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    PGJ 2012 PINBALL CALENDAR--HOT OFF THE PRESSES! --$12 This 2012 calendar is also issue #149 of the PinGame Journal and was sent to all current subscribers. It is, however, currently available to all pinball fans for a mere $12 (in the USA) ($14.95 cover price). For 2012 we celebrate the pinball backglass with 13 colorfull examples. (Jan 2012-Jan 2013). Our cover pinup was created by former Capcom pinball artist Stan Fukuoka especially for this issue. Also featured are many of the major pinball events of 2012 worldwide. Your pinball year won't be complete without this calendar! SHIPPING & HANDLING INCLUDED

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    2012 Mr. Pinball Pinball List and Price Guide -- The 2012 edition is NOW IN STOCK!!! This edition has all the features pinball collectors have come to know and love from Mr. Pinball. All information has been updated including manufacturer profiles, production figures, market values and game lists. There's also a cross reference for games sharing layouts! Mr. Pinball 2012 includes information on bingo and pitch n' bat machines as well as ball and puck bowlers and rifle galleries. -- INCLUDES SHIPPING and HANDLING! (see details in ORDER INFO) Pay by PayPal using buttons or see ORDER INFO below.

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    SPECIAL WHEN LIT (Pinball Documentary) -- Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of a lost pop icon - pinball. This American invention made more money than Hollywood through the 50s and 60s. Its success swept the world making it the epitome of 'cool'. Today pinball is all but forgotten. This is the definitive story of the rise and fall of pinball as told by the fans, collectors, designers and champion players from across the globe. A game, a sport, a lifestyle - pinball takes this eclectic bunch of self-confessed 'pinheads' back to their youth as they open up passionately to reveal the attractions of the "world's funnest toy."-- INCLUDES SHIPPING and HANDLING! (see details in ORDER INFO) Pay by PayPal using buttons or see ORDER INFO below.

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    Pinball 101 Instructional DVD This highly anticipated DVD actually TEACHES you to play pinball. Produced by some of the best pinball players in the world, this DVD contains a wealth of information and instruction presented in a professional, interesting and entertaining way. Pay by PayPal using buttons or see ORDER INFO below. SHIPPING & HANDLING INCLUDED

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    Pingame Journal T-Shirt IS BACK ...and this time in blazing royal blue! This shirt embodies the usual high quality garment for which the PGJ is known and is made from royal blue, heavy weight 100% cotton with the logo on the back and front pocket area in "Silverball Silver" with blue accents. Adult sizes XL-S. INCLUDES SHIPPING and HANDLING! (see details in ORDER INFO) Pay by PayPal using button or see ORDER INFO below.

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    Pins and Vids Episodes I, II and III. You may ask, "Hey, I've never heard of Pins and Vids before, what is it?" Well, it's a series of DVDs on ... pins and vids! In Episodes I and II, Al and Paul show clips of well known people in the collecting communities for both Arcade Video Games and Pinball Machines. There are also some hijinks and extra bonus items! Episode III is a lot different from the previous episodes in that it's actually a documentary on the history of both the Capcom and Pinball Manufacturing version of the game Big Bang Bar. It covers the 12 year history from concept to delivery and there is also an extended edition of Chris Bucci's review video along with a bonus commentary track. -- All proceeds go to support the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. Price INCLUDES SHIPPING and HANDLING! (see details in ORDER INFO) Get a copy by clicking a PayPal button or see ORDER INFO below for other payment methods and details.

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    NEW LOWER PRICE!! TILT The Battle To Save Pinball from Greg Maletic looks at the controversial Williams Pinball 2000 project: It's hopes and dreams and ultimate demise. This two DVD set includes hours of extras including: 3 hours of extra interview footage, Director’s commentary track, 7-minute video tour of the Williams pinball factory, videos of three unreleased machines: Pinball Circus, Wizard Blocks and Playboy, 90-minute video of George Gomez’s legendary Pinball 2000 talk, Audio panel discussion with Pinball 2000 team members, The Williams Pinball 2000 launch video. -- $19.95 INCLUDES SHIPPING IN THE USA!(OUTSIDE US, please inquire) Pay by PayPal using button or see ORDER INFO below.

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    Pinball Machine Care and Maintenance. This comprehensive 108 page manual by Bear Kameroff is packed with detailed information and helpful tips. The simple to follow instructions are thoroughly illustrated and indexed. You don't need to read schematics, wiring diagrams or be an electronics expert to understand everything in this clearly written manual. For both electromechanical & solid state machines. PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING and HANDLING. (see details in ORDER INFO) Pay by PayPal using buttons or see ORDER INFO below.

