![]() Still really cheap compared to gambling, but to extend your time without re-opening your wallet, stick more to the 50 and 75 cent machines. Newer machines tend to have more ramps and lights, but also cost more to play. Older 25 cent machines are more difficult, slower flipper reaction, more wide open table to lose the ball straight down the shoot. Couple of games ate quarters quickly in true old fashioned pinball style, but we also found free plays on a couple machines, so it all evened out. Weekend was a little more crowded but not overcrowded and did not wreck the experience. Weekday we saw only couple other people so we could choose whatever we wanted. Went once on a weekday and once on a weekend. Easily accessible by car/Uber from the strip. Fun tactile way to kill a couple hours (if you like non-digital skill games). Classic pinball hall vibe mixed with a feeling of museum due to the span of years of games you can view or play. Among the pinball games I played were old favorite Flash from 1979 and one I didn't remember, the new wave looking Oxo, which was ironically from 1973.Totally met expectations. I was sad to learn that I have completely and embarrassingly unlearned everything I know about playing Mario Bros., Joust, Gyruss, Road Blasters, Elevator Action, and other games I used to be good at and play for hours, but I still have it with Qix, Galaxian, Galaga, and Tempest. One could say that even though the machines were few in number, some had entire arcades from the 1980s in them that one could choose from. Some of the videogame machines were not just one game, but many in one. The Bride was in heaven - pinball and Journey. The actual soundtrack of pinball must be Journey because we heard four of their songs on the overheard speakers in the two hours we were at the Silverball Museum. Fantastic with Elton John, as well as KISS from 1979 and Ted Nugent from 1978. They had music-based machines like Beat Time with the Beatles, and Capt. There were pinball machines featuring made-up superheroes like Capt. There were licensed properties like "The Sopranos," "The Simpsons," Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Rocky, " Doctor Who" (featuring all the Doctors, including a paper doll of Peter Capaldi some true fan must have added), "Charlie's Angels," Elvira, even Playboy, and my favorite, one based on the 1994 film version of The Shadow. The variety of pinball machines was incredible, as I mentioned they spanned several decades. We paid a small flat fee and were able to play any machine we wanted for a couple hours, which was awesome. Each pinball machine had a placard over it detailing its history, completing the museum concept, the perfect please-touch interactive museum. Dominated by pinball machines from every era, there were a handful of videogames and even a few skeeball lanes as well, there are well over two hundred amusements there. Set on the Boardwalk, this place is an old-fashioned arcade, just like the kind that used to be around in the 1970s and 80s. So the following Sunday, we embarked on a mystery road trip to the Silverball Museum Arcade in Asbury Park NJ. After seeing this place on the New Jersey episode of "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown" (which we talked about on The GAR Podcast right here), I just knew it would be the perfect place to surprise The Bride with.
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