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My story
My great Grandmother had a Incredible Hulk Pinball, Pacman arcade and a Asteroid Arcade in her house when I was a child (My great Uncle had a route). Fast forward to 1992 when I got my drivers license and the local 7-11 got a Addams Family and that is when i really got into…
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pinball: cue the applause
It took me by surprise the first time it happened. People were applauding at a pinball tournament. For me! It was several years ago, when I first started playing in tournaments and I joined a league team. We were visiting a small place called C-Bar in Portland, Oregon, and I was…
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Pinball kept my sanity.
One week after my 46th birthday, I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. As the doctor put it, I didn’t have a left kidney; I had a left tumor due to its size. With everything going on, I started riding an emotional roller coaster of anger, fear, and depression. I was OK at…
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Pinball fever
I like most people at a young age was always looking for something to do in order to stay busy and not "bored" and pinball helped fill the void of boredom. I started playing pinball at a local bowling alley where they had electro magnetic machines back from the late…
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Gold Rush Pinball Tables
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Stern, 2008) in Tournament Mode Labyrinth (Barrels of Fun, 2023) Pokémon (Pro Edition) (Stern, 2026) Star Trek: The Next Generation (Williams, 1993) Locations: The CSI and Labyrinth pins are located on the right hand side…
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Academic study of pinball culture - blending work and play
I've been playing pinball for about 10 years. When I was younger I played video games at the arcade and never really played pinball until recently. My husband rediscovered pinball at a bar cade we visited while in New Orleans. After that chance find, we…
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Plunge into Pinballology!
Watch the PinProf Field Guide trailer TL;DR Made a new app. Poured my absolute all into it. My wife made not one, but three gorgeous oil paintings to bring PinProf to life. Roped my friends into helping as well, for voicework, photography, and an original musical score! Yes,…
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Terminator 2 mods, I’ve made
Hello Pinside community my name is Darren and I got my first Pinball table the Williams Terminator 2 judgment day and I can't be more excited. I wanted to post some pictures of my table and some of the mods I've done. Let me know what you think. Hope everyone has A…
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PINBALL!!
I love pinball very much, it's such an awesome hobby and there is so many games to play! Playing them isn't the only fun to be had, fixing them when things go wrong is just as rewarding. I am a cnc machinist and I have found that almost all problems with pinball machines…
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Help Us Find a Piece of My Cousin's Father
️ Help Us Find a Piece of My Cousin's Father I'm hoping people will take a minute to read this and maybe share it. My cousin Maggie has been through more loss than anyone should have to endure. In January of 2017, she lost her mother, Bonnie, after a long illness.…
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Happiness
Disabled Combat Veteran looking to relive his better days in arcades when I was a child.
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From a Closed Door to a Pinball Pilgrimage
Whenever I’m away from home and find myself with a little time to myself, I have a bit of a ritual… I open the Pinside PinMap and start looking for pinball machines. Last October, I was in Barcelona visiting family, so naturally I checked the map. I found a…
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Ace High
Once upon a time over 65 years ago I played a pinball machine at Pine Grove Resort, Cobb Ca. It was fun to play and I could could win free games. Decades went by, but never forgot about that machine. Sometime in the summer of 2018, I got the idea to find that machine, didn't…
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This is the Last One. I Promise.
The funny thing is, as a kid I never really had anything to do with pinball machines. I must have come across them at campgrounds, arcades or holiday parks, but I honestly don’t remember ever playing one. My parents definitely kept me away from gambling machines and…
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Greetings!
I can remember my first pinball I played was Twilight Zone and Tommy in some random pizza house that had just a few games the gumball machines in the very back when I was around 8 years old. As a lifelong KISS fan, I had to have the Bally Kiss machine. That got me hooked. Still…
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The Curator’s Sanctuary: A Tribute to Ron and His Twilight Zone
My brother-in-law Ron, I always called him "Uncle Ron" because my sons did. He collected and restored old cars, attended car shows, collected pinball machines and was a man with very high ethics. I loved him like a brother. This story is about his…
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A Pinball Lawyer's Utopia
A Pinball Lawyer's Utopia If only “do-overs” were a feature of life in the proverbial rat race of modern civilization. This article explores how conceptual spaces have the capacity to save humankind from itself: Do humans need toys to survive, as…
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Bio
Hi everyone, I’m Evan. Completely brand new to the pinball world and diving in headfirst. Current Lineup: 1978 Williams Flash (Player's Condition) – My very first machine! 1979 Bally Star Trek (Player's Condition) – Had to grab this one as a lifelong…
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Started in third grade, 1970s.
By way of introduction, I'll date myself with the title above. The closest bowling alley to where we lived was Shatto 39 Lanes in Los Angeles, CA. It was a short walk from our apartment building, and, being an unemployed child, I'd bankroll my pinball habit with an…
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Old Man New Obsession
At 70, I finally bought the machine I had dreamed about for decades. One machine became two. Two became five. Then came modifications, shaker motors, mirror blades, speaker lights, tournament formats and serious discussions about whether removing Golden Tee would constitute…