What Locations and States Have the Most Pinball Machines?
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What Locations and States Have the Most Pinball Machines?

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knapparcade
August 12, 2025
A website called "Brilliant Maps" recently took data from the incredible pinball location finding website Pinball Maps and pulled out some really cool facts. First of all, check out the sweet Pinball Heat Map of the United States that they created. So cool!

The article gave me a hitlist for pinball Road Trips. The following are the arcades that have the most pinball machines in the United States according to the piece:

1) Past Times Arcade
Location: Girard, OH
Machines: 390

2) Pinball Hall of Fame
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Machines: 350

3) Pinball Perfection
Location: West View, PA
Machines: 348

4) Next Level Pinball Museum
Location: Hillsboro, OR
Machines: 305

5) Pinball PA
Location: Aliquippa, PA
Machines: 185

6) Game Galaxy
Location: Smyrna, TN
Machines: 178

7) The Pinball Palace
Location: Brunswick, GA
Machines: 166

8) Wizard’s World
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
Machines: 164

9) Atomic Pinball
Location: Wood River, IL
Machines: 125

10) District 82 Pinball
Location: De Pere, WI
Machines: 114

On our "Quest for 1,000 Pins" Road Trip a couple of years ago, Rob and I hit the #1, #3 and #5 largest locations all in one swoop. That was pretty epic. I'm going to make it a goal to hit the rest of the spots on the list at some point over the next couple of years. One HUGE location that is not mentioned on this list is the Ann Arbor VFW Pinball Museum. It is a lot like the Museum of Pinball used to be in Banning, California. The VFW supposedly has over 525 pins, but it only opens up to the public once or twice per year so I guess that it doesn't count for the purpose of the list. Rob and I already have our flights and tickets for the October VFW show booked. I'm going to take pictures until my arms fall off for everyone lol.

https://vfwpinball.com/

As far as states go, guess which state has the most pinball machines? California.

Here's the list:

1) California
Machines: 2,678
Operators: 905

2) Pennsylvania
Machines: 2,058
Operators: 348

3) Ohio
Machines: 1,770
Operators: 328

4) Washington
Machines: 1,611
Operators: 404

5) Michigan
Machines: 1,509
Operators: 284

6) Oregon
Machines: 1,463
Operators: 410

7) Florida
Machines: 1,274
Operators: 267

8) Illinois
Machines: 1,212
Operators: 333

9) Wisconsin
Machines: 1,185
Operators: 476

10) Texas
Machines: 1,164
Operators: 229

Pennsylvania and Ohio coming in strong. Nice. All told according to Pinball Map and Brilliant Maps, the United States has 31,344 pinball machines on location.

Kudos to Marco Specialties for bringing this one to my attention.

https://brilliantmaps.com/pinball-map-usa/

https://pinballmap.com/

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Picture of part of the VFW's massive collection
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Don
1 day ago

Interesting. I contacted the pinball map app people in May wondering on numbers in areas because I wanted to know if Portland was still number one. Their answer by city : Portland 615 Seattle 590 Las Vegas 482 Girard 419 Westview 362 Hillsboro 319 Austin 312 Indianapolis 277 Paris 268 Pittsburgh:249

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Chuck Rock
about 9 hours ago

Pittsburgh has WAY more than 249. Pinball Perfection is technically Pittsburgh even though it's address is West View. Pittsburgh Pinball Dojo one town from West View over also has a good chunk of machines. If you include the whole metro area, I think Pittsburgh might beat Portland.

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knapparcadeKnapp Arcade Admin
1 day ago

I’ve heard that the Portland area has the most pins per capita in the country. I guess that the rest of Oregon is slacking lol

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