THE YORK SHOW: October 10th & 11th, 2008

I started this page with just a few links when I first went online in the summer of 1995, with my first Window computer, an Acer, costing over $1k, which I still have.  

There used to be an awesome links site called "The Pinball Pasture," back in the early days of Windows 95, but after a while it was no longer updated.  I found that good pinball and other coin-op sites were scattered all over the internet, taking hours to find, and many pinball sites had dead links all over the place.  So, here's your one stop shop for just about coin op related, and a few miscellaneous sites thrown in.  Enjoy!  Pingeek.

 

HISTORICAL

Capcom Pinball ( a site about a leading pinball manufacturer who shut it's doors in 1997.  They also manufactured Big Bang Bar)

Laugh In The Dark (The World Of Dark Ride And Funhouse Amusements)

Las Vegas Pinball Hall Of Fame

Lucky Ju Ju (backglasses, playfields, and advertising flyers from the 60's and 70's, a travelling museum!)

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (MI)

Musee Mechanique of San Francisco (vintage mechanical museum)

Neptune Beach Amusement Museum (Alameda, California's vintage pinball museum) 

Pinball Collector's Resource (they wrote the Pinball Reference guide back in 1979!)

Pinball Of The Month

Prewar Pinball

Tunnel Of Laffs (Australia's answer to Coney Island)

ARCADES

The American Classic Arcade Museum (located in Funspot Arcade, Laconia, NH)

Arnold's Family Fun Center (Oaks, PA)

Barcade Brooklyn (classic videogame lineup)

Blackbeard's Arcade & Dairy Queen (Outer Banks, NC)

Cedar Point Amusement Park   (Sandusky, OH)

Cedar Point Amusement Park Arcade Pics (Sandusky, OH)

Challenge Arcade (a true classic arcade in the Berkshire Mall (Wyomissing, PA (Reading, PA area, one hr. NW of Philly)

Flipper McCoy's (at both Virginia Beach on Atlantic Avenue and also Military Circle, but Lynnhaven is closed)  

Funspot Arcade (NH, the largest arcade in the world)

Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade (Portland, OR)

Haunted Trails Amusement Park (Burbank, IL)

Klassic Arcade (Gobles, MI)

Luna City Arcade 

Lyons Classic Pinball (CO) 

1984 Arcade (Springfield, MO)

Santa Cruz Boardwalk Arcades

Spring Lake Arcade (the world's oldest penny arcade )(RI area)

Star Worlds Arcade (Dekalb, IL)

 

HOME MADE PINS

AC/DC 

Cabin Fever  

Comet Commander

Coconut Island

Critical Mass 

Futurama

Go Girl

Gothic

Iron Maiden

The Last Supper (a Jesus pinball machine?!!)

Lego pinball machine

Lexx

The Mini Cyclone 

Partyland (making a playfield)

Porsche Boxter 

South Park 

Sparks 2000 Pinball Project

Visible Pinball (a plexiglass see through Surf Champ!)

ZOIS (formerly Shaq Attaq)

 

INFO

All About Hantaviruses(ya know those little pellets in your project pin?)

Bally Home Pinball schematics (schematics online for Captain Fantastic, Evel Knievel, Fireball, Galaxy Ranger, etc.)

Bingo Pinballs

Bulbs: 444 vs. 555

Cleaning The Playfield Harness

Crazy mechanical guitar

 Diode Bridge Reference Page

EM pinball machines newsgroup

Gamearchive.com

Game Plan Pinball (everything you wanted to know about Game Plan pins and then some)

The History Of Pinball

The International Flipper Pinball Association

Internet Pinball Database

The KISS prototype pin

The Lego pinball machine (a real working pinball machine)

Mandi's Pinball Marathon (555 hours of nonstop pinball!)

Name This Pin (help Joe figure out the name of this pin he bought!)

Okaegi's collection and projects (has great Bally solid state tech links!)

Pinball Abbreviations Database (*GI means what??!!)

Pinball History (not to be confused with "The History Of Pinball" link)

Pinball Links (more pinball links!)

Pinball Magic

Pinside.com

Popbumper.com(misc juicy tidbits of pinball info.)

Dave's RGP League Site

rec.games.pinball newsgroup

Removing gold anodic coating from pinball legs

Steve's Pinball Links (even more pinball links!)

Steve's RGP page

Tilt! (the Italian pinball scene)

Twin Galaxies (the worldwide authority on player rankings since 1981)

The Ugly Flyer Site (bat, bowler, pins and gungame flyers online)

Vancouver Regional Pinball Assocation

Virginia Pinball (Fairfax monthly pinball tournament site)

World Pinball Player Rankings

The World's Tallest Pinball

Zaccaria-Pinball (everything you wanted to know about these rare yet innovative pins.)

