so I bought a pinball machine: March 2025

You can find the five prior video posts here: space 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Part five also has another large file of movie and TV clips to download.

I am happy to serve up another large archive of video clips gathered by tweakbod. This file is 3 GB. Clips included:

1949 - Caught pinball scene
1968 - Star Trek S2.E17 - A Piece of the Action pinball scene
1971 - Going Home arcade scene
1973 - American Graffiti pinball scene
1973 - Heavy Traffic arcade scene
1973 - Les confidences erotiques dun lit trop accueillant - pinball scene NSFW
1973 - Soylent Green Computer Space Scenes
1973 - The Last Detail arcade scene
1974 - Juggernaut pong
1975 - Hustling (TV movie) arcade scene
1975 - Jaws arcade scene
1976 - Adventures of A Taxi Driver arcade
1976 - La Orca Pinball Repair Scene
1977 - Airport '77 pong doubles scene
1977 - Looking for Mr Goodbar bar scenes
1977 - Semi-Tough pinball scene
1977 - The Pyjama Girl Case arcade scene
1978 - Blue Nude arcade scenes
1978 - Columbo S7.E5 ∙ The Conspirators pinball scenes
1978 - Jaws 2 arcade
1978 - The Incredible Hulk S1.E6 - Terror in Times Square arcade scenes
1978 - Wonder Woman S3.E8 ∙ Skateboard Wiz arcade scenes
1979 - Skatetown USA arcade scene
1980 - Midnight Madness arcade scene
1981 - Bustin' Loose arcade
1982 - 38 Special - Caught Up In You (Official Music Video) exploding gorf
1982 - Jekyll and Hyde Together Again arcade scene
1982 - Making Love arcade scene
1982 - Rocky III arcade scene
1983 - Strange Brew arcade scene
1984 - A-Team arcade game
1984 - Night of the Comet arcade scene
1984 - The Philadelphia Experiment arcade scene
1986 - Chopping Mall arcade scene
1986 - Maximum Overdrive arcade scene
1987 - Cant Buy Me Love arcade scenes
1989 - Back to the Future Part II arcade scene
1991 - Scanners II The New Order arcade scene
1991 - Suburban Commando arcade scene
1996 - First Kid virtuality
1998 - The Replacement Killers arcade scene
2003 - Bad Santa pinball scene
2003 - Lost In Translation arcade scene
2021 - The Laws of the Border arcade scenes

download this zip file (3 GB)

On the YouTube video front, here is a great compilation of the Learn To Flip videos by Erin Winwick Anthony that takes us through her journey of learning competitive pinball. This is a highly recommended video to send anyone who is at all interested in playing in pinball competitions!

Famous retro arcade in Japan 台場一丁目商店街プレイランド (Daiba 1-chome Shopping Arcade Playland) closed down. Onitama-san gifts us one last look at this marvelous arcade. This was one of the very few public places you could have played Sega's Moto Polo.

Here Onitama-san takes us through Takahashi's wonderful pinball collection in Japan, featuring a great woodrail line up and many other electromechanical games. Interesting to note that it's all American machines here, and I don't see a single Japanese machine.

Clay is back with videos of four machines that I am quite fond of.
1947 Heavy Hitter by Bally (countertop pitch-n-bat)
1956 Lucky Seven by Genco (roll down)
1955 Derby Roll by United (roll down)
1972 Golf Champ by Midway (wall game)

I know there are a number of impressively ridiculous collectors out there. People who have built massive collections that might seem unwieldy to people outside the hobby.
Within that group there is a subset of collections that might not be appreciated fully unless you too are deeply nerdy about electromechanical arcade machines. But when you are in with that sickness, the depth and refinement of such collections make you a bit weak at the knees!
Within that group, there are a bunch who have also put in a ridiculous amount of time and effort to share their skills and knowledge and passion with the public. Clay is one of those people. Steve Young, Rob Berk, Tim Arnold, Larry Bieza. Many more. And Kevin Keinert is in that group too. (I would also put like Mike Hasanov and Jay Stafford in that group of people who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to share information and build the hobby, but I don't actually know what their collections are like... perhaps beginning with framing this as people with impressive collections doesn't quite get to the point I was going for?... nevertheless!)

Here Kevin takes us inside 1920s shocker games:

These two videos are currently 15 & 13 years old, but I only recently was alerted to their presence. To extremely rare/obscure machines.

Overview and gameplay of Hawaiian beauty by Gottlieb:

And finally a video from Italy, courtesy Federico Croci, with lots of pinball and arcade footage.

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