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<blockquote data-quote="Epsilon" data-source="post: 144023" data-attributes="member: 381"><p>I'm pretty sure I must have played some pinball machine when I was a young kid in an arcade or skating rink or some such, but I can't remember any specific machine. The first machine I REMEMBER playing explicitly was an old EM (can't remember the name of it) that one of my best friends in childhood had in his basement. We played quite a bit of it but because it was so old and simple, it kind of negatively shaded my opinion of pinball for quite some time. We always gravitated toward video games and just played a few games of pinball every now and then when we were really bored. Incidentally, though, I did get pretty deep into Pinball Fantasies on the PC for a while. </p><p></p><p>The machine that made me realize how awesome pinball could be was actually a Cactus Canyon at a movie theater when I was probably around 16 or so (it must have been right after it was released and I didn't know at the time how few were actually made.) The train toy and interactive mine really impressed me for some reason, and I spent an hour or so dumping quarters into it until I ran out of cash. It's kind of fitting that my interest in pinball was sparked right around the time Williams was about to go under.</p><p></p><p>So then in college I stumbled across Visual Pinball and VPinMAME, and through that got a really nice overview of the tables that were out there that I missed out on, and now I'm a virtual pinball addict. I play pretty much any real machine I come across in the wild (which are few and far between at this point), and I even occasionally go to an upscale game room store around here that has a bunch of machines set on free play for testing purposes (although many of them are in shockingly bad maintenance, which reminds me again why I love digital pinball, because while there will always be software bugs at least you never have to worry about physical parts failing or flipper coils weakening in virtual pins.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Epsilon, post: 144023, member: 381"] I'm pretty sure I must have played some pinball machine when I was a young kid in an arcade or skating rink or some such, but I can't remember any specific machine. The first machine I REMEMBER playing explicitly was an old EM (can't remember the name of it) that one of my best friends in childhood had in his basement. We played quite a bit of it but because it was so old and simple, it kind of negatively shaded my opinion of pinball for quite some time. We always gravitated toward video games and just played a few games of pinball every now and then when we were really bored. Incidentally, though, I did get pretty deep into Pinball Fantasies on the PC for a while. The machine that made me realize how awesome pinball could be was actually a Cactus Canyon at a movie theater when I was probably around 16 or so (it must have been right after it was released and I didn't know at the time how few were actually made.) The train toy and interactive mine really impressed me for some reason, and I spent an hour or so dumping quarters into it until I ran out of cash. It's kind of fitting that my interest in pinball was sparked right around the time Williams was about to go under. So then in college I stumbled across Visual Pinball and VPinMAME, and through that got a really nice overview of the tables that were out there that I missed out on, and now I'm a virtual pinball addict. I play pretty much any real machine I come across in the wild (which are few and far between at this point), and I even occasionally go to an upscale game room store around here that has a bunch of machines set on free play for testing purposes (although many of them are in shockingly bad maintenance, which reminds me again why I love digital pinball, because while there will always be software bugs at least you never have to worry about physical parts failing or flipper coils weakening in virtual pins.) [/QUOTE]
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