FAN/COLLECTOR PAGES

Arcadeforever.org (check out the wall art!)

Barry Schiffer's Gameroom (MD)

The Bally Collection Gameroom

Centaur sounds and lights

Chas' Arcade Garage (MD)

Coinopny.com (Rochester, NY coin-op collecting and repair site)

Coinopny.com Chicagoland Antique, Slot & Jukebox show You Tube videos

Coinopny.com You Tube videos (jukebox, pinball clips and more!) 

The Complete Bally Fathom Page

Curtscashcorner(owns a rare Hit The Deck EM)

Dallas Overturf (his site has great Bally/Stern board jumper info.)

Dave's Arcade (all sorts of pinball machines, videogames, gun games, etc.)

Dave's Pinball Obsession (featuring the infamous pinball birthday cake!)

EM Pinball, and Nothing But

Firepowerpinball.com 

Flipperfarm.be (a Belgium collector's page)

Flippers.be (yet another Belgium collector's page!)

Flipperit.net

Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors (including some Florida arcade listings)

Funhouse Owner's List

Habo's Arcade (pin & classic vid collector, nice animated pics and sounds)

Marc's Gameroom Photos (including pics of a nice, rare Gottlieb "Spirit)

Motion Sign Man (collects all kinds of advertising signs and pins too!)

The New York City Pinball Players & Owners Association

The Nightmare On Elm Street Pinball Resource Site

Patrickgriffith.com (pin & classic vid collector)

Pinball4you.com

Pinball Collector's Resource

Pinbally's Pinball Home Page

The Pinball Wizard (featuring cow and easter egg secrets!)

Pinorama:  Panoramic Pinball Photography

The Suburban Arcade (some nice Ballys here)

The Stern Collection (Stern solid states)

The West Virginia Pinball Player's Club

PARTS/GAMES

Action Pinball & Amusement  (UT) (a wide assortment of pins and parts for sale)

Arcade Renovations (pinball and videogame artwork & parts)

Auction Game Sales

Bay Area Amusements

BC's Pinball (your source for LED pinball bulbs)

Big Ball Bowler (get your vintage bowling games here)

Boltdepot.com

Bumper Action Amusements(Miss Pinball 2005;)

Butcher's Paste Wax(at Aubuchon Hardware)

ClassicArcadeGraphix, Inc.(all sorts of repro translites and parts)

Classic Arcade Resource (Lakewood, CO)

ClassicArcades (many repro Bally and William decals and plastics)

Classicpinball.com (all types of pinball machines for sale)

Classic Playfield Reproductions (and classic pin plastic sets too!)

Cliffy's Pinball Protectors

Competitive Products (discount general pinball parts)

Crowbar Electrical Parts (a great source for nylon cable ties, etc.)

Crow River Trading Co.(lots of hard to find vintage coin op parts and machines) 

Custom Pinball, Inc. (they build pinball machines in MN)

Doctor Pinball (from Drac's home, Romania)

Ebay 

Ebay non-video (misc. coin-op stuff)

Eldorado Games (Mt. Vernon, MO)

EM games for sale (Canada)

Fabulous Fantasies (California)

Flashback Classic Coin-Ops (Ohio)

Freeplay Entertainment (Wanamie, PA (Pocono mountains, Northeast, PA)

Gameroom Classifieds (Buy, sell pins etc., tech locator, auction results, and more)

Gameroom Show (Lots of rare coin op stuff!)

Great Plains Electronics (Darn near any electronic piece and Ed knows capacitors, etc.)

Hal O'Rourke (carries repro Rock-ola pin stuff)

Illinois Pinball (repro sideart, playfields, translites, and more)

Inkotchnito's Score And Instruction Cards

It'sonlypinball (home of the one and only rubber ring database!)

Jameco Electronics (great source for connector stuff and IC chips)

Jeffwager.com (pin and vid flyers and manuals for sale)

K & K Amusement (some hard to find parts, including those dreaded t-mini post rubbers that stand mounted by spinners typically and dry rotted.

Let's Play Pinball (New Milford, CT)

Little Shop of Games (sales, service, and hard to find decals)

 Mayfair Amusement (THE vintage part distributor)

Mouser Electronics (another great source for connector stuff and IC chips)

Mr. Pinball Classifieds

Nabours Novelty (The Ultimate Gameroom Store for the Minnesota area since 1975.)

