Also on the backboxes are cards showing the highest scores achieved so far along with the players' initials, giving you something to aim for.
Meanwhile, information about each indivual game is shown on a card mounted on top of the backbox.
The history of pinball is illustrated on large posters on the surrounding walls. Naturally there were one or two out of action and a couple needing attention, but with so much choice, a faulty game was never much of a problem.
The condition of the machines seemed very good.
ASBURY PARK PINBALL ARCADE UPGRADE
If you decide to stay longer, you can upgrade the one hour ticket to the full day one for the $10 difference.
ASBURY PARK PINBALL ARCADE FREE
The machines are all set on free play, so once the entry fee has been paid you can play to your heart's content (or your hour is up). $10 gets you an hour of all-you-can-eat games-playing, but your museum visit shouldn't be rushed, so the all-day $20 ticket is the better deal. The pricing scheme is the same as before. Machines are broadly grouped according to their age, with overhead signs showing the decade they were made. Curiously, the older, simpler games were just as popular as the flashier DMD models. It was encouraging to see so many younger players - the next generation of players - sampling the whole range of different pinballs types. We were visiting on a Saturday and several parties were being held at the Museum for both young and older groups. The new home of the Museum appears far larger, and best of all, almost every square inch is crammed with pinballs and other amusement machines. The old location, while never cramped, made the most of the space available by packing in the games. The new home for the Silverball Museum Arcade The other end of the boardwalk in the shadow of.Īnd there, in the heart of the action was the new Silverball Museum Arcade. The sun was beating down, the temperatures were in the 70s and the boardwalk was teeming with visitors making the most of the unseasonable weather. Nothing could have been more different this year. It was a dull, wet, miserable day and the waterfront was deserted. He hoped to secure a new location on the boardwalk at Asbury Park, and that's exactly what he did, opening the new Silverball Museum Arcade to the public in February of this year.Īfter last year's visit, we popped along to the boardwalk to see what it was like. Rob Ilvento's collection of 94 pinballs and 12 amusement machines was an impressive sight, but as we reported at the time, Rob had plans to expand the collection even further and the basement location just didn't allow for any more machines. Location: Silverball Museum Arcade, 1000 Ocean Ave, Asbury Park, NJ 07712, USA.Īlmost one year to the day, we paid our first visit to the Silverball Museum on Cookman Avenue in downtown Asbury Park. Date: October 2010, updated February 2011
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