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Greetings Group. This is my first post on your fine and fickle forums. And to celebrate this happy event I thought I'd do something different to the usual "I'm new - ask dumb question - get flamed by regulars" approach favoured by many.
My name is GEE... This is not only an expression of sardonic wonder, but also my initials. I'm sure you've seen them many times on the high score tables of pinball machines across this wide brown land.
(Or maybe not. But not for my want of trying.)
I am the epitome of a pinball addict. But I wasn't always this way. I got hooked on pins in the 70s, got turned off by the lame sqwarking and beeping of early 80s pins*, and somehow managed to miss most of the 90s renaissence of pinball while engaged in other pursuits. (I think I was having a career or something ... I vaguely recall there were some women involved, too ... perhaps some drinking ... it's all a bit of a blur, frankly.)
Fast forward to now, give or take a year.
A year ago I moved cities into a house big enough to accommodate my middle age spread AND my hobbies. And so I immediately set about having my own little pinball renaissence.
### Warning! Mandatory List of Pinballs Owned Follows. ###
Medieval Madness
Cirqus Voltaire
Twilight Zone
Starship Troopers
(one other secret EM pinball)
### You are now safe. Mandatory List of Pinballs Owned concluded. ###
"GEE," I hear you think, in an ironically capitalised thought bubble. "That guy must really like pinball."
You don't know the half of it.
In the past year I've bought pinball books, stickers, spare parts, more bulbs than Las Vegas, and a soldering station. I've taught my 3 year old son how to drop catch a silver ball, I've been abused by Wayne in an email contretemps, I've corresponded with the guy writing the new ROM for Cactus Canyon, and I've visited the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.
And yet, despite all of the above, I still haven't completed Battle For the Kingdom on MM.
So there you go. I am GEE. Make of me what you will.
* the asterisked statement represents the mandatory flamebait required in n00b posts, designed to provoke outrage or condecension** from the owners of early 80s pins ;-)
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