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  • This could be heaven. I would gladly spend eternity here provided, of course, I had a supply of quarters and some sushi. In a former life as a college student I made beer money by fixing pinball machines. I got to play for free and I credit my extensive practice for my being able to prevail over my kids (at least at pinball). It being the mid-70s, I personally witnessed the first techno-revolution as electromechanical pins (the logic of which was hardwired into banks of relays, solenoids, and miniature incandescent lamps) were gradually replaced by solid-state pins (made of microprocessors, integrated circuits, transistors, and LED displays). About that time the first arcade videogames were developed; Nolan Bushnell's PONG gave way to games such as Asteroids, Galaxians, Pac-Man and Missile Command. I also personally witnessed the decline and eventual demise of pinball machines in candy stores and bowling alleys: most were never maintained and players grew tired of dirty playfields and pop bumpers that didn't. Thank goodness for the pinball revival and especially for the Pinball Hall of Fame and Museum (its official name). Free to anyone with a spare quarter, the Hall of Fame is several family-friendly aisles of coin-op games, seemingly organized, or disorganized, by era. One aisle features 1960s-era Gottlieb pins ("Points, 10, When Lit"); another has the old vid-game titles, still another has modern-era pins such as Rolling Stones, Avatar, and Wizard of Oz -- the newest machines have multiple levels and multiple balls. The original prices to play the machines have been kept, a quarter might get you 5 balls of an older Gottlieb game, a newer game might be 50 cents for 3 balls. Thwack! Your score just matched and won a free game. Change machines, and humans, will gladly change your paper money for quarters (at least the humans will do so gladly). The humans are volunteers and, likely as not, will be swinging a soldering iron over the open chassis of a machine while making your change, so watch out for hot solder blobs. If that don't beat all, the pinball machine money (and the gumball machine money) is donated to the Salvation Army.
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