I once tilted a game, everything shut down and went silent, and the ball drained away. Then Rudy reprimanded me: "Hey, it's only a game." It made my blood run cold.
I always find myself coming back to this series. The atmosphere of the videos is so inviting, and Chris is certainly someone who has been around the flippers all his life. He always has great tales to tell about the machines! He should consider rebooting this series now that his collection has seen major changes since 2011! Fantastic videos, Chris!
Most memorable pinball ever, for me anyway. We lived at the Embassy Suites in Colorado Springs for a couple of months long ago, and they had Funhouse. We had such a blast playing it.
I played some pinball titles in the 80's. But Funhouse is when it offically turned from casual into an obsession. 'I'm going to the arcade' turned into "i'm going to play pinball'. I started seeking pins in 7-11s and pizza places. Williams kept a steady stream of incredible titles on the ready. Addams came out I thought my head would explode. I can play them at home, but playing in the wild when they were new and innovative is an experience hard to convey unless you were there. Take care,
Just wanted to point out that if anybody wanted to play some of the games Chris is reviewing there's a game called 'pinball hall of fame: the williams collection' out that has 'whirlwind', 'taxi', 'funhouse', 'mideival madness', and 'no good gofers'. I tried it out solely based on these pinball reviews, and have been really enjoying it.
I LOVE pinball machines! They are such a beautiful work of engineering and art, full of dazzling colors, lights and action! Eye candy! All the crazy sounds and little music bits are so much fun too!
To think originally they were wooden boxes with nothing but a plunger, marble sized balls, and tiny pegs. I got to play a Bagatelle Bingo, and it was like going back in time. Then someone (or a group of people) thought of the pinball we have today, with all of that engineering.
Today I downloaded a free Pinball simulator on my Xbox One, and I got to play a beautifully put together digital version of this amazing machine. I know it's utter sacrilege, but it's so well put together, the sounds are all there and it's probably the closest I'll ever get to playing this piece of my childhood again.
Rudy always scared me. He's just creepy! I was always afraid if he said "I'm not happy" or "That's not funny" one too many times, a full dummy would bust out of the machine and strangle me like Chucky.
FunHouse and Addams Family are my two favorite pinball machines 1) because they are fun, and 2) when I was a kid in Albuquerque, my dad who has since passed away, would take me to the movies and we would go to the arcade next to the theater before the movie started and he’d give me $5 of $10. I’d go play NBA Jam or Mortal Kombat, he’d go play pinball. Eventually, I started playing too and realized this pinball machine was awesome.
i guess im randomly asking but does anyone know a method to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot the login password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me!
Just played this for the first time this weekend at my buddy's place. So cool! After a few games, I managed to post 22 million or so. Hard machine. Really ruthless. I loved it.
All of the games I own are amongst my favorite (which is why I purchased them). So yes...you will definitely hear that in pretty much every single video. :) Thanks for watching.
Dang, I just don't know how you do it. Somehow you are able to take the music from the game as if it were on a CD. How do you do it? On the database I got BK2's music but some don't offer a download.
Ahhh Funhouse, I always remember seeing this one at the Arcades in the Chicago-land area. A great game and one of the more iconic tables from my childhood.
We had this at a convenience store right across from my high school. We would play every morning while getting jacked up on cigarettes and coffee before school, I loved this game!
Loved Funhouse 30 years ago. Played at a local Festival Game Palace if I remember, we were mostly playing Cyberball or Cyberball Tournament but Funhouse was the favorite pinball machine. Good lord time goes by.
Great machine, great review! Yeah maybe you do repeat yourself often about where you played your machines but its actually good to hear. The background history and your relationship with the machines is one of the main reasons I watch your pin clips. I never actually played any pinball machines growing up (being born in 1990) but I'm quite the fanatic now I actually see them for what they are. Great games! Thanks again Chris.
The one and only Best Pinball Machine of all time. I followed the one in my town around also. When I found it I was a regular wherever it went. Last place it wound up (that I could find) was a head shop/record store. Only money I spent there was a quarter at a time. They had pinball machines in the store where Mom worked. My fav was Ballys Fireball when Funhouse replaced it I was pissed till my first play and I hit Rudy in the mouth. I laughed so hard the ball dropped and I didn't even mind. I could have bought that machine with all the quarters I dropped in it. Wish I had.
