How to Operate a Pinball Museum - Past Times Arcade - A Day in the Life

Slugfest is my favorite pinball game

Hope all of you enjoyed the premiere!! What a great place for you to visit and see how the Past Times is the most unique museum in the world!

Thanks arcade Hollywood great video.

What a cool place. I need to visit one day!

Great video! I went to Past Times Arcade last summer and most of the games were in working order. Much appreciation to the staff for their hard work. I can’t wait to go back.

Great vid! Mind blowing with all the unknown (to me) storage area on top of the main game area! I've been to Past Times, looking fwd to next visit.

Thanks for the nice video Hollywood

From the very first walkthrough of this place I knew that Rob Berk was really taken care of his place but this completely blew me away that he's completely absolutely At a next level of any Museum on the planet truly amazing Arcade Hollywood this is your best video ever !! Makes me want to move to Ohio and be a pinball Tech for them !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow what an amazing collection of games.. looks like i need to take a vacation to Girard!

The barcode system for reporting repairs is genius!

Nicely done Jeff. While I couldn't help but notice the lack of Jack*Bot footage, I learned a lot about their operation.

Can't wait to see the next video and you in Chicago again for Expo 40. Todd has seats for us at the breakfast table.

Kudos.

Great video, thanks for sharing! It's super interesting seeing the inner workings of such a large operation. The history inside that building is incredible!

Loved the new storage area. Hope they get that Ataxx out on the floor!

I'd love to work there. What is the power situation like? How man games per breaker? How many breakers total? What breaker sizes?

2 of my favorite people in this video

im jealous of how organize your parts section is lol

This was a great video! What happened to Flash?

Such passion. So impressive. Respect! 😎

We are heading to Ohio this summer to visit family and friends. Definitely coming by your Museum to spend some time. Thanks for sharing and Greetings from Ontario

This is terrific. Thanks!

Awesome

Once again, another great overview video of one of my favorite new arcades!

Super cool! I'll have to visit if I'm ever out that way!

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Wish the PHOF here in Vegas would adopt this maintenance regimen.

Awesome video!!!!

One of the best videos I've watched in a while. I love the care they put into this place and their organizational skills are outstanding. I recently visited the Pinball Museum in Las Vegas (super fun) and they could take some organization tips from them! Thanks again!

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent video. 👍👍 Excellent, super professional arcade/museum. Thank you Rob and Past Times staff for saving these games and making them available in a clean, organized and fun location. 😊

Oh I would love it there.
I want to get something going like this here in Portland, OR and I have been slowly building my collection of pinball machines.
I only have about 10 so far but they are all great titles even have a Big Game from 1935 that I am working on getting restored.
I like to buy broken games on purpose to get em back up and running and all of the ones I have worked on so far I have done just that.
Only pin I bought completely working is a Police Force which I have been wanting for the past 20+ years and finally have it and only had it for about 6 months now.

Sure wish this place was closer to home...What an awesome collection and business Rob has!! 👍🙏

Would love to visit this location. Have always been into pinball and we even owned a Space Odyssey back in the 80s.

Wow, thanks for this video. It is well produced and edited, very slick and professional. The museum itself is mind blowing. What an incredible collection of games. The care with which they're maintained is a credit to the owner. Hard to believe there's that much money in the world, that one guy can afford to have all those machines and such a well run facility. For pinball enthusiasts, it's a dream come true.

Stock inventory control at its best. The organizational skills are phenomenal. This place is astronomical! I can’t wait to visit and see/play all these wonderful machines. Thank you for the internal tour and explaining in detail the operation of this amazing place.

Quality is way down from what it once was. The sweaty guys on cocaine building these in the 70’s put our modern craftsman to shame.

Paradise! You would need to drag me out😅

Love the Dracula pinball game. Would love to own one someday.

Outstanding Work

In 30 years they won't be worth anything and will become just scrap

I live in California 😢

I've been to Columbus Ohio 2 times for heavy metal festivals. There are 2 regrets I have about those trips. First is not visiting the rock and roll hall of fame and the second is missing out on this fabulous arcade.

Great video 😊

Oooh that background music is too much to listen to for the entire length of the presentation 🥴

Lost in pinball 😂

Its overwhelming. :o Incredible operation they have going on there. They have set the bar high for other pinball arcades.

Have multiple millions of dollars? That's most definitely the answer to "how to operate a pinball museum..."

I grew up in Newton Falls and lived there, up until 1983 when I went in the navy. I wish I still lived there, because I'd come over play pinball all the time. I used to play pinball at Nelson Ledges, remember what an arcade THAT was!!! Today I live in Dallas Texas and own 5 games, a Pleasure Isle, a Target Pool, a Bank A Ball, a Hot Line and a 4 Square. I would have more games, but I ran out of room for them.

i imagine everything is on free play.. bet it would take hours to collect all the coins otherwise

Pinball machines are great and fun to play but a lot of work to maintain. I used to LOVE going to “time out” game room in the shopping malls. Back in the 70s and 80s, every mall had a game room-note the past tense-had. And every time I went in, at least one pinball machine was being worked on or shut off waiting for parts.

Jason is high as a kite