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Dive into Pinball Museum Sale: 360° Showcase

Erika's Pinball Journey·video·34m 23s·analyzed·Jul 13, 2024
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TL;DR

Pacific Pinball Museum warehouse sale tour featuring classic machines, EM games, and restoration projects.

Summary

Erika and Manu tour the Pacific Pinball Museum's warehouse sale, showcasing hundreds of classic pinball machines, arcade games, and vintage equipment available through silent auction and direct sale. The museum is liquidating duplicate machines from its collection to fund operations. The tour covers wood rail machines, EM-era classics, backglass/translite differences, rare Capcom and Atari games, and restoration project pieces, with discussion of game mechanics, pricing, and collector appeal.

Key Claims

  • The Pacific Pinball Museum is selling duplicate machines from its collection to generate revenue for the museum, though they're 'not making a killing' on the sale.

    high confidence · Erika and Manu directly discuss the museum's fundraising approach at the beginning of the tour.

  • Backglasses are silk-screened glass printed in reverse layers (black first, then colors, then black backing) to allow light to shine through specific parts, whereas translites are vinyl/plastic pieces with art printed on them.

    high confidence · Michael schooled Erika on the technical difference; detailed explanation of manufacturing process provided.

  • Backglasses commonly suffer damage at the bottom from friction when inserted and removed from machines repeatedly, making the bottom the first place to inspect when buying.

    high confidence · Erika explains wear patterns observed on museum backglasses; attributed to handling friction over time.

  • Very few Capcom pinball machines were ever made—only five or six—making Flipper Football (a Capcom game) rare and valuable ($31,000–$36,000 on Pinside market).

    high confidence · Erika references Pinside market valuation and notes Capcom's limited pinball output.

  • Atari's design decision to place electronics on the bottom of Superman 900 cabinets was flawed because pieces would fall from the playfield and short out components due to gravity.

    high confidence · Erika and Manu inspect Superman 900 and explain the engineering failure; cautionary principle stated: 'don't put any pinball parts at the bottom.'

  • Green-colored pinball machines were uncommon because green wasn't a popular color choice in the era; Erika heard this mentioned on Silver Ball Chronicles podcast.

    medium confidence · Erika references source but is recalling information from a podcast; not direct observation.

  • The museum only sells duplicate machines, not unique or singular versions in their collection, to ensure they retain representation of each game type.

    high confidence · Erika and Manu explicitly state this principle as they tour: 'if they only had one version, it wouldn't be here for sale.'

Notable Quotes

  • “If you have glass, you're using a backglass. Generally speaking, translite is kind of vinyl or plastic or whatever, but the artwork on these is insane.”

    Erika @ ~7:30 — Explains the technical and material distinction between backglass and translite—foundational knowledge for collectors and restorers.

  • “If you're going to buy a backglass, the first place to look really is the bottom...because when they put it in and out and in and out, it gets a lot of friction on people's hands.”

    Erika @ ~9:00 — Practical restoration/buying advice widely applicable to collector community acquiring backglasses.

  • “These are leaf switches. That's it. As simple as that. That's so cool. Make a connection, fire a gun.”

    Erika @ ~58:00 — Appreciates the elegant simplicity of early arcade technology; highlights the mechanical elegance of vintage design.

  • “They were really cheesy, Ian. There were so cheesy.”

    Erika @ ~1:07:30 — Commentary on the aesthetic and content of vintage jukebox films; light-hearted cultural observation.

  • “These guys are geniuses with what they had. Yeah, the times of games, these people were.”

    Manu @ ~1:00:30 — Admiration for the engineering creativity and constraints of vintage arcade/pinball designers.

  • “I honestly can say these are not the most complex games in the world. You could probably fix it.”

    Erika @ ~47:00 — Encourages newcomers that vintage game restoration is achievable; destigmatizes 'project' machines.

  • “If you can't fix it, you can use it [as a table]...put your drink down and play them. That's what they were for really.”

