I cheer if it's Space Station or Space Shuttle machines. Some machines are too boring to save. BTW: That was TNT Amusements. I love Todd and his friends. They do lots of videos so whenever I want to walk down memory lane, they have a video for it.
My grandfather fought in World War II and he often told me about the Gottlieb Tank, Bally Dive Bomber and Chicago Coin Battleship. They're the reason America won the war!
I watched this entire 4 part series with my mother in law and we laughed the whole time. Way to go making an extremely informative and entertaining series that for whatever reason is peppered with coyotes and ducks. I instantly shared it on my socials! Absolutely magnificent. I was hoping that you'd spend more time on individual tables through the years. Dr. Dude and his Xcellent Ray is my favorite pinball machine of all time! But there was a lot of story to tell and I know you couldn't spend too much time on an individual table. Keep up the awesome work!
Great video. You obviously did your research and spiced up the sometimes quite dry stories with catchy lighthearted humor. Love it! I even saw a glimpse of one of my own videos in there. What great honour! :)
Aside from the fact that this is the most comprehensive and educational documentary about pinball I've ever come across, I really LOVE the way you tell stories....so entertaining and never a boring moment! This rulez, YOU rule!
RUclips has been randomly recommending later parts, and now that I finally started watching I'm glad it did. That half hour flew by! Good info and good humor, I'm definitely here to stay and watch everything else you've got
Bally at one time was big in bowlers, I'm not an authority but I'd say around the 1940's 'n 50's. Bally made some beautiful walnut and chrome, ball bowlers and if only I had enough space I'd guarantee you I'd have one by now. They had about a 12 foot lane and a black weighted rubber ball the size of a coconut. I knew a certain Betty Jastatt who had one in her basement 'n my passion was to play it and I did some repair work on it, too. The electro-mechanical engineering in how it was 6 players and it kept regulation bowling score was incredible, it was truly an electro-mechanical computer. Around 1982, I wrote to Bally and they send me a wiring schematic for free
Awesome video. I just got my first pinball machine from a friend and it's actually mentioned here. 1963 Gottlieb Sweet Hearts.😊 Loving it has its small issues but works nonetheless. Thanks.
Keeney, what you don't remember, was a big name in bowlers from about the late 40's to the early 60's. Bally and Williams both made bowlers. Bally bowlers were beautiful scaled-down bowling alleys 12 feet long, with 6 players, replete with walnut hardwood and chrome castings and I would pay $10,000 to have one today. Scaled-down bowling commonly found in big-city bars, was once a genuine sport that many people took seriously and even had tournaments. The balls were about the size of coconuts and the pins around a foot high. The genius electromechanical system kept regulation score.
In my country, Colombia, those bingo machines are refered as Pinball and are everywhere. There are like 4 o 5 actual Pinball Machines in my town (Bogotá). Is really sad. Great video, by the way.
I have researched hte history of games, pub games, arcade games, slot machines and vending machines, and I LOVE IT ALL! THe older the better. This video was a long time coming and I have not seen the like anywhere else on youtube from what I can remember ( One or two channels might have a similar vid idk). BUT SUBBED! ^
There are videos here and there to help, like this dude in vegas that collects very old boardwalk arcade machines from the 1960s and earlier. Hes got punching machines, old proto "pinball" I think, and shooting gallery lil machines, etc. Old slot machines from the 19th century and vending machiens pop up here and there on youtube, so check those out too. Super cool stuff, and eveyrthing goes back to old lawn games and pub games from europe. There was even supposedly a "vending" machine for "holy" water at an ancient greek or roman shrine 2000+ years ago lol So they say :P@@bralex2670
The backglass on Big Deal features the Beatles, sitting around a card table, and I don't why this game isn't the famous classic you'd think it would be. You'd think everybody would want it
This is a great video on pinball for pinball historians or any serious pinball player. Most people worked a job but for me I always played pinball at least eight hours a day for the last 50 or 60 years.
