![]() Starting in 1977, tables began to use solid-state components, meaning a small CPU ran the board, creating digial audio and more complex scoring algorithms. You’ll find no silicon chips here: all action and sound comes from a confluence of earthly materials and physics. The feeling hits hardest while walking down the aisle of electro-mechanicals, tables like Aquarius and Captain Fantastic, from the 1960s and 70s. To stand in front of a pinball table is to be transported to a time when your immediate surroundings were all that mattered Arnold’s oasis holds one-hundred fifty-two pins, from Heavy Hitter (1947) to AC/DC (2011). Cruise by your local watering hole if you’re very lucky you may find one beat-up table in the corner. As it turns out this is exactly what it is: an airy warehouse filled with tables, aligned in some kind of ever-shifting order. Finally, in 2006, he opened the doors to his own kind of pleasure palace: The Pinball Hall of Fame.įrom the street, the building looks like a nondescript storage facility. Over the next decade he gathered and restored over 1000 tables, hosting ‘Fun Nights’ for locals and donating the proceeds to charity. ![]() He moved to Paradise, Nevada in 1990, just a mile from that clutch of casinos inhabited by fake Elvises and real addicts.īut he couldn’t leave his machines behind. After having opened a popular arcade in Michigan in the mid-70s, the arcade bust sent him west. Tim Arnold arrived with a very different goal. People arrive with many goals in mind: win money, eat decadent food, marvel at near-naked bodies, shimmering and contorted. Even the name of its main stretch–The Strip–provokes. Las Vegas is a city of lights, loss, flesh, and fantasy.
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