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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lio" data-source="post: 142640" data-attributes="member: 3222">My first was Black Knight 2000 - must have been around the time it was pretty new so around 1990.The ice skating hall in the town I grew up in always had one pinball machine in their hallway that led up to the restaurant on top... and BK2K is the first pin I remember playing when I was 8 or 9 years old.I also remember that afterwards they had an Elvira and the Party Monsters and a Racical!I'm really surprised how much of an impression BK2K left on me... in the years after I have always liked pinball but when the machines started disappearing from the local pubs I sort of forgot about (real) pinball and only played the "pro pinball" games on the pc... until years later Visual Pinball came along and when Chris Leathley (aka Black) posted his first work-in-progress screenshot of his BK2K VP recreation (back in the days before there was vpm emulation in VP around the year 2000) it really hit me when all those memories came back and I immediately recognized this game as the first pin I ever played... this rekindled my interest in pinball and eventually led to me getting a real BK2K some time later... to this day still my one and only real pin I own (sadly I don't have room for it in my flat so it had to stay at my parents' house almost 900 kilometers away).</blockquote>

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