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This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all of the arcade resources on
the web, but it's a short list of what I feel are the best. |
Information
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 | The IPDB is
the Internet Pinball Database, which covers virtually every pinball
machine made. The database includes production and technical stats,
thousands of pictures, a great search engine, and more. |
| For video games information, it's hard to beat KLOV
- the Killer List of Video Games. |
| And from the people that brought you KLOV is the International
Arcade Museum, which attempts to list every arcade game ever made. |
| Clay's pinball repair site
has almost everything you need to understand and maintain your pinball
machines. |
| Mr. Pinball buys
and sells pinball machines, but Daina Pettit's site is probably better known
for the Mr.
Pinball classifieds, by far the best pinball-related classifieds.
Also check out Mr.
Pinball for their price guide, repair tips, collector register, FAQ, and
pinball events calendar. |
| GameArchive has lots of pinball-related
information, including ROM images and translite scans. |
| The Pinball Hall of Fame Flyer Reference is a great site with flyers
for many pinball machines, gun games, bowlers and more. |
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Collectors
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Sellers
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| Shameless plug for my own company: Pinball
Pal. Pinbal Pal is the exclusive source for Shay Arcade
Group repro backglasses and playfield plastics, plus we make cabinet stencil sets for
repainting pinball machine cabinets along with other unique products. |
| Steve Young runs The Pinball Resource, arguably the best source for
pinball parts, especially for Gottliebs. There's now an official web
site. The phone's often busy, but two sure
ways to get through are email
and fax (845-473-7116). |
| Mayfair Amusements has a
large inventory of vintage parts, NOS playfields and thousands of
backglasses. |
| Marco Specialties sells a
complete line of pinball repair and restoration products, and offers an
on-line catalog and on-line ordering. |
| The Shay Arcade Group
sells reproduction backglasses and playfield plastics. Shay
Arcade Group products are sold exclusively through Pinball
Pal. |
| Kevin McHugh runs Classic Pinball
Corp, a great place to buy a pinball machine, jukebox or other gameroom
items. |
| Love it or hate it, eBay
is here to stay. You can check out the coin-op
auctions here. |
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Pinball Manufacturers
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A very short list, unfortunately.
| Williams stopped manufacturing
pinball machines in November of 1999, but they still maintain its web
site. They still have a technical
support area with ROM
images for old and new games. |
| Stern Pinball is the only
remaining manufacturer of pinball machines. Gary Stern bought the Sega
pinball division, who had previously absorbed Data East. ROM
Images are available for all of these games, but so far there's nothing
there for the older Stern games made from 1977 to 1982. |
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If you find any broken links, please
let
me know. |
