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Written by PinballCharlie,
published April 15th, 2008.
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I have been a super sleeper pinball fan my whole life, until recently awakened by the truth: pinball is best! In the early 80's, I was an arcade junky, spending what little money I earned mowing lawns in the video arcades of Detroit. But I didn't play pinball - my quarters were too soon parted in my less than capable flipper fingers; I was a video game junky. Don't get me wrong, I loved the marriage of electronics and mechanics in their own glass world - I just could never afford to get any good at these devices. So I was an occassional player at best. The eighties came and went and, like most people, my video games moved into my home, and the great arcades closed their doors, so pinball was not even a factor in my life after 1985. Zoom forward to about 1995. A friend recommends I play Timeshock! on my PC; a DMD pinball simulator of great quality. I became terribly addicted to it, in all of it's glory - full operators menus, tests, audits, everything you would expect with a real machine. I played this game often for the next year (and still occassionally to this day). This game would really peak my interest in pinball, but where I live, pinball can rarely be found. I decided, however, that when I had the means and the space, I would by a fancy DMD pinball like Timeshock! Well, that day finally came in 2007 and I never expected this hobby to be so consuming! I now have three machines and look foward to more! KUDOS to the developers of Timeshock! to get me so interested in pinball!
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robin commented on April 16, 2008 18:11:37
That's a fun way of rolling into the pinball collecting hobby! I had that same thing, never realizing that one could own a pinball machine in your home, until I got a pin on loan from a friend. But discovering pinball through a computer game, that's even better! Keep those pins coming!
PinballCharlie commented on April 17, 2008 16:48:46
I have a loooong way to go before getting anywhere close to your collection - very impressive!
Yatermeister commented on April 26, 2008 09:48:03
Hi Charlie, yeah I'm kind of stuck on the late 70's & early 80's pins, they are a lot of fun and easy to work on. I do have a bunch of pics from tearing apart the BK in my garage, they are all at:
http://myweb.cableone.net/dyates63/BK*.JPG
I'm not exactly Mr. Website, so there's not a slideshow, but plug that into your browser, and where the * is in the path, just replace it with a number (1 through 30-something) to check them out. I did not show any pics of the back of new Backglass, but it is genuine Williams (bought through Mayfair) and is absolutely pristine (Pristine Gorgar Backglass also from Mayfair, those guys are the bomb for that kind of stuff!)...take a look!
dzony commented on May 02, 2008 16:20:34
Charlie! I love Timeshock too! We played it with my day for whole nights, but since we have our own collection, we prefer real machines. Anyway, it would be so cool when Stern will build real Timeshock, with it's original features. It was the first pinball I've ever played (probably), so I usually get back to it when playing for example Junkyard (Angel's voice is similar to Timeshock's girl ;-)