So I was having a bit of a clear out of majestic towers the other night and stumbled upon a pile of photographs and one honestly astounded me and oddly made me quite emotional.
So as a child pinball was always a huge part of my life, I played it regularly in a snooker hall close to my house and would always beg my parents to go to Southend on the weekends to play... Generally they would just shoo me away but on the odd occasion we did go it was magical. I would save my pocket money to buy almost every pinball game on any console I owned but the pinnacle of pinball for me was always Pro Pinballs Fantastic Journey.
I was always endlessly building things out of cardboard but I vaguely remembered building a handful of pinball machine models and I was certain of a memory of making a cardboard version of Fantastic Journey. Well after clearing out a draw I found a stack of photographs (real life photographs on paper none the less!!) And one of them was of the model I had built, I'm guessing I was probably around 6 or 7 (I think) at the time and honestly it kind of blew me away to think how pinball has always been such a fundamental part of my existence. Looking back if I'd of told my 6 year old self in the future I'd be making a living from pinball I wouldn't of believed it for a thousand years, but looking back at the old pictures I'm so damn proud of my younger self for being the quiet kid making things from scraps of cardboard and finding such inspiration from pinball games.
One day I will build a real homebrew of Fantastic Journey, it might be a retirement project but it's the top of my bucket list.
Pursue your dreams folks, and happy flipping
So as a child pinball was always a huge part of my life, I played it regularly in a snooker hall close to my house and would always beg my parents to go to Southend on the weekends to play... Generally they would just shoo me away but on the odd occasion we did go it was magical. I would save my pocket money to buy almost every pinball game on any console I owned but the pinnacle of pinball for me was always Pro Pinballs Fantastic Journey.
I was always endlessly building things out of cardboard but I vaguely remembered building a handful of pinball machine models and I was certain of a memory of making a cardboard version of Fantastic Journey. Well after clearing out a draw I found a stack of photographs (real life photographs on paper none the less!!) And one of them was of the model I had built, I'm guessing I was probably around 6 or 7 (I think) at the time and honestly it kind of blew me away to think how pinball has always been such a fundamental part of my existence. Looking back if I'd of told my 6 year old self in the future I'd be making a living from pinball I wouldn't of believed it for a thousand years, but looking back at the old pictures I'm so damn proud of my younger self for being the quiet kid making things from scraps of cardboard and finding such inspiration from pinball games.
One day I will build a real homebrew of Fantastic Journey, it might be a retirement project but it's the top of my bucket list.
Pursue your dreams folks, and happy flipping
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