CHALLENGE ARCADE

WYOMISSING, PA 

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Next, it's a unique bowling themed pinball machine.

The playfield resembles a miniature bowling alley, and offers 10 frames. 

Yet another classic in this unique collection of pins.

Designed by John Borg, and featuring R2-D2 on the playfield. 

The last pin is the first pin with flippers, Humpty Dumpty, made by Gottlieb in 1947.  The on/off switch was not used until around 1964, I think, so inserting a nickel cuts the game on and resets it as well.

TRIVIA:  According to The Internet Pinball Database, there were two conversion kits for this game, Crown Jewels and Ivanhoe, both extremely rare.

There's even something coin-op on top of the change machine.

 

 

Here's Donkey Kong next to the vector graphic Star Wars vid.    

Here's some more recent vids.  The one on the far left photographed a bit blurry.

Here's a better shot of this game I could not identify.  Thanks to a couple guys from rec.games.pinball for letting me know it's a NEO GEO MVS Conversion, playing Metal Slug, probably part 2, level 3.  I was told that judging by the marquee, this is probably a six slot game.

In the corner, a classic Bubble Bobble.

 

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