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The Pacific Pinball Museum is a Board Managed and certified 501 C(3) [1] nonprofit interactive museum/arcade offering a chronological and historical selection of rare bagatelles and early pinball games in addition to over 100 playable pinball machines ranging in era from the 1940s to present day located on Webster Street in Alameda, California.
The third floor of Funspot houses the American Classic Arcade Museum. Gary Vincent, an employee of Funspot and president and curator of the American Classic Arcade Museum, founded the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the purpose of collecting classic games through donation to preserve the history of classic coin-op games and their history.
The museum was founded in 2013 by pinball machine collector John Weeks. [1] In January 2015 the Guinness Book of World Records recognized the museum as setting a record for the most people playing pinball simultaneously. [2] Later that year the museum was incorporated into the Palm Springs Modernism Week events and billed as Retro Pinball Mania ...
A Stern pinball machine, which takes roughly 16 months to design and 30 hours to assemble, includes 3,500 parts and a quarter-mile of wires — and it's all hand-crafted.
A number of world record holders for classic games frequent the Brooklyn Barcade location, including Hank Chien, who set the world record in Donkey Kong with a score of 1,061,700 in March 2010. [19]
Aces around, dix or double pinochles. Score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds.
This is a partial list of pinball manufacturers of past and present organized alphabetically by name. The article only includes producers of pinball machines at least in a small series which excludes makers of single unit custom pinball machines .
Since then they have been assisted by pinball manufacturers such as Stern, [6] Jersey Jack Pinball, and Visual Pinball to donate machines to 69 children’s hospitals in 29 states. [3] In 2020 the charity's annual Love Across America Tour dedicated 8 machines in 14 days including one in Cincinnati, Ohio and another in Columbia, South Carolina. [7]