Next Level Pinball Museum – Hillsboro, OR See more info here at the official website. Like many, this works on an admission for unlimited play plan, which is $20 for adults, $17 for kids.
You can take a trip through modern pop culture history with Captain Fantastic (1976), Terminator 2 (1991), Guns ‘n Roses (1994), and Toy Story 4 (2022). Since then, the collection has grown to include games from more than 60 years. This pinball museum in Seattle originally opened in late August 2010. See more info here on pinball in Las Vegas, NV Seattle Pinball Museum – Seattle, WA Come to this warehouse-sized spot near the Mirage–twice as big as its previous location–and get out of the heat, enjoying one of the best bargains in Sin City. It’s hand-written and quite basic though, so I’m not sure collectors are going to be all that satisfied with the signage. This is called a museum because there is a bit of explanation by each machine. To my point before about maintenance, there were dozens of machines here in various states of disrepair, some in restoration, some just not working like they were supposed to. I was playing a lot of the retro machines that were just 25 cents and some I remembered from my high school days.
All the machines were reasonably priced here though and I never even made it through that initial amount. I cashed in $20 worth of quarters at the change machine when I arrived, thinking that I may have to come back to get more later.
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I played a Mandalorian one while I was there, but also played some refreshingly retro machines where 1,500 points earned a free game. This is supposedly now the world’s largest pinball machine collection, featuring machines from the 1950s up to the present day. In case you weren’t sure what was going on inside that building above in Las Vegas, the sign will definitely clue you in. The Las Vegas Pinball Museum – Las Vegas, NV See more info here on this Alameda pinball museum. And hey, there’s a twofer deal on Tuesdays! The Pacific Pinball Museum is open every day except Mondays and major holidays. They also have vintage jukeboxes and curated pop culture/art exhibitions. This is a non-profit enterprise, so when you pony up $22 for a single, $15 for a student, or $55 for a family of four, you’ll support a fun place for people to gather and not executive bonuses. Games are presented in chronological order and historical display from the 1940s to today. The Pacific Pinball Museum is an interactive museum with 90 playable pinball machines. You’ll have a few days to rest up though unless you strike gold in a midwestern USA bar: none of these are in the middle of the country except for one outside of Detroit. You could put together a whole USA road trip based on this list, so we’ll start in the west and head across the country. If you want to spend hours hitting the flippers and bumping the machine strategically without tilting, here are some of the best places to play pinball in the USA, “pinball museums” where you can hit the flippers until your arms cramp up. At any of them, at least one machine will probably be out of order at any given time. Now, in most of the spots listed in this pinball places article, there’s a full-time person on site keeping the machines rolling. In the old days there were roving technicians who spent all day making repairs, traveling from bar to arcade to pool hall.
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Pinball machines take up more room than most (but not all) video games, plus they are much more complicated machines. It wasn’t just changing tastes that led to a decline though. (See more about that in Sheila’s post on the National Videogame Museum.) They just don’t do the huge sales numbers they used to back in the days before Pac-man, Asteroids, Centipede, and Donkey Kong started taking their place. Pinball is not a dead form of entertainment: new machines are still coming out all the time, like that one pictured here that I just spotted in a local brewpub in Tampa Bay. Most of them are tagged as pinball museums, but they’re arcades where you can actually play with the exhibits. Are you a budding pinball wizard or are you an oldster like me who prefers the tactile feel of those machines over the bits and bytes of video games? Fortunately for you, there are still some great places to play pinball in the USA.
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