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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Strong" data-source="post: 251" data-attributes="member: 3">So how did you first get into this great hobby we call pinball?For me, it all started when my parents bought an old EM called Alpine Club by Williams:<a href="http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=63" target="_blank">http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=63</a>The machine was from 1965, so it was already 20 years old by the time I first played it in the 80's....and the table layout may look simple by today's standards, but it had enough targets and shots to draw me in and I quickly fell in love with it. Man, I tell ya, I used to sit in front of that thing for hours at a time. It had the neat little mountain climber on the back glass that would climb higher as you completed a specific goal, and the art itself is great. I still prefer older machines to this day because I like the challenge of having fewer targets. Sometimes on the newer tables, you can just knock the ball around randomly and hit stuff everytime, but on the older machines, you had to really aim and plan your shots if you wanted those high scores.Anyway, my parents eventually sold the machine after a few years, but I've been hooked ever since.When I was 17, I was in a car accident and I broke 2 vertebrae in my upper back. Unfortunately, I became paralyzed from the chest down, but the good news is that God must have been looking out for me because my arms still work great, so I can still enjoy pinball (and my other great love: playing guitar). It is a bit tricky to play real pinball in a wheelchair though, as you can imagine...and this is one of the big reasons I love The Pinball Arcade. It removes the accessibility barriers so that I can play in comfort on my iPad. I'm really looking forward to the PC version too because I have my xarcade tankstick set up on a table that allows me to pull right up to it because it's open underneath. On a real pinball machine, I can't get as close as I would like to in my wheelchair because my knees hit the front, plus the view isnt that great frothreat angle, and the reflections get in the way as well......so The Pinball Arcade is and will be so much more convenient for me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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