Angryhydralisk (Guest) on 10/16/2006 3:13 pm

Three pinball machines I remember playing the most were Terminator 2, Rescue 911, and the Super Mario Bros. pinball machine. The last one was particularily fun because it integrated actual video gameplay (and fighting king koopa & his kids) to a bizarre extent.

And that Monster Squad review was so awesome it makes me want to kick somebody in the nards.

deadpixels (Guest) on 10/16/2006 3:18 pm

the Super Mario Bros. pinball machine has always been my favorite, you could even progress through the worlds from Super Mario Bros.

you could go into the castle and everything, man that was a cool machine.

D’ (Guest) on 10/16/2006 3:19 pm

We've never really had any arcades around my town, but we did have a Billiard hall with a few old 80's games, and two pinball machines.

The two pinball machines happened to be my favorite ever, and still hold up to this day. One of them was the Addam's Family pinball machine mentioned in the blog post. The other was my absolute favorite pinball machine ..

Guns & Roses

"Welcome to the Jungle, baby!" would ring out when you put your quarter in, and they even had Slash's snake pit. It was so cheesy and good ..

Mackie (Guest) on 10/16/2006 4:43 pm

My favorite pinball machines are the jurrasic park machine and hercules:The worlds biggest pinball machine. havent seen the jurrasic park one in a while but i think the hercules on is still at the theme park where i work

Rynan (Guest) on 10/16/2006 4:52 pm

I have played that "Elvira and Party Monsters" machine. It's not a particularly good pinball machine(it's really easy to loose your ball), but then again, it doesn't detect tilts(I've lifted it ten inches on it's side without any results).

Also, it's great when you get those lil' monster things to dance. That meant I did something.

Ryan (Guest) on 10/16/2006 4:59 pm

Yeah, the Addams Family pinball game was in a industrial club that I used to frequent a while back- nothing like pinball with cocktails and stompy music in the background.

Adam (Guest) on 10/16/2006 5:19 pm

"The Addams Family," "Junk Yard," "The Shadow," "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Twilight Zone," "Playboy," and "Champion Pub" are all big favorites of mine.

God, I want pinball machines of my own someday...

Debra (Guest) on 10/16/2006 6:01 pm

I've played the Adams Family one... hehe Thing is definately sehr cool!

Elmind (Guest) on 10/16/2006 6:04 pm

There's one of those Nightmare on Elm Street pinball in the arcade of my city... Unfortunately I live in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Valença... If any of you happen to come here, to Valença (which I highly doubt), sent me an e-mail, ok?

figment1988/stitchfan626 (Guest) on 10/16/2006 6:41 pm

despite the fact i like almost every pinball game, the ones i remember the most is back to the Future, Black Knight 2000, Terminator 2, South Park, and Banzai Run.

Jesse B (Guest) on 10/16/2006 7:05 pm

No Twilight Zone?

For shame, -RoG- FOR SHAME!

richard (Guest) on 10/16/2006 7:06 pm

I played a really crazy awesome pinball machine that I THINK was Rock Horror, but i cant remember, all i can remember is that it was covered in dust, and i kept getting free games even though i didnt really know what I was doing, P.S., That Evil Dead shirt? I've been wearing it for 4 days, i refuse to take it off, unless its for putting on my ash costume, The Apocalypse ending for Army of Darkness blew nuts :(. P.P.S When you said i was the only person with an evil dead shirt, was that true? or sarcasm? I've only seen one person with them in canada. Me. :D

-RoG- (Guest) on 10/16/2006 7:18 pm

Angryhydralisk, thanks man, I worked really hard on that piece because it deserved a fitting tribute worthy of the mighty Horace. Let's just hope that it helps get The Monster Squad released on DVD eventually!

D', haha I forgot about that Guns 'n Roses pinball machine... definitely a classic. It almost ranks right up there with the "Journey" arcade game.

Jesse B, did you not read the entire post? I mentioned Twilight Zone along with several other noteworthy horror-themed pinball machines.

Rev. Dr. M. (Guest) on 10/16/2006 7:55 pm

I've played the Adams Family one. I remember it because the one I played flashed DON'T DO DRUGS! every 10 minutes when it was idling. Very amusing to a troupe of 10 improvisers. My all time favourite is some alien-themed one (I cannot remember the name now) that was in a bowling alley in Mar Vista, CA. I played that thing for hours on end thanks to a kind parent and a $10 bill.

Jeff Rynaski (Guest) on 10/16/2006 9:37 pm

Definately The Creature from the Black Lagoon pinball machine! The Creature (Or Lagoony, as you call him) has always been my favorite horror movie monster. And come on, that machine has some great detail!

Paranoid pirate (Guest) on 10/16/2006 10:33 pm

I never commented a rog blog before but, I love pinball machines. I really really do. But by far, my favorite is Mar's revenge! ( or something like that). It's half pinball machine have video game. It has a TV screen with different missions, such as hitting certain bumpers to make the licoln statue fight a giant alien! Oh, how I love the arcades.

Aks (Guest) on 10/16/2006 11:22 pm

Definitely The Simpsons one. Its so hilarious when you loose a ball because once in a blue moon Homer yells "DOH!" and it just cracks everyone up. Ive SEEN the Super Mario one but Ive never played it. I was SO DAMN CLOSE to playing it too except it was out of order. :( But still I love the living crap out of The Simpsons one. If your ever in the St. Louis area (which I doubt becase you just friggin moved) send me an e-mail and Ill show it to you. Ill buy. :)

X (Guest) on 10/17/2006 12:03 am

I think the Addam's Family machine is the only pinball machine I actually remember. I've played many forgettable ones.

