I've known Pat for many years and his love and passion for pinball is remarkable. Thanks for sharing this video with the EM (electro-mechanical) pinball community.
Wow, great stuff Pat! Like you my grandfather was in the Coin-Op business and it rubbed off. I'm a bit younger than you so my first pinball machine was a Williams Lady Luck in 69. Still hooked all these years later.. Thanks for the lecture!
i am from 89.. when i was little. i remember all the flashy lights. could barely reach the buttons. and if someone was like. ahh oke here you go. it was 1 minute and all my balls where gone.. when i was older and more capable for playing these games. they where all gone. videogames took over... all my life i was fascinated about these games.. now "older" my girl has no right to disagree, whatsoever.. i bought my first machine a Williams 86 road kings. it was broken down, took me few days googling and trying stuff.. and it works.. then found a gay 90s (1970 williams) in boxes.. to my surprise it was complete. wondering why you would take it apart. now already searching for my next game haha i love rescuing these games, they need love, its a piece of history. it was back than state of the art entertainment. every time older people come in here.. ( yeah that is normal here in the netherlands ) they be like: WOAAHH a pinball machine!!!! does it work? yes, its on freeplay, wanna play? haha
If it's one mistake the operators made, it was the thinking that they had to constantly rotate out the pinballs from a given location, and bring in new ones, or players would get tired of the old ones. Not so. A pinball like Target Pool, in a bowling alley, would become like an old friend where somebody like me would come back to play over and over again, for months or even years.. So many times, I was crushed when my favorite game was removed from a location and replaced with some dumb new one I didn't like.
Tropical Isle was my favorite machine from the 60's. I saw it on your slide show in the back ground.
I've known Pat for many years and his love and passion for pinball is remarkable. Thanks for sharing this video with the EM (electro-mechanical) pinball community.
Wow, great stuff Pat! Like you my grandfather was in the Coin-Op business and it rubbed off. I'm a bit younger than you so my first pinball machine was a Williams Lady Luck in 69. Still hooked all these years later.. Thanks for the lecture!
Great video. Thank you. The only other thing I've seen by Gottlieb was grip strength testers
Pat! You did an amazing presentation! You're a pro!
Amazing!!! I enjoyed every second of this history lesson!
I really enjoyed and learnt a lot watching this, thank you Pat!
i am from 89.. when i was little. i remember all the flashy lights. could barely reach the buttons. and if someone was like. ahh oke here you go. it was 1 minute and all my balls where gone..
when i was older and more capable for playing these games. they where all gone. videogames took over... all my life i was fascinated about these games..
now "older" my girl has no right to disagree, whatsoever.. i bought my first machine a Williams 86 road kings. it was broken down, took me few days googling and trying stuff.. and it works.. then found a gay 90s (1970 williams) in boxes.. to my surprise it was complete. wondering why you would take it apart. now already searching for my next game haha
i love rescuing these games, they need love, its a piece of history. it was back than state of the art entertainment. every time older people come in here.. ( yeah that is normal here in the netherlands ) they be like: WOAAHH a pinball machine!!!! does it work? yes, its on freeplay, wanna play? haha
King Pin ! Absolute 10/10 to play.
Nip-it. Of course the Fonz played it.
Still love my 64 Gottlieb Bowling Queen… very playable… and 1000 is a good score.
Oh that one, omg and that one, I remember that machine! And that what a great example... 🙂 be glad I wasn't there haha, interrupting every 5 seconds
If it's one mistake the operators made, it was the thinking that they had to constantly rotate out the pinballs from a given location, and bring in new ones, or players would get tired of the old ones. Not so. A pinball like Target Pool, in a bowling alley, would become like an old friend where somebody like me would come back to play over and over again, for months or even years.. So many times, I was crushed when my favorite game was removed from a location and replaced with some dumb new one I didn't like.
Williams still makes games you said, Bally makes slot machines but Williams is dead.
When I heard him say that, I was thinking that this is an earlier recording before 1999. Good catch!