On the back of a few recent threads, thought I’d better get around to introducing myself, I’ve been a lurker for quite a while and a member for a couple of months, so here goes....
Hello
I’m Tony and I think that pinball addiction has got me! And probably always had!
It all started about 20 years ago when my family ran a pub, and we used to have a pinball machine in it (Not many pubs with pins around nowadays
), and of course when you had the keys you could play as much as you wanted out of hours, so as you can imagine I had a lot of fun!
Then unfortunately work life and the first wife got in the way, so it took me another 10 years to finally get round to owning my own first pin a Data East Star wars which i owned for about a year and was fantastic. Then that life and kitchen thing got in the way! Then the extension second wife etc.......
So for the last three years or so I’ve been buying the odd pinball, cleaning them up, replacing rubbers, fixing bits and bobs playing them etc, etc... I’ve even managed to sell a couple! Wonder if Judge Dredd still has my old T2? And as far as I’m aware I still own the record for the highest Gilligan’s Island sale of recent years? (Not that that’s really anything to be proud of?)
Anyway I’m getting carried away, here’s the current problem (And final admission of the addiction) my wife wants “her” garage back but it’s now full of my pinball’s, 3 (full projects), 1(1/2 Project) 1 (nearly finished project), and 1 (fully working, but not quite back together) so there’s currently no room for the wife’s car.
There I’ve finally admitted it, but on reading it back I probably like fixing them more than playing? As theres not one fully playable at the moment!!! Surely that can’t be right?
I’ve enjoyed this site and there really are some talented people on here so keep up the good work.
Thanks
Tony
Hello
I’m Tony and I think that pinball addiction has got me! And probably always had!It all started about 20 years ago when my family ran a pub, and we used to have a pinball machine in it (Not many pubs with pins around nowadays
), and of course when you had the keys you could play as much as you wanted out of hours, so as you can imagine I had a lot of fun!Then unfortunately work life and the first wife got in the way, so it took me another 10 years to finally get round to owning my own first pin a Data East Star wars which i owned for about a year and was fantastic. Then that life and kitchen thing got in the way! Then the extension second wife etc.......
So for the last three years or so I’ve been buying the odd pinball, cleaning them up, replacing rubbers, fixing bits and bobs playing them etc, etc... I’ve even managed to sell a couple! Wonder if Judge Dredd still has my old T2? And as far as I’m aware I still own the record for the highest Gilligan’s Island sale of recent years? (Not that that’s really anything to be proud of?)
Anyway I’m getting carried away, here’s the current problem (And final admission of the addiction) my wife wants “her” garage back but it’s now full of my pinball’s, 3 (full projects), 1(1/2 Project) 1 (nearly finished project), and 1 (fully working, but not quite back together) so there’s currently no room for the wife’s car.
There I’ve finally admitted it, but on reading it back I probably like fixing them more than playing? As theres not one fully playable at the moment!!! Surely that can’t be right?
I’ve enjoyed this site and there really are some talented people on here so keep up the good work.
Thanks
Tony
