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be an awesome links site called "The Pinball Pasture," back in the early days of Windows 95, but after a while it was no longer updated.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)
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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 Roller Coaster Tycoon birthday cake HOME MADE PINS The Last Supper (a Jesus pinball machine?!!) |
INFO All About Hantaviruses(ya know those little pellets in your project pin?) Bally Solenoid Driver tips for dummies 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 How Flippers Work (Bally solid state) How to remove and replace pop bumpers The International Flipper Pinball Association 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 News Steve Kordek Tribute Pinpedia (pinball encyclopedia/database) Pinside.com(great pinball forum) Pinwiki(repair guides, etc.) 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 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.) Bay Area Amusements (many game specific parts)
Classic
Playfield Reproductions (and classic pin plastic sets too!) Cointaker.com
(Quality LED's at affordable prices) ColorDMD
(color dot matrix displays) Crowbar
Electrical Parts (a great source for nylon cable ties, etc.) 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) 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) Ron
and Nancy Webb repro pinball backglasses 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) Twisted Quarter
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REPAIR/RESTORATION Allied Leisure troubleshooting and repair (great troubleshooting tips from John's Jukes, and they do offer board repair services) Backglass restoration and repair service Coin-Op Cauldron(board repair and rom burning services) Docent Electronics (repair services, Dayton, OH) 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) 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) The Reserve restoration project Mark's Space Shuttle Restoration
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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) Computer Space Fan (an informative site paying tribute to the first coin-op videogame) 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) |
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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) |
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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 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) 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)
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MISC GREAT STUFF
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The Byrd Theatre, Richmond, VA (since 1928) |
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Elibs (like those goofy Madlib books from years ago) | ||
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) |
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) |
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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.) |
Snap Frames Direct (great way to display pinball flyers, movie posters, etc.) | ||
The Stoogeum (Three Stooges museum, Ambler, PA) | ||
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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) |