    Manu @ ~45:00 — Contextualizes the original purpose of cocktail arcade machines; practical reframing of non-working equipment.

  • “I'm pretty sure they're not going to sell the only version of what they have. Yeah, if they only had one version, it wouldn't be here for sale.”

Entities

Pacific Pinball MuseumorganizationErikapersonManupersonMichaelpersonJakepersonMarco SpecialtiescompanyPinsidewebsite/serviceSilver Ball Chroniclesmedia

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Museum volunteer infrastructure supports restoration education and hands-on learning (Jake working on Odds and Evens; community fix-it nights implied).

    medium · Erika mentions Jake doing 'a really fantastic job' on Odds and Evens during previous volunteer day; museum previously noted as educational hub for maintenance training.

  • ?

    event_signal: Pacific Pinball Museum opened its warehouse to the public for a silent auction and sale of duplicate machines from its collection as a fundraising initiative.

    high · Main subject of video; Erika and Manu discuss it as an unusual public access opportunity to normally closed institutional space.

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Collectors and enthusiasts express strong aesthetic appreciation for vintage machine artwork, particularly backglass/translite quality and hand-painted arcade cabinet art.

    high · Erika repeatedly remarks on art quality: 'the artwork on these is insane,' 'I like the backlasses a lot,' comments on Three Musketeers, pointed art series, tie-dye rocket backglass.

  • ?

    community_signal: Strong community interest in museum-quality preservation and restoration standards; tour attracts collectors and enthusiasts seeking project machines and educational context.

    high · Video demonstrates engaged audience for behind-the-scenes museum content; discussion of restoration ethics (cutting playfield pieces, finding replacement backglasses).

  • ?

    community_signal: Museum actively supports collector community through volunteer opportunities, hands-on repair education, and periodic public access events (sales, fix-it nights).

Topics

Museum fundraising and collection managementprimaryPinball machine restoration and maintenanceprimaryVintage arcade and pinball historyprimaryCollector market and pricingsecondaryTechnical specifications: backglass vs translite manufacturingprimaryWood rail machines and EM-era scoring mechanicssecondaryRare game identification and valuationsecondaryCommunity access to institutional infrastructurementioned

Sentiment

positive(0.82)— Erika and Manu are enthusiastic, appreciative, and excited throughout the tour. They admire the machines, express genuine interest in purchases, and convey respect for the museum's mission and the engineering of vintage games. Tone is warm, educational, and celebratory of accessible community heritage. No critical negativity; all negative comments are about equipment damage/wear (normal for age) or personal space limitations (not criticism of museum).

