Pacific Pinball Museum
@pacificpinball.bsky.social
Over 100 free-play games from the 1940’s to the present day, along with displays of rare bagatelles & early pinballs. We are a nonprofit 501c3 interactive pinball museum and are located in Alameda, CA (San Francisco Bay Area). PacificPinball.org
Love at the Pacific Pinball Museum! 🙌🏻😍 💍 Congrats to the happy couple @ashabadash & @garettwilton and thank you to @garnetteransonephotography for sharing the great pics! We hope to see you making special memories and playing our 100+ games from the 1940's to the 2020's soon! 🙏🏻☺️❤️⚪️
This Sunday! Here’s a partial game sale list. Bally: Beat the Clock, Monte Carlo, Sky Diver, Kiss. Chicago Coin: Olympics. Gottlieb: Baseball, King of Diamonds, Spin a Card, Skyjump, Far Out, Super Soccer. Stern: Stingray. Williams: Clubhouse, Jumpin Jacks, Firepower, Toledo.
Pacific Pinball Museum@pacificpinball.bsky.social · last wk.Our summer surplus sale is this Sunday at the legendary Pacific Pinball Annex on Alameda Point! 🙌🏻🤩 We'll have working and project pinballs, dozens of amazing frame-able vintage backglasses, pachinko games, EM Arcade games, beautiful playfields and more. ❤️⚪️
Our summer surplus sale is this Sunday at the legendary Pacific Pinball Annex on Alameda Point! 🙌🏻🤩 We'll have working and project pinballs, dozens of amazing frame-able vintage backglasses, pachinko games, EM Arcade games, beautiful playfields and more. ❤️⚪️
We're celebrating National Pinball Day (Saturday Aug 1st) by extending our special (2) for $22 discount to all patrons, bring a friend for free! NPD coincides with pinball hero Roger Sharpe's birthday - learn more about his amazing contribution to pinball here: www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa...
Join Little Flippers instructor and certified Teacher Scott Weigum at the nonprofit PPM for a fun filled event this Sunday 3-5pm for kids ages 5-15yrs old! 🙌🏻🤩 A mixture of pinball and summer literacy, come tell a unique story with pinball and fun ☺️. Prizes will be awarded for all participants! 🏆
Our SF Pinball exhibit is now live in the city! 🙌🏻🤩🌉 Visit our friends at the SF Historical Society to see our special exhibit w/rare San Francisco themed games - an open house "City Lab for kids" is this coming Saturday the 18th from 11am - 3pm! More event info here: givebutter.com/CityLabforKi...
TIP: If the primary reason for your visit is to play a specific game, please give us a call before you come. We can let you know if it’s out of order, especially if you’re traveling. Please note that there’s *always* a chance the game breaks after you’ve called. We do our best to keep things going
The Pacific Pinball Museum is proud to have been named one of the Bay Area's top museums in a review run poll by the SF Chronicle! 🙌🏻🤩 In fact, THREE(!) Alameda museums made the top ten cut with our good friends at the USS Hornet and CA Historical Radio Society placing as well. 🏝️💪🏻 See you soon! ☺️❤️⚪️
Come enjoy the great American pastime of pinball before, during and after the longest 4th of July Parade in the country here in Alameda, CA! 💪🏻🤩🇺🇸 The nonprofit Pacific Pinball Museum will be open Saturday with special hours! Make sure to wave at our PPM Truck Float as we come by, see you soon! 🎇🇺🇸☺️⚪️
The original "Lucky JuJu" sign is back! 🤩🙌🏻 (And being protected by the Terminator 🤖🦾😤) The "Lucky JuJu" would evolve into the nonprofit PPM, and has grown from 12 pins to a record setting 1,300+(!) pins with the help of our patrons and donors. Our 100+ pins from all eras await - see you soon!
Did you know you can make your own pinball machine art here at the PPM? 🙌🏻🤩 We have blank templates and colored pencils available, the only limit is your imagination! ☺️⚪️ Some of our recent staff favorites posted here, and more are viewable in our rear hallway gallery. See you soon!
Let the power of pinball help you in your pursuit of love. The PPM is there for you all the way from your first date to your marriage proposal!
