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“After years of dancing around it, I finally fell into the ...”
As long as I can remember, I've been intrigued by pinball. Never super into it, but whenever I would come across one I would play it. I never really knew what I was doing but I always found them fun to play.
I'm a gadget guy. I am a tinkerer. I always need a project or a hobby. As a kid I loved model trains and building car/airplane models. I was an Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision/Ninendo/Sega enthusiast. I play golf, but when kids came along, I went from playing a ton to only 2-3 times a year. At one point I had several thousand CD’s. I embarked on a project to digitize them all > Read the full story...
“Old guy finds youth....costs a lot.”
January 13th, 2021
About 6 years ago, I had a life event that caused me to re-evaluate a lot of stuff. My kids are grown and relatively independent > more...
“The pinball disease”
January 12th, 2021
Doctor, it all began in the dusty lobby of a GoKart place, up near Sibbalds Point in Ontario. You see, I was attending summer camp > more...
“My First Pin! And all the folks...”
January 7th, 2021
I met the woman I will probably eventually marry (as soon as the remainder of my will has crumbled and we've leared that an asteroid > more...
“Pinball Therapy”
January 3rd, 2021
Happy New Year! My name is Daniel Mecher, and I’m an artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. I recently finished building a half-scale Rosie-the-Riveter-themed pinball machine as a > more...
“An eerie coincidence”
January 2nd, 2021
I went to a local antique shop a few months ago and noticed they had a Taxi pinball machine sitting in the employees-only section of > more...
“Losing a Pinball Machine”
December 31st, 2020
Have you ever "lost" a pinball machine? I have, and I'll tell you about it as I give you some background into how I started > more...
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