THE YORK SHOW: October 10th - October 12th, 2024

I started this page with just a few links when I first went online in the summer of 1995, with my first Window computer, an Acer, costing over $1k, which I still have.  

There used to be an awesome links site called "The Pinball Pasture," back in the early days of Windows 95, but after a while it was no longer updated.  I found that good pinball and other coin-op sites were scattered all over the internet, taking hours to find, and many pinball sites had dead links all over the place.  So, here's your one stop shop for just about coin op related, and a few miscellaneous sites thrown in.  Enjoy!  Pingeek.

 

HISTORICAL

Asheville Pinball Museum (Asheville, NC)

Fernandina Beach Pinball Museum (Fernandina Beach, FL)

Las Vegas Pinball Hall Of Fame

Pacific Pinball Museum (Alameda, CA's vintage pinball museum) 

Pennsylvania Coin Operated Gaming Hall Of Fame And Museum (Hopewell TWP, PA)

Pinball Collector's Resource (they wrote the Pinball Reference guide back in 1979!)

Replay Amusement Museum (Tarpon Springs, FL)

Roanoke Pinball Museum (Roanoke, VA)

Silverball Museum (Asbury Park, NJ)

The Strong (National Museum Of Play) (Rochester, NY) (play pinball machines from the 30's to the present)

Tunnel Of Laffs (Australia's answer to Coney Island)

ARCADES

Arcade Amusements (Manitou Springs, CO) (classic arcade games)

Arcade Hry (retro arcade near Prague, CZ (Czech Republic)

Arcade Odyssey (Miami, FL)

Arnold's Family Fun Center (Oaks, PA)

Barcade Brooklyn (classic videogame lineup)

Boxcar Bar + Arcade (Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, NC locations)

Chuck E. Cheese   (US and international locations)

Dave & Buster's (CA to VA)

8-bit Arcade-Bar (Renton, WA)

Firefly Toys & Games Arcade (Columbia, SC)

Flashback Pinball Arcade (Conway, AR)

Flip Out London (London)

Flipper McCoy's (VA Beach) 

The Flipper Room(Concord, CA) 

Flippers Arcade (Grandy, NC) 

Freeplay Bar & Arcade (Providence, RI) 

Fun City Arcade (Ocean City, MD) 

Funspot Arcade (NH, the largest arcade in the world, lots of classic pins and vids)

Galloping Ghost Arcade (Brookfield, IL, one of the largest videogame arcades with pinball as well)

Game Galaxy Arcade (Goodlettsville, TN)

Game Galaxy Arcade (Smyrna, TN)

Geeks Mania Arcade (Madison, WI)(classic and recent pins and vids)

Helicon Brewing (Oakdale, PA)

I Play America (Freehold, NJ)

Jackbar (Brooklyn, NY)

Keg & Coin (Jacksonville, FL)

Lowry Parcade (Tampa, FL)

Morristown Game Vault (NJ)(classic pins and vids)

1984 Arcade (Springfield, MO)

North Star Pinball Bar (Montreal, Quebec)

The 1Up (Denver, CO)

Pinball Gallery (Downingtown, PA)

Pinball Jones (Fort Collins, CO)

The Pinball Lounge (Oviedo, FL)

Pinball Map (pinball locator for many cities throughout the USA)

Pinballz Arcade (Austin, TX)

Pin Up Arcade Bar (Waterloo, Ontario)

Pints-And-Pixels (Huntsville, AL)

Putt-Putt (Richmond, VA)

Quarter's Arcade (Spooner, WI)

Quarters Arcade (Bremerton, WA)

Robot City Games And Arcade (Binghamton, NY)

Ronnie Raygun's Arcade (Huntsville, AL)

Spinners Pinball Arcade (Frederick, MD)

Spring Lake Arcade (the world's oldest penny arcade )(RI area)

SS Billiards (early and modern solid state pinball) (Hopkins, MN)

Starcade (Atlantic City, NJ)

Star Worlds Arcade(Dekalb, IL)

Timeline Arcade (Hanover, PA)

Timeline Arcade (York, PA)

The 2Up (Denver, CO)

Underground Retrocade (West Dundee, IL)

Wedgehead (Portland, OR)

Yestercades (Red Bank, NJ)

 

FAN/COLLECTOR PAGES

Backglass.org (nice collage of pinball backglasses)

Flippers.be (Belgium collector's page)

Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors (including some Florida arcade listings)

The Nightmare On Elm Street Pinball Resource Site

Pinball Collector's Resource

Pinball Pets

Roller Coaster Tycoon birthday cake

Scared Stiff birthday cake

Twilight Zone birthday cake

HOME MADE PINS

Big Healey

Bill Paxton

Coconut Island

Critical Mass 

Go Girl

Gothic

Iron Maiden

The Last Supper (a Jesus pinball machine?!!)

Lego pinball machine

Metallica

INFO

All About Hantaviruses(ya know those little pellets in your project pin?)

