The bar offers four vintage Skee-Ball lanes, and 50 different pinball machines from different eras, including ones themed around the band Iron Maiden, the Hot Wheels toy cars, and the old “Twilight Zone” TV series.
Smith pulls up an app on his phone that’s like a Google map for pinball machines all across America — whether it’s a huge bank of them inside an arcade bar in New York City, or some hard-to-find vintage pinball game in the corner of a laundromat in Peoria, Ill.
A close-up of a Beatles-themed pinball game at Lit Arcade Bar, in Ogden, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022.Lit’s collection spans decades, from a 1967 machine to brand-new computerized pinball machines themed around “Stranger Things” and “Rick & Morty.” It also has a four-player Pac-Man arcade game that, like “Stranger Things,” is a newly minted creation that pays homage to the 1980s.
There also are arcade video games, including Centipede, Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac-Man arcade games — as well as a small lounge area where people can play board games, Nintendo or Sega Genesis. Some, but not all, pinball machines are outfitted with video screens where people can watch gameplay on Twitch or social media. And all the games are outfitted with a small panel that scans payment off a card people buy at a kiosk that they can pre-load with game credits. That decreases the nostalgia a bit, Smith said — no quarters to drop — but it was a lot easier for both customers and the bar to not have to juggle spare change all night.
“There are famous pictures of [New York] Mayor [Fiorello] LaGuardia, smashing pinball machines with sledgehammers,” Smith said. Pinball machines were considered gambling devices, rather than games of skill. That point of view has shifted radically since those days, so much so that there are now national pinball championships and conventions.
The chapter now has 44 players, Kristy Smith said, and will be hosting the first women’s Utah championship series in January. “For me, I just wanted to build community,” she said.
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