Brussels Pinball Museum

Today we took a tram, a subway, and a bus to The Brussels Pinball Museum in Auderghem.  I tried to do as much info gathering as it could before going to set expectations. My gut said it wasn't going to be amazing, but we went anyway. 

It looked pretty cool from the outside. There were playfields in the windows and it said Brussels Pinball Museum on the window. 

When we entered there was a Revenge from Mars and a T2 and then some broken / turned off machines. There was a back room with a bunch of folded up machines so it wasn't clear they were open. I asked if there was Pinball and he said yes upstairs. There were 3 options for time, 9 Euros for 1 hr, 12 for 2 hrs. and 15 for 3 hrs. We chose 2 hours. We also bought 2 beers. 

I really wanted to want the shirt they had but it was uninspired and I decided to pass. 

I took my beer and went upstairs. The 2nd floor had arcade machine and bathrooms. 

The 3rd floor had the rest of the pinball machines. I came to play 2 machines I had never played before, Future Queen and Strange Science. 

Sad Trombone!  At least Strange Science was working and playing pretty welk despite weak flippers. In fact almost every machine had weak flippers. It was disappointing how many machines played poorly and how many were off. 

I did get high score 2 on Bride of Pinbot. 

This is a museum, you can make a better effort with the instruction cards.

They did have some cool stuff around like this Williams testing unit. 

After about an hour I was kind of done but we had an hour left so I got another beer. The owner was teaching a child how to serve beer. 

I continued to play Strange Science and Evel Knievel and take photos. 

I'm glad we went but temper your expectations if you go. There is a fine line between not going because the machines need work and going to get him money to work on the machines.  It just makes me sad that this will be some people's first experience with pinball.