Transcript

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I'll do this um and we'll walk through and we'll talk about the games and this wonderful sale the Pacific Pinball Museum is having and uh we starting now yeah I'm already I'm already rolling I'm ready for my cloop Mr to all right well I'm here with Manu today at the Pacific Pinball Museum sale uh it's really great that the museum gets to do this huh yeah I mean it's a great way to get get a little money to the museum although I know they're not making a killing on this but they do have I let's start looking now because there's stuff going like right now yeah people already bought a bunch of games somebody bought the Playfield I one there b well there's that Dracula and the high speed over there yeah they got sold already so kind of nuts uh here they had some posters a lot of old Pacific Pinball Expo what we got maybe I maybe I'll just get a post yeah I don't I don't have like room for a play field but I want a Playfield a let's see what else they got they got some of these old encyclopedias and they have these like what are these Juke boxes okay so these are I forgot what well these like T of juke box this is a this is a film juke box right so this this actually uses film people kids today we used to have this paper that ran a thing and light shine through it and that's how we got so this is a juke box video juke box for use Erica you're definitely going to want to look at the back and see the mechanisms in there cuz you're not you're not loading up like digital SD cards or anything oh we got somebody back here already we'll come back yeah you have to put actual reels of film and there's like I don't know 30 of them in there if you think a pinball machine is complicated those are insane so they have games for free play but there are also some games on the quote unquote silent auction which is not really silent because you're writing your name down on a piece of paper yeah but it's silent it's silent cuz there's you're not like yelling it out they had some donuts here for us too and that game clippers for sale there's some of these games too that they just have on free play for people to enjoy um oh this this one's pretty tempting actually this oh my God okay so you can stay wherever too because it's going to capture wherever you are at take me away from that because fugure SP look fugure bar is the weirdest I mean the art on this is a little insane W that's a spirit 76 oh are these these are just for sale these are just for sale oh yikes I might I think I um spending some money today man let's walk around this way let's uh well actually what else is here oh that's um what is it that's a a uh that's a Kingpin wow good job no I got that from over here I I CH well I would have I would have I'm still impressed with this oh Sky laab I knew that one before seeing the sign I like the colors of Skylab I don't know what it is but that game really attracts me some of these have been in storage never been used some of them have been used but you can tell um what do you think about this lineup here of all these games Xenon let's go but they look at this so they have Comet and hurricane uh what was the trio the bar no not Whirlwind no I'm thinking of cyclone Comet earthquake orer no I think I did it Cyclone Comet hurricane that's the very Al as far as roller coaster bar yeah you can throw bario in there too but that's that's the latest that's that's one Dr dude Dr dude is actually really fun I enjoy that game uh yeah comments also are really great any here playing Comet so what do we got here Manu do you know what these are these I was schooled by Michael she these are back glasses and the difference between a back glass and a transl light a lot of people just take trans light we usually mostly get trans lights now trans light is like a piece of plastic with art on it and then light comes through it trans light these are back glasses so these are kind of Marc Silk screen glass it's Marc Silk screen glass and the way they have to do it is they have to do it they had to do it cuz you don't see it a lot unless you're buying an Le uh they had to Marc Silk screen it backwards and put I don't remember the order of the colors but they kind of had to do the black first and then the this and then the that and and then they put black on the back so that the light will shine through only the parts that they want it to shine through this is the back glass if you have glass you're using a back glass generally speaking trans like I said like kind of vinyl or plastic or whatever but um the artwork on these are insane yeah um and someone told me cuz I looked a lot of these back last night you look there well this is a it's an okay example but up at the top any of these flaking yeah could be from the lights and the lights kind of wore off the but if you look down here you you'll notice a lot of these are shattered all at the bottom and the reason they are is because when they put it in and out and in and out it gets a lot of friction on people's hands right yeah so if you're going and buy a backlash the first place to look really is the Bottom now you can mitigate that with a frame if you just wanted to have its artwork but generally speaking it's just going to be artwork there's odds and evens here my dad has one my dad has an odds and evens game this thing no this one oh this odds and even right here oh they're fixing it I was here last time at the volunteer day and we were working on it with uh with Jake Jake was doing a really fantastic job um we'll go ahead and Sor we're just going to squeeze through here wow yeah a lot of these are really cool like this old art style cool um man I really want to have space somewhere in my house I hope the museum does this again look at this