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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Timelord" data-source="post: 145240" data-attributes="member: 1441">I was lucky enough to have a friend who had a pinball machine in their basement way back in the early 50's.  I've searched for years and years through pinball databases and have never found the table's name.  Perhaps it is a matter of memory "smear" or other distortion, but I simply can't find it.However having access to that machine, set on free play, hooked me for life.  I played them wherever I could from that point on all the way until the late 90's where my life became so hectic due to career responsibilities that I sort of lost contact.  VP was my only source of pinball release from that point on until TPA.Living in Chicago gives me many opportunities which I have previously not availed myself to in retirement.  However starting the next few weeks I'm going to start to visit many of the places that still have pinball "in the wild" and hopefully knock a few silver balls into the proper trajectories. I anticipate a steep learning curve as I haven't played the silver ball IRL since about 1998, but I'm hoping that it's sort of like riding a bike.I'll be bringing my trusty camera to capture the "scene" surrounding the location, hopefully reporting the experience in the podcasts, and passing the photos on to the Cap'n.A shout out to Jeff Strong and Mudtoe for pushing me off dead center back onto the live pinball scene again.Timelord ...</blockquote>

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