Update: New pinball locations found.

Tony B. added these locations:

Stern World Poker Tour: pretty good shape, Stevie Tomato’s Sportspage- 11491 Cleveland Ave, Ft Myers 33907

Stern Pirates of the Caribbean: good shape, Stevie Tomato’s Sportspage- 3422 Del Prado Blvd, Cape Coral 33904

Tony, thanks for the information.

A CALL TO ARMS

A CALL TO ARMS for all the pinheads in the Ft Myers, Bonita Springs, Naples, FL areas: Where are all the pinball machines located in this town? Mission statement: To show support & spread the belief that playing pinball is still good clean fun in this community. Assistance will be required. If you know of any pins on route, email to me or post it here and I will included at Southwest Florida Pinball Avenue web page. I build a web page that will be user-driven, cohesive site for all pinball enthusiasts looking to find and share information regarding locations for pinball machines for these areas. The Southwest Florida Pinball Avenue web-page can be found at http://pinballavenue.blogspot.com/ Everyone & anyone can post & participate to share information, advice, support or just a good experience or story. I want to share with other people & give them a chance to have a good experience: The enjoyment from having fun playing pinball. If you own an establishment that has pinball machines Or have pinball machines on-routes, by all means email your information to me or post it here and I will included at the web page also. Just forward general information for the location & condition of the machine, comparable to the information listed below. The ones I have found, I am going to start posting to share their location as I find them. I repeat: Assistance will be required & appreciated. Please include the following information if possible, but any leads would help: 1) the title of the machine 2) game condition 3) the establishment’s name 4) the address 5) any restrictions: in a bar, limited hours of operations & etc. Ratings: Bright Very Clean Smooth Best A few burnt bulbs Clean Playable To Dark Dirty Almost Playable Worst Very Dark Filthy Non-functioning Machines Found: (4) Stern NASCAR: Almost playable, screw lodged under left in-lane switch & ball will get trapped there, Pelican Larry’s Uptown- 1046 Pine Ridge Rd, Naples, FL, Sports Bar& Restaurant Stern World Poker Tour: Filthy, dark, playable, Dusseldorf on the Beach- 1113 Estero Blvd #5 Ft Myers Beach, FL- Bar & Restaurant Stern Elvis: Dark, clean & playable, Sand Bar- 826 East Elkcam Circle, Marco Island, FL- Bar & Restaurant Stern Ripley’s Believe It or Not: Very dark & playable, Sand Bar- 826 East Elkcam Circle, Marco Island, FL- Bar & Restaurant Enjoy! Dan

Guest Blogger - 4 Pins Found in SW FLa

Pinball Machines - They're harder to find than one would think. I've been in every stinky, smoke filled 'hole in the wall' bar, bowling alley, arcade, dog track, movie theater, you name it, in the last month. It's a quest that me and a few other SW Florida "Pinheads" have been on. After a series of various sports bar/restaurants, pizza joints, movie theaters I found a raggedy old [Stern] Nascar machine at a place called Pelican Larry's on Pineridge Road in NASCAR, Florida (there's a screw on the inlane that snags the ball).

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by guest Author Chris Griffith

Southwest Florida Pinball Discovery

Welcome to Pinball Avenue, a blog set up to chart and critique pinball machines in Southwest Florida - in the cities of Bonita Springs, Naples, Estero, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Cape Coral and Lehigh Acres. If you know of a pinball machine just post or email the location, make, model, theme, condition and anything else you feel is relevant.