Pinball Museum

The Australian Pinball Museum Visits The Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum

March 20, 2024 By ausretrogamer

Prior to exhibiting at the 2024 Texas Pinball Festival (TPF), the Australian Pinball Museum visited the Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum in Hillsboro (Oregon, USA), and we are so glad that they did!

Obviously this place is now on our bucket-list of places to check out when we next visit the ole US of A. For more drool-worthy images from their recent visit at the Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum, check out the Australian Pinball Museum post right here and also their walkthrough video!

source: Facebook post via Australian Pinball Museum

What Ever Happened to the Pinball Museum in Queensland?

June 15, 2021 By ausretrogamer

As the title asks, we are still scratching our heads in what happened to the Pinball Museum that was being built and setup on the Gold Coast in Queensland?

The last we saw or heard about it was this video uploaded by our good friend and pinball expert, Norbert Snicer from Pinball HQ a couple of years ago. If anyone knows more about the fate of this pinball museum, please get in touch via our contact page.

The following commentary about the Pinball Museum is from Pinball HQ:

“Alan Tate, the man behind the most ambitious pinball project ever undertaken in Australia. An absolute privilege for Pinball HQ to be invited to check out the progress of this mammoth project built from scratch on a private property at the scenic Mount Tamborine in South East Queensland, an hour drive from Gold Coast. What makes the project even more remarkable is that everything you see, the museum building, the shop, the storage shed, every inch of it was made and built by Alan Tate with the help of Lee Feldwick who also restores the pinball machines with immaculate perfection. It may take a decade (and we hope much sooner) for the door to open for public but it will be worth the wait! Some of the rarest and most unique machines (and not only pinballs ) are among the over 2000 machines the Pinball Museum is said to own.”

source: Pinball HQ

The New Pinball Hall Of Fame in Vegas

April 22, 2021 By ausretrogamer

We have fond memories of our times in Vegas. Travelling to the US was never complete for us without popping into the desert city to catch a show, fly over Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon, and of course, hit the Pinball Hall of Fame (PHoF).

Since our last visit at the Pinball Hall of Fame in 2015, a lot has changed! Pinball Hall of Fame’s Tim Arnold bought a large parcel of land on the strip (4925 Las Vegas Blvd South), which allowed for a huge building to be erected (25,000 square feet to be exact!) to house the many many pinball and arcade machines that the PHoF had in their old location (on and in storage. When we stumbled upon Debbie Courson Smith’s Facebook post about her visit to the new Pinball Hall of Fame, we were quite chuffed to see how far along Tim and his crew had come since we saw an empty lot that long ago.

According to Debbie, this was a soft launch, with the grand opening scheduled for July. Once air travel is safe, we know where we are going again 😉

PS: If you want to see how the old Pinball Hall Of Fame looked like, check out this post.