Star Wars, Star Trek, The Aadams Family, Pink Panther, etc are just some names that jump out at you. He turned on a bunch of machines and we jumped from machine to machine for the hour we were there. The owner showed us the floor and asked our preferences for games. You can spend your time as you please and no one bothers you. What you will get is unlimited plays on any game you want. It didn't bother me nor my son but if you want the frills of an arcade then you won't get them. It is basically a warehouse with a lot of pinball machines. Now, the one thing I will say is that you should not go in expecting this to be a hip and modern facility arcade. The lower level is for sales of those machines. They have a skee ball game, a couple air hockey tables and some old mechanical games too. There are a couple arcade video games, including Ms. The upstairs level is covered with any kind of pinball game you can think of, from new and digital to old school mechanical. We had to travel downstairs to run the card which delayed things but lesson learned. You can pay with card, but they tax you on the sale. There was no one around but a nice young lady came to greet us and check us in. My son and I entered at the top entrance above the horseshoe curve. These are unlimited plays so that's the best time to go if you in for a marathon session. Saturday from 12-5PM you can play for just $12. They have discount rates on the weekends also: Friday night from 7-10PM you can play for just $10. This is really not a bad rate given what you could easily spend at an arcade in that amount of time. I looked up the website and found the rates and such: $10/hour admission M-F. I finally found my reason to go in and see what it was all about.
I have an 8 year old who likes pinball games and arcade style activities. I have driven by thousands of times and have always wondered what was really inside. So I live in the town where PP is located.
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I may spend every future vacation in Pittsburgh! And, if you are in Pittsburgh in the Summertime, check out the professional ultimate frisbee league, the Pittsburgh Thunderbirds. Consequently, growing up I only played pinball when a family vaction took us out of NYC which was not often.
I was born in NYC in 1951 where Pinball Machines were illegal from the 1940s until 1976. This was the BEST tourist attraction I have ever been to. I have been to India, Egypt, Europe multiple times. More like an indoor arcade!!! But with old pinball machines of all sorts. Then Ed waived the admission fee for me and I went upstairs to the "museum". The owner, Dan, was away but Ed was most welcoming and we talked for about 15 minutes, maybe more. The place was crammed with Pinball Machines, Slot Machines and other goodies in a state of repair or reconstruction. Lucky for me, I did not realize where the museum entrance was and instead entered at the museum's lower level which is actually where the heart and soul of the museum is. I figured "what the heck" and drove over, unfortunately late in the afternoon and close to the museum's closing. Just by chance I discovered that Pittsburgh had a Pinball Museum! This apparently is a closely kept secret. I did some popular stuff such as Randyland (very odd), Warhol Museum (very impressive), Duquesne Incline and Mazeroski's Wall. I took it slowly both ways and on the way back stopped in Pittsburgh. I drove from NYC to Evanston, Illinois and back to watch my daughter graduate from her Masters' Program.
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