The Pinball Hall of Fame allows older visitors yearning for nostalgia to experience their childhood all over again.
The museum is run by Tim Arnold, a veteran arcade operator who ran Pinball Petes in. Over the years, Tim has managed to give millions of dollars away, receiving recognition from the State of Nevada for his selflessness. The museum is a project of the Las Vegas Pinball Collectors Club. The Pinball Hall of Fame’s games range from 25 cents to 50 cents per play with excess revenues donated to the Salvation Army. By September 1976, Tim opened Pinball Petes in Lansing (and later in Ann Arbor), as a large pinball arcade. He continues to do so today through the Pinball Hall of Fame.
Arnold plans to double the halls size and selection by moving. The establishment of Triple Thick as the 'pinball backglass standard' forced the sales of CYG to nearly nothing, and Pinball Resource no longer sells it to my knowledge. Tim Arnold owns and operates the Pinball Hall of Fame, a museum of over 200 pinball games that patrons can still actually play. But after one use, I dont know anyone that doesnt like it. Pinball (and arcades in general, I think) is his baby, its how he made money when he was younger, and I feel like at this point its all he knows. It took Tim Arnold and some others a while to accept the new Triple Thick product. Tim moved to Las Vegas and began sending generous donations to the Salvation Army. Tim Arnold, 54, is a study in concentration as he hunches over his favorite pinball game, a 1976 Jack’s Open, inside his Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nev. I get that pinball and gaming in general isnt exactly known for its social butterflies and neurotypical people, but this dudes got some problems upstairs, Im not kidding. Run by veteran arcade operator Tim Arnold who made it big during the Pacman era in the 1970s and ’80s when he opened “Pinball Pete’s” in Lansing, Michigan with his brother, Tim’s philanthropic side led him to thoroughly research organizations to donate to when he sold his part of the business in 1990. Images Courtesy of Representative for Filming Location Listing
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