i just learned there's a new pinball arcade in town

[fizzgig]

AND I'M SO EXCITED I WANT TO RUN AROUND DANCING AND YELLING LIKE A MANIAC BECAUSE I LOVE PINBALL SO MUCH!!!11!12!!!2@@1!

series, this is the great news

edit to fix typo and add:

the reason i'm so excited is that i haven't seen more than a few pinball machines in my town for years

[applegrove]

1. Growing up, a friend of mine had a pin ball machine in her basement. I loved that game.

[fizzgig]

4. that's really neat

[applegrove]

6. I came across a pinball game on the internet and was not bad at it. I still got it!!

[gratuitous]

2. Ever since I was a young boy

I played the silver ball.

There is something about pinball that video games, which I also enjoy, just don't quite make it. Maybe it's the physical real-life play. There are no cheat codes. You either keep the ball in play or you don't.

[fizzgig]

5. it's very meditative for me

i like video games, too, but i don't hit the near trance state i hit when playing pinball

[Kali]

3. love those things

just detailed my pachinko machine the other day - it's sort of a 70s version of Japanese pinball

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Down South (on the Kentucky/Tennessee border), cool dive bars...

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... often had pachinko machines that would (secretly) pay off
(gambling not being legal in that location).
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Same as with the early video poker machines.
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Though for BOTH types, they were fun enough that people who
were clueless about going to the bartender for a payout would
play them quite often JUST for the fun of it.
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[fizzgig]

8. way cool

i'd like to see a pic of that

[NoGOPZone]

9. If you're ever in Vegas, you might want to visit the Pinball Hall of Fame

On the East Coast, there Silver Ball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ.

[hibbing]

10. Lucky you

Hi,
Love me some pinball. Hard to find machines these days and then if you do they are slanted so much that it is hard to have a good play. Used to play all the time in high school and the college union had some. Loved 8-Ball Deluxe, there was one two level thing that I think was called Zenon or something like that, plenty of others. If you ever come across Medieval Madness play it, it is fun. I haven't played in years now.

Have fun at the place, I'm envious.

Peace

[LeftishBrit]

11. Thought for a moment that that was a new way of referring to DU3!