Stories written by frdelrosario
August 3, 2023 - Happy birthday to us, Roger Sharpe
I learned today that Roger Sharpe and I shared the August 1 birthday yesterday. Without Sharpe, we wouldn't be here on ...
October 8, 2021 - The Science of Sing Along
The playfield in Sing Along, a 1967 Gottlieb electromechnical, is simple in its symmetry. Within the playfield, 16 standup or ...
September 20, 2021 - Pinball as three elemental forms of fiction
While old Gottlieb electro-mechanicals were giving me fits today, I wondered why I subject myself to this frustration. I think ...
August 16, 2021 - The coming bull run
A pinball museum in Banning, Calif., closed, and its 1100 game cabinets are up for auction in Sept. I suspect this ...
August 8, 2021 - Background
I'm a writer, born in San Francisco in 1963. In the mid-'70s, I played my first pinball in the back room ...
August 8, 2021 - 1 3 4
Sing Along is a quirky game in that one can secure all 16 targets on the playfield (this requires draining ...
August 3, 2021 - The Summer of Sing Along
I lost my place on the San Francisco Peninsula last year, and moved in with family in the East Bay. ...
