However, I’ve earned some damn good scores by slowly getting better at these moves. The skilled techniques are bit tough to grasp like “the dead bounce” and the “hold pass”. The jargon is extensive: slam tilts, slap saves, drains. Since, I’ve been going about twice a month and I’ve learned a lot. A Surly (local brewery), good ‘ole 80’s music, and The Munsters pinball machine. My first time, I went alone and had the best evening to myself. A small little pinball bar tucked under an apartment complex in Uptown. One afternoon, as I was at work, searching for something to do, I stumbled upon a local spot called Tilt. When I first moved to Minneapolis, I made a promise to myself that I would go out every Friday night after week, if only for an hour. The pinball industry is really on the up and up.
Gen Z gets a blast from the past, and this Millennial (I being on the younger end of them) gets to really take it all in for the first time. The “ Latchkey Kids” get to reminisce about their childhood and somehow, in those same dusty bars, a new generation has taken interest. And with the proliferation of the home video game system, there was never a reason to hit up a pinball arcade.ĭecades later, the nostalgia of the 1970s and 1980s, like many other things of that time, have made a comeback. As technology advanced past them, they soon became neglected, relegated to the dusty corners of dive bars. In the ‘70s and ‘80s, pinball machines were staples of bars and arcades. Growing up, I had known a bit about pinball – I was the G.O.A.T. As I write this article, I could not help but listen to Elton John’s Pinball Wizard (also see “The Who”).
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