Indianapolis is not known to be a hotbed for pinball, in my 8 years of casual arcade collecting, I have only owned a handful of pinball machines. However, a couple of weeks ago I got an opportuni...
https://www.rotheblog.com/2015/01/pinball/strato-flite-pinball-indianapolis-in/
About a month and a half of storage is about my max now-adays for any coin-op machine that I don’t plan to keep. I picked up that New World pinball in Indianapolis back the first week of April....
https://www.rotheblog.com/2010/05/pinball/new-pinball-collector-rockford-illinois/
Just drove right over, 80 hours one way, car is still a little water logged. All in a day’s work to pick up a New World pinball by Playmatic. Playmatic pinball machines – Unique playfields Wh...
https://www.rotheblog.com/2010/04/pinball/new-world-playmatic-pinball-indianapolis/
Oh, and Herb and I aren’t ‘friends’, no more than just connection ‘friends’ on Facebook. I hadn’t heard Herb Silvers name until a week or so ago when the Lock Ness pinball machine sol...
https://www.rotheblog.com/2010/02/pinball/rare-prototype-pinball-machines-photo-album/
RGP has been all abuzz about the single Game Plan Loch Ness Monster pinball machine that has come up for sale on eBay. The auction ended this week, just in time for the recession at a every man�...
https://www.rotheblog.com/2010/01/pinball/loch-ness-pinball-machine-ebay-sale/
Couple of weeks ago already was Pinball Expo 2009. I wasn’t going to go even though I had fun at Expo 2008, but I got a friend interested so we headed up. I know the group I went with left with...
The morning routine – Oatmeal, juice, email and then Craigslist. I sat down at about 7:30 yesterday and saw a listing for an ‘old table game non working’ that was posted the night prior jus...
https://www.rotheblog.com/2009/09/arcade/hearts-spades-craigslist-pinball-cocktail-cheap/
After a 10 day wait that saved me $5, my replacement interlock switch arrived at Meunier last Friday. I was glad I got off early to go pick it up, because when I popped it in my Hyperball worked ...
https://www.rotheblog.com/2009/09/arcade/williams-hyperball-pinball-fixed/
Ah to pick Gene Cuningham’s brain for a good long weekend. I’ve love to have an in depth story about the circumstances and the work involved in buying out the remnants of Bally / Williams bac...
https://www.rotheblog.com/2009/08/arcade/illinois-pinball-warehouse-pinball-plastic-molds-parts/
This weekend Chris brought down a bunch of games and some other goodies, including a my Hyperball MPU and Driver boards. A tech friend that I trust that knows what he’s doing did a diagnostic o...
https://www.rotheblog.com/2009/08/pinball/board-problems-hyperball-pinball-machine/