I know this Old Chicago this one's super tempting too how is this so big ER how was this so big I know the game is Big we played game really this big yeah the game is really that big this is for scale everybody these people are too scale oh my god oh it's heavy that's 200 bucks you can probably talk talk to some people and'll knock a few butts off oh there's a Hercules hiding over here oh my God Hercules do not touch do not touch we will not touch but it is the world's largest pinball machine yeah use act a handful of these there's a guy I know that has four I don't know him personally but there's a guy that I know of that owns four after you own one do you need three more I you know what I that's a question for him that I haven't got to ask yet actual you ever play Beat the Clock Beat the Clock yeah I've played this one they had it at lind's arcade for a little bit time based yeah time based Pinball it's that's pretty cool actually I like that feature yo is this a is that a Playboy that looks like a Playboy drop Target a Playboy drop Target oh man that's hilarious I guess your viewers can tell us if that's stock or I don't know about stock but yeah no what's so cool about this camera too though is that like you can be standing literally anywhere around me talking and and it's going to capture it which is super cool so that's why I'm kind of let you walk wherever the mics are picking up all the sound so like you you could walk you could walk away from me all the way over there I stand behind you and be like you'll watch that happen kid brought out so yeah you'll notice like yeah the fleing on the bottom the wi out the wipe out one's pretty cool I get I get radical Vibes with wipe out of snowboarding radical skateboard radical skatebo radical is radical yeah radal I like that game yo an aquarius is this for sale yeah and this is the second Eddie uh there a lot of Ed 750 that's a good price are we looking at it here my friend uh what are we looking at are you interested in this game or no maybe I don't know having a pretty good game here so this got I like all the the gobble holes up there yeah the right ones are more more valuable than Goble technically those are not gobble holes the gobble hole will lose steal the B oh it will steal the ball oh so those are um those well not even vs they are see if you hang out with the pinball people you can't say anything without getting corrected please correct me I I'm going to just hold I don't know out the yeah they're like a kick they they're not yeah not not exactly maybe like a bit of a buck a little bit of a vertical upake but like just not sunken in like go to the Rings you know I will get the answer for you we will find the answer and you will have it before we finish this video hopefully than nice yeah slipper football now there is a game we just checked the pinside uh market value of it it's between 31 and 36 um it's a game where you play against the computer you're basically trying to get your ball pass those drop targets up to the top and they'll come back up after a few seconds uh you want to pass to your so he's just got a a goal you want to pass your flip up the top get a goal it it turns a little one shoty after a while but uh its value is still pretty high cuz it's super unique there is no drain except for down the middle um and there is a reason to shoot other things but I don't know what they are very unique cabinet right yeah I know that green green pinball is like not like pinball machines that are green they they were not as common cuz it wasn't just like a popular color to use on yeah somewhere on Silver ball Chronicles I was listening to that was it because of like Way Green like maybe maybe it's just like the green Playfield people were not as um like they weren't yeah they weren't into it but you know I do think that game's pretty cool um the fact that it's a Capcom game too there was very few Capcom pinball machines made five or six so a lot of these are really cool too this one is in good shape yeah a little crack but that's okay a I like this if this isn't gone later I'm interested in this checkpoint as well dude you looking at the checkpoint too yeah you looking at the checkpoint too we're both looking at we're both looking at checkpoint I was looking at the there was a warlock here earlier it's gone now the checkpoint the but the spirit 76 though is definitely probably more Spirit 76 Playfield yeah like I just showed you behind future Spa did I oh wait no Spirit not Spirit 76 oh no my pinball knowledge everyone's going to know at least this isn't live how embarrassing would that be we could go live I could do a little YouTube live I've never done it before hey oh wo that one actually really this one really nice 15 pepper girl I still don't have room for it and there's if you notice there's actually what do you mean you have a nice place in the so you have a nice space in the corner where you keep all your P3 modules know so this I don't think it's been actually used in a machine but it's got kind of damage of this around you see this so all this looks like either rodents or bugs or something like that that's a shame cuz it sat somewhere and got even up but it's beautiful yeah this is this kept in really nice really pretty this is super vintage super like but I mean it would it be sacriligious to like cut this part off and put this on the wall or I don't know you're not you're not putting it back in the game no I I don't know that's a good question the purists out there are like what do you guys think my cut off the bottom of that would that be saici you don't see it anyway it's in the game yeah well whatever I'm not going to justif doing anything I don't know I guess we'll find out we can find David and see what he said um it's pretty cool they also