We always tell people that we don’t want to use collector grade 45s for our jukeboxes. The reason is that the needles will eventually destroy the records, or there’s a misfeed/malfunction and the record is destroyed, like this one.

Our next Little Flippers class is THIS Saturday, Dec 6th from 11:30am -12:30pm! Open to kids ages 5-12 Our Women's Tournament, is Sunday, Dec 6th! IFPA sanctioned & open to all female-identifying & nonbinary folks of any age. Entrance fee is $10, IFPA fee of $2. Join the ugly sweater contest! ⚪️

It's Giving Tuesday PPM Fans! 🤩 Our nonprofit has guaranteed matches to double your impact 🙌🏻 Your fully tax deductible donations go toward our effort to secure a permanent home for our additional 1,200 pins (the largest collection in the world!) Donate via PayPal: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

OMG another pinball artifact: Placeholder Genie bash toy from Tales of the Arabian Nights. Used to test pose and position of the final sculpted toy. Art by McMahon on xerox and colored pencil with butyrate cover.

Next random pinball artifact: A Pinball 2000 PUB card. After the launch we got feedback that P2K's software update system was a bit exotic for most operators. It needed a laptop, serial cable, a network connection to download files, and some detailed instructions. Some found it confusing. (more)

Random pinball artifacts incoming! I'm cleaning house and everything must go. Maybe a virtual garage sale?

Happy Thanksgiving PPM followers! 🙌🏻🦃 We are always thankful for our Patrons, Members, Donors, Board Members, Volunteers and Employees - without whom our special nonprofit museum could not function. Please consider making a tax deductible donation via this link: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

The holiday season is in full swing and the nonprofit Pacific Pinball Museum is here for all of your pinball needs! 🙌🏻🤩⚪️ We're open every day this week and weekend 11am to 9pm (except Thursday Thanksgiving day) 🦃 We hope to see you playing our 100+ pins here in Alameda soon! 🙏🏻

What could be mistaken for a renaissance painting is actually a candid pic of our volunteers putting in hours of work to make sure our games work their best for our members and patrons during the upcoming holidays. 💪🏻🤩 We're so thankful for their support 🙏🏻Visit the 501c3 nonprofit PPM soon! 🙌🏻🤩⚪️

Starting with the first coin-operated games in 1931, the price for a game really hasn’t changed (adjusted for inflation) 1931 - 5¢ = $1.07 1947 - 5¢ = $0.73 1955 - 10¢ = $1.21 1965 - 10¢ = $1.03 1975 - 25¢ = $1.51 1985 - 25¢ = $0.75 1995 - 50¢ = $1.07 2005 - 50¢ = $0.83 Our coin-ops up front: $1

No video yet, but here are some photos of items up for sale tomorrow. PPM Annex Warehouse Sale 1680 Viking St, Alameda, CA

Join us for our LAST surplus sale of 2025. You can help support is by buying a rare piece of pinball history. We'll have working and project games, backglasses, bagatelles, playfields and more. PPM Annex Warehouse 1680 Viking Street, Alameda, CA Saturday 11/15 from 11am to 3pm.

The Pacific Pinball Museum will be open for business this Tuesday Veterans Day! It's the perfect time to visit if you've never had the chance, it's also our usual (2) for $22 discounted day! Stop by to play over 100+ pins and enjoy our exhibits with unlimited exit/re-entry from 11am to 9pm 🙌🏻🤩⚪️

Fun to see an ad for the Victory Special bingo machine. A photo of one that had been impounded by Oakland Police is on display in the PPM as part of our “Gambling, Amusement, or Both” exhibit.

Our first ever "Bingo Pinball Challenge" event is coming up THIS Sunday Nov 9th from 3-4:30pm! 🤩⚪️ We'll have 3 levels of bingo cards with different pinball challenges on them and players will work toward linking dots for prizes! Special $10 admission, and you can stay all day until 9pm! 🙌🏻

Our next Little Flippers class is THIS Saturday November 1st from 11:30am -12:30pm! (Work off that Halloween candy energy!) 🎃 No previous experience necessary - Open to all kids ages 5-12 years. FREE with regular $12 admission for your child! 🥰⚪️ Join us for our NEW youth bingo event on 11/9! 🙌🏻🤩