Dude, this passion is awesome and we can feel your love for it. i only have a virtual pin cabinet but still i have great pleasure remembering the old times. so i can imagine what you feel mervelous
My all-time favorite pin. At one time I had all four high scores on the machine at my favorite arcade in Hamilton, NJ. The thing I loved was when the machine would sing after a high score was achieved. Wish there was a video of that. It was rare to make that machine sing. You knew you'd owned it when you heard the special endgame sounds.
Another awesome video. Thank you for your effort. There was a tiny pinball-arcade in the building where I used to live. Even though they had Funhouse I never played it. I was very poor at the time and I was enormously fond of Monster Bash. Whenever I had a handful of coins to spare; it went right into Moster Bash. Can't say that I regret missing out on that game because I cherish those memories just as they are. Pinball is dead in Sweden however so I'll probably never get the chance to play it
I remember this,i used to play Funhouse during vacation in 1996 :} I really love these Pinball videos,they`re always very informative and fun to watch,Mr.Pat Patton must see you as his No.1 fan :}
Great video Chris! In a time when everything is all HD graphics and video, Pinball takes me back to time long before gaming consoles. Thanks for sharing this Pinball Gem.
When I picked up "Pinball Hall of Fame, the Williams Collection" for Xbox awhile back, this is the game I played over and over. I know almost nothing about pinball, but this one's really neat.
The eyes moving slowly back to the center position seems like it would fit well for some sort of creepy haunted/sentient pinball machine story, leading very much to the notion of "the game is watching".
A great video, when I was younger pin ball was my passion. I was lucky to be in my teens and early twenties before pinball almost disappeared, I can't even remember the last time I played a table but at one time I was certain I could have been a challenge for a tournament. Thanks for the vid
even though i can play Funhouse on Pinball Arcade(PS3), i would love to play the real pinball machine... Major props to you, spida1a and your collections
This one pulls at my heartstrings as well and the Adams family. They had the two at the NCO club courthouse Bay North Carolina back in 1993. I haven't played fun house since then however the sound of the game makes it just like yesterday.
@Elevendy5Productions Ha ha. Well....the extra ball light could be a lot of things (faulty bulb socket, bad bulb, flaky wiring to the socket). You might just have to do some tracing and see if you have a bad connection to it down the line somewhere. You know? As for the ball getting stuck, I had the "same" issue with mine until I picked up the replacement ramp. But, maybe take some metal "washers" and put them under the screws toward the top to "raise" the ramp a bit?
There's this pinball and arcade seller in PA that has an infomercial where he talks all about this game and the restoration involved in it. It was pretty cool seeing all the ins and outs of what makes that game work. The company is called TNT Amusements. They got thousands of pinballs and arcades
"Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!" - In my personal hall of fame, "Funhouse" sits right after "Twilight Zone" ("Deal with the devil at your own risk, in the Twilight Zone"). Amazing pinballs indeed ;)
It's amazing the amount of technical knowhow it takes to maintain one of these machines. How did you learn to do it past what you saw those Taxi maintenance workers demonstrated?
@woodcreekholdings Oh goodness.....that is the question! There are not many places anymore who have them. If you look online, a lot of people make "lists" of where games are currently on location (in NYC there are a bunch of places). But, it's dwindling. Thanks for watching!!!
@tiakpark Pinball Magic is a GREAT game. I definitely want to snag one of those when I get back into the collecting-thing. Their first release and they hit it out of the park. Ha ha. Junkyard is fun also. I don't currently have either of those at the time. Thanks for watching.
I have owned Funhouse now for a year and thoroughly enjoy every game...got the Rudy topper (holding the clock) from Argentina of all places. Also, I think I have the only one in Thailand where I live!
Rudy scared me because well at an arcade on the Hampton beach Boardwalk the machine wasn't being played but his eyes were open and his eyes followed me all the way to the 2 machines to the left,which were twilight and Adams family. In stead I put my coin in Adams family. Shoulda done FUNHOUSE!
Another great video, can't wait to see whats next. I always liked funhouse, makes me want to play it again. Awesome! Keep up the fantastic work. Wish this stuff was on T.V. for even more people.
Another great video! I love how you do a great job integrating the audio from the game, and even show videos of Rudy apart.. damn, dude! How do you get such quality audio from the game, BTW?
