Enough to drive you insay-ay-ay-ayne!!
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Mu is the coefficient of friction, it’s not “the coefficient of Mu”.
Well there you go, me and my engineer mates always called it “the coefficient of Mu”
Does that mean The KLF were pinball fans?
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Totally sold out at launch yesterday lucky me was able to get one with a deposit….now to wait to November 2026 to get it!
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Godzilla is a great game, nearly bought one, think I still might !
Hahaha. It doesn’t really matter does it….
I spent (wasted) a lot of time playing that game 
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Maybe for the dumb questions thread, but how much would an old but working pinball machine cost?
Old doesn’t necessarily mean cheap.
I saw Fish Tales for sale at the expo for $7k, which was less than I expected.
You can hire them for two months for $7-900.
Edit: I wish I kept the card of the guy who advertised hire at the pinball.
Websites seem to have
a) been constructed in 2002
b) want to keep their stock and prices secret, or want you to email them asking for a quote.
That last bit seems crazy to me for something that is very much an impulse buy.
Email for a quote? Yeah….anyway, what was I doing?
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Here is my story of 3 Pinball Machines in the Melbourne bayside suburb I grew up in.This suburb was divided by the train Line to Frankston, Nepean Highway on one side of the train line and Station street on the other. The main shopping centre was on Point Nepean Road as it was known at this time.There wer 2 barber shops in this strip ,one where my Father got his haircut ,this Barber was also an SP Bookie.My Father got caught taking bets for him and ended up with a Fine of 20 Pounds in 1939. The other Barbershop was where I got mine cut ,he was a lot gentler and used to squirt you in the face with the little hose adaptor that was common in those days. He also had a Pinball machine at the back of the shop.This machine had no back board no lights,flippers bumpers or any electrical mechanical device of any kind.It was a game of Poker with holes in the floor of the machine that the balls would ball into with each hole representing a Playing card, there were pins coming out of the base to bounce the balls around.The idea was to get a good Poker hand ,the trouble was the KQJ and Ace were all at the lower end ,there was a payout list that the Barber would pay you . I never won anything on that machine A hair cut was 2/6.
The second machine was at the southern end of the shopping strip 2 shops away from my Grandmothers Delicatesen. Now this was the big time for a young lad, the shop keeper would pay out the value of each go the machine which was 3 pence and the machines top pay out was 40 games which equaled 10/ . Don’t remeber winning any money there either.
The 3rd one was a milkbar 12 doors down from where i lived. Doing a morning paper round from the paper Kiosk on the Railway Station this was opposite the Milkbar we headed there every Saturday Morning after getting paid. The machine in there was called ROCKET .Flippers Bumpers lights the works.On the left side of the table there was a lane that every 1000 points it would multiply by 10 .It was r eally hard to get the ball into this alley.To get around this one of the paperboys brought along a little hand drill and drilled a hole in the side near the counter switch was, and you could rack up a free game without even firing a Ball The rotary counter in the little free game window always sat on its maximum number which was 28. Plunger technique was being able to dribble the ball just past the gate and have it roll down to the flipper. More to come.
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Yes similar balls that didn’t drop in a hole were shot out until they did. I don’t recall the cards having a numerical value ,it was a long time ago.
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It sounds very cool.
That one’s from the 30’s. Lindstrum’s Poker Pin Ball Machine.
Nhill Museum has some 30’s pinballs (I don’t think they’re for playing, though) but not that one.
We used to go to a cafe in Lygon St at lunchtime, while we doing studies at RMIT in the 80s, that was cheap entertainment.
Out the back was Lost World, which after the initial spend, we were able to play for the whole lunch break pretty much for free, as we were all capable of racking credits on it and one of us would usually get on a roll.
Was just a matter of getting the ball into either one of the saucers a number of times, then once it reached the credit threshold you only had to do it twice more to get another credit, which was endless. Only required a reasonable amount of aiming skill to master it.
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Always liked Dr Dude.
But lives in a small town, so there wasn’t many option.
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