Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
Originally Posted by LarryS View Post

Its amazing the pure simplicity of the ones from the 60s when I grew up. I play a few of those for nostalgia....and also the old baseball ones also....very simple. But at the time they were all we knew.

The only place as a kid I could play them was when we went to the shore, and they had arcades in asbury park and atlantic city. nothing really locally. There were no malls yet. Maybe a pizzeria would have one...but thats about it.
When I was a senior in high school we used to smoke up, drink some Rolling Rock and then go shoot pool and play pinball at a billiards joint in Cherry Hill.

Got good enough at pinball that most of the games were free; pool though, that's another story.

Too bad I wasn't into the "old school" stuff like I am now: the Latin Casino was down the road and always hopping.
I remember getting chased out of a pool hall for playing pinball because I was under 18 and it was an 18 and above place.
My father was a pro pool player so I grew up in pool halls playing pinball and pool. When the pin ball machines started to age, my father bought them for next to nothing. So we had a basement full of pin ball machines (and of course a pool table).

Made a lot of $$$ all through college hustling both. Got 10-1 one time that I could beat a guy with me flipping with my feet. I won.