Golden Age of Video Games 1978-1982 - Top Ten

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POTC JJP another wide body and awesome new game!
Fishtales
Whitewater
Junkyard
Indianapolis 500
Guns and Roses

on the other side of this row is the same amount of pins I remember
Creature from the black lagoon
Johny Demonic

and 4 others that I can’t remember

and outside of the area

Was Double Dragon in this era?

Also, I have Galaga on PS4. It’s still cool, but can’t play it for that long.

1942 was very addictive.

Yeah on the mini play field…defeat the power, you had to release the ball on the up swing of the magnet power.

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everything is in this era now, will have to change the thread title, maybe games we used to play

That’s some serious man cave. Lockdown in there would be very bearable.

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That lot is right in my pinball zone. Twilight Zone and STTNG would comfortably be my two most played machines, and the 2 I’d choose from a line up of all the pinballs ever, and Indiana Jones would be top 5.

The holodeck on STTNG …RRLLRRLLRLRL…

…oh dear…

Here is a pick of my current pin lineup, not me in the photo.

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Hmm, that lot is have as 3rd and 4th choices except GNR!

Very nice.

Is F14 Tomcat a Top Gun spinoff/ripoff?

Hahaha. How about the “Powerball”

Thinking of magnets, was it Addams Family that had the one in the middle of the Playfield “the power”

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Indianapolis 500 is an underrated gamed Pirates of the Caribbean the new Jersey Jack game is phenomenal, when this pic was taken it was only a few months old. Has a moving pirate ship on the PF that you load a cannon and shoot the pinball.

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I think they couldn’t get the license at the time as the pin is 1987, its fast and furious my first pinball I bought and still love it today! I bought it in 1998 so it has now been home use only for 22 years, bought for $800 and 20 jukebox cds thrown in!!! Which at the time Cd’s were at least $10 second hand

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AF had three magnets under the pf and when they activated would move the ball around randomly so cool!

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Ooooh, there was an older game that did that.
I wanna say Terminator, but I really have no idea.
It was cool, though.

Yep Terminator had one of those too!! Load the cannon had Arnies voice in the game, when he was doing the speech for the game he said “■■■■ Off” at some point of the session. the ROM was later released with this included, so at certain parts of the game you could make it say it, by changing the ROM and doing some adjustments.

AC/DC also has a cannon, just trying to find a pic of my AC/DC LE BIB, I sold it :frowning:

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Old CRT tubes, recycled as Arcade monitors, not making these anymore, have a small collection under the house

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Not sure Tetris is in the age bracket, but the replay of 2019 World Champs was on ESPN yesterday and it was crazy!!! I played it a little growing up as most probably did but the levels those guys reached is scary

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A girl that works for me still has one of these TV’s, and it’s the only TV they have and use. I’ll make sure I get it to you when she finally upgrades

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Trinitrons (Sony) are no good but all the generic brand tubes, Samsung, Toshiba etc can be adapted easily!

Hers is probably a SORNY

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