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“The Impractical Guide to Living with Pinball Machines”
"If you know how many pinball machines you own, you don't have enough."
- Unknown
Things to consider as owners embark into the wonderful world of pinball.
Most people do not realize the overwhelming amount of experience, space, and parts required to maintain dozens of games. A handful of games is not a problem, until they begin to materialize out of thin air...
Time alone is basically a full time job, unless you store machines, and do not play them. Particularly, if the machines are from multitude of manufacturers.
At one point, I owned titles from Bally (6 generations), WMS (5 generations), AGC, Zaccaria, Stern, LTD, Chicago Coin, Gottlieb (4 generations), Gameplan, Sega, Data East, and Interflip. That is > Read the full story...
“How pinball got me on tv!”
June 20th, 2017
About a year ago my parents bought a new house, we were moving to a bigger house because of our pinball machines. The people from the bank we're at thought it was so interesting that they wanted us to be > more...
“Getting Back In The Game”
June 16th, 2017
I always loved pinball. Played with my friends as often as I could, which was a lot! TAF was the machine that sucked me in. I could have bought several machines for the coin I put through my local machine as a > more...
“Comedy&Pinball Podcast”
June 5th, 2017
I'm a comedian out in NYC that plays pinball and also does comedy, I also have a day job. So between those three things I stay very busy, and I started a podcast with another comedian friend of mine. We > more...
“Pin Memories and Pin Future”
May 24th, 2017
Has it only been a year? No, it's been one year, two months, and four days since that fateful day that I went from being a dude who enjoyed playing pinball to a dude bringing his first machine home. I > more...
“CoinOp Addiction”
May 16th, 2017
My story starts 25 years ago when my brother moved into his new house and there it was, a 1964 World Fair in the basement, left by the previous owners. I was 23 years old and loved pinball and video > more...
“A Real Wild Card”
May 11th, 2017
My story? When I was very young my grandparents had a Williams Wild Card machine from 1977. I recall really enjoying it. It sat near the regulation pool table and the wind up antique phone that hung on the wall > more...
