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Pinball museums around the world

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Today, we are going to give you more information about pinball museums, but in this case, spread around the world.

In the previous post, we talked about pinball museums located in different European countries in ¨European Pinball Museums¨.

In this case, most of the museums are located in the United States.

1.Pacific Pinball Museum.

Located exactly in Bay Area’s on Alameda Island, California. The Pacific Pinball Museum chronologically offers a selection of games of bagatelles and old games, and more than 90 playable pinball machines from the 1940s to the present.

It is a non-profit organization, whose walls are covered with murals, posters and records.

In its beginnings it counted on 14 pinballs. Later, in 2004, it expanded its facilities to the Lucky Ju Ju gallery and became the Pinball del Pacífico Museum.

The price is $ 20 for adults and $ 10 for children. On Tuesdays as a promotion, two adults can enter for $ 20. In addition, it has annual and group discounts. You can consult them in your Web.

2. Lone Star Pinball Museum

Located in Hockley (Texas) we find ourselves with Lone Star Pinball Museum. Your entry is totally free and you can play freely all the pinball machines.

The museum is run by a fan of pinball machines in their spare time.

The machines date from the 30s to the present.

It also has different arcade models.

Lone Star Pinball Museum

3. Pinball Hall of Fame

Its main objective is to exhibit the largest collection of pinballs in the world, open to the public.

All the machines belong to Tim Arnold. It has pinballs from the 50s to the 90s.

It is a non-profit organization, where their surplus income is donated to the Salvation Army of the United States.

Among its games you can find Creature from the Black Lagoon, Beach Queens or Ace High, among 152 pinball machines. You can check the available games aquí.

Pinball Hall of Fame.

4. Asheville Pinball Museum

Characterized as a place where you can watch, buy and play pinball machines. Through your website and in your own physical establishment you can buy different versions of pinball machines.

The price is $ 15 for adults and $ 12 for children under 10 years.

It is a museum where you can also buy different models of pinball machines.

5. Roanoke Pinball Museum

Like other pinball museums, the Roanoke Pinball Museum, gives you the possibility of $ 12.50 for adults and $ 9.00 for children under 10 years of free play on all their machines.

It also has a monthly and annual membership that you can purchase directly from its website.

It is dedicated to the science and history of pinballs since it opened its doors in 2015, with more than 50 machines dating from 1932 to 2016.

Also, you have the option to reserve the place to celebrate your birthday, hold a bachelor party or a corporate event in the center of Square.

Roanoke Pinball Museum

Do you know any other museum or place dedicated to pinball machines?

Tell us about your experience!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MUSEUMS IN EUROPE OF PINBALL

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More and more fans are deciding to share their passion with other people and provide them with access to pinballs.

That is why many players have decided to collect their machines and get incredible collections. They manage to group games from different years, themes and manufacturers in one place. In this post, we will focus on the museums scattered around the world of best-known pinballs.

  • Pbal Gallery.

The creator of this pinball museum located in Budapest, Balasz Palfi, fulfilled his dream in a basement in Hungary. He managed to fulfill his dream and that of many more. The nostalgia of those wonderful years, in which the flippers enjoyed their peak, appears in each of the visitors of this place. It allows to take out each player, the child inside.

It has more than 130 machines, including games from the 19th century to the present. Of course, it has Time Machine, the first famous pinball, created by Data East.

Different competitions organized by the IFPA have been held in the museum.

It is located in Radnoti Miklos utca 18, Budapest 1137. The price of your ticket is around 10€ (3000 HUF), having discounts based on age. The entrance includes free play on any of its machines.

 In addition, you can buy for another 10€, the T-shirt exclusively sold in the Museum. The room is composed of pinball machines that surround the room and even tables and showcases, are made from components of pinball machines.

Finally, it has a room of 80 square meters where you can make business or children’s parties.

You can find more information in your Web.

Museo Pinball Budapest

Museo Pinball Budapest

  • Krakow Pinball Museum

Forgotten feelings appear again when you access the Pinball Museum located in Krakow. In 300 square meters you can enjoy the free game of about 60 pinballs like Terminator 2, The Addams Family, Star Trek o Dirty Harry, between many other things.

The oldest pinball machine dates back to 1967.

Arcade machines also have their place in the museum. With a much smaller number.

Account also, with a living room with bar available. The price of your ticket is around 11€ and of course, the pinball machines are in free play.

 

Museo Pinball Cracovia

Museo Pinball Cracovia

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Have you been to any of these museums? Share your experience with us!