Oldbinger Pinball (bingos!)

The Pinball Barn (Mechanicsburg, PA)

The Pinball Calendar

Pinball Fanatic (pin cabinet protectors and more!)

The Pinball Guru (mirror polished pinballs)

Pinball, Inc. (ramps for sale!)

Pinball Life (great source for misc. pinball parts)

The Pinball Lifter  

Pinball Pro (subwoofers, cooling fans, etc. to enhance your pin)

Pin Mats

Pinball Promo Plastics (wide variety of promo plastics, sling plastics, misc. playfield parts, and translites)

Pinball PC boards (replacement Williams boards) 

Pinballrebel.com(Ken has a bunch of instruction cards to download....FREE)

PinRescue.com (vintage electromechanical pin restorations)

Pinball Resource (since 1978)

Pinrestore.com (get pinball tools here)

rec.games.pinball

Replacement Sticker and Cards

Ron and Nancy Webb repro pinball backglasses

Stern Pinball

Super Auctions  

T-Molding.com (get those replacement side strips for your classic vid., etc.)

The Time Travel Warehouse (lots of NOS RARE games for sale, located in Canada but they DO ship!)

This Old Game (pinball, videogame stencils, and more)

TNT Amusements.com 

TNT Amusements Ebay Auctions

Tokenwarehouse.com

Treasure Cove Pinball Wall Art (check out "The Creature" poster)

Zoned Out Pins (home of the Pin Zero Dot Matrix Glare Guard!)

PUBLICATIONS

Pingame Journal ("Covering the world of pinball.")

Gameroom Magazine (Your guide to the ultimate home game room)

Pinball News

Pinball Reviews

 

REPAIR/RESTORATION

Aboutpinball.com (home of "Pinball Machine Care and Maintenance" guide

The Abra Ca Dabra Project

Capcom Coin-Op Inc.Pinball ROM Page

Coin-Op Cauldron

Clay's Coin Op Repair Guides

Dan Burfield's Coin-Op Collection

Dr. Dave's Pinball Repair(MA area)

Ed Cheung.com (The Space Shuttle restoration guru)

Fire! restoration site

Garage Arcade Page

High End Pins (Chris Hutchins) (NC)

Hobbyroms.com (another rom burning service)

Keller Pinball Restoration

Mark's Pinball Page

Mark's Space Shuttle Restoration

Mid-West Pinball Restoration (Chicago)

The Pinball Clinic (professional quality pinball machine repair & restoration specialists in PA)

Pinblog.com

Pinballrom.com(not a typo)

Pinballroms.com(not a typo)

Phoebe's Pinball Painting (playfield, cabinet, and backglass restoration in the Ohio area)

Playmatic Pinball Repair

Recel Pinball Repair

Repair Connection

Rebuilding a Funhouse pin

The Reserve restoration project

Spencer Pinball Repair (Serving South Central PA, including York!)

That Pinball Place (Eproms, pins for sale, etc.)

 

HANDHELD ELECTRONIC GAMES

Electronic Handheld Game Museum

CLASSIC VIDEOGAME

Arcade-Classics.com

The Arcade Flyer Archive (videogame flyers of all eras)

Atari Age (everything you need to know about Atari consoles)

ATARI M.U.L.E online

 Atari Museum

Brentradio.com (home of The Jack Daniels classic barcade)

Classic Arcade Gaming.com

Classicgaming.com

Computer Space Fan (an informative site paying tribute to the first coin-op videogame)

The Dragon's Lair Project

Elektron Forge Videogame Repair (specialists in Space Invaders board repair)

Good Deal Games (console video games, computer games, and lots of classic console info!) 

High Scores Arcade (great classic vids site!)

The Killer List of Videogames (a comprehensive database of all videogames)

MAME 32 (multi arcade emulator, including Q & A at this site)

The Ms. Pac-Man Page

Nice Carvings (classic arcade wood carvings)

Outerworld Arcade (70's and early 80's arcade stuff!)

Pac-Man Troubleshooting (troubleshoot your Pac-Man or Ms-Pac Man vid with this excellent illustrated guide)

Retroblast.com (home arcade news and reviews)

The History Of Q*Bert

X-Arcade (Award winning arcade gaming products)

CONSOLE VIDEOGAMES

O' Shea Limited NOS Atari cartridge liquidation 

JUKEBOX LINKS

Dave's Juke Joint (great source for misc. juke parts)

Ebay 45 EP record auctions

Green Mountain Online Music Catalog

The inComplete Jukebox(great links site)

John's Juke's Ltd.(they sell jukes, pins, vids, all kinds of stuff!  Located in Vancouver, BC and they DO SHIP!)