A great 4 part history of pinball. I still have to rate funhouse as my all-time favourite, closely followed by theatre of magic. I can remember in the mid to late 70’s an amusement arcade in Mablethorpe in the UK still had the old bingo pinball tables and also some jigsaw pinball tables (possibly Rockola), the arcade also had a quick draw game where you faced off against a six foot tall talking cowboy opponent for the princely sum of 2p
1969 the rock opera tommy was released about a blind boy saved by pinball, 1974 tommy the movie with stars like nickleson and tina turner ann margret elton john
Very nice video. My first pinball was a Keeney's Colorama (1963 It was their last game). On this machine I learned how to repair pinballs. Later also learned the digitals and now recreate them virtual with Visual Pinball.
Hey dude! I recently got into the history of pinball, so I stumbled upon your channel. Just want to say that I really enjoy your video style. Whatever it is that you do in life, keep it up!
Fantastic job! Super interesting and hilarious. Such unique machines Pinballs! I was crazy about them when I was a kid, but they disappeared fast and I never got the chance to savor them. After seeing this, hell, I need to have one! I opened Pandora's Box and there's no turning back. Big thanks man, subscribed!
Kid, your script and narration are really good. Boomer-centric subject matter is a plus...till all the boomers die. Only 2500 sub's? Yeah, you're better than that.
howly cow! Shaker Ball was the weird came I saw at El Carib beach club in brooklyn in the mid late 1970s, that, plus Fire Ball (Bally) and King Kook (Gottalibe) THIS IS WHAT I started wiuth as a kid
WOW, this is such a dope overview of pinball so far, can't believe this is just part 1! :D It was neat to see how some of the things that are common in pinball today got their start in the past and some of the history (like the ban + destruction of pinball tables and people being opposed to rolling score counters) is wild, whew. Also love some of the pinball tables you featured, I have a thing for minimalist/abstract art and interesting game mechanics (i.e. Williams' "OXO", one that I played a bit of prior to watching), so I took a liking to stuffs like Gottlieb's "Super Score", Rally's "Schuss", and Gottlieb's "Skipper". As I type this comment, I feel the urge to just binge the rest of the series, heh! ;u; Will pace myself instead, but I'm looking forward to watching the rest of this series!
i have a sun vally im sitting next to it.. em s my era of collecting.. i think they are easier to repair. not crazy expensive. not to busy. the ball is always in site not hidden under three levels. easier for the uninitiated,,,, on a sad note my 1958 united three way bowler is acting up, to complicated for me to fix. was on location dont have the room to put in storage. going to give it away. love that game going to miss it
fun fact about Williams after there pinball 2000 tables revenge from Mars and Star wars 2000 that's when that closed there dores to the pinball thing and went to making slot machines and gambling stuff
Very pinheaded of you. Great job....onto part 2.... electricity...how did they use it to gamble back in the day? Was it designed specifically as a gambling device?.....what's the oldest working (and assuming it's the most expensive) pinball machine still in existence? Is there any videos of it..... whatever it may be
I can't be sure if pinball was originally designed for gambling, but it definitely turned that way at some point. EM's generally aren't that expensive to get these days (at least not when compared to nowadays) but I think you'd have a hard time getting your hands on a 30's/40's table
I should be in the Gunness Book of World Records for busting more flippers than anyone else alive. Remember the name pinball is synonymous with the name Tommy Tutalidge.
My jaw literally hit the floor seeing all of those tables getting destroyed. RIP.
That one hurt
I cheer if it's Space Station or Space Shuttle machines. Some machines are too boring to save. BTW: That was TNT Amusements. I love Todd and his friends. They do lots of videos so whenever I want to walk down memory lane, they have a video for it.
Space shuttle aint too bad. Space station on the other hand, maybe
@@bralex2670 Do you know why Todd was throwing machines off the roof?
It's been a while but I think those tables were beyond repair
This is literally the best documentary in the history of the universe!!
My grandfather fought in World War II and he often told me about the Gottlieb Tank, Bally Dive Bomber and Chicago Coin Battleship. They're the reason America won the war!
