Does anyone have any fond memories of pinball? I always did enjoy it, but of course it's very hard now to find machines.
I've just seen again the documentary "Special When Lit" and it reminded me of just how immense pinball was for fifty years. Indeed, I'd forgotten the little factoid that between 1955 and 1970 pinball took more money worldwide than the entire American movie industry. It was huge, and then faded away when video games started coming in. The death blow was the invention of the home entertainment Atari type video games, at which point people stopped going out for entertainment, and as today, now stayed in.
Anyway, I have the excellent Pinball Arcade video game, which recreates genuine tables in great detail, but it's not the same. But I had many happy times as a callow youth spending all my money on Black Knight and its ilk.
Anyone else remember any games? Zero probably played Big Shot in a milk bar, and AC before they invented flippers (a six flippered table called Humpty Dumpty if you care).
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