The Stephenson Families' Great Californian Adventure

PINBALL EXPO!!!!!!!

Damn, I didn't know about this until recently and nearly missed it!

I thought my arcade sadness had finished till next year but nope - right around the corner from us was the Pacific Pinball Expo this weekend. Of course, I attended. Hundreds of pinball games, all from collectors, from the 40s up until present day, all on free-play. And a bar. Heaven! It was an amazing atmosphere, and an awesome ambient sound just being in a place filled with so many of these antiques... a mixture of bells and mechanical sounds from the older games as well as surround sound samples and OTT audio effects from the newer ones, pretty amazing stuff. I played a lot of the newer machines but probably got the most enjoyment out of the old games I'd never played before.