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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jay" data-source="post: 9529" data-attributes="member: 504">When I was a child, I used to watch a game show called The Magnificent Marble Machine that featured a 25-foot long pinball machine. I think that's what got me hooked. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU7n6Ncojx8&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU7n6Ncojx8&feature=youtube_gdata_player</a>When I was in college in the late '70s, there was a small arcade next to the cafeteria. I spent a lot of quality time with Fireball and Gorgar. When I graduated, I got a job running rides at an amusement park, and every break I'd head to the arcade to play Space Invaders (the pinball machine), Black Knight and Flash Gordon. At the time it seemed like there was an arcade in every town. So I got to play lots of different machines. At the time, my fave was probably High Speed.  In my travels to amusement parks, I've found lots of frozen-in-time arcades with old EM machines in good condition. Then I got some of my own. (For those who travel: Canobie Lake Park in Salem, NH, and Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH, have some great old arcades. And each of them also have the legendary Hercules!)I'm glad that pinball is now so popular in digital form, but nothing beats the feel of a real table!</blockquote>

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