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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sotnwaffle" data-source="post: 3258" data-attributes="member: 344">I think my earliest introduction to pinball machines was at an arcade called Yellow Brick Road. Possibly one of the earliest ones I saw was a surfing one whose name I don't recall. This would've been in the '70s. I played various pinball machines as a young child and was pretty bad at them, but I played them anyway. Genie, Solar Ride, Gorgar. It was interesting to me how arcades had both different video games and different pinball machines. Only one place had Xenon and one of the Fireball games, for instance. Another place had Paragon. I remember seeing Atari pinball machines such as Middle Earth.  I think that came out around the same time as Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and I felt the name was used solely because of that, even though the theme itself had nothing to do with it. I don't really know, though. I played it anyway, just for the name. I was always bad at Bally's Lost World, but I tended to play that for the name alone as well.When the Flash Gordon pinball machine came out, I remember one of my brothers, who happens to be pretty good at pinball machines, invited me over to the machine cabinet, because he thought it was so interesting how the machine laughed at you when you put a quarter in.I remember someone being an ace at Black Knight and, over and over and over, he would send a ball back into the multiball container when a new ball was released. I remember hearing the bonus tally for Space Invaders going off for such a long time I became interested in seeing what the player's score was like. I heard *bang bang bang* as he managed to get the high score. That machine had been there awhile.I occasionally saw pinball machines I either never actually played or only played once or twice when visiting arcades I seldom went to, and this usually made me more interested in them.I was playing Williams' Grand Lizard and, while an attendant watched, the ball ricocheted around wildly and did something useful. "Ooh," he remarked. "Yeah... I meant to do that."  "Yeah, I saw you aiming for it."The Yellow Brick Road eventually got a Big Bang Bar and Kingpin near the end of its existence. This turned out to be more of a trip down memory lane, maybe. But all of that shaped my current interest.</blockquote>

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