You could put together a whole USA road trip based on this list, so we’ll start in the west and head across the country. If you want to spend hours hitting the flippers and bumping the machine strategically without tilting, here are some of the best places to play pinball in the USA, “pinball museums” where you can hit the flippers until your arms cramp up. At any of them, at least one machine will probably be out of order at any given time. Now, in most of the spots listed in this pinball places article, there’s a full-time person on site keeping the machines rolling. In the old days there were roving technicians who spent all day making repairs, traveling from bar to arcade to pool hall. Pinball machines take up more room than most (but not all) video games, plus they are much more complicated machines. It wasn’t just changing tastes that led to a decline though. (See more about that in Sheila’s post on the National Videogame Museum.) They just don’t do the huge sales numbers they used to back in the days before Pac-man, Asteroids, Centipede, and Donkey Kong started taking their place. Pinball is not a dead form of entertainment: new machines are still coming out all the time, like that one pictured here that I just spotted in a local brewpub in Tampa Bay. Most of them are tagged as pinball museums, but they’re arcades where you can actually play with the exhibits. Are you a budding pinball wizard or are you an oldster like me who prefers the tactile feel of those machines over the bits and bytes of video games? Fortunately for you, there are still some great places to play pinball in the USA.
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