Pinball & Me

My first game of pinball was in the early 70's at every gas station, diner, laundromat & my dad's favorite watering hole. Basically, anywhere I could find one while out & about with my parents. Most kids my age wanted to drop change into gumball machine or jukeboxes, but not me I wanted a stool to stand on & play pinball. In the late 70's & throughout the eighties I was on my bike hitting every arcade in town (Fun Factory, Malibu Gran Prix & Good Time Charlies) in addition to any gas station or movie theater that had a couple. It was Black Knight that changed the game of pinball for me. I discovered that there were rulesets & went from dropping all my quarters on lots of machines to dropping all my quarters on one machine. My buddies & I would bogart the BK machine every Friday & Saturday knight staying til closing time to "Fight Again" spending hours strategizing how we could beat our highest score. From then on pinball became an addiction & escape from the rest of the world.