Mega Giveaway Day 115 – Pinball Showdown Game
In December, during a trip to Des Moines for a Katy Perry concert, we took a bit of a detour to visit an arcade. Known for having a bunch of vintage pinball machines, we were in heaven. The neighbors have a pinball machine in their basement and the girls rave about it. Purchasing one for our recreation room would mean losing a whole lot of space that could house board games. So what do we do? We find a pinball card game to get us by. We provided an overview of Pinball Showdown last October then included it our list of card games this past holiday season. If you’re a fan of pinball games, enter to win Pinball Showdown from Shoot Again Games. It’s our Day 115 prize in our 150+ Days of giveaways!
I played an old fashioned pinball machine at an old biker bar about 6 year ago.
It must be about 30 years
I played a pinball machine when I visited a pinball tournament last year, that was the last time.
Its been sooooooo long. Shame to, I was pretty good at it.
a month or two ago
1980…long, long time ago, in a state far away from Missouri
Within the last year … tennis partner has several
It would have to be at least two years ago.
It’s been more than 30 years since I played Pinball. My sister used to have one, and I loved playing it!
I have never played a pinball machine.
I cannot remember the last time I played a real pinball machine. I think if someone opened up an old fashioned arcade minus video games, it would boom with the baby boomers.
I honestly cannot remember the last time I played a pinball machine.
So long ago that I cannot even remember
In the 70’s. I loved my pinball!
The last time I played an old-fashioned pinball machine was a very long time ago. I was about 6 at an arcade.
Last year at a barcade.
I can’t even remember! That’s how long its been!
The last time I played pinball was Saturday when we went to Quarter Barrel in Iowa. It’s a restaurant filled with arcade games and pinball machines. Thanks.
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Probably like 15 years ago or something….
I played a pinball machine last year at a new arcade in Springfield, MO 🙂
Just last week, there’s a place near where I live that is full of old arcade and pinball games! 🙂
I do not remember… Long time!
I havent played a old school pinball pinball machine since I was probably 7 hahah its been a long time
I don’t remember the last time – it was a looong time ago!
I loved playing pinball games. The last time I played was at an Arcade about 15 years ago.
last weekend…..love me some pinball!!!
Its been a few years!
I played pinball this summer at the pizza place in town with the kids it’s so much fun
oh about 30 years
20 years ago
It’s been at least a year. Twilight Zone the pinball machine!
4 years ago? It’s been a few years!
Ohm my I would say over 20 years since I played pinball
My wife and I went during Christmas time to an old fashioned pin ball bar. It was a blast.
I actually played a pinball machine about 1 month ago. I took my kids to a children’s museum and they had one there to play for free.
I have never played a pin-ball machine myself, but my brother used to do so often.
long ago
at least several years ago
It was 56 years ago.
I love playing pinball and other games, but I definitely love this game more than the other arcade games. Now that you have tackled such nostalgic thread, it makes me want to play this kind of game again on the arcades! Great blog by the way!
I’m a big fan of arcade games. Pinball is my favorite game. I remember that as a child I spent whole days playing this game. Here’s an interesting fact from wikipedia: ”
Billard japonais, Southern Germany/Alsace ca. 1750–70. It already has a spring mechanism to propel the ball, 100 years prior to Montague Redgrave’s patent. In France, during the long 1643–1715 reign of Louis XIV, billiard tables were narrowed, with wooden pins or skittles at one end of the table, and players would shoot balls with a stick or cue from the other end, in a game inspired as much by bowling as billiards. Pins took too long to reset when knocked down, so they were eventually fixed to the table, and holes in the bed of the table became the targets. Players could ricochet balls off the pins to achieve the harder scorable holes. A standardized version of the game eventually became known as bagatelle. Somewhere between the 1750s and 1770s, the bagatelle variant Billard japonais, or Japanese billiards in English, was invented in Western Europe, despite its name. It used thin metal pins and replaced the cue at the player’s end of the table with a coiled spring and a plunger. The player shot balls up the inclined playfield toward the scoring targets using this plunger, a device that remains in use in pinball to this day, and the game was also directly ancestral to pachinko” Good luck to all!