![]() ![]() On a different aisle of old timey machines, Jamie Vanderet is playing one called Sea Ray. ![]() But I started out by playing The Terminator, and now I'm hooked," she says.Īlthough she's old enough to have grown up with pinball, Barrett says her parents never let her have a quarter to play as a kid. During a recent rare opening, Dolores Barrett was trying her hand at it. That means the museum is only open a few times a year. "Just to flip the breakers is thousands of dollars to turn it on for the day." "You gotta remember when the museum is so large and there's so many games plugged in," he says. But Johnathan explains there is a drawback. The benefit of the museum is that all the machines are out on display. With more than 650 playable pinball machines, the collection grew too large for a single bar or storage unit.Īt first, he thought of opening a bar with an arcade, but that would only allow a handful of the collection to be played at any given time. John began building the collection in the early '80s thinking he might one day open an arcade and bar. John Weeks, left, and his son Johnathon, run the Museum of Pinball in Banning, Calif. John began amassing the games in the early 1980s. There are 650 games ranging from vintage 1950s-era machines all the way up to ones based on current TV shows such as The Walking Dead. "I'd fill up buildings with them, storage units." "I built this collection picking them up one by one, and I put them in my house," says John Weeks, who founded the museum together with his son, Johnathan Weeks. But once the switch is flipped, it gets loud. It's pretty quiet when the rows upon rows of pinball machines are not turned on. The Museum of Pinball is hidden away in an old industrial building, just off Interstate 10 and about 90 miles east of Los Angeles in Banning, Calif. Actual pinball machines have become quaint curiosities, but a father-son duo in California is keeping these old-school games alive in a museum. When most people want to play a game, the first thing they reach for is likely a smartphone or tablet. Along with a trove of vintage machines, the Museum of Pinball has a sizable collection of games based on current TV shows and movies. ![]()
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