I played a lot of pinball in my day. And to my everlasting joy, here was a museum with dozens of working machines!
We stumbled across the Pinball Museum in Corbin, Kentucky. For a small fee, you can work the flippers on rows of machines all day long. There’s vintage and modern pinball machines, all working, no quarters needed!
Pinball was the thing way back when. Before the onslaught of video games, pinball was how you wasted time.
To show how important pinball was to m-m-m-my generation, The Who wrote a whole rock opera about it called Tommy.
In The Who’s double album, Tommy was a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who was redeemed by playing pinball.
“Ain’t got no distractions
Can’t hear no buzzers and bells
Don’t see no lights a-flashin’
Plays by sense of smell”
“Always gets a replay
Never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball”
Man, that was the most fun I’ve had in a while! Happily I’ve still got some flipper skills. Muscle memory, you know.
Pinball Museum in Corbin – worth wasting some time!
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So fun! There’s a pinball machine arcade in Chicago and they run competitions and tournaments all the time!
Oooo! Time for a trip to Chi-town!
Sounds like you’ll be headed back to Corbin to exercise the old skills. I was trying to remember if I ever played back in the Jurassic when I was…well, a hell of a lot younger and slimmer…and if I did it was maybe once or twice. I remember Pacman and Space Invaders more. Probably because I had young stepsons who wanted to play, and I needed to help the preschooler one play so he wouldn’t die so often. Knew the song you referenced even before you supplied some lyrics though.
Ah, the good old days!
In my case, no raw talent and couldn’t afford the quarters. Did like to watch others, however.
It’s all in the wrist!