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I've spent a lot of time in pinball venues over the years: From hobbyist conventions to dedicated pinball meccas, to barcades and arcades and pinball co-ops. If you've spent a few hours at a Free Play arcade, you've probably seen this as well: people come in never having seen or played pinball before and they struggle with starting the game and sometimes have to be told where the flippers are.…
Some extremely rare flyers from the company Karateco, scanned by Mike Minchew. Even some French ones aimed at the France market. Mike Minchew is a prolific collector of Pinball and Arcade/Video Flyers with over 12,000 spare flyers available for sale/trade. He is always looking to buy flyers for his collection - from a single flyer to entire collections. Mike can be reached at…
Prior video posts: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , and entry 5 onward has a link to one of these ZIP files of movie clips. Most files edited by tweakbod. This batch has a bunch of TV footage from the Wolfson Archives and if you ever want to filter those out at least they're easy to search for amongst the files. I'm going to also start…
Prior video posts: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , and entry 5 onward has a link to one of these ZIP files of movie clips. Most files edited by tweakbod. In this batch we have... 1953 - Street of Shadows arcade scenes 1960 - The Little Shop Of Horrors scale scene 1961 - モスラ (Mothra) penny arcade scene 1962 - Experiment In Terror pinball scene…
I bought the slot machine guide a while back, and I think I was gifted the 1976 Wiko Canada catalogue, probably from pindude152, who also gave me the 1964 Wico parts catalog . Thank you for those, and now they are online for everyone to enjoy. Both scans done by Hubz of Gaming Alexandria . Owner's Pictorial Guide - For The Care And Understanding Of The Mills Bell Slot Machine - Third Printing…
Fresh new scan! Sega's Amusement Machine Guides are a goldmine and the 1990s were Sega's pinnacle of what the arcade industry could produce. Thank you to an anonymous contributor, we have uploaded 1997! But I seem to have not mentioned that we also have 1993, 1994, and 1998 available. I am adding them all to my research publication list - 研究出版物リスト . The scans were done on a flatbed showing 2 pages…
There is a new retro arcade opening in Ottawa on July 31st! Boss Battle Games first opened in Indianapolis (USA) but now have an Ottawa (Canada) location opening as well. I was invited to the soft open and have so many pictures and much excitement to share! BOSS BATTLE GAMES! near St. Laurent mall door #4, right by the Transitway! located across from the TD Bank We have to start with my personal…
After Hard Rock appearing in the 1977 Universal catalogue , it's a great time to drop even more Universal pinball goodness. Thanks again to Mike Minchew for the scanning. Mike Minchew is a prolific collector of Pinball and Arcade/Video Flyers with over 12,000 spare flyers available for sale/trade. He is always looking to buy flyers for his collection - from a single flyer to entire collections.…
@ourlostarcade.bsky.social is a bsky account run by @playhistory.bsky.social (of Gaming Alexandria and youtube and History Of How We Play fame) that has posted many threads on coinop history. Highly recommended. Consider this a snapshot of some of their most useful threads up to this point. Even if you are not a Bluesky user you should be able to read these posts. They are filled with amazing…
Some incredibly rare flyers now up on the Internet Archive! Thank you to Mike for the scans. Mike Minchew is a prolific collector of Pinball and Arcade/Video Flyers with over 12,000 spare flyers available for sale/trade. He is always looking to buy flyers for his collection - from a single flyer to entire collections. Mike can be reached at mike.minchew@verizon.net Click on the link beneath each…