There is a secret door behind Rudy's head. Use the plunger to hit the ball. If you have the feel for it, you can get the ball stuck behind his head where the secret door is. I played this game all the time when I was a kid; best pinball game ever.
"FunHouse" - featuring Ed Boon as Rudy the talking doll. Like I needed another reason to like Ed "Get over here!" Boon besides Mortal Kombat. I never liked plating pinball, but some of the more interactive machines were really fun to watch. It is pretty funny that Ed Boon did the funny voices on several of the William's machines.
@djchozen91 For search purposes I like to put the name of the game "first" in the RU-vid Title Description because (depending on what browser you are using to watch RU-vid) I have noticed that the full title often gets cut off. I would rather someone see the name of the game than the part we are currently on.
does it cost alot to have a pinball machine worked on? like either detailed or fixed? im co soderong starting a collection from some chidhood favorites ive alwaya wanted to own. just wondering if its expensive to maintain one.
I actually used to have a Putt-Putt Golf and Games near me. It was bought out by Putt-4-Fun in the mid-2000s, and it closed in 2011 when the owner was caught not paying taxes and such on the place. It's now sitting there, slowly rotting away. Apparently the city will raze the mini-golf portion sometime this summer.
@theRVGN I haven't picked one up in years. They are all in storage. So........ha ha, as of now........not at all. But, back then, a couple a year (give or take). I have had about fifty come and go over the years :) Thanks for watching!!!
YES YES YES!!!! Finally a vid for Funhouse! A freakin CLASSIC!!! This is Lawlor at his best. Who knew that he could catch lightning in a bottle again after Whirlwind? Then after FH, Pat throws the pinball world upside down with Addams Family, and then blows everyone away with his opus, Twilight Zone (which I own). I hope to one day to meet the legendary Pat Lawlor one day, to sign my TZ translite. As always, great vid Chris!
I noticed Earthshaker right next to Funhouse. Reminds me of a pinball game that fuses all the great aspects of Funhouse with all the great aspects of Earthshaker called Roadshow; my favorite pinball game of all time and one I'd die to play for real again if I had the chance. I haven't seen a real one since it left the local arcade almost 15 years ago.
Chris! I watched your Turbo Views videos and relived the days with my twin brother playing out Turbo Duo! He still has it with 25 games! I also love your Pinball reviews but I never really played any pinball machines and then I thought, "Well I'll go to Dave & Busters and play some pinbal". So I went to my local Mall, no pinball, went to Dave N' Busters, no pinball, then I went to a Pizza & Arcade thats 30 years old and run down, bam! No Pinball. Where's a guy to find a Pinball machine? :(
It would be great if there were an online place to play FUNHOUSE while online for those of us who can't get out. But anyway, this was one of my ultimate favorites. I loved when Rudy's mouth got hit.
Wow; envious! Glad someone's keeping them 'alive' & looked after. I LOVE Pinball, used to be 1 in every '90s UK Pub 💜 Wish they'd comeback! Tho' some people play like angry gorillas; shortens the life of a machine. My boyf. got so upset losing that he tilted the game AND managed to knock a Pint of lager allover 'White Water Rafting' - Men eh; so hormonal.. 😉
Just subscribed. I live in London, UK and was born in 1988 so I missed out on the great pinball wave of the late 80's and early 90's. However I do play (and have become kind of addicted to) Pinball FX 2 on the Xbox 360 Live Arcade. I would consider myself an above average player (only just). I noticed that in many of these videos you say that this particular pinball machine is your favorite, you have said this about more than one. No problem just I admire your passion for pinball lol. Take care.
Do you have "Magic" or "Junkyard"? Magic by Capcom I remember being really tough, and Junkyard was the only pinball game on which this non-pinball wizard could ever unlock multi-ball.
Chris, you do a fantastic job with your presentation and editing. I always enjoy watching your pinball collection videos. I have yet to really make videos on my own pinball collection other than the video I did on Granny and the Gators. I'm sure I'll get to them sooner or later. Thanks for your hard work.
I'm going to be buying my first pin soon, and I'm trying to figure out what machines to look for, and which to avoid. Finding your videos to be very entertaining and informative. Thanks a lot!
Rudy is like some spin-off horror movie character to me. He can somehow follow your ball which just makes it even sketchy and he speaks in a awkward way.
Great review! What do you think of the Williams Collection that is on 360/PS3/Wii? A lot of these games are on there. Faithful reproduction or pale imitation?
