My coins were taken out of my hands before I could make it to the bathroom, and was asked did I read the sign on the change machine, and I was asked to leave. Pinball Pete's founder Tim Arnold owns and maintains the machines.Įdward Vielmetti plays pinball for to my very first review ever. like a gorgar with flippers so weak you can't get to the top of the playfield, sigh. i would gladly pay 50/75/$1 for gorgar if the machine was in top condition.īy the way, pinball pete is memorialized on the elvira pin (look at the stack of pizzas on the right hand side by the plunger)."ġ997: The Ann Arbor City Council hears complaints in public comment time regarding youths being hassled at Pinball Pete's.Ģ008: The Pinball Hall of Fame is featured in Spirit Magazine. It is a non-profit museum in Las Vegas with an enormous pinball collection. bleah.ĭetroit metro airport has a few pins, old electromechs in really abysmally horribly bad condition.
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crowded, brightly lit, big screen tv, movie rentals. the arcade has perhaps two pins, usually in medium bad shape. the bowling alley is now a computer center and the pin room is replaced by a suburbanized sort of mall thing with travel agents, a ripoff bookstore, greasy quasi-dorm food. Used to be pins in a real grungy part of the michigan union, in the basement upstairs from the bowling alley.
uses tokens (not quarters) which increases the minimum investment. 4 or 5 pins in sort of creaky shape, not really worth a visit. well focus closed but double focus lives on, corner state & packard. among them were "focus" and "double focus". In the vid craze of the early 80's, a lot of arcades sprung up. i think pete knocked down some walls here too. includes diner, elvira, another whirlwind, another simpsons, taxi.
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5 or 6 pins also in good condition though some of the places they put them have non-level floors (so it seems). pinball pete knocked down a lot of walls to put in more machines.Īnother pinball pete's on south u., this in an old house used to be called something else. current selection includes whirlwind, fire, earthshaker, pinbot, rollergames, simpsons. upstairs, grungy floor, currently has 6 or 7 pins in good condition. If you've got old photos of Pinball Pete's, Mickey Rat's, Focus, Double Focus, the Dragon Inn, Simulation Station, Great Escape, Pinball Alley, Arcade Five or the Cross-Eyed Moose that you'd like to share, email them to me at used to be mickey rat's (on william), now replaced with a pinball pete's in the same place.
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The building, owned by the Tice Family Partnership, had once been on the market, but in 2004 there were no takers for the asking price of $1.2 million.įeel free to tell us about your favorite memories of pinball in Ann Arbor and Pinball Pete's in the comments.
The neighbors had said that loitering and vagrancy were a problem at the building which had been boarded up for some number of years. ÂĪ vacant pinball parlor on South University, once the home of Campus Pinball and later Pinball Pete's, burned last Saturday. It's missing a lot of details please fill in what I'm missing below in the comments, and I'll work the edits in to complete the story. Â Â Here's a partial timeline of pinball in Ann Arbor with some personal memories mixed in. I came to Ann Arbor for the first time in 1976 and played a few games of pinball at Mickey Rat's, and then spent a lot of quarters during college playing pinball around town from 1985 to 1995.
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