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The ultimate plunge I thought to myself, finally going over the deep end on Pinside. I begin browsing the various topics posted on the main forums looking for some type of connection to other pinball enthusiast. My pinball hobby now gone from isolationist to all out into the open; I knew this day would eventually come. I commented on various topics that I felt compelled to comment on and eventually I came to a topic about Pinball Secrets. Not secrets like how to drop catch without bouncing the ball but just secrets around pinball in peoples lives. Some post were humerous some serious, some seriously humerous. As I read more I wanted to post > Read the full story...
April 27th, 2018
It was early 1990 and I had just moved back "home" to St. Louis, Missouri from a year or so in Arizona. I was 22 years old, a bit adrift and wasn't even aware there was recession underway. After a bit I > more...
April 14th, 2018
I was born in 1983. I grew up in what was once a small suburb of a city in Washington State. My first interaction with anything video gaming related was an Atari 2600 unit my dad had picked up. This was > more...
April 8th, 2018
My dad and his brothers owned a bar on the northside of chicago in the early 70's. All my uncles adored my mom, and my mom adored pinball. We moved to wisconsin when i was just a baby, but it > more...
March 31st, 2018
The Night Mutilator took the big trip down to TPF for the first time ever with The Video Game Lady and we had an amazing time. Met some serious legends, such as Spooky Pinball madmen Charlie Emery, Bug & Scott > more...
March 28th, 2018
I grew up in a rural area -- far away from pinball machines, video games, and arcades. My earliest memory of coin op gaming was with my Grandfather. . . I was single digits in age but that did not > more...
March 16th, 2018
Growing up as a kid my brothers and I would ride our bikes to school at Del Rosa Elementary in San Bernardino CA. Daily we would make a slight detour to the convenience store to buy some candy and play > more...
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