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“How it all began....”
My love affair with pinball began around 1982. I was thirteen years old and lived in Hawaii because my father was in the Navy and stationed at Pearl Harbor. We had recently moved from San Diego and our new next door neighbors had three sons, one a year older than me. The neighbors son and I became good friends, fixing up bikes together and cruising around on them and just hanging out a lot.
About a year after we moved in the neighbors got a Mata Hari that all five of them played a LOT. It was kind of funny because the person who played the most was my > Read the full story...
“December 2, 2019”
December 2nd, 2019
I am back sorry for the year break from Pinball but only here I have been very busy at home and work but still alway made time for Pinball. So here is the update of where I am at with > more...
“How it all started”
November 24th, 2019
When I was seven or eight, my mom took me to visit her friend. Naturally, I was bored. One of them had the idea that I could go to the bar down the block and play pinball. They scrounged some > more...
“Pinball Madness 2019 at the Muse...”
October 25th, 2019
Banning, California. Most lifelong California residents would probably scratch their heads upon hearing the name of the place, and those that do know where it is would probably balk at the thought of traveling there. But last Saturday, October 19, I was > more...
“My weekend at Pinball Madness”
October 25th, 2019
To give a bit of background on me. I was born in 1973 so I grew up with pinball. My parents moved to La Mirada in 1979 and back then there was a huge arcade called Noah's Arcade inside the > more...
“For the Love of Pinball”
October 19th, 2019
"Pinball is the perfect medium to continue mankind's fight against gravity by utilizing perfectly tuned machinery coupled with beautiful art and symmetry." Spring of 1974 My Twin and I are 10 years old. We hear Gottlieb Chimes and Williams Bells walking past a store > more...
“So many pinballs, so little space!”
October 19th, 2019
Oct. 20, 2019. I can't recall the exact first pinball game I ever played, but going back into my childhood in the 1980s, some of my fondest memories are of summer vacations, hunting down games with my sister in hotel game rooms > more...
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