The Arcade Flyer Archive

Backglass animated lighting

Bally Solenoid Driver tips for dummies

Bingo Pinballs

Bulbs: 444 vs. 555

Cleaning The Playfield Harness

Cows and Easter Eggs(hidden dot matrix and trivia stuff)

"Flipper Fantasy: Collecting Pinball Machines" (a 1996 article from "Cigar Aficionado" magazine)

Game Plan Pinball (everything you wanted to know about Game Plan pins and then some)

The Gottlieb/Vifico connection

Hidden artwork on pinball machines

The History Of Pinball

How Flippers Work (Bally solid state)

How to remove and replace pop bumpers

The International Flipper Pinball Association

Internet Pinball Database

Interview With Allen Edwall(designed Charlie's Angels, Time Line, and other Gottlieb pins)

Interview With John Buras(designed Black Hole, Buck Rogers, and other Gottlieb pins)

Interview With Earl Moloney(nephew of Bally founder, Earl Moloney)

The Lego pinball machine (a real working pinball machine)

Okaegi's collection and projects (has great Bally solid state tech links!)

Pavlov Pinball (pinball news, tech stuff, and more!)

Pinball Abbreviations Database

Pinball Articles by Russ Jensen (the late pinball historian)

Pinball Flyer Database (rare pinball flyers)

Pinball Images

Pinball News

Pinball News Steve Kordek Tribute

Pinpedia (pinball encyclopedia/database)

Pinside.com(great pinball forum)

Pinwiki(repair guides, etc.)

rec.games.pinball newsgroup

The Story Behind The Development of Stern's "Orbitor One" pin

Unofficial Doctor Who Pinball History

Tilt! (the Italian pinball scene)

Tomy "Astro Shooter" (this might have been the first pin you owned if you grew up pre internet)

Tomy "Atomic Pinball" (this also might have been the first pin you owned if you grew up pre internet)

Twin Galaxies (the worldwide authority on player rankings since 1981)

The Ugly Flyer Site (bat, bowler, pins and gungame flyers online)

Vancouver Regional Pinball Assocation

The World's Tallest Pinball

Zaccaria-Pinball (everything you wanted to know about these rare yet innovative pins.)

PARTS/GAMES

Action Pinball & Amusement  (UT) (a wide assortment of pins and parts for sale)

All Castle Games (WI) (pins and vid sales/repairs, and stuff on location to play)

Antique Electronic Supply(tubes, etc.)

Auction Game Sales

Bay Area Amusements (many  game specific parts)

Boltdepot.com

Classic Playfield Reproductions (and classic pin plastic sets too!)

Cliffy's Pinball Protectors

Cointaker.com (Quality LED's at affordable prices)

ColorDMD (color dot matrix displays)

Crowbar Electrical Parts (a great source for nylon cable ties, etc.)

Ebay 

Fabulous Fantasies (Southern California) (restored and customized vintage coin-op games since 1993)

Flash & Trash Antique Amusements (Seven Valleys, PA) (near York) (nice variety of coin-op and other unique gameroom items)

Great American Pinball (customized and restored pins for sale)

Harbor Freight (hydraulic table cart lifters, spring kits, and other assorted pin/home stuff)

Inkotchnito's Score And Instruction Cards

Jameco Electronics (great source for connector stuff and IC chips)

K's Arcade (Williams, etc. replacement boards, board repair, and rom burning services)

Little Shop of Games (sales, service, and hard to find decals)

Marco Specialties (many game specific parts)

 Mayfair Amusement (wide variety of replacement backglasses)

Mouser Electronics (another great source for connector stuff and IC chips)

Mr. Pinball Classifieds

Nabours Novelty (The Ultimate Gameroom Store for the Minnesota area since 1975.)

Pinball Decals, Inc. (chrome parts, plastic protectors, etc.)

Pinball Fanatic (pin cabinet protectors and more!)

Pinball, Inc. (ramps for sale!)

Pinball Life (great source for misc. pinball parts)

Pinball STAR Amusements (authorized distributor for "Wizard Of Oz," The Hobbit," "Medieval Madness," etc.)

PinGraffix (Pinblades, Pinaprons, Decals, and more custom stuff.)

Pinballrebel.com(a bunch of instruction cards to download....FREE)

Pinball Resource (great misc. parts source)

rec.games.pinball

Ron and Nancy Webb repro pinball backglasses

Stern Pinball

Suzo-Happ (formerly Happ Controls, a great source for pin, video, etc., coin-op parts)

T-Molding.com (get those replacement side strips for your classic vid., etc.)

