#pinballspotting

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George Carlin, the great philosopher. #pinball #RetroGaming #GamersUnite #Arcade from @creditdotpinball - George Carlin plays a JP and then discusses why pinball is a sport. From the George Carlin Show, original airdate May 8, 1994. #pinball #pinballspotting #pinspotting #georgecarlin

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pinballspotting has moved...

pinballspotting has moved to http://pinballspotting.blogspot.ca/ . 

After two years, I finally realized that the format here on tumblr is more suited for single image posts rather than illustrated texts like my posts, so I moved everything over there, and will continue to post new stuff there. I may delete what’s here in the future. Thank you to all the followers and readers....

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Extra Special Pinball Spotting: Drunk History Season 3 Episode 6 “Games”

A hilarious (drunken) account of the real life pinball hero, Roger Sharpe aka “The Man Who Saved Pinball”. Many shots of the character playing pinball but the machines were turned off so he’s acting like he’s playing an amazing game but the flippers aren’t even moving. Ha! 

Below is my shout out to Roger Sharpe himself on FaceBook and his response. I’m proud to have met the man, the legend, and the pinball savior IRL and to know that he’s a super awesome guy in person as well as in drunken re-enactments. 

To see a clip of the episode...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/8in5tp/drunk-history-pinball-prohibition

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Pinball Spotting: Begin Again 

Can anyone identify this pin?

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Pinball spotting! 

They Came Together features a Hockey game I’ve never seen before. Name that pin!

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pinballspotting, an introduction

I like old pinball machines and started playing an obsessional game, spotting them in movies I watched, collecting still images and then trying to identify them. In this blog, I document the fruits of that effort. My profuse thanks to the internet pinball database, which is an invaluable resource.

I've been playing this "game" for a couple of years, and whilst I was preparing some stuff in advance for this blog -- organizing stills & screen grabs, getting links to the movies and machines -- I stumbled upon an extensive list of pinball machine sightings in movies over at pingeek's Pinball In The Movies. Not sure how I missed that page before!

However, I'm going to avoid peeking at pingeek's list so I can spot pinball machines in a more serendipitous manner. So I guess this is more of a personal blog of what I've spotted rather than attempting to be an extensive list. 

I'm interested in vintage pinball tables, say roughly up to the mid-80s.

Thanks for looking,

James Schidlowsky.

Posted on 2014.12.30.