let's see.. earliest pin I probably remember playing was firepower when I was about 7 at some hotel pool cabana at a hotel for a wedding. Not the first talking pinball (gorgar was), but the first to me. I remember how cool that was, and probably the moment when I first realized pinball was no longer one of those outdated mechanical machines and shifted my quarters from pac-man to pinball. Pinball sat in the background for most of the rest of my childhood with video games pushing them out (ocassionally I would play them in bars, I do remember playing space shuttle at some bar). Did have a solid state evel knievel from about 9 years old until 11 (dad got rid of it when the roms kept failing). It wasn't until whirlwind, and games were becoming predictive pattern machines that I really started getting back into pinball hard.