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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sumez" data-source="post: 49785" data-attributes="member: 1547">My own story is a little embarrassing, but a true testament to FarSight's work.As a video game kind of guy, I grew up with game consoles during the 80s and 90s, while pinball was experiencing both a resurgence, its peak years, and eventually the fall of Williams and Bally. So it was always present, but I also considered it a lesser game form, based mainly on pure, random luck. I liked some video pinball games, but still pinball was that thing you'd occasionally pop a coin into, flip the flippers a bit, and then regret that you wasted your money.I'm also an avid arcade game collector, and those circles are always full of pinball geeks, which I always thought was boring as hell, it wasn't until recently that I discovered what I had been missing...Some guys I know recently started a small arcade with 80's games and a single pinball machine (Gottlieb's Class of 1812).At first I thought it was just taking up space, but eventually it started luring me with its pretty colors, voices, and mechanical parts. Around the same time I came across a cheap used copy of Williams Hall of Fame for PSP. I had heard of it before, and thought the idea of recreating real pinball on a computer was lame, instead of using the possibilities a computer had, but now I was suddenly getting interested in the subject. I had no idea real pinball could be so exciting! I ended up getting totally hooked on Funhouse, Whirlwind, and Taxi (and I had never heard of any of them before), so I went out to buy the X360 version, only to discover three new tables in this version, namely TOTAN, MM, and NGG, three tables that all lifted the game up a notch! Fast forward to TPA on the X360, and I'm completely hooked!My next project is getting better at playing real tables, hopefully enough to eventually impress people around me, and my obsession has now reached the point where... well that's a story for another thread...In the end I sort of regret having missed out on this great concept for 30 years of my life, and considering those that are into it boring. But now I'm here!</blockquote>

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