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A build your own pinball idea.

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RetroJames:
How about one made from the old vibrating football games?

RayB:
Sigh..... I used to want to make my own too, when I was oh so creative but oh so poor (translation: My teens). Also lived in an apartment with single mom, so no access to a workspace or tools or anything. *sigh*

My plan was to interface it with my Commodore 64 and flash the score on a TV screen.

I also had another idea for a VERTICAL pinball machine using a ping-pong ball and forced air...

romperwomb:
I never miss a chance to play one of these Pinball Gumball Machines:



I think one of these could be converted to a Gator Granny/Baby Pac machine - Plop a monitor on top. 

I've been seeing these a lot in restaurant lobbies lately.  Saw KFC has their own custom one.  Looks like this is where pinball is headed.

Stingray:
I've never seen one of those, that's pretty neat. Do they have real pinball playfield stuff or just cheap plastic junk?

-S

romperwomb:

--- Quote from: Stingray on January 10, 2005, 11:12:20 am ---I've never seen one of those, that's pretty neat. Do they have real pinball playfield stuff or just cheap plastic junk?

-S

--- End quote ---

More on the cheap plastic junk side of things.  Usually just holes for the gumball or rubber super ball to drop down through and some type of special WIN!! goal...that is really just another hole for the ball to drop down.

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