For me, visiting Silverball Museum was just amazing experience and I would recommend it to everyone. I got the opportunity to visit the place in 2013 on my way from New York to Pittsburgh to play in Pinburgh 2013. Me and 2 of my friends arrived to Asbury Park at lunch time and we easily spent all the day in the museum until closing time.

In my opinion (as a player who started the hobby being only interested in DMD machines) the place works best for any pinball maniac, who has already played enough of the usual DMD titles and is ready to dig further into history to see some of the real gems in the pinball history. The place has too many really rare games to spend almost any time playing the quite popular big production number DMD games. It's of course good that the usual DMD games are present there too, since the majority of players want to play these, but I understand well if getting these games to run 100% CQ shape isn't their first priority.

Having already had some playtime on some classic early SS machines, it was so awesome to try the EM counterparts of games like Joker Poker, Charlie's Angels, Close Encounters and Mata Hari. I also got to enjoy a row of 20 Gottlieb wedgeheads (ending to really rare TKO and containing many of the more rare add-a-ball versions of games), tried some machines with the same layout but more rare theme than the normal game (Eye of Tiger, Bristol Hills, Canada Dry) and also played many add-a-ball versions of some more popular replay games, Williams Spacelab coming to mind as the rarest example. I wouldn't even have realized that the game had only production run of 30 units without reading the information card on top of the game.

Considering the rarity of some of the games in the lineup, it's almost ridiculous that you can even play those games there. And at least in spring 2013 the condition of the classic games was really good, so they must have spent a lot of time to keep the games going like that. The General Manager guy Dan (seen also on TNT video tour) was really friendly and had time to talk with us and even showed some pictures of the place just after the hurricane Sandy had swept over the area. Luckily this place survided the hurricane! I gladly bought some t-shirts to support the place, I think the entrance fee should be way higher seeing what the place has to offer!

Hopefully I'll be able to visit the place again. I could easily spend another day or many there just reading trough the information cards and playing the rare classic games.

_{Post edited by marble: corrected some typos}