I just stumbled across this site - always great to find a new pinball resource! To tell you a little about myself - I was born in 1964 and started playing pinball when I was a kid. My dad and I would play the EM's, but when I played a 1979 Williams Flash for the 1st time - that's when I knew I was hooked. Pinball was a big part of my life up until the mid/late 80's when I was in college. A combination of video games squeezing out pinball form the arcades, plus 'reaLife' issues made pinball a thing of the past for me. That was until several years ago when I found the IPDB. Seeing pics of all the old machines I played rekindled my interest. It wasn't long after that I was looking for my 1st pin. I got Flash a couple years ago, and the pinball addiction began. ....I've since bought/repaired and sold a few more. I currently own Flash, Paragon, Firepower (yes, I love the pins from the late 70's and early 80's) and a 2010 Stern Avatar. I'm also fixing up a 1979 Gottlieb Genie that was in pretty rough shape when I got it.
I've been posting over at
www.pinside.com for a while - if you want you can find threads I started there for my Firepower playfield swap, the Genie restoration, and a few mods I did on Avatar. Again, I'm happy I found this place - look forward to browsing around more.
Y"all take care!
-SK
