lanes and, and, and,

    http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=521&picno=39527&zoom=1

    Hopefully you don't recognize this one either.

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    #2422 6 years ago

    That's on Viper right? I'll be right back.

    Yup - http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=4359&picno=12166

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    #2423 6 years ago

    Now I know this thread is abandoned. This is in the center PF and not small.

    OKay, only clue - Data East.

    #2425 6 years ago

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