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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 ...
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 machines require constant maintenance, and some have undergone major restorations. [2] More than 100,000 visitors a year visit the museum. Admittance is free, but visitors must pay to use each game. [1] In 2011 U.S. News & World Report called the Musée Mécanique one of the top three "Things to Do in San Francisco". [6]
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]
A row of pinball machines at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacific Pinball Museum, a museum in Oakland, California; Pinball Hall of Fame, a museum located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Museum of Pinball, formerly the world’s largest pinball museum with over 500 vintage and modern pinball machines in Banning, California.
WMS Industries has licensed companies to use the intellectual properties and the rights to remanufacture existing Bally and Williams pinball machines. Since 2014, the license has been held by Planetary Pinball Supply. [19] Alliance Gaming, which bought Bally Gaming International in 1996, changed its name to Bally Technologies in 2006.
Euro Pinball Corp (a co-venture with Pedretti Gaming that manufactures their machines; founded 2023) [10] Quetzal Pinball (founded 2012) [4] Spooky Pinball (founded 2013) [11] Stern Pinball (founded 1999) [12] As DataEast (1986-1994) As Sega Pinball (1994-1999) Team Pinball (founded 2018) [4] TiltBob Pinball (founded 2023) [13] Turner Pinball ...
Game Plan was a pinball manufacturer that produced pinball tables from 1978 to 1985. [1] Game Plan was a subsidiary of AES Technology Systems and was located in Elk Grove Village , Illinois . Game Plan's president was former Chicago Coin table designer Wendell McAdams .