It's getting spooky at the PPM! 🎃🙌🏻🤩 Enjoy some ghostly pinball artwork callouts made by our Docent Emily Lewis adorning the area over the front entrance - can you find the games they're inspired by in the PPM? Come by this Halloween, Friday afternoon from 4-7pm! We're a trick or treating spot 🙌🏻👻

a treasure trove for prewar pinball fans: scans of Automatic World 1933-02, 1933-11&12, 1934-10 pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/10/scan... #retroarcade #pinball #automaticworld #scans #prewar #arcade

We're proud to have won Silver in the "Best Small / Quirky Museum" category for the East Bay Express Magazine Best of 2025 poll! 🤩🙌🏻 Stop by our nonprofit and enjoy our curated exhibits, jukeboxes, artwork and (100+)! pinballs from the 1940's to the 2020's here in Alameda - we'll see you soon! 🙏🏻🥰⚪️

NEW GAME ALERT! 🤩 We've just installed an amazing 1981 Gottlieb "Black Hole", a new 2020 Jersey Jack "Guns N'Roses" and the nicest 1980 Stern "Seawitch" that's playable on the West Coast! 🙌🏻 Stop by to enjoy these and (100+)! more pinballs from all eras here at the nonprofit PPM - see you soon! 🥰⚪️

Pinball Expo 2025 is this weekend! 🤩🙌🏻 We're proud to sponsor the amazing seminars happening at the show, take a look at the schedule here: pinballexpo.com/events-sched... If you cant make it out to Illinois, you can always enjoy the (100+)! pinballs from all eras here at the PPM year round! 🙏🏻☺️⚪️

See our Popup at this weekends Pin-A-Go-Go show in Dixon, CA! 🙌🏻🤩 We brought (9) classic EM games to this intimate show - learn more here: www.pin-a-go-go.org If the pinball appetite is still yearning, you can visit our main museum in Alameda, CA year round to play our 100+ pins from all eras ☺️❤️⚪️

Check out this fundraiser for the Project Pinball Charity who bring pinball to Children’s Hospitals in the US.

Our "Varkon" fundraiser was successful!!! 🙌🏻🤩 The nonprofit PPM wants to extend its deep thanks to all of those who donated, including a large anonymous donor, Free Gold Watch in SF and our own Board President Larry Zartarian. 🙏🏻☺️ We'll see you playing Varkon and our 100+ other pins soon! ☺️❤️⚪️

Our next Little Flippers class is THIS Saturday October 4th from 11:30am -12:30pm! Learn Pinball skills for improved play here at the nonprofit PPM! No previous experience necessary - Open to all kids ages 5-12 years. FREE with regular $12 admission for your child, and you can play all day! 🥰⚪️

The PPM abides! 😎🎳 We're proud to bring our 2016 Dutch Pinball "Big Lebowski" to the museum's coin area! 🤩 Stop by to play this beautiful game ☺️ Spooky Pinball's amazing 2017 "Total Nuclear Annihilation" has moved into our freeplay Modern room for the first time! 🙌🏻☢️

PPM fans can tune in for a special radio interview @8am PST tomorrow Sunday morning! 🤩📻 Listen to Scott Piehler of the NEW Alameda Connection radio show interview our Executive Director Evan Phillippe on KCSM's digital side channel streaming here: spinitron.com/KCSM-HD/dj/1...

We're proud to have been voted "Best of 2025" across several categories in Bay Area Parent Magazine - thank you for voting! 🙏🏻🤩 Best Date Night Location/Venue  - East Bay - Gold Best Kids Party Venue  - East Bay - Silver Best Local Family Entertainment  - East Bay - Bronze We'll see you soon! ☺️⚪️

Old #pinball lore: the IRC chats. WMS was the kind of firm that didn't give people a lot of access inside the building. There were interviews with trade mags and once in a while Schelberg got to come inside, but nothing was really targeted at players. We tried to change that in the mid 90s. (more)

It appears that the Kiss (Bally, 1979) cabinet art captured Paul Stanley mid-burp.

🚨CA12 students🚨 The deadline to submit your project to the Congressional App Challenge is October 30th. I know there's so much genius here at home! Think of an idea, write the code, and submit your app at simon.house.gov/services/congressional-app-challenge.

