Great production Reggie. I always wanted one as a kid. I was lucky one of my good buddies would allow me to play his whenever I went over. Amazing collection just awesome dude.
Always loved pinball in arcades and on consoles and pc I play lots of pinball fx anyway my folks used to get us the tabletops for Xmas and you can score them cheap on Craigslist
you probably dont give a shit but if you guys are bored like me atm then you can stream pretty much all of the latest series on instaflixxer. Have been watching with my brother during the lockdown :)
Nice Collection Reggie. What is your advice on the 1979 Avon Juke Jubilee Table Top Pin Ball. I'm thinking of buying one. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanx.
Hi Reginald. Nice to meet you. Sorry by my english because i'm Brazilian and i don't no english to mutch. So, those pinball machines are amazing. congratulations. They are solding in Usa yet? we don't have any of this here... how mutch are they coust? God bless you. See ya!
Great video. The european version of Astro Shooter has a different skin that has a really cool picture of a space shuttle, with the eight circles creating the shuttles blasters. Of the skins, I like the european version and the American Diner skin you have shown. My least favourite skins are the baseball and pirate.
Reggie, I sent Jeffz my find on these. Cut a 20" bike innertube across the diameter into strips like a rubber band. Fit them over the flippers. It doesn't cause any binding in movement but great contact with the ball instead of sliding off the plastic.
Update this collection. New video please I'm collecting these kind of table top pinball games too. Mostly what I find at goodwill. I have 6 or 7 each are unique in thier own way. Today i got a space scooby doo one gotta fix it up to get it up and running but it looks real good
I own the same blue Astro Shooter tabletop as yours, but mine has completely different sounds. Mine has the same sounds as your American Pinball and Pirates Treasure. Pirates Treasure was much harder to find as it was only sold through Sharper Image stores.
Dude you think pinball machines in US are expensive you need to see the Brazil prices, you can easily buy a house with the money asked for pinball machines
YOU CAN GIVE THE PINBALL ALOT MORE KICK TO THE BUMPERS ON THOSE CERTAIN PINBALL MACHINES YOU SHOWN JUST BY OPENING IT AND ADJUSTING THE BUMPERS AND MAKING IT VERY SENSITIVE TO THE BALL TOUCHING THE BUMPERS SO IT KICKS WHEN THE BALL TOUCHES WITH EVEN THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH MY SON
Ah, tabletop pinball! I used to have a few of these - mostly licensed ones. I remember a Batman and a Spiderman one, specifically. Now that I'm looking at your video, and all those licensed ones are so terrible.... dang, I bet they weren't that good either, lol. But as a kid, heck yeah, these were super awesome :) Every once in awhile, I'll try to look up pinball machines on eBay and it's actually kinda hard to do because so many people are tossing up ancient, like, wooden things (baseball games, oftentimes) and things that aren't even pinball - they're pachinko :/ I'd love to find some more. The last one I saw in a toy store _was_ a stand-up model though, so I know there are a few out there that are, like, a step-up from tabletop, but not as expensive as a real-deal machine. I'm definitely feeling like trying to hunt down some of the good ones in this video right now, haha (^-^)
Atomic pinball is probably the best well known one in the uk. I. Would love that coca cola one though. I did come across a larger size toy story pinball a few years back that was large enough to come with its own legs. Shop only wanted 15 pounds for it as a sold was seen sale. I regretted not getting it at that price. It would be ideal for. My kids room. And then daddy could sneak in and play as well lol
I have a Star Wars Eps 7 pinball that's the same size as the Star Galaxy one you had, super fun. Loved my tabletop ones as a kid, between those and my game gear must have been hell on my parents with buying batteries lol
I've always wanted these tabletops as a kid!! The Tomy tabletops are amazing. I still love pinball games. The Pinball Arcade app is great in a pinch but man, nothing can replace the real deal! The BlackKnight 2000 table really awakened my love for pinball back in 1989! Great video, Reggie!!
Thank you for sharing this. Your presentation is great and made me happy while looking for a table top for my little girl this Christmas. I can see that the pop style games are the only ones worth my money. Keeping the ball in play is what pinball is all about. Take care during the strange days of operation covid-19.
