Mahalo Daily - The History Of Pinball

Veronica Belmont from Mahalo Daily teaches us a little bit about the history of Pinball and interviews Michael from Lucky Ju Ju in Alameda California.

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  [[Veronica] Hey Everyone, I'm Veronica Belmont from Mahalo Daily and we are here at Lucky Ju Ju in Alameda California to learn about the wonderful history of pinball

  [Veronica] So tell me about ...Lucky Ju Ju

  [Michael] Well it started out as a small place with electro-mechanical pinball machines for people to play started out as a donation and then eventually it's growing into a museum.

  [Veronica] So how many pinball machines do you have in this location?

  [Michael] Oh here we've got about 34 machines we have a total of over 300 machines and what we do is fix them up and rotate them in

  [Veronica] Can you show me some of your favorite machines you have got around here?

  [Michael] Oh gosh, they're all my favorites This right here is a great machine that's had a book written about it called 'The Wizardry of Pinball" It's just a classic machine that was designed so well that they made about 4 or 5 different versions of it These are called 'electro- mechanical' because there's no electronics in them at all

  [Veronica] Oh so how do they run?

  [Michael] This is a prototype for the clear pinball machine that is designed to show everbody, how pinball machines work. This whole thing is clear so you can see through it and so we re-machined this whole plastic playing field and in here is the brain board that I was talking about it's kind of the 'smarts' behind the machine they're really crude computers that just have like I said a fixed program. They're pretty amazing for what they are and everything's just done with swtitches and there's not a single electronic component in it.