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    Pinball Compendium EM era: NEW and now available! Author Michael Shalhoub has produced this latest in the Compendium series covering electromechanical games. This volume covers games from the 30s to the 70s in the way only Mr. Shalhoub can. There are many stories behind the games from the designers and others who were there! There are 280 hard bound pages in this book with hundreds of photos and a price guide. Order with the paypal button here or see ORDER INFO below. Price includes US shipping, (OUTSIDE USA, please inquire).
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    Pinball Perspectives: Author Marco Rossignoli has written a number of pinball books including Pinball Memories, The Complete Pinball Book and Pinball Snapshots with Graham McGuiness. In this book, which retails for $59.95, Rossignoli and McGuiness cover games from “Ace High to World’s Series.” There are 50 games in all, both vintage and contemporary. They are each given its own chapter outlining the game’s special features, historical background, game rules, graphic images, collectibility and current value. There are over 400 full color photos here showing all the detail of games like Carnival Queen, Cover Girl, Universe, Sky Jump, Monster Bash, Ice Revue, Cover Girl, Twilight Zone and Stellar Wars. Order with the paypal button here or see ORDER INFO below. Price includes US shipping, (OUTSIDE USA, please inquire).
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    The PGJ DVD Set consists of FIVE DVDs --Approximately EIGHT HOURS of video. Three are dedicated to Williams promotional segments. Included are many extras including out takes, movie trailers, “live” presentations from industry shows and a tribute to WMS VP of sales, Joe Dillion. The other two disks contain a collection of pinball related video from television, movies and other media. Individual DVDs are available. PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING and HANDLING. (see details in ORDER INFO) Pay by PayPal with appropriate button or see ORDER INFO and detailed content list below.

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    Detailed Content of PGJ DVDs: (Numbers at end of selections below are running times--hour:minute:second--numbers after last selection of each DVD indicate the length of that disc PLUS the time of the last selection)

    MEDIA CLIPS DVD--VOLUME ONE:
    Naked Gun (0:00:41)
    Friends (0:03:12)
    Detroit Pistons stadium intro video (0:04:46)
    Grand Theft Auto-Vice City (0:05:29)
    Love & War (0:09:16)
    Principal Financial Group commercial (0:10:20)
    Seven Days (0:10:50)
    Getting By (0:11:30)
    Sharpshooters Pinball Tournament (0:15:08)
    Music video cartoon (0:20:33)
    On Q (0:22:37) (Stern Pinball factory –1980)
    Pinball playing record – news feature (0:25:24)
    Collection—Joe Spinelli – news feature (0:26:25)
    TV/Movie quick takes (0:29:29)

  • Three Stooges
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • Perry Mason
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Bugs Bunny baseball
    In The Line of Duty: The FBI Murders (0:33:00)
    Insight: King of the Penny Arcade (0:34:32)
    TV/Movie quick takes (0:37:46)
  • W.C. and Me
  • W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings
  • Apprentiship of Duddy Kravitz
  • Hard Times
    Rover automobile commercial--BBC (0:38:54)
    Andy Richter Controls The Universe (0:39:52)
    Michigan pinball tourney--news feature (0:40:38)
    Collection--Marc Fellman & Wade Wright--news feature (0:43:08)
    Collection--Dave De Safey--news feature (0:44:25)
    Collection--HGTV segment (0:46:50)
    Northern Exposure (0:47:54)
    Star Trek--original series (0:48:48)
    Star Trek: Voyager (0:50:02)
    Chips Ahoy commercial (0:51:39)
    Collection – Ken Shaffer – HGTV (0:52:09)
    Tales From The Crypt (0:54:00)
    Playboy Mansion tour – A&E (0:56:04)
    The Popular Mechanics Show (0:57:30) (Steve Kordek, Roger Sharpe, Michael Gottlieb, Steve Ritchie—No Fear)
    PAPA II news feature segments (1:05:06) (Featuring champ, Rick Stetta, Steve Epstein, Roger Sharpe, Lyman Sheats)
    Omni: The New Frontier – Suzanne Ciani, voice of Xenon (1:19:02)
    The China Syndrome (1:27:18)
    The Magnificent Marble Machine (1:28:27)
    Risco (1:33:55) (German quiz show—subjects based on contestant’s interests—this segment features
    Austrian pin enthusiast, Jost Berger)
    Then & Now (late 70s) (1:44:24)
    Music video “Pinball Cha Cha” by Yello (1:47:43)
    Collection – Jim Schelberg – news feature (1:51:17)

