Pinball Machine Pickup, Buying & Repair in Port Jervis, NY
Port Jervis is the reason our name makes sense.
The Front Street Comeback Has Been Good for Pinball.
Stand on Tri-States Rock down by the river and you are touching New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania at the same time, and that three-state corner is exactly the territory we cover. I'm Christian, I run Tri-State Pinball out of Newburgh, and Port Jervis is a straight shot down I-84, about 40 minutes door to door. If you have a machine you just want gone, we handle pinball machine pickup in Port Jervis, including basements and tight staircases. And if the game still has life in it, you may come out ahead. In many cases we can haul it away at no cost, and if the machine is worth money we pay you. You can sell your machine for cash without ever posting a classified ad.
Downtown Port Jervis has genuinely come back to life. Fox N Hare took over a vacant 1880s building at 46 Front Street, opened its brewery in 2017, and helped spark the revival that filled in the blocks around the old Erie railroad district. Memory Lanes keeps families bowling on West Main Street. West End Beach still packs in swimmers every summer on the Delaware. A town with a working brewery, busy bars, a bowling alley and steady family traffic is a town where coin-op games earn their keep. Games on location work hard, and eventually every one rotates off the floor. When an owner or operator in Port Jervis retires a game, remodels a room or clears out storage, that cabinet needs somewhere to go, and we are the phone call that makes it painless.
When a Game Comes Off the Floor, or Out of the House.
It is not only businesses. This is a railroad city with generations of families staying put in the same homes, from the hill streets above the downtown to the West End. We have picked up machines that spent thirty years in a cellar next to the furnace, and machines bought new in the 1990s that never once left the family room. Commercial or residential, it ends the same way. Somebody wants the space back, and nobody knows how to move a 250 pound cabinet safely. Whether the game plays perfectly, half works or has not been plugged in since the Erie ran full schedules, we want to see it. Condition changes the number we offer. It never changes our interest.
Everything We Do for Port Jervis Players and Owners.
Here is the full menu we bring down the interstate:
- Machine pickup from anywhere in the building. Basements, attics, narrow switchback stairs. We bring the crew, the padding and the right dolly.
- Fast, no-obligation offers on machines in any condition, working or not. Send a few photos and Christian gets back to you with a real number.
- In-home pinball repair on Bally, Williams, Stern, Data East and Jersey Jack games, done right where the machine sits.
- Around 16 used pinball machines for sale at any given time, inspected and tested, with delivery available to Port Jervis.
- Pinball machine rentals for parties and events, delivered, set up and picked up afterward.
Plenty of visits start as a repair call and end with us buying a second machine out of the garage.
The Local Option in a Town Built on Junctions.
Search for pinball help and you will mostly find national lead-gen sites that resell your information. That is not what this is. We are a family business one county over, and Christian answers his own phone. Port Jervis sits at the junction of three states, so owners here also hear from New Jersey and Pennsylvania operators passing through on I-84. Ask any of them whether they will come back next month if the machine acts up. We will, because we are 40 minutes away, not four hours. We cover the neighbors too. Matamoras, PA is one bridge away, Middletown is back up the interstate, and Monticello handles the Sullivan County side of the mountains. You can see every town we serve on the service areas page, including the rest of Orange County.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We rent machines for parties and events across the region, and Port Jervis is an easy run for us. We deliver the machine, set it up, level it and make sure it plays right before we leave, then collect it after the event.
The earlier the better. We have a limited stable of rental machines and weekend dates go first. Call Christian at (845) 597-3982 with your date and he will tell you straight away what is available.
We rent for all kinds of events, private and public. If you are planning a fundraiser, a business anniversary or a taproom game night, tell us about the space and the crowd and we will suggest a machine that fits the room.
That is our specialty. Pinball machines break down further than most people realize, and we have carried them up some of the ugliest staircases in the Hudson Valley. Send a photo of the stairs along with your message and we will show up prepared.
No, please leave it exactly as it is. We would rather break it down ourselves than repair a folding mistake. The head, legs and glass all come off in a specific order, and we handle every step of it.
It depends on the machine and the access, so we quote every job up front with no obligation. In many cases we can haul it away at no cost, and if the machine is worth money we pay you.
Ready to clear that corner of the basement? Call or text Christian at (845) 597-3982 for a fast, no-obligation quote anywhere in Port Jervis.