have this Phantom they're just missing the backlash but otherwise the game is pretty cool oh you got to get a backl yeah oh that's fine that's not hard you can probably easily find a backl life from Marco what's the I like I like this feature here pretty cool this sign though sorry this sign though I if it wasn't so big I'd be taking it home my buddy my buddy Matt Henry had already just texted me how much for the Panic City Neon yeah so it's currently it's currently at 2,500 is the reserve price the minimum bid 100 buy can buy it now for 5,000 5 G's and it works and it works man wow everything in here Works Ah that's fine 4K do you have enough light to go here yeah yeah and I can grab my uh if you want to just hold this real quick I can grab my this is friend look at those banners beautiful banners card whz double barrel Erica you got to walk around in here right like when it's not this yeah I looked my light somewhere there's a we'll have to find it I have a light that is a magnet I was showing you earlier yeah we'll have to walk around in here I'm sure everyone would love a chance to get to see all of this I was over here showing oh man I was here showing somebody I was here with you y we were walking through here check out all these we'll find my light there's there's there's enough light I'll I'll edit it um this rocket uh backlash actually I really like I like the like tie-dye kind of feel right Co like I would buy it just for the art wa look at that like just like the Playfield art that looks crazy yeah so these are for sale question mark yeah they're for sale 800 or best offer okay and these are I think in various states of yeah in various States they may or may not be completely working when you buy them definitely projects yeah definitely projects but you know if that's your thing man I like project games as much as the next guy but I got two right now that I'm working on so I'm tempted to buy a third while I'm here but I don't know good thing I didn't bring a truck I don't need it I'm trying to buy the I'm trying to work on buying more gear like this fun new device I have there you go I left that light somewhere here man it's probably I was here remember I was I was like oh I got you man I I'll give you a light Stu it and I was I stuck it somewhere and honestly it might be gone now I wouldn't be surprised no it's probably still stuck where it was but but like I brought somewhere here no one's there's all this like fun stuff all of these are project games hereo I was showing something to Chris somewhere but yeah some real projects over here though like 250 Freedom body only not so bad if you're looking for some pieces this scares me I remember watching technology what's his name oh yeah he's got he does really that Aztec video that he has is phenomenal he's doing some really good work but with this level of insanity it's take one simple thing and then iterate a thousand times over it and you get a complex pbol machine um these are these are wedge heads so what we saw were there were called wood rails these this is a wedge head right here you know they call it as they they see it it's a wedge it's a wedge shaped head that's it it's not rocket science they label they made these ones are pretty cool these are the pitch and bat games ooh pitching bats why are they why were they so popular so big look at that one you go and then you hit like single double home run yeah they were really popular like one they're fun there's also some of these cocktail ones we got foxy ladyx my favorite one was called it called I would use this as like a table just to have you know like that's pretty cool if you can't fix it yeah if you can't fix it you can fix it that's what they were for really yeah put your drink down and place them put place them P yeah the Superman 900 oh wow I couldn't even see is that a Superman under there it's a Superman under there I'd be curious to see what the Playfield looks like I mean underneath Atari thought they were going to be slick and they put all the electronics on the bottom of the cabinet can you open it yeah I don't have my my light is missing let me see if this is no did I put it here in the side pocket oh my God menu I had it it was in the side pocket long look at me so oops blue the party let me turn this let me turn mine off because yours is way brighter um all right so the trick was I we're going in everybody I think they said yeah they so they put some of the stuff on the bottom and what happened was the pinball machine would work for a while and then a piece would fall off of the Playfield and fall into the bottom and that's why I don't generally speaking put any pinball Parts at the bottom of a pinball machine because gravity will drop a screw into that into the bottom of I think and it short things out so Atari Engineers were like Hey we're going to be cooler we're going to put it on a different spot and they were like yeah that's a bad idea cuz your machines just die now we can see the Playfield though actually not so bad yeah the Playfield looks okay it's the glasses oh this is this the glass is dirty but I mean still pretty cool I know uh flipper room uses uh Avengers or Airborne Avengers a table that's pretty big uh big game like this cuz this is as you guys can see the size of this game versus the size of this game is very different so you got to have the got to have the space to hold that imagine restoring it it's like beautiful that would be cool jumping jack now these are the Jumping Jacks sorry there is a jumping jack it's a different game are these pop bumpers or just bumpers those are uh I don't those are the top I think are just bumpers just bum top bumpers are for sure those bottom ones look at the skirts on them yeah they got skirts they got they got they got skirts