Put down that video-game console, cast aside your latest iPhone app and return to the bygone days of pinball play. Lose yourself in bells and flashing lights at this pinball parlor with 90 games dating from the 1930s to the present and vintage jukeboxes playing hits from the past.
Pacific Pinball Museum
Oakland
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