Mystic Pinball, Vintage Pinball Machines

Welcome to the Mystic Pinball blog. Our passion is vintage pinball. Woodrails to late seventies. Location - Grey Highlands, Ontario Canada. Our website www.mysticpinball.ca

[danismm]

FOOD-O-MATIC, 1961

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Pinball Bettie #2 - Stern Electronic’s STARGAZER (1980) - art by Rusty Shackles

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Atari Pinball (prototype - never released)

California Extreme 2018

Santa Clara, CA

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Gottlieb Barb Wire pinball machine

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William's woodrail pinball machines from the 1950s

[beatnikdaddio]

pinball! 1953.

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Good afternoon, I know its a long shot but I saw a post on pinside with a Raven translite designed by Creativeone. I would really like to buy one of those translites or use the art work to get one made. If you are in fact that same person I love your art and please let me know if there is any way I could get a print of it. Thank you.

Hey just saw your note. Let me know when it arrives. Bruce

[vgjunk]

Ad for Williams’ arcade machines.

[c86]

Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, Missouri, 1968

[beatnikdaddio]

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i 💗 pinball girls.

[beatnikdaddio]

pinball! 1953.

[beatnikdaddio]

when arcades RULED the world.

part four.

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1974.

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1974.

[michaelallanleonard]

Promotional poster for Williams’ Gorgar pinball, 1977.

Gorgar was the first pinball machine to feature speech sound effects, giving the titular demon a vocabulary of about seven words.  Unfortunately, an unfixable bug in the machine's ROM code meant that if players inserted coins while the machine was speaking, credit would not be given. 

As a fix, Williams sent operators a decal to be added near the coin slots reminding players to wait until Gorgar shut up to give him their money.

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As found on a 1956 United bowler arcade game. Operators were required to have a licence/permit to make money on machines on location. Also known as state tax stamps. Images submitted by Ben B.