ski skirt SK yeah a Chicago Coin I don't want to do this but I do it's pretty cool and you know like there's so many games here guys just like a heads up right like the museum does everything that they can but like a lot of these games as we said um they're actually like duplicates you know they or I mean I could hold this like this here too I'm pretty sure they're not going to sell the only version of what they have yeah if they only had one version it wouldn't be here for sale so they only are selling their duplicates of games the museum has an if I go a little higher you can do a little little ly L around out all this stuff but it's pretty cool I like this Three Musketeers one actually that's pretty cool look look at that rubbering look at that like that's crazy but that's cuz that's that's not a pop bumper that's because that's just a a bumper just a bumper just a bounce off wa no wait it's got a skirt oh it's got a skirt I was wrong don't I don't know my well you might no you might be right because the skirt just triggers um the score doesn't necessarily accentuate any uh coils to move the ball oh so those over there might actually still just just be bumpers but it does have to score right interesting Wisconsin is there a thing about Wisconsin maybe they came from Wisconsin you know what's fun is if you're at the Pacific Pinball Museum and you're playing one of these wood rails right look at the scoring the scoring you generally have to figure out yourself so it'll do like it'll it'll show you the numbers that you need to add together to get this car it's not going to tell you you know 10,000 blah blah blah it's going to light everything you need to know how how much three much here for an example right yeah some of them get pretty complex too but it takes you a half an hour to figure out who won my dad has this game rainbow yeah I was actually going to try to scan the game so I could like repaint or B get make like a restored cover for it cuz his his is a little beat up not too bad but a little beat up I was just trying to do that for him yeah this Three Musketeers back glass is a lot nicer yeah but it's it's pretty cool I love seeing all of these like this this like history oh I missed these oh kiss yeah there's a kiss for sale everyone's been playing that one that one's really popular I would be surprised if it doesn't sell there are the buy now prices for some of these who did move this C from there oh but you guys see this one probably yeah Miss Annabelle Miss anelle I like this ice revenue or review ice review mhm how do you say that ice review ice review and dozy these are actually really cool I like the back laps a lot I think the colors are nice this looks like a pointy people yeah this doozy is a pointed one of the the artist I I forget the artist name but it was the pointy yeah it looks like part of the pointed series and we got all all these other games here more wood rails rocket ship so so look at rocket ship 160,000 right whatever it was lit you just have to figure it out yeah like these ones and these are their duplicates which means like man their their other ones they have must be in really fantastic shape so these are really good if you're into like collecting these kind of classic I know wood rails aren't as popular with some people but like my dad's got a wood rail I actually unfortunately don't own any wood rails but um I just I don't think I've found one yet that I really like yeah I haven't played enough wood rails you don't get the opportunity this twin Bill actually looks pretty good yeah look at all those look at those yeah this is beautiful those those are gobble holes I've been thinking about double feature just cuz it's like film right pretty cool nowood rail would be a good like fourth game to have in so what do you think about these games here this isn't pinball but this is still pretty cool I know Walt bar and La they have a junkyard this is pretty cool yeah so Evans mentioned that the museum has these because they were part of a sale of other pins on the package some guy donated a bunch of games but he's like but with this donation you got to take these two but you know it was 40 pins so it's a pretty good pretty good donation so if you can if you have look these are not the most complex games in the world I mean I'm no I'm no engineer but I I honestly can say these are not the most complex games in the world you could probably fix it yeah you could probably get it working again or like oh wa look at those targets back there look at those guys and the little Bulls and the things oh these are so tempting what the heck man what the heck this won't fit in my car no it won this one looks so cool look at the bull in the back and there's the guy and like the targets you shoot dang that's so cool I mean even just to have kind of like as like a fun thing in your house I mean it's a big item to put just in your house but see yeah the issue with pinball right now is there's not enough guns okay sorry going to be in the out okay never mind I don't know why I said that it just for some reason look at this look at this I love how these are Leaf switches wow these are Leaf switches that's it as simple as that that's so cool make a connection fire a gun uh Galaga G I would be shocked if this doesn't leave by the end of today it's 500 I wonder if it works this is from people smoking cigarettes and putting them on the thing thanks it it probably of most of the games here this probably be one of the faster ones to right yeah I mean you could use the cabinet well I don't want to say ninja gun look at that that is crazy wow look at how de detailed that freaking thing that go look at the ninja it's a city you see that there a ninj way in the back and there's another ninja climbing the wall what is