Would be so cool to have some pics of the old haunts, but never took any...

Did anyone grow up in Richmond, BC and have pics of some of the places? Lord Nelson's? Wizard's Castle? Circuit Circus?

I can still picture Lord Nelson's pretty clear in my mind, along with lots of the games. They usually only had a couple of pinball machines. I remember when Banzai Run arrived, and it was the first game to be 50cents. I'd never play a 50-cent game at that time. Ha.

Oh, we used to search for game rooms in local Hotels too, and found a nearby one at the Richmond Inn, with a Black Knight and other games. Unattended so we figured out creative ways to get credits...

There were also pins at the PNE, with a pretty cool arcade. I only remember Hercules, because it stood out as crap back then too.

I also spent a lot of summer vacations in the Okanagan and played at the sites in Penticton and Osoyoos. Anyone have pics of those? Jive Time was at the Ice Cream parlor. Gorgar and a few others were at the drive-in camp next to the Falcon Motel. The water parks all had games.

There was one pretty big stand-alone building with a ton of pins that I spent hours at. I remember playing Interflip Dragon and jumping out of my sandals when it roared. There were also games that sparked and shocked me and smoked. Some of them had the manually operated trough you had to shove in to load the balls. Those were ancient at that time already, but they were still operated! Plenty of banana flippers in the games at that time too.

Any Canadians remember these spots?

Was it still open in 2007? I thought it shut down before that, but maybe it was shortly after. I was there once in mid 2000s, but don't remember if there were pins or not at that time. There's plenty of other places around now to play pinball though if you come back this way.