11/9/2022 0 Comments Pinball wizard nh![]() ![]() I took my mom and dad along and the last time the whole family actually went to an arcade together was back in the 90's. The radio kept playing an ad for the "Pinball Wizard Arcade" all damn week just taunting me to go but I couldn't because I was so tired after work so I decided to go on that Saturday. I was at a really terrible welding job in '12 however I couldn't quit because I had been laid off for like a year. I still remember how I found Pin Wiz and really the whole retro arcade scene. Thanks Sarah, for giving my son and I an awesome place to have fun for the past 4 years. This has been a wonderful place for the two of us and I'm SOOOOO sad that he's away this weekend and won't be around to spend the last of his tokens that he got for X-mas. ![]() Four years later, he's now keeping up with my scores on some of the better games, has very decent flipper technique, and understands some of the games' rules. When I first took my son, he was only tall enough to play SMB Mushroom World. I live 20 min from PWA and it's been a weekly staple for the past 4 years. To think right now there are both JJP games, loads of Premium/LE Sterns, tons of early B/W, both P2Ks, and enough System 11 & WPC games to make your head spin all in one place. The place was at least 4x the size of Dream Machine, with the wildest collection of pins ever. I'm so glad I didn't bring my 4yr old that day because I got to be a kid again all by myself. One day I finally decided to say heck with it and go by myself to check it out and see if it was anything like my old birthday party joint when my friends and I were growing up - Dream Machine in the Methuen Mall. I'll never forget that same feeling after seeing that giant purple sign every time I took my son to Chunky's next door. ![]() Thanks for keeping it going so strong for as long as you did. Very few chances to ever get that opportunity in life and now one of them is gone. Walking through the doors for the first time reminded me of walking into Fenway my first time 40 years ago and seeing all that green grass. ![]()
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