If you are ever in Portland, Next Level Pinball Museum is bonkers with over 500 machines. About half of them are pinball machines and all are in top notch condition. Portland in general has a huge pinball scene with several large arcades in and around it.
Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do only see the one listed in Vegas which is strange since it's one of the most popular tables made. The webpage returns 483 Addams Family machines in other places though.
Vegas doesn't have a lot of arcades. Outside of the PHoF there's two in reasonable driving distance and neither of them focus on pinball machines. One is pretty much only rhythm games.
Yes, as a fan of arcades Vegas is disappointing. You'd think casinos might be interested in people who put money in machines without expecting a payout. The rows and rows of fancy slot machines with HD monitors do nothing for me.
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#43I've had the rare privilege to meet the Pinball map creator (or at least one of them), an awesome person that has been maintaining this project for a long time. Definitely give them some support if you're a Pinball fan.
Portland was the original base location and then IIRC they expanded to other cities. Portland's reputation as the pinball capital of the world is well founded.
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#44Guided by the pinball map... The driver - still unknown to me
I have lyrics from this song tattooed along with the albums artwork. Always good to see another In Flames fan....
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#45It would be nice if it showed how much the games cost to play in the map. Some are pay by hour, some $2, some .25$
the description usually has that kind of info in there... and it's crowdsourced s you can add that info in if you want to.
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#46I keep seeing these little niche sites, like "map of pinball machines", which is for some reason not just a filter or data layer or set of metadata tags on some larger mapping infrastructure. Likewise, there's the "internet movie firearms database", and the "internet movie cars database", and several others, which are not just object classes in some larger internet movie attribute database. Why?
because the pinball map serves a purpose that would not fit well in a larger mapping thing. people want to know what pinball machines are nearby them so they can go there and play them. very different in scope than a movie gun/car database. they also don't share the same playerbase that a more general arcade machine app might have; people like pinball and will seek that out in a different way that people who like arcade machines will not do the same.
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#47One of the APIs powering the Pinball Map is the excellent Open Pinball Database (opdb.org).
OPDB came about because an older site IPDB doesn’t have an API (and doesn’t want to have an API) in order for various pinball software to communicate with each other. I'm in some pinball leagues with the developer, Andreas Haugstrup, who also makes matchplay.events, pintips.net, and other sites that serve the pinball community.
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#48What is the best way for an amateur to synthesize a similar site? I have used Google My Maps for a much smaller, manually updated map of air hockey tables.
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#49If you ever go to Budapest and even mildly enjoy pinball, you need to visit the Pinball Museum (https://flippermuzeum.hu/en/main-page/).
You pay an admission fee and get to play unlimited pinball from machines across the ages, even the old wooden units.
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#50I really like pinballmap. I try to add gigs and machines all the time. But another app that has way more pinballs is Pin my balls (at least in France). Regarding pinballs I recently built a self-hosted app to track scores between friends. https://demo.pinball-friends.com/
I wonder if the (presumably French) creator realizes how crass that name sounds in English.