We joined other Science Institutions at this weekends ASTC show in San Francisco! 🤩 Executive Director Evan Phillippe and Founder Michael Schiess presented our "Play & Learn" philosophy, and brought our clear 1976 Gottlieb "Surf Champ" pinball game and "Pinbowl" exhibits for some fun 🙌🏻⚪️☺️

Our next Little Flippers class is this Saturday September 6th from 11:30am -12:30pm! Learn Pinball history & skills for improved play here at the nonprofit PPM! No experience necessary - Open kids ages 5-12 years, guardians must stay onsite during the class. Free with regular admission 🥰⚪️

We are proud to have been named a top five "Museums & Attractions" and a top five "Birthday Party Venue" by the Parents Press Best of 2025 Awards! 🙌🏻🤩 With over 100! playable pins from the 1940's to the 2020's, our freeplay Jukeboxes, exhibits and artwork the PPM is here for your pinball needs! ☺️⚪️

A promotional video for Fish Tales (Williams, 1992). Fish Tales is one of the 100+ games available for free play with admission. h/t @benharri.org

Hello from our front coin op area! 🙌🏻🤩 If you dont have time to enjoy our 100+(!) freeplay pins, you can always stop by play one of our 4 amazing coin-op games in the front of the museum. You'll find "Deadpool", "Total Nuclear Annihilation", "Jurassic Park" and "Elton John" ready to play everyday! 🥰⚪️

Our fixit crew is busy at work this evening - fixing games, cleaning playfields and testing for play. 💪🏻🤩 As summer winds down, the Pacific Pinball Museum remains an escape every Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-9pm Stop by and play the most publicly playable (over 100 from all era's!) pinball in CA ☺️❤️⚪️

Come and see Ballyhoo in person in our “display only” section.

#pinball h/t @cpi.pinball.horse

We recently had the pleasure of bringing pinball to Alameda Point Collaborative's Summer Fest! 🙌🏻🤩 We were happy to partner with another great nonprofit organization dedicated to supportive housing, and the event helped us make sure we fulfill our mission to bring Pinball from all eras to everyone 🙏🏻⚪️

Our Dolly Launch Party Womens Pinball Tournament and costume contest wrapped late Sunday afternoon!😍 Stay tuned for future Women's tournaments, we'll see you playing the most publicly available pinballs in California (over 100!) soon 🥰⚪️

I asked a pinball streamer if they could please record a gamesounds-only video of Lady Robin Hood (1948, Gottlieb) and oh boy do I have some good news for all of you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt_m...

This Sunday August 10th Little Flippers of Northern CA unite for an IFPA sanctioned tournament @ The Flipper Room in Concord! 🤩🙌🏻 Doors open @ 11am & play starts @ 12pm. Kids ages 5-12 will play a friendly tournament, & games will be set aside for siblings. $10 entry with games set to FREE play. ☺️

We're celebrating National Pinball Day (Today Aug 1st) by extending our special 2 for $22 discount to all patrons, bring a friend for free! National Pinball Day coincides with pinball hero Roger Sharpes birthday - learn more about Roger's contribution to pinball here: thempi.org/latest-stori...

Our next Little Flippers class is coming up this Saturday Aug 2nd from 11:30am -12:30pm! Learn Pinball skills here at the nonprofit PPM! No experience necessary - Open to kids ages 5-12yrs, guardians must stay onsite for the duration of the class. FREE with regular $12 admission for your child! 🥰⚪️

A couple months ago, I brought a mic to the @pacificpinball.bsky.social with a mission: Find out why pinball machines sound ... like pinball machines. And today, I'm on Twenty Thousand Hertz!!!!!! www.20k.org/episodes/sou...

We had so much fun at our Polybius Pinball event! 🙌🏻🤩 We're thankful to local sponsors Rocket Reuse, The Flipper Room , The Pinball Pirate & Alameda Sports Cards & Comics for their support, the volunteers and event leader Scott W. for the concept, materials and helming. Stay tuned for more events!

Summer Reading meets Pinball this coming Sunday July 27th 3-5pm at the PPM! The Legend of Polybius puts young readers in the game using pinball & literacy skills. Open to kids ages 2-17. Cost is $12 & includes all day admission to the museum & a goodie bag! We are very thankful to our sponsors 🙏🏻

If you're California Extreme this weekend, dont miss the Pacific Pinball Museum's lineup of classic EM's (and the incredibly rare 1982 Williams "Varkon" we are fundraising for) If you cant make it to the show, you can always enjoy the 100+(!) pins at our main museum in Alameda Tues-Sun 11am-9pm 🙏🏻🥰⚪️

FYI: Varkon has (temporarily) left the building! It will be playable in our space at the California Extreme classic arcade show in Santa Clara this weekend. We look forward to seeing you there.