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Trying to find a name of a machine

By tyggemannen

5 years ago



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  • Latest reply 5 years ago by swillie
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    #1 5 years ago

    Hi. I am looking to find a pinball machine, can someone help me?
    When I was young I played a lot a machine at the hotel where my father worked. This was in 1980 so I suppose the machine is from the seventies. I don't remember much of the features of the machine, just that it was very much fun.
    It had some kind of card deck, or maybe only card diamonds theme. It had 3 or 4 or for plastic "cards" on each side to shot down, when all was shoot I think you got 2X, 4X and so on points. It also had 1 or 2 loops where the entrance of the loops had some spinning things.
    Not much to go on here, but I hope someone know which macj\hine I am trying to find
    Thanks.

    #2 5 years ago

    Maybe Alien Poker?

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    #3 5 years ago

    Hi and Thanks. I dont think it had double flippers, so its probably another machine.

    #4 5 years ago

    Here are a few options:
    Lady Luck and Pokerino are the only card-themed games I could find with both drop targets and spinners (probably not Pokerino, because of the flipper arrangement):

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    Hot Hand has a spinning flipper at the top:

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    Other possibilities might be Queen's Castle (all diamonds) and Drop a Card:

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    All photos are from IPDB.org, which is a great resource for finding games by theme or feature. Do any of these look familiar?

    Did your game have mechanical score reels or digital score displays? Or neither?
    Did it have metal rails on the sides or wood?
    Regular 3" flippers like Lady Luck or shorter 2" flippers like Drop a Card?
    That would help narrow it down to a certain time frame.

    #5 5 years ago

    Thank you for your great effort to help me

    Hot Hand is the closest, because of the five plastic cards to shoot down. As I remember probably you get X bonus for shooting them all.

    This is around 40 years ago so possibly I mix up features of the machines I played I will check out IPDB.org more.

    #6 5 years ago

    Ok, it was Hot Hand I am sure now. Thanks for the help. Now I want to buy it and get it shipped to Norway. Wish me luck

    #7 5 years ago

    Here's one for sale in California...

    ventura.craigslist.org link

    #8 5 years ago
    Quoted from TopMoose:

    Here's one for sale in California...
    ventura.craigslist.org link

    uhhhhhh...what?

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