Jukebox Friday Night (amp repair, parts, tech articles)

The Jukebox Junkyard

Jukeboxparts.com (a wide selection of parts)

Jukebox Title Strip Download Page

The Music Mite Restoration (Williams' only jukebox!)

The National Jukebox Exchange (including great jukebox history)

New England Jukebox

Paul Taylor Online (great juke restoration tips!)

Seeburg Jukebox Information Club

Tom's Zone.com

Tony Miller's Seeburg website

VernTisdale.com (parts and amp repair)

Victory Glass

Vintage Radio Restorations ("Specializing in the restoration of vintage auto radios and jukeboxes")

Wurco.com (in the original Wurlitzer building, supplier of jukebox paperwork from the 30's to the 90's, and other jukebox and gameroom stuff)

PC GAMES/SIMS

AJ's Vpinmame Table Downloads

The Adrenaline Vault

Dream Pinball 3d

Future Pinball (deeper graphics than Visual Pinball)

IR Pinball(tons of Visual and Future Pinball downloads...FREE)

Pinball Nirvana

PinballSim.com (all kinds of Visual Pinball downloads...FREE)

SLOT MACHINE LINKS

Antiqueslotmachines.com (slot machines for sale)

Antiqueslots.com (Old pinball, slot machine, and trade stimulator collector)

Fredrik's Slot Machine Collection

Ray's Antique Slot Machines

Slot Tech Forum

GUMBALL MACHINES

The Gumball Guy (The place to order genuine coin op gumball machines and gumballs).

SHIPPING/SUPPLIES

The Arcade Shipping Database

  Esupplystore.com(shipping envelopes, etc. shipped fast, low prices)

 

BOWLERS

Big Ball Bowler

LAI Games (makers of Super Strike, an 11 ft. bowling alley, complete with LCD scoring monitor)

Shufflealley.com (brand new pro bowlers)

MISC GREAT STUFF

Allmusic.com (The music database for anything)

Amazing Counters (free web site hit counters!)

Angry Alien Productions (animated movie parodies featuring very wacky bunnies)

Angry Kid (British punk humor animation)

The Big Cartoon Database

Blake's Cheerwine Soda Tribute Page

The Basement Crawl Space Project

The BOSTON Picture Gallery

The Byrd Theatre, Richmond, VA (since 1928)

Cats Of The Internet (mischievous kitty cats!)

CBS 6 Daily Horoscopes

CDW (Computer Discount Warehouse) discount PC parts that you may not find locally.
CHASE (The best jazz fusion band of the 70's, many hard to find cd's by Chase for sale at this site) Dan Patmore Classic Rock Concert Photos (featuring classic concert pics from the 70's, 80's, and 90's)

Digitalfog Bizarre Picture Gallery

C. Crane Company, Inc. (lots of old style electronics)

Yuk Lan's DOORS Pics

The Dreamland Fire (1911) (Coney Island, NY)

Dumpalink.com (funny amateur videos, pics, etc.)   Ebola Monkey Man (scam those Nigerian scammers)
Elibs (like those goofy Madlib books from years ago)    
 

FlashFixers data recovery software

Freeware Files (freeware software downloads)

Gambler's General Store

Google.com (research anything)

 

HostYou.Tv (a YouTube alternative)

Hull's Drive-In (Lexington, VA)

Hulu (watch recent tv shows you missed)

 

Jim Croce: The Official Site

 

Lavasoft Spyware Remover

Led Zeppelin Concert Pics (A MUST!  Rare Zep concert pics!)

Mail2web.com (download your email from anywhere!)
 

Modern Ruins/Photographic Essays

Monkeycube - hot weather babes article

NBC 12 Restaurant Report

Night Stalker (a page about my favorite show of all time)

Obsolete Computer Museum

Ollie's Bargain Outlet

Pandora (create your own online music playlist)

Pennycollector.com (locate those machines that flatten and engrave pennies)

Phil's Old Radios (great site about vintage radios and televisions)

 

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches

The Topeka Computing Museum (all kinds of old junk, eh, classic computers, located in beautiful downtown Topeka, KS) Tripadvisor.com (Read reviews about hotels BEFORE you book them.)  

The Ultimate Cheapskate

Urban Legends References Pages(featuring Nigerian scams)

Virginia Flea Markets 

  Wikopedia (a free encyclopedia with information about anything)  

Wounded Bird Records (lost 70's and 80's albums on cd!)

Yahoo driving directions (an alternative to Mapquest)

 

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