Tilt Warning Customs (custom built pinball machines)

TNT Amusements.com 

Twisted Quarter (another great source for pin, video, etc., coin-op parts)

REPAIR/RESTORATION

Aladdin's Castle hacks

Allied Leisure troubleshooting and repair (great troubleshooting tips from John's Jukes, and they do offer board repair services)

Backglass restoration and repair service

Blue Ribbon restoration

Coin-Op Cauldron(board repair and rom burning services)

Clay's Coin Op Repair Guides

Cyclone restoration

Dealer's Choice hack

Docent Electronics (repair services, Dayton, OH)

Fire! restoration

Five Star Final restoration

The Getaway: High Speed II restoration

Gottlieb drop target replacement

High End Pins (Chris Hutchins) (NC)

Hobbyroms.com (a rom burning service)

Hyperball restoration (Ed Cheung)

Indiana Jones restoration

Mark's Pinball Page

Mattel "Las Vegas" PinWiki tech stuff (detailed home pin tech and repair stuff)

The Pinball Clinic (professional quality pinball machine repair & restoration specialists in PA)

Pinballrom.com(not a typo)

Playmatic Pinball Repair

Recel Pinball Repair

Removing pen cabinet marks

Rebuilding a Funhouse pin

The Reserve restoration project

Mark's Space Shuttle Restoration

Toledo hack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLASSIC VIDEOGAME

Arcade Artwork: Scanning Arcade Game Sideart

The Arcade Flyer Archive (pinball, videogame flyers of all eras)

Arcadeshop, LLC (large variety of vid parts and upgrades)

Atari Age (everything you need to know about Atari consoles)

 Atari Museum

Computer Space Fan (an informative site paying tribute to the first coin-op videogame)

The Dragon's Lair Project

Good Deal Games (console video games, computer games, and lots of classic console info!) 

The Killer List of Videogames (a comprehensive database of all videogames)

rec.games.video.arcade.collecting (videogames and parts for sale)

This Old Game (classic videogame restoration parts)

 

JUKEBOX LINKS

John's Juke's Ltd.(they sell jukes, juke parts, pins, vids, etc.  Located in Vancouver, BC, they ship worldwide)

Jukebox Friday Night (amp repair, parts, tech articles)

Jukeboxparts.com (a wide selection of parts)

 

 

MISC COIN-OP 

 

ARMWRESTLING AMUSEMENT DEVICES

Armwrestling Amusement Devices

BINGO PINBALL MACHINES

Oldbinger Pinball (great bingo info site)

EM and bingo podcasts (more great bingo info)

PACHINKO LINKS

PachiTalk.com (Pachinko forum site)

PENNY SCALES

Pennyscale.com

PINBALL SIMS

Future Pinball (deeper graphics than Visual Pinball)

IR Pinball (tons of Visual and Future Pinball downloads...FREE)

The Pinball Arcade (classic and modern pinball)

Pinball Nirvana (Visual and future pinball stuff)

Virtual Pinball Universe (more visual and future pinball stuff)

SLOT MACHINE LINKS

Antiqueslotmachines.com (slot machines for sale)

Antiqueslots.com (Old pinball, slot machine, and trade stimulator collector)

Mr. Slot (wide variety of replacement slot parts)

Ray's Antique Slot Machines

Slot Tech Forum

WALL GAMES LINKS

Wallgames.com (coin operated remote controlled wall mounted games)

 

SHIPPING/SUPPLIES

  Craters and Freighters(offering crating, packing and worldwide shipping services)

  Esupplystore.com(shipping envelopes, etc. shipped fast, low prices)

 

BOWLERS

Big Ball Bowler

MISC GREAT STUFF

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American Top 40 - The 70's air times

American Top 40 - The 80's air times

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The Basement Crawl Space Project

Billboard Magazine archives

The Byrd Theatre, Richmond, VA (since 1928)

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Yuk Lan's DOORS Pics

Ebay 1970's electronic game auctions

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Elibs (like those goofy Madlib books from years ago)

Electronic Handheld Game Museum

Feelin' Good Tees (funny t-shirts)

 

Freeware Files (freeware software downloads)

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Google.com (research anything)

 

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Hull's Drive-In (Lexington, VA)

Hulu (watch recent tv shows you missed)

 

Jim Croce: The Official Site

Laugh In The Dark (Dark Ride And Funhouse Amusements historical site)

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Mail2web.com (download your email from anywhere!)
 

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Night Stalker (a page about my favorite show of all time)

Ollie's Bargain Outlet

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Pandora (create your own online music playlist)

Pennycollector.com (locate those machines that flatten and engrave pennies)

Phil's Old Radios (great site about vintage radios and televisions)

Radio Shack Catalogs (online archive from 1939 to 2005)

Rubber Flooring, Inc. (perfect for the gameroom, garage, etc.)

SCTV Guide  

Snap Frames Direct (great way to display pinball flyers, movie posters, etc.)

The Stoogeum (Three Stooges museum, Ambler, PA)

Timeanddate.com

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20Q (20 Questions)

The Ultimate Cheapskate

Virginia Flea Markets 

The Wacky Packages Web Page!!

Wikopedia (a free encyclopedia with information about anything) __

Wounded Bird Records (lost 70's and 80's albums on cd!)

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Zazzle (personalized t-shirts, hats, etc.)

Zipinfo.com (free ZIP code lookup)

 

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