    MEDIA CLIPS DVD--VOLUME TWO:
    Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ channel 7 station ID
    Happy Days collection (0:00:49)
    CNN—Science & Technology Today (0:13:34) (Pinball Expo 1990, Roger Sharpe, Steve Kordek, Williams factory)
    Arcade Attack – BBC 1982 (0:16:24)
    Eureka! – BBC "how-it-was-made" show, pinball segment (0:37:26) (show regulars featured as Harry Williams, Ray Moloney, and David Gottlieb)
    Entertainment Tonight – 3/1991 (0:45:25) (Elvira, Roger Sharpe, Steve Engel, George Pins collection, Sara Jessica Parker)
    Good Morning America – Elvira (0:49:41)
    ABC News report – 1990 – (0:49:58) (Roger Sharpe, Broadway Arcade—Steve Epstein, Williams factory)
    Pinball Wizards Convention (0:52:29)
    Tommy on Broadway segments (0:54:08)
    Clarinex commercial (1:01:35)
    Special Edition (1:02:05)
    Twilight Zone – 2003 (1:05:30)
    The Simpsons (1:06:20)
    60 Minutes (1:06:45)
    Robert Capa biography (1:18:33)
    Danger Man (1:20:02) (released in the US as Secret Agent)
    Danger Mouse (1:22:23)
    Weird Homes (1:23:57)
    Trading Spaces (1:25:42)
    Invention – Smithsonian 1995 (1:27:16) (Steve Kordek, Michael Gottlieb, Tim Arnold—collection, Williams factory and design areas, Steve Ritchie, Lyman “Lamone” Sheats)
    WB Cartoon Show promo (1:33:16)
    Chicago Tonight 5/03 (1:33:38) (Gary Stern and the Stern Pinball factory, Steve Kordek)
    Everwood (1:42:22)
    Coke commercial (1:44:01)
    The George Carlin Show (1:44:31)

    Special thanks to:
    Bruce Clark--Coke, Everwood, Happy Days, George Carlin Show, Playboy Mansion, Trading Spaces, Danger Man, Simpsons, Twilight Zone, Pinball Wizards Convention, Getting By, Bugs Bunny, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock, Insight, In the Line of Duty, Invention.
    Russ Jensen--On Q, Sharpshooters, Special Edition, 60 Minutes, pinball record breaker, Hard Times, W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings, W.C. and Me, Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Then & Now, Fellman-Wright collection, Entertainment Tonight.
    Gary Flower--Arcade Attack, Rover automoble commercial, Eureka!
    Brian Dominy--Magnificent Marble Machine PDTV—Omni: The New Frontier Xenon segment
    Steve Epstein--PAPA II segments
    Vince Giovannone--Chicago Tonight
    Jonathan Schelberg--Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
    Jost Berger--Risco
    (Please forgive any omissions to this list—and please let us know if you find any!)

    Promo DVD Volume ONE
    PGJ Introduction Video by Clay Harrell
    SEE VIDEO INTRODUCTION! -- for DSL or Cable Modem
    Williams Distributor Night introduction (0:03:27)
    Addams Family (0:06:10)
    Attack From Mars (0:16:17)
    Black Rose (0:19:07)
    Cirqus Voltair (0:26:15)
    Corvette (0:29:05) (with coverage of the opening of the Corvette Museum)
    Creature From The Black Lagoon (0:40:00)
    Demolition Man (0:45:43)
    Dirty Harry (0:50:31)
    Doctor Who (0:56:30)
    Dracula (1:03:28)
    Fish Tales (1:08:57)
    Flintstones (1:18:17)
    Getaway (1:25:45)
    Gilligan's Island (1:32:49)

    Promo DVD Volume TWO:
    Hurricane (0:00:34)
    Indiana Jones (0:08:43)
    Indianapolis 500 (0:18:41)
    JackBot (0:24:35)
    Johnny Mnemonic (0:30:14)
    Judge Dredd (0:34:45)
    Medieval Madness (0:44:15)
    Midway Television Network (0:48:03)

  • Monster Bash
  • 976-PINBALL (0:52:51)
  • NBA Fastbreak video (0:53:11)
  • NBA Fastbreak live (0:55:52)
    No Fear (1:00:13)
    No Good Gophers (1:04:42) (Distributor Night ASI 1998)
    Party Zone (1:10:02)
    Popeye (1:19:13)
    Revenge From Mars (1:28:36) (Pinball 2000 introduction)
    Road Show (1:38:02)
    Safe Cracker (1:43:30)

    Promo DVD Volume THREE
    Scared Stiff
    Shadow (0:04:37)
    Star Trek: The Next Generation (0:13:42)
    Star Wars Episode 1 (0:20:15) (with Media clips and movie trailers)
    Terminator 2 (0:26:46) (with T2 movie trailers)
    Theatre of Magic (0:42:09)
    Twilight Zone (0:47:35)
    Whitewater (0:55:04)
    World Cup Soccer (1:01:03) (with extensive out-takes and WCS stock footage)
    Tribute To Joe Dillon (1:14:35) (presented at the 1998 ASI Williams Distributor Night)

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