Much to my surprise, one of the biggest pinball collectors in the country, Rob Berk, lives here. He’s the founder and current director of the Chicago Pinball Expo and has over 1,500 machines in a warehouse in Warren.
And he’s decided to open a Pinball PA-type place ten minutes from my house. Except it’ll be a really good Pinball PA.
https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/arcade-with-350-pinball-machines-coming-to-downtown-girard/
It’s not opening for another few months while they get all of the machines operating and repaired. In the meantime, they asked some of the Birdfish pinball folks if they’d be willing to help test the machines, if they bought us beer and pizza.
Um. You want us to go play 170 pinball/arcade machines for free, and you are buying us pizza and beer? OK…
Take a look at these. And scroll all the way down to the best one.
All kinds of machines, old and new. All working and available to play. And when I say old:
That’s a Humpty Dumpty. As in, the first pinball machine to have these new fangled things called ‘flippers’.
Amazing place. Can’t wait until it opens! Or until they need me to go there again and ‘work’. They’re really doing this right. Machine shop in the back; a lab – just a really great setup.