Facts we couldnt have made it through without em
I watched this entire 4 part series with my mother in law and we laughed the whole time. Way to go making an extremely informative and entertaining series that for whatever reason is peppered with coyotes and ducks. I instantly shared it on my socials! Absolutely magnificent. I was hoping that you'd spend more time on individual tables through the years. Dr. Dude and his Xcellent Ray is my favorite pinball machine of all time! But there was a lot of story to tell and I know you couldn't spend too much time on an individual table. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks there were definitely a few tables i could've talked about more. Radical is also a lot fun :)
Pinball FX has that in one of the packs, I turned my tv 90° and have been playing it. It’s awesome
The golden age of pinball is coming back folks. You can smell it.
Great video. You obviously did your research and spiced up the sometimes quite dry stories with catchy lighthearted humor. Love it!
I even saw a glimpse of one of my own videos in there. What great honour! :)
Aside from the fact that this is the most comprehensive and educational documentary about pinball I've ever come across, I really LOVE the way you tell stories....so entertaining and never a boring moment! This rulez, YOU rule!
I knew the pinball destruction was coming but god that was actually painful. My whole dream is to work with pinball machines, those were beautiful.
How do you only have 2.1K subs?? This documentary is awesome. Funny, entertaining and insanely informative.. perfect blend.
Absolutely brilliant, I'm a big pinball nut and this was fantastic, thank you!
Looking forward to Part 2! Keep up the good work. I would appreciate a few more moments to see the table designs as we move threw time.
Thanks for the feedback. I get that, but I had to do it this way just to get along at a reasonable pace. There's just so much to cover
RUclips has been randomly recommending later parts, and now that I finally started watching I'm glad it did. That half hour flew by!
Good info and good humor, I'm definitely here to stay and watch everything else you've got
This video is awesome! I watched it twice in a row. Learned a lot and a new respect for the old school pins. Thank you for this!
NOT NEARLY enough subs! This series is dope.
those colored lights on Beamlight were actually horse capsules, for medicine
As a pinball person, I didn't know some of these facts. Great job!
This is very informative and entertaining! Great stuff here, Bralex.
Great! I'm glad to hear you liked it! Keep on the lookout for part 2 whenever that comes out. I think the story will get more interesting from there.
Pinball is wonderful, I myself want the Halloween one.based on the movie.. I take it that the one in Rocky 3 might have been a.prop?
Bally at one time was big in bowlers, I'm not an authority but I'd say around the 1940's 'n 50's. Bally made some beautiful walnut and chrome, ball bowlers and if only I had enough space I'd guarantee you I'd have one by now. They had about a 12 foot lane and a black weighted rubber ball the size of a coconut. I knew a certain Betty Jastatt who had one in her basement 'n my passion was to play it and I did some repair work on it, too. The electro-mechanical engineering in how it was 6 players and it kept regulation bowling score was incredible, it was truly an electro-mechanical computer. Around 1982, I wrote to Bally and they send me a wiring schematic for free
I'm so amused for these machines. The history is so relevant now.
Awesome video. I just got my first pinball machine from a friend and it's actually mentioned here. 1963 Gottlieb Sweet Hearts.😊 Loving it has its small issues but works nonetheless. Thanks.
Omg i actually shed a tear for those poor machines being tossed off the roof... Like for real that's just heartbreaking
Oh don't worry. Those particular machines were from TNTamusements and were beyond repair.
You really did a great job making this both informative and entertaining! Great stuff!
Video game history is so evergreen on RUclips, but this story is even more interesting. I want to hear some classic pinball voice clips go memetic
I cried when they destroyed the pinball tables😢
Thanks for the shout out. This video was very entertaining.
Amazing, perfect, I only want to see documentaries in this style from now on.
Junkyard music (although that was a cop of "Money"). Cool vid.
I'm mildly amused. A very interesting documentation, can't wait to watch the rest of the series. You deserve way more subscribers.
Incredible mix of well researched facts and amusing jokes. I had no idea that Microsoft Pinball Arcade had so many important classic tables
my brother out here doin' the lord's work
8:55 That pile of games, all they need is a shop, a few new bulbs and rubbers and they'll be back in action
Keeney, what you don't remember, was a big name in bowlers from about the late 40's to the early 60's. Bally and Williams both made bowlers. Bally bowlers were beautiful scaled-down bowling alleys 12 feet long, with 6 players, replete with walnut hardwood and chrome castings and I would pay $10,000 to have one today. Scaled-down bowling commonly found in big-city bars, was once a genuine sport that many people took seriously and even had tournaments. The balls were about the size of coconuts and the pins around a foot high. The genius electromechanical system kept regulation score.
