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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmmagnetic" data-source="post: 9883" data-attributes="member: 558"><img src="http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/pics5/sonic-mountain-quest-10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I had this little thing here! I just recently remembered it, no longer have it, but I remember it took several batteries, at least two of these really big ones for the motor that shook the "bumper" on the table and a different set of batteries to power the scorekeeping and such. Considering how much batteries cost I might as well have played a real pinball instead <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />And actually, I can´t really remember when I first got interested in pinball machines. Thanks to german overregulation arcades for young people never really existed in Germany, but we had some pinball machines at a restaurant where my aunt lived - no idea what that machine was because I got to play it so rarely. I´m sure pinballs must have always drawn my attention as a little kid - these things look like huge boxes full of blinking Lego pieces, oversized dioramas of wonder. And actually, that´s what I still find so incredibly cool about them!I also once visited a very old vacation park in Bergen, northern Holland. They mostly had huge trampolines and stuff like that, but I distinctly remember a corner with REALLY old arcade games. No pinballs as far as I can remember, but old electronic games where you would control a little bike over an obstacle course - everything controlled electro-mechanically, this thing must have been from the 70s.I have a soft spot for old arcade stuff in general, a sense of nostalgia for a phenomenon that almost entirely passed me by. It´s a shame, really, I would have loved it so much.What got me into pinball properly, however, is indeed the pinball arcade. I didn´t really like all these older pinball videogames, they always looked to dull to me and lacked the spark that the real tables have. Now I finally have the chance to sink some more time into these machines and actually understand how to play them. And it´s quite ironic it took so long for videogames to recreate pinball in a relatively realistic fashion - I remember that weird alligator pinball game for Gameboy, man, I´m almost certain I played that game even less than Tetris (which I HATED as a kid).And really, I´m sure TPA will relight gamers interest in pinball - I can only see the fanbase for these old machines growing. Sure, you can´t walk easily into an aracade anymore and choose between three dozen new machines - but now you get to pay a couple of bucks on your console or smartphone, play with these tables a little bit, and hopefully be engaged enough to do some deeper research into the genre. I don´t think pinball will ever REALLY die <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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