Another emerging public pinball story coming soon.
The Illawarra Mercury ( paper ) interview and photo happened this week.
The interviewer couldnt make it here in person and phoned the interview through.......she was really lovely and interested but knew little about pinball ( apart from hearing something recently about the ACDC pinball
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So in ONE hour, apart from talking about the League which was the main reason for the story, I was asked to explain pinball from its inception to current day and its future, flowing games, strategic games, my faves, my youth, pin companies past and present, various stages of highs and lows for the industry, IFPA and WPPR points system , why the league started , collectors in the area, both Australian forums, I tried to make sure she plugs our leagues main sponsors....
RTBB being one of them, other Leagues ( so I put a plug in for Pizza N Pinball as well ) and just SO MUCH other stuff........she came across as very intelligent but it was SO much info to a pinball noobie that I reckon there is a high chance of some superb mis-quotes
The photographer was excellent and as it turns out he was 45YO - loved pinball and spent ( mis-spent ) his youth in our area ( Wollongong ) and told me stories about his time spent at a well known arcade in The Gong back then - Flashback.
He even had memories of one of his epic playing days on a Jacks Open pinball
The guy was so interested that he and his mate do short documentaries for Fairfax media group and he now wants to do one on "pinballs place in society' over different era's.......so I think he will be coming to a local collectors big annual meet in October to interview a few of us for that docco - but I have to confirm this yet as it gets closer:D
Will scan and post the paper story when published in the next few weeks
