

#PINBALL WIZARD NH PLUS#
Plus skeeball, foosball, arcade games, and a great bar scene. You will also find the Tekken arcade game, seriously good fried chicken, and sometimes live music.įootsy Magoos, 17 1st St #1, Troy, NY 12180 The Flying Chicken, 122 4th St, Troy, NY 12180

Also a great place to grab a beer and some pub food, maybe before a show at the Palace Theatre. McGeary's, 4 Clinton Square, Albany, NY 12207 Many machines will tell you where to shoot the ball so you can get a higher score. If done recklessly, you'll lose control of the flippers. If done with finesse, you can save your ball. Pinball is a fast-paced game, if you catch the ball you have the ability to slow it down and strategize. The space between them will be bigger if you do and it's easier to lose the ball. + Don't hit both flippers at the same time. You've gotta look in old-school arcades (or even pinball museums) and less obvious spots like laundromats, bars, and highway rest stops.Ī few tips before you get started playing pinball: So, where can you find machines? Usually not at shiny, new places.
#PINBALL WIZARD NH TV#
Other than TV shows, you'll find machines that display your favorite bands, movies, games, and more obscure topics. You will find machines with newer themes such as Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead right alongside classics. Perhaps you think of the game as retro, and truly its heyday was the '70s, but pinball is still alive and well today. Here are a bunch of places around the Northeast. Now I'm happy to combine my past and present pastimes everywhere I travel, always on the hunt for pinball machines. Just like that I was hooked again, remembering how fun it is to play. I was in a foreign country and felt completely at home. The blinking lights, the clinking sounds, the focus in the players' eyes as they were completey immersed in the moment. Then I found myself in Budapest at the Flipper Museum, an interactive pinball exhibit.

And more than a decade passed since I had last touched a pinball machine. But life happens, you grow up, and you find other hobbies (like travel). It was the one place my brother and I could agree on - and get along. When I was a child, we practically lived in the arcade, playing pinball.
