I don't remember if it was the two-player (Sea-Ray) or four-player (Mariner) version of the Bally game from 1970 (that's why I listed both) that got me hooked. Of course it was brand-new at the time and I watched bigger kids play it for about an hour before I got to try it out.
This event is part of a song I wrote about my life-long love affair with pinball, in fact.