We ended up staying at the pinball museum for about 90 minutes. Apparently only one company in the US makes pinball machines nowadays and this is one of theirs. You can go from the 1932 version of pinball to Mustang, Roanoke Pinball Museum’s newest machine which was built in 2014. In my defense, I did score 2,725 when I played later on 😉 Apparently my Street Fighter II “abilities” carried over for this video as I got such a low score.
Shae took this video of me playing Skill Score so you can see how it works.
Skill Score pinball machine from 1932 Skill Score pinball machine rules It’s almost more like Plinko than the pinball machines we’re used to nowadays. It’s called Skill Score, it was built in 1932 and uses wooden balls. One of my other favorites was Roanoke Pinball Museum’s earliest pinball machine. Indiana Jones pinball machine, complete with gun trigger ball launcher From Old… Not only was it fun to play, but instead of pulling a lever to launch the ball, you pull a gun trigger. One of my favorite machines there was Indiana Jones, also built in the 90s. Apparently playing as Blanka and electrifying your body still doesn’t win you any contests 25 years on. I tried playing the Street Fighter II arcade game and sucked as badly as I did back in the early 90s when I used to play it. In addition to all these pinball machines, they had a couple of arcade games. In fact, they had both a Street Fighter II arcade game and pinball machine. Here are just some of the pinball machines you can play: A nice feature is that they have the machines in chronological order, so you can see the gradual changes. It’s fascinating to walk round the museum and see the evolution of pinball machines over the years. The Roanoke Pinball Museum has machines dating from 1932 up to 2014. That worked out well as it meant we could get a load of photos without looking like creepers. Seeing as we arrived right when they opened, we were the only people in the museum.
#Carolina arcade museum photos free#
We were also free to stay and play for as long as we liked. He let us know we could play on any of the pinball machines, unless there was a sign that advised otherwise. We had the Groupon app open on Shae’s phone as we arrived, so the staff member at the front desk marked it as redeemed. The Pinball Museum is on your left at the top of the stairs.
Center In The Square entranceĪfter stocking up on Curly Wurlys at The Candy Store on the first floor, we walked up the stairs to the second floor. The Roanoke Pinball Museum is found on the second floor of Center In The Square in downtown Roanoke. That way, Truffles could stay in the room at the hotel seeing as the museum’s not pet-friendly. The Roanoke Pinball Museum doesn’t open until 1pm on Sundays, so we arranged a late checkout (4pm) from the Sheraton Roanoke hotel. We figured it’d be really busy as a result, so decided to visit the following day instead. We used some additional methods to save a total of 63% on the regular ticket costs.Īpparently the museum transformed itself into Azkaban for the Harry Potter Festival on the Saturday. Figuring it’d just be a small building with some old pinball machines, I got excited when I saw that they have over 50 machines you can play.Īfter checking with Shae if it was something she’d want to do too (she gave an emphatic yes), I bought our tickets through Groupon. I clicked through to the museum’s own website to find out a bit more about it. Groupon had two adult tickets for $14 which would normally cost $24.80. I was mainly looking for a good deal at restaurants, but something different caught my eye – a listing for the Roanoke Pinball Museum. Once we’d booked our tickets for the Roanoke Harry Potter Festival, I took a look on Groupon for other things to do in Roanoke VA.
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