I'm now (2007) a proud member of ....
email me or go to the site (click above image) and email the group for help with your EM pinball machine.
I've made a modest collection of hints and tips for Visual Pinball/VPinMAME. They are here
A very good place to start browsing the web for pinball information of all types is The Internet Pinball Database, which has
pictures, ROMs, and more about every pin ever manufactured. Note: the wonderful site The Pinball Pasture is no longer in existence.
Far and away the best commercial sims you can get are the ProPinball series:
The Web, by Empire (with downloadable demo). MacPlay is no longer their rep.
Timeshock is fancier and 'way harder. (known as "T!" to the rgp fanatics). Lots of cool "prizes" and missions.
The next two games, BigRaceUSA and FantasticJourney, are not as difficult as T!. They both have gobs of features which are theoretically possible in a physical table but which you'll never see (such as multiple pop-ups revealing sink holes, or magnets which catch and then fling the ball.).
If you don't mind using a WindBlow$ computer, then definitely get the VPinMAME and VirtualPinball software. Start at VPforum_tables.
You can get excellent recreations of real tables, from early EMs to the latest modern ones. In addition, there are tons of home-brew virtual tables. Some are cute, some are boring, but many are quite fun to play .
Two good places to find spare parts, schematics, and so on are:
The Pinball Resource, Steve Young or
Marco Industries, Marc Mandeltort
There are many other good sources, some of which specialize in solid-state games (so I don't know them well yet).
Fanatics who happen to be MacOS-ers like myself will want to get this freebie:
Gerard Putter has ported Royal Flush Deluxe (the Amt*x PC game) and made it available on DownloadRoyalFlush , which was active as of June 2005.
Cleopatra (EM)
Slick Chick
Add-A-Ball types from the 70's
Any EM after 1965 or so in decent condition. Fixing them up is half the fun :=) .
To see the list and a few pictures, click here
The High Score list is not active. I may resurrect it sometime