If you like the old Stern pinball machines, you’ll love Lightning from 1981. Lock two balls, then hit 9 targets to release them for 3 ball multi-ball. It isn’t as easy as…

Picked up this 1977 Sonic “Butterfly” pinball machine on Vancouver Island. The playfields and backglass on Sonic machines are usually in pretty good shape. The downside are their terrible pressboard cabinets. Any…

This 1934 machine, The Mystery Six, was made by Rube Gross and Company from Seattle. This is a completely mechanical machine. No scoring mechanism, no power, no back box. It was 5…

“Jacks To Open” is a Mylstar (AKA: Gottlieb) remake of a 1977 Gottlieb pinball machine called “Jacks Open”. It’s basically the same machine with a face lift and solid state guts instead…

This machine used to be a Sinbad, now it is something else. At one point there was a software company named Merlin. They had someone retheme this Sinbad into a “Merlin” –…

I was contacted by a couple that had two “old pinball machines” in storage. They thought one worked and one did not. Apparently about 25 years ago 10 pinball machines were found…

El Dorado, a classic Gottlieb wedgehead pinball machine from 1975. I found this machine near 150 Mile House in BC Canada – over 5 hour drive north of where I lived at…

Our Ship-Mates is in fair condition considering it’s age. The backglass is in great shape expect it has a clean break along the top right corner. I should be able to repair…

I quite like Volcano. I put it up there with Black Hole and Haunted House – also made by Gottlieb in the same era. Volcano doesn’t have the lower playfields like the…

This is an interesting pinball machine from 1980 – James Bond 007. Instead of having the common 3 or 5 ball game, this one is based on time. You start with a…