Also, I was aware that "dork" originally a slang term for penis. Gary Larson tried to use "dork" in one of his strips but it was denied by his editor for it's orginal meaning.

Kenny/Riot.EXE (Guest) on 10/17/2006 12:54 am

yeah...I have the Addams Family Pinball game at my job (I work in an arcade) and its actually up for sale (for 2,000.00?) although I never sat down and played the thing ever...even when it was new...

although...another notable one(and I only know because its the second of 3 we have at my job) is the "The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot" pinball game...if only for its so-close-to-porn-its-ridiculous artwork...and my co worker, Billy, got it to say "All your base are belong to us" on its attract mode...

Jesse B (Guest) on 10/17/2006 1:25 am

YOU ADDED THAT SO YOU CAN GET A ONE UP!

I CUT MYSELF NOW!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/Hellblade47/DSCF0143.jpg

NotDavid (Guest) on 10/17/2006 1:27 am

I played a soccer pinball machine in my arcade for like 2 hours straight. It was pretty scary, so it counts.

Shane Skekel (Guest) on 10/17/2006 2:27 pm

My favorites are Super Mario World, Fire Queen (I know one guy that owned that pin in his garage) and Robocop.

Speaking of Pinball, have any of you heard of the three pinball/videogame hybrids of the early-to-mid '80s such as
Granny and the Gators

Tim Capps (Guest) on 10/17/2006 5:19 pm

My favorite is the Demolition Man machine thats in my gameroom right now. Its the only one I own, and its my favorite because Sly actually owned the machine. Williams presented it to after the movie was released and for lending his lovely radio voice for the games sound. My friends Dad bought the machine from a auction Sly had awhile back for some charity, and my friends parents were moving into a smaller home. There was a choice either the pool table or Rocky's pinball machine. I got BOTH.
So Demolition Man is my favorite

Andrew (Guest) on 10/17/2006 11:38 pm

I really had lots of fun with Twilight Zone. God, I could play a single game for like 30 minutes on that baby!

the boy (Guest) on 10/18/2006 8:57 am

Here's a real man's pinball game.

And what the hell does "12/09/97 - NEVER FORGET" mean? Is Horace fucking dead? Don't tell me Horace is dead?

Holy shit... I just looked it up. Horace is dead. And he died when he was 22!? What the fuck? This is terrible. How could I not have known this!?

There is no justice.

J. Tithonus Pednaud (Guest) on 10/18/2006 9:43 am

Like a few others here, I have to give props to The Twilight Zone pinball marchine. I've played a lot of pinball in my time, but that one was so much damn fun! You could play it for an hour or more on a single run.

Keith (Guest) on 10/18/2006 1:31 pm

God bless my parents who bought a used "strange science" pinball machine and put it in our basement when I was a kid. A good machine and most importantly for kids-who-lack-income-sources, it was of course free... Except when my parents wanted to mess with us.

i-mock-you- (Guest) on 10/18/2006 1:37 pm

Oh man... I've played that Adams Family one. A recent find at a hotel this summer was ALIEN SPACE INVADERS!!!! (it was actually capitalized & punctuated like that.) The whole playing field looked like it was out of a cheesy Sci-Fi movie. It had a "black hole" which swallowed your ball never to be seen again, a UFO, and classic little green men alien figures standing on the bumpers!

Easily one of my favorite games ever.

Kenny/Riot.EXE (Guest) on 10/18/2006 5:02 pm

oh yeah...another cool one I remember WAY back in the day was this pac man pinball game...I can't remember if it was "Baby Pac Man" or "Pac Man Jr." but it was a fusion of pinball and an actual game of pac man...joystick and all...I remember having fun with it at this gas station I used to live near back when I lived in Houston...anyone else remember the game? (and/or the correct name for it at least?)

Richard (Guest) on 10/18/2006 6:03 pm

Oh fine -RoG- Ignore me like that :( I saw the robocop one too!

Rev. Dr. M. (Guest) on 10/18/2006 6:34 pm

Alien Space Inavders! That was the one in the bowling alley! i-mock-you, I can't believe somebody else has seen this one!

Sejanoz (Guest) on 10/18/2006 11:43 pm

My favourite non-horror pinball game: Rocky & Bullwinkle. What got me was that you could make Bullwinkle pull different animals out of a hat.

My favourite horror pinball game: The Addams Family, for obvious reasons.

RoG, you mentioned one called 'Monster Bash'. This wouldn't happen to be based on an certain Apogee PC game, would it?

-RoG- (Guest) on 10/19/2006 4:20 am

the boy, yep, Horace is actually dead, hence the date I included. I'm convinced that the world is lost without him.

Richard, it was obviously sarcasm.

Sejanoz, hrm, I don't think it's based on the Apogee one, here's a link to the Pinball machine. I'll definitely have to look into that Monster Bash Apogee game though. I loved their games such as Commander Keen 'n what not.

Sejanoz (Guest) on 10/19/2006 11:22 pm

*sigh* Sadly, it's not. The Apogee game is definately worth checking out, though.

Ryan (Guest) on 10/22/2006 11:20 am

Awesome list. I remember the Addams family one never seen the freddy one, anywhere. Though there is a mini golf place by me and I believe they still have the Elvira pinball machine.

Billy (Guest) on 10/22/2006 11:27 pm

Haunted House is another cool horror theme pinball. It had three different playfields in it. The main playfield, a lower cellar, and an upper level to the attic.

http://www.dmpweb.net/pinballworld/what_H11.htm

shekk (Guest) on 11/02/2006 1:35 pm

I cannot believe noone mentioned "funhouse"