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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt McIrvin" data-source="post: 9736" data-attributes="member: 590">I'd been vaguely interested in pinball in my childhood but hadn't spent much time trying to play it, unless you counted plastic toy bagatelle games and Atari 2600 Video Pinball, neither of which bore much resemblance to the real thing.I got hooked in the course of typical graduate-student work-avoidance behavior during the 1990s golden age.  I had a friend who was much more into it than I was, and we spent a lot of time hanging out in the arcade of the Lanes and Games bowling alley in west Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also at a nameless, shady arcade near Downtown Crossing in Boston that had a lot of good tables.   I never got that good at pinball, but I loved playing it and managed to evolve a little beyond the random-button-spamming stage.After that stage of my life, I didn't get the chance to play real pinball that often, but when Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection came out for the Wii, it reawakened my interest.  The tables there were mostly a little before my heavy pinball-playing time; they were ones I'd seen as a teenager and wondered about, or briefly and unsuccessfully attempted to play.  It was great to get to know them.  But if/when Farsight ever releases sims of Twilight Zone and Star Trek: TNG, that will be a major-league Nineties nostalgia experience for me.</blockquote>

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