Matt Walsh and Jeri Ellsworth are helping restore our 2 Micropin games that were donated to the PPM by Margaret Stewart, the inventor's (Bruce Stewart) wife. So lucky to have run into Matt at the Golden State Pinball Festival where we discovered our mutual admiration for this game. -Michael Schiess
Happy Father's Day Weekend PPM Fans! Our fathers & father figures are as cool as the Fonz himself! (Seen here on our 1977 Bally "Eight Ball") Treat dad to a day of fun with freeplay on 100+ pins from all eras & music from 3 jukeboxes. Admission allows UNLIMITED In's/Out's for local food 🙂
The World Cup tournaments are underway and there's no better way to celebrate than some play time on our "World Cup Soccer" (1994, Bally) pinball game! Affectionally called "Dog Soccer" by many pinfans to differentiate the game from the other soccer pins produced.
Some days you come into work and there’s just a rare working Micropin (1980, Micropin Corp.) at the front desk. This unit belong to the person who is going to help us get one of our two units up and running. Sorry, the game *is not* on display at the PPM.
Summer's here Pacific Pinball Fans! 🙌🏻🤩 Let the heat from Bally's classic 1972 "Fireball" melt you this June! 🔥 "Fireball" and over 100 other playable pins from the 1940's to the 2020's, jukeboxes and curated exhibits await here at the PPM every Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 9pm, see you soon!
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NEW GAMES! The summer refresh is here Pacific Pinball fans, with (6)! new pins rotated into the museum. 🙌🏻🤩 Play our 1951 Gottlieb "Niagara" 1957 Gottlieb "World Champ" 1958 Gottlieb "Rocket Ship" 1960 Williams "Golden Gloves" rare 1981 Stern "Split Second" and 2020 Jersey Jack "Guns N'Roses"! ☺️❤️⚪️
A great account that all of you should be following: @pinballflyers.bsky.social
One of the 100+ games available to play at the PPM.
Pinball Flyers@pinballflyers.bsky.social · 2mo agoHarlem Globetrotters On Tour (Bally, 1979)
Happy Memorial Day weekend Pacific Pinball fans! 🙌🏻🇺🇸 Hit the road in style and visit the PPM like the folks on our beautiful 1952 Gottlieb "Crossroads" woodrail pin, one of many rare woodrails playable in our History Room! Our 100+ pins from the 1940's to the 2020's are waiting, see you soon ☺️❤️⚪️
We had an amazing weekend at Golden State Pinball Festival! It's always wonderful to see so many of our members, league players and regular patrons at the show 🙌🏻🤩 The PPM stands ready with over 100 pinballs from the 1940's to the 2020's every Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 9pm! We'll see you soon! 🙏🏻❤️⚪️
We have an AMAZING weekend coming up in a few days at the @goldenstatepinfest.bsky.social in Lodi! 🙌🏻🤩❤️⚪️ If you can't make it out to Lodi this weekend, our main museum in Alameda's 100+ pins from all eras stands ready for your pinball needs every Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 9pm. See you soon! 🙏🏻☺️⚪️
We are sad to report that longtime PPM supporter & pinball aficionado Gordon Hasse has passed away at the age of 81. Gordon had donated over 200 pins to our nonprofit, most from the "Golden Age of Pinball” stretching from the late 1940's to the early 1960's. Our sympathies go out to his wife, Pat 🙏🏻
One of the rarest games playable in the PPM right now is Solar War (Atari - 1979). It’s a virtual pinball prototype and only 5 cabinets were made. It works by having a CRT screen on the bottom for the game play, and a reflection of a physical playfield mounted to the top. 1 of 2
PPM League Guru David Lee will be doing a Pinball Boot Camp tonight Wednesday, May 6 from 7-9pm! 🙌🏻🤩 Open to any skill level, with an emphasis on learning techniques to help improve play with instruction and hands-on practice and challenges to test new skills! Open to the public & league members! ☺️⚪️
May the 4th be with our Pacific Pinball fans! 🙌🏻 We hosted a visit from the 501st Saturday, and fun photo-ops were had by all ☺️ Stop by for unlimited free play on our two Star Wars pins & over 100(!) other pins from the 1940's to the 2020's, with unlimited in/out privileges for the entire day! 😍❤️⚪️
