Pinball Spots

Phil & Roger have been friends in the pinball industry for many years. Phil as an operator and distributor for Data East and Gottlieb. Roger, initially producing wall mounted “penny games” and then as an importer and distributor of video arcade machines and Williams pinball (1960’s - !991). He also owned the Fun City arcade in Auckland.

Below is a letter that Roger sent out to operators, praising the virtues of the then new Data East Gun’s n Roses machine. It is endearing for it’s content.

Grant Levey talks about his pinball hobby and some of the treasures in his collection.

He explains his process around designing the home-build machine he created: Battle Pinny. The first to feature a camera and interactive LED strip lighting?

Below is an image and demonstration of Battle Pinny, and also a short video of the “cone of silence” ball manipulation feature of Grant’s next intended home-brew: Get Smart.

Battle Pinny by Grant Levey, and below - a video demonstration.

The “cone of silence” ball lift for Get Smart pinball. Design in progress.

BJ is an avid collector and enthusiast, and program developer for the P3 Pinball Multi-Morphic platform.

Tony & Anna live in West Auckland and have a passion for pinball as well as motor racing.

John Bell in his movie study. John was a collector of pinballs in the early 1980s before he ventured into film collecting and enthusiast cinema, which led to him opening the Time Cinema in Wellington’s Lyall Bay.

Right: In March 2016 John sold me The Getaway, for which he had lost the keys some time prior. The was the last machine of his pinball collection.