Hi guys,

Since the last Pin Tourney at Mindstorm's I have played imaginary pinball using marbles. No it is not my sickness or the little voices in my head telling me too. Get this, My son(5 Years old in Jan) keeps asking me to play pinball with him. Using our fingers as flippers and a few marbles for "Multiball" action on a 2 x 3 kiddie table head to head combat style pinball action(wonder if anyone ever tried to make a head to head pinball machine?). I wonder if his current passion for the silver ball will go on into adulthood and where will it take him.

Future Pin Monster in the making.  

MacPhreak

Does he say "USE THE FLIPPER!!!" ...

...inside joke! People who were at the last meeting will understand!

Sparky

Actually, Yes!

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(wonder if anyone ever tried to make a head to head pinball machine

Actually, yes! There have been a few. Gottlieb built a head-to-head model called Challenger in 1971... 110 made. Not very popular. But... according to IPDB, after the initial production run, a Canadian operator had 100 made for the Canadian market.

The other is a Williams Joust pinball machine. Only 402 made. Playfield is a lot more elaborate than Challenger of course, and is electronic with the SYstem 7 boards in it. This info is all on IPDB...

I also know that Alvin G. and Co. made 3 of them... Soccer, Football, U.S.A.Football, and I believe Dinosaur Eggs, and a few little known companies, like Komputer Dynamics who made one called Invasion Startegy in 1975, and Viza who made War in 1978...

Type in "head-to-head in the search engine in IPDB... is rather interesting. I guess they didn't become popular simply because of the larger floorspace needed to run these. Challenger looks like practically the length of 2 pinballs back to back.

Professor Sparky

They are pretty cool. Wonder how much fun they are. the Joust looks nice and the Calcio Italia has 12 flippers. "Use the Flippers" would be well placed here.............

Limited Production probably means lots of $$ though?


MacPhreak