I started collecting dedicated arcade games before pinball. A year and a half into arcade collecting, picked up my first pinball which was Xenon but that wasn't the hook for me. The hook was my second pin Scorpion, the specific moment where you lock both balls an the machine goes ape shit was the embedded event in my brain that pinball machines offered more when you got to a certain achievement. What specific moment on what machine caused your addiction? Here is the moment for me starting at 3:15 in the vid.

Cool!!! Was it from the moment you pressed start or a moment when the Black Knight started taunting you? Perhaps once you first heard the awesome music or first multiball?

Reply fail to Snowman.

I'm on my third F-14 Tomcat and doubt it's ever leaving, such great suspense once those beacons start rotating up until you lock the last ball and boom!!!

My first Stern was a heavily routed SM. First hook on that game for me was the J. K. Simmons call outs.