In my country, Colombia, those bingo machines are refered as Pinball and are everywhere. There are like 4 o 5 actual Pinball Machines in my town (Bogotá). Is really sad.
Great video, by the way.
I have researched hte history of games, pub games, arcade games, slot machines and vending machines, and I LOVE IT ALL! THe older the better. This video was a long time coming and I have not seen the like anywhere else on youtube from what I can remember ( One or two channels might have a similar vid idk). BUT SUBBED! ^
Thanks :) I'd love to look into the history behind other old arcade games (like the one's you mentioned)
There are videos here and there to help, like this dude in vegas that collects very old boardwalk arcade machines from the 1960s and earlier. Hes got punching machines, old proto "pinball" I think, and shooting gallery lil machines, etc. Old slot machines from the 19th century and vending machiens pop up here and there on youtube, so check those out too. Super cool stuff, and eveyrthing goes back to old lawn games and pub games from europe. There was even supposedly a "vending" machine for "holy" water at an ancient greek or roman shrine 2000+ years ago lol So they say :P@@bralex2670
The backglass on Big Deal features the Beatles, sitting around a card table, and I don't why this game isn't the famous classic you'd think it would be. You'd think everybody would want it
This is a great video on pinball for pinball historians or any serious pinball player. Most people worked a job but for me I always played pinball at least eight hours a day for the last 50 or 60 years.
A great 4 part history of pinball.
I still have to rate funhouse as my all-time favourite, closely followed by theatre of magic.
I can remember in the mid to late 70’s an amusement arcade in Mablethorpe in the UK still had the old bingo pinball tables and also some jigsaw pinball tables (possibly Rockola), the arcade also had a quick draw game where you faced off against a six foot tall talking cowboy opponent for the princely sum of 2p
Beautiful. I bet the customer will be happy. I never heard about this shaker. Interesting..
1969 the rock opera tommy was released about a blind boy saved by pinball, 1974 tommy the movie with stars like nickleson and tina turner ann margret elton john
Very nice video. My first pinball was a Keeney's Colorama (1963 It was their last game). On this machine I learned how to repair pinballs. Later also learned the digitals and now recreate them virtual with Visual Pinball.
your script and delivery is PERFECTION!! xD loved it!
These videos are so much fun! Nice job on all the history and entertaining presentation.
"Jesus Christ, that's a lot of sisters!" 🤣😆🤣😆 Fantastic video. Thanks!
Super awesome job. So much research and detail. Love it.
Fascinating. Very well researched and entertainingly presented.
Thank you for this!
Man. I really loved this series. Thank you for all your hard work on it!
This is the most early RUclips video I have seen in a long time
It was a dark & stormy night & one man had the balls...
Great job!
this is fantastic, welcome to the club of youtubing pinball historians!
The Four Horseman football game was probably a reference to the nickname being for a group of players at Notre Dame
Hey dude! I recently got into the history of pinball, so I stumbled upon your channel. Just want to say that I really enjoy your video style. Whatever it is that you do in life, keep it up!
Fantastic job! Super interesting and hilarious. Such unique machines Pinballs! I was crazy about them when I was a kid, but they disappeared fast and I never got the chance to savor them. After seeing this, hell, I need to have one! I opened Pandora's Box and there's no turning back. Big thanks man, subscribed!
super under rated
Fantastic video! Such an important and informative EM video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion.
I really love this series of videos. They are informative (and funny).
Really awesome work man! Great commentary, editing, and humor to make a perfectly enjoyable, informative video! Bravo
This is so good, can't wait to watch the rest of the series. Great work.
Kid, your script and narration are really good. Boomer-centric subject matter is a plus...till all the boomers die. Only 2500 sub's? Yeah, you're better than that.
We will watch your career with great interest.
love your presentation style, thanks so much for sharing! fascinating stuff
Fantastic video! Def make more, and y'know.. turn into that huge youtube channel
howly cow! Shaker Ball was the weird came I saw at El Carib beach club in brooklyn in the mid late 1970s, that, plus Fire Ball (Bally) and King Kook (Gottalibe) THIS IS WHAT I started wiuth as a kid
Must've been cool to see one
I like this video because i decided to learn about pinball machines right now
Gottlieb made some innovative pinballs, but Williams left them in the dust.