this ninja gun so like you shoot the ninjas and you got like a little bit of time that's not fair I mean oh man you're bring G to a sword fight how big is this I don't need it oh but look at this art though that's so cool just as like an art piece man all right if this doesn't sell I don't know it comes with a free coin me that may or may not work now I remember Carnival as a kid this is the simplest game in the world you have a little gun that squirrels on the bottom and you have all the things moving across and you got to shoot everything and then clear the board and then the next board and you shoot everything and that was the game although every once in a while a bird would come flying down and would eat your bullets you can't run out of bullets you had to shoot a box bullets and get more bullets Gremlin Sega this is how old this is Gremlin Sega like Gremlin oh this ninja gun honestly dude that's super cool looking I just like the way that it looks ninja gun um cool and we're back at the projects we uh we skimmed through here because I didn't have my light um um there's a whole section you can't get to but yeah I can't get over there but I'm happy to like just do a little get a little tall over here it's pretty wild in here guys pretty cool but these games over here we got a speed King this stunt pilot actually I was pretty interested in this one too just cuz of like the town that's back in there like I don't you know if you can see there's like a little car and like a little Runway I think the car goes around in circles yeah the car looks like it's got like a half circle at least what is this is this a optical illusion I think it might be an optical illus it is cuz this is not cuz it's not that the side of the cabinet doesn't go that far no it's amazing yeah it's not that oh I don't know I want to I want to open it how do they do that get me inside there oh whoa no it does though look at this that's where the optical tion comes from you know what I think you can change towns or something no no here's this is the town that we were looking at that's the town we were looking at it's a it's a mirror oh it's the mirror over there wa I'm going to go in I'm going in wow I don't know what you guys can see from this we'll be able to watch in the video later that's cool wow magic man right that's so cool that's amazing oh so that's the mirror we're looking at the mirror right now oh that's why it looks like it folds over yeah wow these guys are geniuses with what they had yeah the times of games these people were there's your Bear game that you love there's the shoot the bear guys $2,000 it can be yours that's actually like a really good deal for that game it's like yeah you have the space yeah look at this yeah this bear in there yeah the gun that comes with it right so you connect it all together and then you like shoot the bear and there's a dog you don't want to shoot the dog you I think if you shoot the bear you don't kill the bear either you just tickle him you just tickle him yeah popcorn machine popcorn machine some motorcycle speed King Sonic fighter yeah a lot of he a lot of really great things to see here and I'll just go for the viewers man I guess we can just I'll bring this camera up a little bit this a ball theux and people can yeah this is just for so these are not part of the auction not part of the auction these are part of the actual Annex like this is really cool Workshop you've been the workshop right oh yeah yeah cuz you were helping fix games um yeah this view is going to look super cool I'm sure we'll go through the whole thing wow this this sm's pretty tall this is pretty cool and now I'll just do a little walk like this and yeah this one really fun man than so yeah oh I'm sure there's a there's a table that was here full of back glasses that's gone there was like a whole yeah they can sell stuff oh I want that I know the checkpoint you'll fit right next to your modules man you put on the wall over there you just put on the wall I'm walking a bit slow to the video shaky see what happens this is this I'm thanks for asking me to come yeah or inviting me to I knew this was happening I didn't think it was way oh well I was like hey man who want to go to this I know I know your transportation can be limited Erica is my only friend my other friend with a car went to college in japana oh really is that where he went yeah is is well right now he's at home but he's going to they call it intership something like yeah wow that's awesome good for him man all right cool well I think that I'm going to bring y'all back down to us real quick I think that concludes the tour thanks for joining me and Manu on this and hope you get a chance to check out the Pacific Pinball Museum you won't exactly see this place this is their warehouse but this is a great way that they opened up to the community and you can always look to see their volunteer opportunities and maybe if this one was a successful as it has seems to be um they'll probably do it again they yeah if they do it again definitely come down at least to see this Warehouse cuz this is not open to the public yeah generally speaking no one gets to see this so yeah so this is just a treat anyway if you didn't come to buy anything at least you played some games you checked out some history and oh here we go the back of it there's the fil finally full circle full circle see the back wow and we got lot light look at that look at this fil oh my God that's insane they were were really cheesy Ian there were so cheesy yeah a friend of mine collects them he projector that has a bag
  • Wood rail machines require players to manually calculate scores by adding lit numbers together, making scoring resolution complex and sometimes taking 'half an hour to figure out who won.'

