Pinball Journey

..Started out when my dad got me a cool electronic hand-held pinball game called "Wildfire". Other kids had the hand-held football games - but I had Wildfire.!

When staying at my dads on the weekends - I had to share my room with a Full Size pinball machine! .. and had to watch tv in the living room from under the pool table.. Haha, boy - the good ol' days..

Fast forward I recently picked up a few old Wildfire games on the internet and learned there are alot of versions.!. Eventually I thought I needed a real pinball machine - so the hunt began. I eventually found a Gottlieb "Gladiators" for sale and it was just 4 miles down the road.!!

As with all hobbies - I dove in. Discovered a pinball haven just 7 miles away with over 150 pinball machines on-site.!! It was there I discovered Sp00ky Pinball Machines and fell for the name and theme. The gotcha moment was when I first played Total Nuclear Annihilation. WOW - what an awesome game. The music and sounds was everything. When the shaker kicked in - it was a "Holy Cow" moment.. I had to have this game.

Disappointed to learn at the time you could not buy a brand new TNA - I began my quest to find a used one. However, as fate would have it - Sp00ky and the designer decided to run production again for a "CE" limited run version. OH - Happy DAYS.!!

So, with 2 machines in my stable and boxes of spare parts = I am ready...