My guess is that virtually everyone is familiar with the Internet Movie Database, but many may not be aware that many similar websites exist, each focused on a particular niche. Things like comics.org or Mobygames.com’s database of videogames. Anyway for a little friday fun I’ll point out the existence of the ipdb.org – the internet pinball database. When I was a kid we had two pinball machines and a jukebox in the basement, courtesy of my dad’s fond memories of the nickel and dime pinball machines of his youth. Kudos to any hamilton who can find either of the machines we owned in the database – while my memory of one of the machines in particular is pretty good, I can’t remember it’s name and have only a vague sense of when it was manufactured (late 60’s?). If you can find it, please note which one it is here. And for anyone else, if you messed about with pinball in your youth or have a fondness for it, it can be fun wandering through ipdb.org checking out the machines you used to play. Plus if you’re clever you’ll grab a definition file for them and get yourself a copy of pinmame so you can play a simulation of them on your computer.
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i remember one of them being about movies or hollywood, but a search for those words yields nothing. was the other one surfing or beach something?
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i rule.
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=513&depth=0&picno=480
if that doesnt work, it was called “cinema”
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Hmm, that definitely looks familiar, it probably is the sucky machine, the one that was perpetually broken. I’m not sure though – while the backdrop looks familiar, the playfield does not.
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huh. you’re right. the backglass is right but the playfield is wrong. i wonder if ours was some amalgam of others possibly contributing to the “always broken” aspect.
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