    high confidence · Erika explains the scoring system based on museum experience and gameplay observation.

  • Ninja Gun arcade game uses leaf switches—the simplest switching mechanism—to fire coils when connections are made.

    high confidence · Erika examines the game's internals and comments on the simplicity: 'That's so cool.'

  • Stunt Pilot arcade game uses a mirror to create an optical illusion making the playfield appear larger than it physically is.

    high confidence · Erika and Manu discover and confirm the mirror mechanism during inspection.

  • Erika and Manu @ ~33:00 — Key insight into museum collection philosophy and curation practices; relevant to understanding institutional pinball preservation.

  • “See what happens...I'm walking a bit slow to the video. Shaky.”

    Erika @ ~1:02:00 — Self-aware meta-commentary on video production during long-form content creation; authenticity marker.

  • “This is their warehouse. This is not open to the public...generally speaking, no one gets to see this. So yeah, so this is just a treat.”

    Manu @ ~1:03:00 — Frames the museum tour as exclusive access to institutional infrastructure normally hidden from community; appreciation for behind-the-scenes perspective.

  • Naps Arcade
    venue
    Flipper Footballgame
    Superman 900game
    Herculesgame
    Beat the Clockgame
    Stunt Pilotgame
    Ninja Gungame
    Carouselgame
    Gremlin/Segacompany
    Chicago Coincompany
    Matt Henryperson
    Davidperson
    Evansperson

    high · Erika encourages viewers to check volunteer opportunities; Manu emphasizes exclusive access normally unavailable; museum frames sale as community-serving.

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Vintage arcade/pinball designers achieved optical illusions and spatial tricks using mirrors and mechanical ingenuity despite severe material/space constraints.

    high · Stunt Pilot mirror illusion examined and explained; Manu comments: 'These guys are geniuses with what they had.'

  • $

    market_signal: Collector market for rare Capcom pinball machines demonstrates extreme scarcity premium ($31,000–$36,000 for Flipper Football despite mechanical simplicity).

    high · Erika references Pinside market valuation; notes 'there were very few Capcom pinball machines made' (5–6 total).

  • $

    market_signal: Vintage game pricing at museum sale ranges widely ($250 body-only projects to $5,000+ working machines); silent auction format allows market discovery.

    high · Multiple examples: Panic City $2,500 reserve/$5,000 buy-now, Galaga $500, Flipper Football $31k–$36k (Pinside), Hercules $2,000, Spirit 76 project pricing discussed.

  • ?

    product_concern: Vintage machines suffer from common wear patterns (backglass bottom flaking/shattering from handling friction, rodent/insect damage to components in storage) requiring knowledge for purchasing decisions.

    high · Erika explains specific damage patterns observed on museum backglasses; discusses P3 module damage from rodents/insects; provides buying guidance.

  • ?

    technology_signal: Evolution from EM wood rail machines (manual scoring calculation) to alphanumeric displays (digital score display) represented in museum's collection; accessibility for new players improved.

    medium · Discussion of wood rail scoring complexity ('take you a half an hour to figure out who won') vs implied modern game clarity; museum showing progression.