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yu888
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July 22, 2008 - 11:45 AM |
 
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I miss Pinball machines. I know, i am feeling a bit old and nostalgic, but there was something about the interaction of man vs machine, machanical machine where physics still mattered. A silverball that interacted with man and machine within thelaws of physics to provide hours of deliquent entertainment.
I read an articel on a Pinball exhibition that happend this weekend in my home towm and it triggered all these thoughts. I miss playing pinball...maybe I just miss my youth.
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Magnolia
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July 22, 2008 - 11:48 AM |
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i miss ms. pacman. |
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SnappySammy
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July 22, 2008 - 11:51 AM |
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You can't TILT ms. pacman |
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skyline5k
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July 22, 2008 - 11:56 AM |
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Considering baby pac-man, someone tilted her before the wedding night.
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shanghaiceltic
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July 22, 2008 - 11:57 AM |
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I remember my dad making me a bagatelle board. Loads of nails in a nice pattern and a spring loaded plunger to shoot the ball. I was the coolest kid on our street, but I was only 5 and it was 1960.... |
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SnappySammy
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July 22, 2008 - 12:05 PM |
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| shanghaiceltic wrote: |
| I remember my dad making me a bagatelle board. Loads of nails in a nice pattern and a spring loaded plunger to shoot the ball. I was the coolest kid on our street, but I was only 5 and it was 1960.... |
was that before electricty |
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shanghaiceltic
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July 22, 2008 - 01:02 PM |
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We used to dream of having electricity.... |
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thewalrus
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July 22, 2008 - 01:56 PM |
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I like The Who. Bye |
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mat
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July 22, 2008 - 01:58 PM |
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haha. you friggin 80's baby. |
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SirFiddler
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July 22, 2008 - 01:59 PM |
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where these popular in your country ? |
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thewalrus
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| haha. you friggin 80's baby. |
I'm a 70's 'Child of Nature'! Peace and Love! |
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beautiful_mind0905
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July 22, 2008 - 08:44 PM |
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Ewwww.... Walrus wasn't in my generation!
The frog game from Seinfeld  ... George Lewis Constanza had the top score ... |
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SnappySammy
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July 23, 2008 - 12:08 AM |
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where these popular in your country ? |
Don't think so |
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lucar
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July 23, 2008 - 03:29 AM |
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To think that most of you are too young to remember the glamour of parting your hair in the middle, squeezing into skin-tite brown polyester stretch-knit pants and shoving your feet into platforms.
Too bad.
Sigh...we are getting olde. |
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shanghaiceltic
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July 23, 2008 - 06:50 PM |
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I both remember and wore them....I was more sylph like then. |
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Scojay
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July 23, 2008 - 09:17 PM |
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I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusment hall that deaf, dumb and blind kid....... |
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SnappySammy
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July 23, 2008 - 11:49 PM |
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he sure played a mean Pin Ball |
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SnappySammy
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July 24, 2008 - 11:12 PM |
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| lucar wrote: |
To think that most of you are too young to remember the glamour of parting your hair in the middle, squeezing into skin-tite brown polyester stretch-knit pants and shoving your feet into platforms.
Too bad.
Sigh...we are getting olde. |
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yu888
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July 25, 2008 - 11:05 AM |
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Anyone know where I could find a real pinball machine in China? just wondering...
if not that then a good dvd copy of Tommy, the musical...errr...rock opera? |
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yu888
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July 25, 2008 - 11:06 AM |
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The Who - Pinball Wizard
Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
But I ain't seen nothing like him
In any amusement hall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
He stands like a statue
Becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers
Always playing clean
He plays by intuition
The digit counters fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
He's a pinball wizard
There's got to be a twist
A pinball wizard
He's got such a supple wrist
How do you think he does it?
(I don't know)
What makes him so good?
He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells
Don't see lights a flashin'
Plays by sense of smell
Always gets a replay
Never tilts at all
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
I thought I was
The Bally table king
But I just handed
My pinball crown to him
Even on my usual table
He can beat my best
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest
He's got crazy flipper fingers
Never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
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Magnolia
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July 25, 2008 - 11:08 AM |
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arrrrgghhh! there was a company in shanghai that used to advertise refurbished pinball/arcade games... have no idea who they were but maybe someone else will remember. aren't there still some old school arcades around? maybe they would sell one? |
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shanghaiceltic
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July 26, 2008 - 09:08 AM |
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Trivia: Tommy's Holiday camp in the movie was filmed in an Georgian hill fort called Fort Widley on the downs above Portsmouth. 4 were built on the downs and a number at sea in the Solent. They were originally built as a defence against Napoleon by the then Govt of Lord Palmerston and were known as Palmerston's follies as they nearly bankrupted the country. |
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