to midnight Friday and Saturday.Īrnold opened the original Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas in 2006. Tropicana Ave., where visitors can play vintage pinball games from 11 a.m. The Riviera hall of fame is a satellite of the main Pinball Hall of Fame (1610 E. Younger fans, or players who prefer newer technology, will see electronic pinball games, some of them based on TV series and movies - including “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Nightmare on Elm Street” - while veterans of the late ’70s/early ’80s video game boom can relive moments of misspent youth by playing “Centipede,” “Frogger” or “Donkey Kong.” Among the most striking games are the vintage mechanical pinball games that feature flipping score counters, rather than digital counters, and bear the lush art and idiosyncratic titles - “Bank Shot,” “PlayMates,” “Pro Pool,” “Hurdy Gurdy” - of their time. Tim Arnold, founder of the Pinball Hall of Fame, says the games at the Riviera date from the mid-’60s on. There, they’ll find the Riviera annex of Las Vegas’ Pinball Hall of Fame and about 50 pinball machines, video games and penny arcade attractions awaiting 24/7 play by anyone with a quarter or two to burn. ![]() In Las Vegas, fans of classic pinball games will find both revelation and cause for celebration in an otherwise nondescript area between the casino and food court of the Riviera. But for men (and women) of a certain age who remember a time when PlayStations and Xboxes would have been considered fanciful voodoo, the carnival sounds and flashing lights of a pinball machine are audiovisual boarding passes to youthful summers past. There are sounds that dwell, deep and vivid, in human memory.Ī baby’s surprised laugh, a mother’s soothing lullaby, a rattlesnake’s blood-chilling call to back off, the pulse-quickening cacophony of ball hitting bumper in a vintage pinball machine … A "Palace Guard" pinball machine from the late 1960s is one in a collection of vintage mechanical games that feature flipping score counters rather than digital counters.
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