MontanaFrank
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- Dec 19, 2012
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Howdy Fellow Forum Fans,
I saved my official introduction until my 100th post. I thought this would give some of the regular’s time to get used to my lengthy style of writing. I can be long-winded.
As my screen name says, I am Frank and am 53 years old. I was born and raised in Montana, 100 miles away from Old Faithful Geyser. Yellowstone Park is simply amazing; especially for me since I’ve always loved geology, volcanoes or any kind of physical science. Quantum and String Theory has me thinking that we live in a holodeck made by the master Creator. Theorized strings remind me of pixels.
My world changed when my best friend in this world gave me my Asus T300T tablet for a black Friday gift. The reason my world changed is that I found The Pinball Arcade app in the Android store and from that I found this wonderful forum. Actually, I had a tear in my eye because TPA had so many of the tables from machines I loved in my youth and I could play them in my home.
I love my privacy, so Facebook is not an option. This forum offers information and socialization without the BS which is prevalent in the social media network. I want to thank Gord Lacey, Jeff Strong, PinWiz and Don Sean Carlos for the excellent way they manage this forum. Also a shout to Kolchak357 for being promoted to Senior Pigeon, I don’t know what that means but you deserve it. Also, the members of this forum are a great group of people from around the world. It’s so good to hear Fortnight used in a real situation. It’s also nice to see the “u” in color from time to time.
My love for pinball has been with me since I can remember. There is not a time in my youth that I don’t remember some sort of pinball in my life. I lived 10 miles from the small town in Montana so the only pinball games I played until I was 13 were hand held pinball games and at ages four and seven I received a battery operated table top pinball machine. It was all great fun.
At age 13 we moved into town from the Federal Fish Hatchery and I was able to play real pinball machines at the local bowling alley. In small American towns, it seems if you are not a jock, you’re nothing. I certainly was not a jock, so this nothing spent most my free time at the bowling alley playing pinball and bowling. I might not have been a jock, but I could beat all the jock’s arses in bowling or playing pinball.
Here are a list of some of the machines that I got to play in real life that were brand new or only installed a few days before I came into the bar to play them or at the bowling alley I frequented as a youth.
Big Shot - Fast Draw - High Hand - Atlantis - Royal Flush - Jacks to Open - Spirit of 76 - Surf Champ - Big Brave - Jungle Queen - Gorgar - Black Knight - Black Hole - Eight Ball Deluxe - Comet - Cyclone - PinBot - Dr. Dude - Elvira and the Party Monsters - Fun House - Addams Family - Whirlwind - Star Trek, 1991 - Star Trek: TNG - Twilight Zone - Attack From Mars - Hurricane - Eight Ball Champ - A few others.
I was very fortunate to be able to play all these tables in prime condition. I don’t get to go out and play pinball much IRL here in Portland, Oregon because of my disabilities. Here in Portland the selection of machines available to play are remarkable. I think there is around 500 machines in the area and that does include duplicates.
Thanks for taking the time to read my introduction.
I saved my official introduction until my 100th post. I thought this would give some of the regular’s time to get used to my lengthy style of writing. I can be long-winded.
As my screen name says, I am Frank and am 53 years old. I was born and raised in Montana, 100 miles away from Old Faithful Geyser. Yellowstone Park is simply amazing; especially for me since I’ve always loved geology, volcanoes or any kind of physical science. Quantum and String Theory has me thinking that we live in a holodeck made by the master Creator. Theorized strings remind me of pixels.
My world changed when my best friend in this world gave me my Asus T300T tablet for a black Friday gift. The reason my world changed is that I found The Pinball Arcade app in the Android store and from that I found this wonderful forum. Actually, I had a tear in my eye because TPA had so many of the tables from machines I loved in my youth and I could play them in my home.
I love my privacy, so Facebook is not an option. This forum offers information and socialization without the BS which is prevalent in the social media network. I want to thank Gord Lacey, Jeff Strong, PinWiz and Don Sean Carlos for the excellent way they manage this forum. Also a shout to Kolchak357 for being promoted to Senior Pigeon, I don’t know what that means but you deserve it. Also, the members of this forum are a great group of people from around the world. It’s so good to hear Fortnight used in a real situation. It’s also nice to see the “u” in color from time to time.
My love for pinball has been with me since I can remember. There is not a time in my youth that I don’t remember some sort of pinball in my life. I lived 10 miles from the small town in Montana so the only pinball games I played until I was 13 were hand held pinball games and at ages four and seven I received a battery operated table top pinball machine. It was all great fun.
At age 13 we moved into town from the Federal Fish Hatchery and I was able to play real pinball machines at the local bowling alley. In small American towns, it seems if you are not a jock, you’re nothing. I certainly was not a jock, so this nothing spent most my free time at the bowling alley playing pinball and bowling. I might not have been a jock, but I could beat all the jock’s arses in bowling or playing pinball.
Here are a list of some of the machines that I got to play in real life that were brand new or only installed a few days before I came into the bar to play them or at the bowling alley I frequented as a youth.
Big Shot - Fast Draw - High Hand - Atlantis - Royal Flush - Jacks to Open - Spirit of 76 - Surf Champ - Big Brave - Jungle Queen - Gorgar - Black Knight - Black Hole - Eight Ball Deluxe - Comet - Cyclone - PinBot - Dr. Dude - Elvira and the Party Monsters - Fun House - Addams Family - Whirlwind - Star Trek, 1991 - Star Trek: TNG - Twilight Zone - Attack From Mars - Hurricane - Eight Ball Champ - A few others.
I was very fortunate to be able to play all these tables in prime condition. I don’t get to go out and play pinball much IRL here in Portland, Oregon because of my disabilities. Here in Portland the selection of machines available to play are remarkable. I think there is around 500 machines in the area and that does include duplicates.
Thanks for taking the time to read my introduction.
