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<blockquote data-quote="Zombie Aladdin" data-source="post: 143567" data-attributes="member: 4242"><p>I believe the first machine I ever played on was either <em>The Addams Family</em> or <em>Banzai Run</em> at All Amusement Fun Center in Panorama City, CA. I was 7 at the time, I think. I played one game, was disappointed the inserts were not buttons and thus didn't react when the ball flew by, and stopped playing for 20 years.</p><p></p><p>2013 was when I actually got into pinball more seriously, so I'm probably the last person to get into pinball here by a long shot. The first machine I played on was <em>The Simpsons Pinball Party</em> at Japan Arcade in Little Tokyo (which is either gone or it moved). The DMD was messed up, and the garage was stuck, but now I finally understood that you were supposed to shoot up the ramps the inserts were pointing to and not just over the inserts, and that there were actually rules beyond "A scores X points, B scores Y points," etc.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Baby Pac-Man</em> is awesome. It doesn't get nearly as much love as it deserves, if you ask me. Good pinball players tend not to be good video game players and vice versa, and you have to be good at both to do decently.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That was EXACTLY how I felt when I was younger. I didn't know anyone who knew a thing about pinball nor cared, even when I was little, and any time I actully saw someone playing, they were so good at it that they frightened me. Not helping was that some of these good players, at that time, seemed to dislike kids and made me feel unwelcome in these arcades.</p><p></p><p>Nowadays, if I tell people that pinball is one thing I am into, they are interested enough to hear me out about it, though rarely would anyone else ever try playing themselves. I think people need a friend to ease them into it, in a Milgram kind of way. This leads me to believe that interest in pinball is there and is widespread, but the intimidation I felt when I was little is still in most people when they are adults. They are afraid to start playing because they know these machines will mercilessly chew up and spit out beginners.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zombie Aladdin, post: 143567, member: 4242"] I believe the first machine I ever played on was either [i]The Addams Family[/i] or [i]Banzai Run[/i] at All Amusement Fun Center in Panorama City, CA. I was 7 at the time, I think. I played one game, was disappointed the inserts were not buttons and thus didn't react when the ball flew by, and stopped playing for 20 years. 2013 was when I actually got into pinball more seriously, so I'm probably the last person to get into pinball here by a long shot. The first machine I played on was [i]The Simpsons Pinball Party[/i] at Japan Arcade in Little Tokyo (which is either gone or it moved). The DMD was messed up, and the garage was stuck, but now I finally understood that you were supposed to shoot up the ramps the inserts were pointing to and not just over the inserts, and that there were actually rules beyond "A scores X points, B scores Y points," etc. [i]Baby Pac-Man[/i] is awesome. It doesn't get nearly as much love as it deserves, if you ask me. Good pinball players tend not to be good video game players and vice versa, and you have to be good at both to do decently. That was EXACTLY how I felt when I was younger. I didn't know anyone who knew a thing about pinball nor cared, even when I was little, and any time I actully saw someone playing, they were so good at it that they frightened me. Not helping was that some of these good players, at that time, seemed to dislike kids and made me feel unwelcome in these arcades. Nowadays, if I tell people that pinball is one thing I am into, they are interested enough to hear me out about it, though rarely would anyone else ever try playing themselves. I think people need a friend to ease them into it, in a Milgram kind of way. This leads me to believe that interest in pinball is there and is widespread, but the intimidation I felt when I was little is still in most people when they are adults. They are afraid to start playing because they know these machines will mercilessly chew up and spit out beginners. [/QUOTE]
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