Thread: Pinball machines with haunt themes

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Hi everyone, I am also a Pinball freak!! I used to open the machine just to smell the mechanics of the machine working. Some may say I am obsessed about it but its just a one and one sixteenth, two point eight ounce shiny silver ball.

Anyway, there are plenty of pinball machines with haunt type themes or that any Halloween enthusiast could appreciate. I used to own an arcade and had three of best. "Freddy's Nightmare" "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein" and my personal favorite..."the Addams Family" These made me lots of money at the time and I miss them all!!!!!!

I got to thinking, there are lots of pinball machines that have haunt type themes,......as I recall theys um....

"Creature from the Black Lagoon"
"Elvira and the party monsters"
"Elvira's Scared Stiff"
"Bram Stoker's Dracula"
"Monster bash"
Gottlieb's "Haunted House"
"Twilight Zone"
"Attack from Mars"
"Centaur"
....and many more

Just wanted to share this with you all and see what you guys think. So next time you're at a pizza place or see a pinball machine, check out the theme and see if its a haunted type of theme. Not to mention the marvelous maze of pneumatics and hydraulics are in each machine and there is over a half of a mile of wire in each to. Prop makers should appreciate that

Yeah I own a WhiteWater pinball machine and love it, very deep ruleset. Scared Stiff is a great machine probably one of the best lightshows out there.

You do learn a ton trying to fix them up so it really does "spill" over into halloween in terms of solenoids and such. Had to replace a few bridge rectifiers, transistors, capacitors and shopped the thing inside out on the WH20 but it's in great shape now.

use to be machines all over the place, don't see as many now. i remember the elvira and adams family ones. wouldn't mind owning one. would if i could afford it

I would love to find a place that shows pictures of all these different old pin ball machines.

Bride of Pinbot
Ripley's Believe it or Not (sort of weird not quite horror)
Addams Family!!

I want an Addams Family pinball machine - I don't play worth anything, but my hubby does, and I love to watch.

I've seen the Twilight Zone and Monster Bash in action and they are sweet. Also one that creeped me out in a good way was called Funhouse I believe - had a ventriloquist's dummy head in it... those always creeped me out so this was soooo cool.

There are several pinball restorers in my area, and I go to their websites and dream...

We can't get one since we have a smaller sized house and I refuse to put it in the garage. As soon as we figure out where we want to live and build our dream house, I'm ordering several of those babies.

Originally Posted by Frankie's Girl

Bride of Pinbot
Ripley's Believe it or Not (sort of weird not quite horror)
Addams Family!!

I want an Addams Family pinball machine - I don't play worth anything, but my hubby does, and I love to watch.

I've seen the Twilight Zone and Monster Bash in action and they are sweet. Also one that creeped me out in a good way was called Funhouse I believe - had a ventriloquist's dummy head in it... those always creeped me out so this was soooo cool.

There are several pinball restorers in my area, and I go to their websites and dream...

We can't get one since we have a smaller sized house and I refuse to put it in the garage. As soon as we figure out where we want to live and build our dream house, I'm ordering several of those babies.

Oh my!!! yes bride is good and Ripley's yes!!! Those are good machines. Machines with talking heads in them freak me out too!! Freddy machine has Freddy's head in it. ......and boy did Freddy talk to ya. At the most weird times ... the attract sound would go off ....if someone told a joke, he would laugh,...if any strange or unusual situation came about...the machine was more than perfect sound for that situation ......funny at first, but got to be more than coincidence.....alot.
Cool, but scary

Originally Posted by kprimm

I would love to find a place that shows pictures of all these different old pin ball machines.

Try this Pinball Madness | Pinball is on FIRE in the Twin Cities!


great pics there

Originally Posted by kprimm

I would love to find a place that shows pictures of all these different old pin ball machines.

The Internet Pinball Machine Database

Can you guess which machine on your list is my favorite by my Avatar? I've had one of the early "hot pink" ones with the Diamond Plate logo (which makes it one of the first few hundred) for about 10 years. It's surrounded by posters and toys from the movie.

Tangential to the Halloween theme, there are quite a few Pirate themed pins:

Computerized:
Pirates of the Carribbean (Stern, 2006)
Black Rose (Bally, 1992)
Hook (Data East, 1992)
Captain Hook (Game Plan, 1985. awesome cabinet, playfield, and backglass art.)

Electro-mechanical:
Captain Kidd (1960 Gottlieb, love the pirate wench on the backglass!)
Jolly Roger (Williams, 1967)
Pirate Gold (Chicago Coin, 1969)
Buccaneer/High Seas/Ship Ahoy (Gottlieb, 1976, all basically the same game)

Craig

For years I was obsessed with playing Black Knight. Oh, the hours I spent in front of that machine while my brother played Galaga....