I have been a super sleeper pinball fan my whole life, until recently awakened by the truth: pinball is best! In the early 80's, I was an arcade junky, spending what little money I earned mowing lawns in the video arcades of Detroit. But I didn't play pinball - my quarters were too soon parted in my less than capable flipper fingers; I was a video game junky. Don't get me wrong, I loved the marriage of electronics and mechanics in their own glass world - I just could never afford to get any good at these devices. So I was an occassional player at best. The eighties came and went and, like most people, my video games moved into my home, and the great arcades closed their doors, so pinball was not even a factor in my life after 1985. Zoom forward to about 1995. A friend recommends I play Timeshock! on my PC; a DMD pinball simulator of great quality. I became terribly addicted to it, in all of it's glory - full operators menus, tests, audits, everything you would expect with a real machine. I played this game often for the next year (and still occassionally to this day). This game would really peak my interest in pinball, but where I live, pinball can rarely be found. I decided, however, that when I had the means and the space, I would buy a fancy DMD pinball like Timeshock! Well, that day finally came in 2007 and I never expected this hobby to be so consuming! I now have three machines and look foward to more! KUDOS to the developers of Timeshock! to get me so interested in pinball!
Note: Well, nearing the end of 2008; I am up to seven pins. Somebody stop me!
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That's a fun way of rolling into the pinball collecting hobby! I had that same thing, never realizing that one could own a pinball machine in your home, until I got a pin on loan from a friend. But discovering pinball through a computer game, that's even better! Keep those pins coming!