The first machines I ever played

Mata Hari (Bally, 1978) was the first pinball machine I played over and over, back in the late '80s. My friend had constructed a little room underneath his house where all of us gathered to do whatever bored, unsupervised teenagers did before the advent of smartphones. He had Mata Hari and we would razz each other relentlessly while we played it over and over. Usually we tried to jinx the current player by yelling lines from The Exorcist at him.   > Read the full story...