In the mail, I just received the "Arcade Pinball" by Ambassador Holdings company. It cost around 30 dollars shipped brand new, and for that low cost even features the pop bumpers. The game looks absolutely beautiful, but I haven't tried it yet because of time constraints. To think I was going to buy something that looked cool and was cheap but didn't have pop bumpers. I bought it only because of your showing us that the spring system is not going to keep the ball in play.
Where do you and Metal Jesus live in the US? (I´ve never been in the Americas) I just bought(at facebook, so I should get it next week or so, I hope) a pinball game: Atom Pinball. Ever heard of it?
I saw your video and after buying one pinball tabletop and watching your video I wanted another one .. I love the one i have called Super Space Pinball but i just picked up online a Vintage Pinball called "Safari Adventure Table Top Pinball" it looks pretty gnarly .. look it up, what do you think .. Ill let you know when i get it what my opinion is .. Its looks pretty damn awesome ..
Im loving this , im up to 5 machines in 1 month, found some great stuff on ebay and etsy . Took your advice and avoided ones that u showed and of that type , and then the good ones .. man thanks for this video..
I had a machine back when I was a kid that I wish I could find again. I got it in the late 70's and it had short metal legs so that you could place it on the floor and sit in front of it to play about stomach height. I remember it being a bit larger than most of the tabletops. I only had it for a couple of days before someone sat on it and broke it to pieces, so I don't remember a lot of details about it. Has anyone seen any machines like that?
Actually found it online, in case anyone was interested. It was Durham Industries "Star Mission". The legs were plastic instead of metal, I just didn't remember correctly.
Now I gotta say this Reggie: the reason I stumbled upon this particular video is because I looked into another one called Robotime 3D Pinball. After watching yours I am now aware of the fondness, if not then more love, to your tabletop pinball collection. If you're into building or assembling a tabletop version then try the one I stated the name already. Oh, and thanks for your awesome gaming contents. Carry on soldier. 😉
You inspired me to finally get one a couple of years ago. I have the Atomic and the very odd release, Starcom. The Starcom came from a Tomy toy executive's estate sale. Plays just like Atomic.
You might want to check out Pokemon tabletop pinball. It's a combination of a physical tabletop pinball machine mixed with electronic. The "ball" is actually an LED light. The table is just a grid of red LED lights, but through persistence of vision, it looks like you have a red ball moving around. It has physical flippers and a physical launcher. You can even balance the virtual ball on the physical flipper for shots.
Hey, have you ever done mods to any of your tables to make them better? I’m currently modding a lots Batman table and I’ll share it with you when it’s complete
Gotta love those old Tomy electric toys! Sound like a plane taking off! I used to have a Real Ghostbusters tabletop pinball machine. It was awful but I loved it.
I had the triple arcade in my room in the late 90s. It had 4 pop bumpers, and two kick out holes. One in the back if you made it up this curve like you see in the other table tops in the vid, and one on the left side. The only crappy part I remember about that pinball was the flippers. They were really sticky and the red handles you’d press were hard to push. Would piss me off as a kid lol.
That's awesome dude...I always liked pinball machines. One day I'll own a couple along with a Ms Pac-Man machine. Also, it's really cool that you're showing another hobby of yours.
Wow Reggie, I love your collection! I have my own collection of tabletop and 3/4 pinball machines, and the Star Galaxy is the pride of my games room. I live in Australia, and was following the Zizzle pinball news when they came out (only in America), so when the Star Galaxy came out here I got so excited... but I was going through tough times and missed my chance to get one! Years later I found one brand new on Amazon UK, which cost about three times more than I could have originally paid, but I grabbed it, so now I have it forever!
Cammy oh man I use to have the star galaxy pinball myself. They sold them at toys r us doing the holiday season here. I need to get another one someday.
I find it fascinating how many were reskins. I had no idea. Though if anything, that makes the baseball one even more amusing. Because it keeps the lower playfield aesthetic of the spinning red lights, but has also dropped the physical spinning disk all the prior versions had to implement them.
