I'm getting ready to be the owner of a 1979 Bally Star Trek machine, found it in my area from a local guy who owns
an arcade shop where he buys them, refurb's them and sales them.
I went down to his shop last saturday and looked at it for the first time. My machine is still in the process of being cleaned up, when I saw it, it had only been in the shop for one day. They took it from their warehouse where it had been for a year or so.
Took some pics of it, will post them when I get them uploaded.
I made a decision in this process, which is part of getting it delivered to my house. I traded the guy my Xbox 360 and 27 games. I wasn't playing it
very much anymore, and figured if it's going to cut the total cost on the machine, I'd go for it. I'm also thinking that it's over for me and consoles.
Since I'm taking the plunge into buying a pinball I'm going to play the hell outta this machine.
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After I get this first pinball machine in I'm going to want more. I already have my eye on several more machines. I have a garage that currently holds
boxed up stuff from past moves, and my cat's have their litter boxes in there. When the cats pass on the garage will be turned into a full blown
old school arcade room.
That's years down the road, this purchase is the first step into arcade gaming.
When I was growing up in the 70's going to the local arcade, which was in the local mall was a highpoint in any trip there. There were also pinball and arcade machines in our local Circle K, and the dollar movie theater. Any time I had dollar bills those were getting changed into quarters and playing till they were gone.
For me those days were times that I really had fun being a kid. We would also play alot of pinball at Myrtle Beach at The Pavilion, back when there was one right on the beach. Rows and Rows of Pinball machines.
Got any pinball stories?
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Next to it on the left is Close Encounters of The Third Kind machine
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