Do you have a memorable moment when you were a kid at the arcade? My most memorable was at the Goldmine arcade playing my favorite pin in 1986, it was High speed pinball, I remember all the kids were playing punch out,paperboy,720 while at the time the pinball row was empty and kids didn't really care to play pins?My mother used to take my brother and I to New Park Mall which today is a total dump mall compared to what it was in the 80s,and she whould give my brother and I $5 to play all day while she shopped, most of my money whould go to play High speed, I think what drew me to that game was that becon light spinning in the total darkness it just looked cool and there was no other pins like it there, after many try's I was getting pretty good at it and got to the red light part and wow! I was hearing cops talking from the pin and chasing me, while I playing the pin! what I didn't realize was that I was drawing a small crowd behind me with curious kids looking on ( never Had that happened to me) well I ended up getting the Jackpot and the pin went crazy and pop! got a free cedit from the knocker behind the backglass, man! those awesome sounds! after I was done the kids wanted to play it and try to beat my score which didn't happen for a while but that was my most memorable great time that I truly miss!
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