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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tabe" data-source="post: 4654" data-attributes="member: 342">For me, it was visits to my grandparents' house.  They had a "Mystic Marvel" table in the basement that they'd bought for my mom and her brother in the 50s.  It was a big treat after dinner was over to race to the basement and play pinball with my brother.  That would have been mid-1970s.  From there, it was "Video Pinball" on the Atari 2600, followed by my parents buying a "Strato-Flite" machine for OUR basement*.  After that, it was "Night Mission Pinball" on the Apple IIe and "Pinball" on the NES followed by a billion other video pinball games on just about every console.  I never spent much time playing pinball in the arcade as a kid - the machines were too hard, poorly maintained, and so on.  In 1990/91, my freshman year in college, I rediscovered pinball at the student center and local arcades.  This continued when, that summer, I got a job at a video game store and we had a "Funhouse" machine in the store.  Still my favorite table 20+ years and one that I *WILL* own someday.Tabe* - My parents bought the machine for Christmas and actually got it like a week before the 25th.  They put it in our (unfinished) basement where my brother & I never went.  Then, every night after we went to bed, they went down into the basement and played the game, all the while laughing that we didn't hear them or find out about it.</blockquote>

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