Special When Lit

00:00:01 Looking back on my boyhood and adolescence in South Texas

00:05:23 And now here we are 20 years later

00:08:33 I was surprised other people were like this. I thought we were crazy.

00:11:19 When I am with the pinball, I look the pinball, everything. I am in love.

00:15:40 there was an over-proliferation of games everywhere

00:19:34 Suddenly you could find pinball machines legally.

00:22:39 And at that time I think the pinball machine was highly Americanised

00:25:49 (Cheering)

00:29:29 Rebuild the bumpers, rebuild the pop-bumpers, rebuild the slingshots.

00:33:11 is significantly down from what it was.

00:36:07 (Machine) It's just you and the track now!

00:39:20 that 5% of the people that play 'em understand the rules.

00:42:01 ? Put another quarter in the pinball

00:45:29 Hold on, I've got to check my camcorder cos I think I got a bad angle.

00:48:50 But I tended to back away and said it's not really man against machine.

00:51:43 And I could not leave cos I did not want to lose these free games.

00:55:03 (Cheering)

00:58:12 and then I'd pop it and change my stance

01:02:08 know how to dissect a play field and the objectives and the rules

01:05:50 And I know for a fact that I can beat them. I haven't proved that yet.

01:09:16 in terms of when the ball's coming down.

01:13:09 That's what I want to do and I'd barely really gotten started.

01:18:46 They were now breaking down into sub little groups.

01:23:48 I think that there is a fleeting sense