Mike Remembers: Taxi was a very popular game, and this version is one of the originals featuring Marilyn Monroe, as opposed to the much more common and less desirable “Lola” version. Featuring a full ground up rebuild, complete LED treatment featuring colour matched inserts and flashers, modern WMS/Bally fliptronic style flippers, LED displays, completely rebuilt […]
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Mike Remembers: This game was at the O’Tools on Ogilvie when it was new, among other places of course. This particular Star Wars is one I have payed before, as it was at the Fire Button Arcade in Orleans from the day it was first purchased new in the box until the day they closed
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Mike Remembers; High Speed was a groundbreaking machine, heralding the resurgence of pinball in the arcades at a time when video games had all but obliterated their presence in the early to mid 80’s. With it’s amazing background sounds and speech, working police light, and classic Williams feel; fast and smooth. It was popular game
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Mike Remembers: I don’t have any specific memories that come to mind for this game, it is somewhat rare by Bally standards. This Vector has just been refurbished, and is now in residency at the Arcade before being listed for sale. Come try it now before it’s gone, or buy it yourself! Includes a full
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Mike Remembers: Gorgar was a very popular game that was available to play at many Ottawa locations in 1979, but I remember playing the one at the West end Skateway on Morrison Drive the best. This game came out at a time when Williams were starting to push the envelope and give Bally a
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The upper playfield is the safest place to be. Plunge gently and use the flippers to aim for the drop targets before they reset. Completing drop targets will light your Magna-Save at the outlanes – use the second set of flipper buttons (and your quick reflexes) to electromagnetically freeze a stray ball and stop it
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Mike Remembers: Star Trek was the only Pinball Machine I can remember from the Fire Button Arcade at the corner of Richmond and Woodroffe from the early 1980’s. It was one of the first Dot Matrix Animation games I can remember, and with the awesome theme featuring call-outs from the actual actors from the original
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The Ottawa Pinball Arcade is working tirelessly to find artifacts, documentation, and photographic evidence of the Arcade scene that flourished in Ottawa during the Golden Era of the Arcade from the mid seventies to the early eighties. No one was bigger than Regent Vending, who operated the largest chain of Arcades in the City, the
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Made in 1963, this Bally Fun Phone graced the walls of the Wizard Arcade at Shoppers City West before I can remember, and I was fortunate enough to get a few pictures of the actual unit that was mounted to the wall by the Arcade entrance from inside the mall. The recorded voices were done
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Mike Remembers: I only remember playing Ali at one spot, the old arcade under the Hayloft restaurant on Rideau Street. The first thing that struck me when I first saw it was the photo realistic image of Ali himself in the center of the backglass, something never before seen in Pinball at the time. The
Mike Remembers: I was 12 years old when this game was new, and while I have vague memories of it, I can’t put my finger on a local Ottawa location with this Pinball Machine in it. It an amazing game, littered with drop target banks! A single drop target, a 2 bank, 3 bank, and
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Frustrated after losing your ball prematurely in the lower level? Knock down one bank of drop targets on the lower playfield to open the gate and earn a successful Re-Entry. Mike Remembers: This is one of my all time favourite games, and was at Hampton Park Bowling Alley when it was new. It was right
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