My interested started with playing pinball in arcades as a kid. At the time, the biggest arcade in my hometown had nearly a dozen pins set up.

They slowly broke down and disappeared one by one, and eventually I forgot about them between that and visiting arcades less and less. Then I re-discovered pinball a number of years ago with a few mobile apps when I had some downtime on a road trip.

After that, I started researching how to build my own game, discovered that vintage games were still available, found that pinball shows took place, and ended up attending Pinfest. I started watching craigslist/ebay/facebook and bought a cheap non-working game, fixed it up, bought another, and they multiplied from there. I started to regularly visit the shows in the northeast, and contributed to the forums, pinwiki, IPDB, and IPSND.

Then I started a yearly pinball show, which takes place in August in Saratoga Springs, NY called the Saratoga Pinball & Arcade Show.

I think I've gone a little overboard at this point, and I'm not sure what's next, lol.