The Pinball Palace at Dezerland Park — Attraction in Orlando

A fun novelty of a place. Check it out if you enjoy looking at some classic machines. However, for a clean playing experience, it might be better to go elsewhere.

To begin, it's cheap, especially in comparison to any other pinball lounge in the Orlando area. Secondly, there is a wide selection. Many older machines can be found here, and not just the newer Stern ones, which is refreshing.

For my "most-fun" picks for the best, functional machines here, they are The Sopranos, Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones.

However, there are many issues. Only a handful of machines are level, something which is essential for a physics based game like pinball.

Leveling is quite an easy fix, so I'd urge the store to adjust the legs to ensure a correct angle. More pressingly, most machines have weak, unresponsive and non-returning flippers, the primary tool with which you play pinball. These machines do not have the snappiness which is iconically associated with pinball, making it really disappointing to play. On some machines, even some basic loops and shots are much more difficult due to the lack of force. Sometimes, however, you might find yourself pressing the paddles to no avail, as you watch the ball slide past. Of course, no money is lost due to free play, but it certainly does make for a worse experience. Additionally, as many reviews have pointed out, many machines are in disrepair, with segments (if not the whole game) not working. It's a shame because the games are really cool, but there's not much point when you cannot trigger certain switches or bumpers which allow you to score/progress.

The resulting playing experience is a sluggish and unresponsive experience if you're lucky, and a non-existing one if your not.

I'll probably change this review after subsequent visits, if the...

Sadly, the more negative reviews of this place are accurate. I spent an hour here after having time to kill waiting for a Mini Golf reservation. It was 15.99 for an hour (per person), so already fairly expensive. The employee working was kind and gave my party of 4 a decent discount so kudos to him. Let's start with the selection of machines. The selection is decent (around 60 games) and is mostly 90s games with a mix of mid to late 2000s Sterns and various EMs. Check out Pinball Map to see the full line up. No brand new machines unfortunately but still a decent selection of Stern, Williams/Bally, Data East and Sega games. However, this is where the positives end. The quality of these machines is flat out bad. Almost every game had major issues, most commonly weak flippers, especially the left one, rendering many games unplayable (Red and Ted, Dracula, Corvette all come to mind). Some of games had no music or sound at all and significant sections of the playfield lights burnt out. Dirty playfields abound. Even the newer machines felt "off" somehow, whether it was the flipper feel or setup of the games (some played really slow). Star Trek and the Walking Dead were probably the best feeling machines I played but those are quite new compared to most of the selections. Data East Batman and JP were also decent feeling. All in all, it's honestly sad that a place with this amount of machines has standards this low. Many of these games need significant TLC and repairs, and given the quality of machines at most arcades I visit, this ranks at the bottom. I would not return here, which is not something I want to say...

The reason why I’m giving a three star rating upon looking on the hours of operation I thought a associate was doing me a favor but ended it did not the story begins that I came and was looking at the pinball museum and associate male associate helped me with some of the questions I had about the museum also had a female employee while walking out of museum and looking at some of the games decided to tell me if I had a package deal or if I was here to purchase anything I’m like I’m just looking and she told me but I had to get out so I proceeded to walk around the action mine enjoying other things and found a flyer for a free hour oh upon purchasing one hour and now looking at the hours of operation that there is no events of the day that I was there but you’re a sales associate so much lied to me saying that you guys close at nine when the hours are operation C 10 but she refunded me least a free hour of gameplay but I did play for an hour because I did arrive at 7:48 and ended up leaving at 8:48 but your sales associates females need to not lie to people and also be more pleasant because I would’ve bought a whole day pass instead of your only an hour but it is worth it to go even if you love pinball games play all types of vintage and up-to-date games also do you need to fix some of the games if you can because some of the multi ball don’t work or some of the activities in the pinball game do not work that you need to be repairedBut we’ll be coming back to redeem my four hour and pray paying for another hour since you do lose your time and focus on time when you’re playing...