How to play pinball machines? | Pinball house

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Many times you have read and heard, that getting high scores in the games played in pinball machines is a matter of «luck». But, do you think that the high scores achieved by the players of pinball machines are due to luck?

It is necessary to have a great ability to play to achieve them.

In this post, we are going to propose a series of tips, which can help you achieve high scores.

  • Attentive to the game

Each pinball machine we know, is based on a different theme that has different components that give you different scores.

To get high scores observe the lights on the board and follow the instructions given by the game itself. Listen to the machine. Through the sounds emitted by the pinball, you end up differentiating the objectives to throw the ball to maximize the score.

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  • Know the rules

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Tournaments | Pinball house

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Pinball house allows you to play tournaments with other fans of pinball machines. You can create a tournament by yourself defining the number of players and games.

Steps to create Pinball house Tournaments.

Tournament creation.

First of all, in order to access the screen to create a tournament, we have to select the «Tournament» button in the Competitions section.

When accessing the screen, it shows the active and finalized tournaments created by the user registered in the Pinball house system. If there is no active tournament, the New Tournament block appears. When you access it, the New Tournament screen appears.

New Tournament

On this screen we will enter the name of the tournament, the number of participants and games. Through the button «Continue» we access another screen that allows us to introduce the players of the tournaments. To do this, we select each of the boxes that appear (the number of boxes will be equal to the number of tournament participants) and the Add Players screen appears.

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Pinball News | Pinball house

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Pinball machines have traditionally been ‘closed-box’ devices. You play a game, get a great score, but then what? The details are trapped inside the machine’s memory, and if your score isn’t one of the top few, all trace of it is lost the moment the start button is pressed again.

You could take a picture of the display or post a message on social media, but it’s a cumbersome manual process.

Just as with tournaments, where someone has to read the score and manually enter it into another device (without making any mistakes) so it can be processed by the tournament software.

Why, you might wonder, can’t scores, achievements, audits and even faults all be read automatically? An electronic pinball is a computer, after all, with the information all stored in memory. So, couldn’t these details be extracted so that tournament scores can be automatically recorded and progress to the next round calculated, high scores routinely uploaded to a central server, and operators immediately alerted to faults on their machines?

Unfortunately though, digging around in the game’s memory while it is running the game code is likely to be fraught at best, as you try to second-guess where various pieces of information are stored. Fortunately though, all that information is available in a different form – on the display. If you could machine-read that display data, you could get all the information you need.

Well, Spanish company Allplay has developed a hardware-based system to do exactly that. It reads the score, audit and diagnostic information from machine’s display and uses it to track scores, run tournaments and give operators remote information about their machines. It also makes this information available on a second display, and adds a webcam so players in different locations can play simultaneously against each other.

The system is called Pinball House and it was recently demonstrated at the TMAP tournament in Madrid.

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Play | Pinball house

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Another function of Pinball house is its free play.

Always, the game between the pinballs and the player has consisted in the enjoyment of long and fantastic games whose scores were necessary to point them to paper and pen.

Through the free game of Pinball house, the scores are automatically registered.

How to enjoy free play with Pinball house.

To do this, you need to log in to the system, press the Start button on your pinball machine and enjoy the game.

Screen Play

Your score will be automatically registered once you finish the game.

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Online Game | Pinball house

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One of the main functions of Pinball house is the Online Game.

Through this exclusive function, you can play online from anywhere in the world always with the same pinball machine model.

Online Game

How can I play online with my Pinball machine?

It is necessary to log in to Pinball house to play online.

You can challenge or be challenged by any user with your same Pinball machine model. You can do it from your administration area and otherwise, the system alerts you when a user challenges you.

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Face to Face | Pinball house

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Pinball house allows you to perform different actions through our pinball machines. Today, I want to talk to you in a more detailed way about the game that we have called Face to Face Pinball house.

FACE TO FACE PINBALL HOUSE

It consists of being able to play with any player with a pinball machine of the same model located anywhere in the world. It is necessary to bear in mind that Pinball house is exclusive of a pinball machine model, as well as the ramps or designs of the same.

Everything that surrounds our pinball machines is different, exclusive, unique … Pinball house is designed, initially, for certain models of pinball with a small peculiarity, when you buy Pinball house you need to inform us of the pinball model that you have but if in the future for any reason you want to adapt it to another pinball model of the available ones, you can do it without problems.

Therefore, to play Face to Face you have to do it with other players who have the same model as you (See available models).

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