P.S. good choice using Medieval Madness high score theme
In my language, which is Dutch, it's called flipperkast (Flipperbox).
nice video!
Great! Waiting for the next part.. :-)
If you havent, try Pinball FX 22 VR, Pinball in VR is truely amazing, next level! Lovely video btw
Good video....looking forward to parts 2 and 3
2:54 - "There for no substitute for quality" Now you can't unsee it. :D
Great video! Really enjoyed it.. cant wait fir part 2... Solid State!
I wish there was a series like that for Video/Arcade machines! HINT! HINT! 😉
hey, i can draw sexy women… maybe i should be a pinball artist
Big if true
Dude... you're funny. Great video.
This is good video i like the editing its funny
WOW, this is such a dope overview of pinball so far, can't believe this is just part 1! :D It was neat to see how some of the things that are common in pinball today got their start in the past and some of the history (like the ban + destruction of pinball tables and people being opposed to rolling score counters) is wild, whew. Also love some of the pinball tables you featured, I have a thing for minimalist/abstract art and interesting game mechanics (i.e. Williams' "OXO", one that I played a bit of prior to watching), so I took a liking to stuffs like Gottlieb's "Super Score", Rally's "Schuss", and Gottlieb's "Skipper".
As I type this comment, I feel the urge to just binge the rest of the series, heh! ;u; Will pace myself instead, but I'm looking forward to watching the rest of this series!
Rally tables hit different >:)
They really do, it seems! "Flower's Child" especially, they went out with a bright, colorful bang. 💙
I love your humor.
23:28 I was expecting a limerick lmao
Pinball is fucking amazing, thank you
Great Job! Very interesting 👍😎👍
1:04 ガルパン spotted
7:30 Florello La Guardia Hates Pinball
Your inage for fireball was actally a home unit called fire ball it was possibly made by bally or licensed
In Sweden Pinball machines are called Flipper due to the most important aspect of the game.
Algorithm actually worked.
Subbed
Amazing videos, very funny and informative
Are you a watcher of simpleflips by any chance, his humour definitely shows through you, in particular, “no fun allowed IDIOT” and “Ball chugging”
Maybe by chance yes.
Ball chugging does lend itself perfectly to pinball
@@bralex2670 hahaha it totally does
Klondike at 31:10 also features a centre post to protect from ball loss between the flippers
Looking forward to Pt 2.
Yours, subscriber #67
i have a sun vally im sitting next to it.. em s my era of collecting.. i think they are easier to repair. not crazy expensive. not to busy. the ball is always in site not hidden under three levels. easier for the uninitiated,,,, on a sad note my 1958 united three way bowler is acting up, to complicated for me to fix. was on location dont have the room to put in storage. going to give it away. love that game going to miss it
ps i have a twinky like the bootles chicago coin didnt want to pay the model twiggy
i have a fairly good knowledge about pinball history and manufacturers, but i must say, there's a bit in here even i didn't know.
Funny watching tnt tossing pins off the top of the building
Ye i like that one a lot :)
Excellent!
fun fact about Williams after there pinball 2000 tables revenge from Mars and Star wars 2000 that's when that closed there dores to the pinball thing and went to making slot machines and gambling stuff
Great stuff! My only problem is with how you mispronounced Bally and LaGuardia 😬
friendship 7... geegee...
Very pinheaded of you. Great job....onto part 2.... electricity...how did they use it to gamble back in the day? Was it designed specifically as a gambling device?.....what's the oldest working (and assuming it's the most expensive) pinball machine still in existence? Is there any videos of it..... whatever it may be
I can't be sure if pinball was originally designed for gambling, but it definitely turned that way at some point. EM's generally aren't that expensive to get these days (at least not when compared to nowadays) but I think you'd have a hard time getting your hands on a 30's/40's table
I should be in the Gunness Book of World Records for busting more flippers than anyone else alive. Remember the name pinball is synonymous with the name Tommy Tutalidge.
These are so cool