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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baintz" data-source="post: 7685" data-attributes="member: 532">Pinball in the Uk has never been as big a deal as in the US, so even though I spent a massive amount of my teens in arcades (this was the 90s), the majority of them had no pins at all. There was one big arcade that did have a few pins that got the odd play from me here and there, but I never knew about all the complicated rules, I just tried to keep the ball in play and shoot ramps a lot.Then the local video rental store in my village got four tables, the best by far being Space Shuttle. My friends and I spent HOURS on that thing (10p a play!), gradually working out the rules for ourselves. Around the same time, Pinball Dreams (and later Pinball Fantasies) hit the Amiga, so these also got played to death. I still wouldn't consider myself a pinball fanatic at this time, I spent way more time on video games. Then when I hit 18 and went to college, video games and pinball sort of hit the back burner for a few years.Fast forward to now (I'm 35), and I'm still massively into video games, and pinball was largely forgotten. I was browsing IGN a few weeks ago and saw a review for TPA, and immediately tried to snap it up. Frustratingly, it wasn't out on PS3 in Europe yet, but during my googling, I saw that the same company (Farsight) had released a disc version of classic Williams tables last year. Whilst browsing the review of it, I saw that it included (OMFG) SPACE SHUTTLE!! The nostalgia wave hit me like a sledgehammer, and withion seconds I had found a used copy on amazon for £10.That arrived about 10 days ago, and I have been playing it to death since (just finished all wizard goals (except Jive Time) today!) . And although it's only been 10 days, I have completely fallen in love with pinball. I've found myself browsing sites like ipdb.org and pinball.org, watching videos of tables from the Willimas HOF game, even watching videos of tables I've never heard of, just to appreciate the tables, and the incredible skill of some of the players. That Bowen Kerins dude is really good at explaining his play and his vids are highly watchable.Now I'm just refreshing this site every hour or so praying for the announcement of the EU release.</blockquote>

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