The new home of the Museum appears far larger, and best of all, almost every square inch is crammed with pinballs and other amusement machines.
The old location, while never cramped, made the most of the space available by packing in the games. The new home for the Silverball Museum Arcade The other end of the boardwalk in the shadow of.Īnd there, in the heart of the action was the new Silverball Museum Arcade. The sun was beating down, the temperatures were in the 70s and the boardwalk was teeming with visitors making the most of the unseasonable weather. Nothing could have been more different this year. It was a dull, wet, miserable day and the waterfront was deserted. He hoped to secure a new location on the boardwalk at Asbury Park, and that's exactly what he did, opening the new Silverball Museum Arcade to the public in February of this year.Īfter last year's visit, we popped along to the boardwalk to see what it was like. Rob Ilvento's collection of 94 pinballs and 12 amusement machines was an impressive sight, but as we reported at the time, Rob had plans to expand the collection even further and the basement location just didn't allow for any more machines. Location: Silverball Museum Arcade, 1000 Ocean Ave, Asbury Park, NJ 07712, USA.Īlmost one year to the day, we paid our first visit to the Silverball Museum on Cookman Avenue in downtown Asbury Park. It's almost like a record, how actual vinyl comes back, and then you realize you love that crisp sound, Ms Barber said.Date: October 2010, updated February 2011
Ms Barber said pinball makes you focus and be in the moment, and that it's a welcome breath of fresh air in an age of smartphones and tablets where you just sit there and stare at it. You have to use all your senses in all of these different arcade games. Patty Barber, the museum's senior vice president, said that it is a very tactile game for all of us, and for young people. They combined their collections, and Silverball Retro Arcade was born. His longtime friend and business partner, Steve Zuckerman, also had a pinball machine collection. It's like a treat for the senses, said 48-year-old Raffi Abelson, playing on one of the oldest pinball machines from the 1950s.īefore that, Robert Ilvento's daughter, who has autism, really loved playing pinball, so Ilvento, 57, started collecting pinball machines and built a collection. On a breezy day in Asbury Park, made famous by rocker Bruce Springsteen, pinging and popping sounds could be heard from the arcade. We used to play arcade games over in Seaside on the Jersey Shore. He's not around anymore, so I come here and play and it brings back memories from the past. Growing up, I and my old man, he used to love all kinds of old stuff, and this is just something that reminds me of him, said 24 year-old William Mena. It is home to more than 150 fully functional pinball machines, some of which date from the 1950s, where fans can go back in time and relive their childhood. The Silverball Retro Arcade, a low-slung building along the boardwalk in New Jersey Beach town Asbury Park, is not your typical museum.
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