![]() It was eventually abandoned when we got an Atari 2600, which was in turn put aside when I got a Commodore 64.įlash-forward to a couple of years ago. But it had legs, and a spring-loaded ball launch mechanism. Obviously it was not a REAL table It was a toy that was I can’t even find a picture of online. Then that Christmas, 10-year-old me got one of my favorite gifts: A pinball table. But in between pumping quarters into the latest Atari coin-magnets, I played this table. My memory fails as to what “brand” the table was, and I recall it was as generic as they come. It was at the peak of video game mania, and while it was small, it had the best of all the modern cabinets. I bought my first role playing game at said hobby shop, a D&D board-game knock off that I couldn’t name today if my life depended on it.Īt one point the hobby shop closed, and it was replaced… By an arcade “parlor”. There was a pharmacy with a soda fountain, another pharmacy a block away with all the newest comic books… Even a hobby shop, at one point. Pinson didn’t have a classic “Mayberry” main street, but it wasn’t far off. When I was growing up in Pinson, Alabama, I used to walk to downtown every Saturday to spend my allowance.
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