![]() This quality extends not just to the older pinball games, but right up to cabinets from the mid-1990s and onwards. You’ll be hard pressed to find a burned-in screen or a sagging, wobbly joystick on the premises. They are, without a doubt, the most impeccably restored machines I’ve seen in person. I realise it’s unabashed pride at these machines. They were in that movie.” And for the first time during the interview, something creeps into the even, measured tone of St. ![]() “Do you remember the scene in the bar, with the two arcade cabinets in the background?” I didn’t. But her collection isn’t limited to pinball cabinets.Ĭoming upon two machines, St John turns to me and says “Did you see the Fighter? The Mark Whalberg movie?” I told her I had. I’m die-hard pinball fan, I’ll do anything to play”. A member of the Boston Pinball Association, St John describes herself as “a gamer, period. John has owned and maintained pinball machines since high school. ![]() But as we weave between classic Williams cabinets and pinball machines, St John listing stats and dates for each game, you get the sense that this woman is less an arcade owner and more a veteran curator in a buzzing, flashing, neon-lit museum. “That’s right,” she says, “this is something I take seriously.” Standing two inches taller than me and sporting a firm handshake, St John is not the type you’d imagine running an arcade. I tell her that I was impressed by the condition of her machines. “What was the first thing you noticed when you walked through the doors?” asks Sarah St John, owner of the Wizard. But head through the doors, past the front counter, and down the arcade’s aisles of vintage games and a single fact becomes overwhelmingly apparent: this very well might be the next great stronghold of classic gaming in New England. Tucked in the corner unit of a shopping plaza in sleepy Pelham, New Hampshire, the Pinball Wizard Arcade gives few clues to its existence aside from its crisp looking billboard. Writer Jon Lynch visits the newly opened Pinball Wizard, speaks to its proud, passionate owner and returns with this report. The American arcade, on the verge of extinction, is revived with the opening of a New Hampshire based arcade.
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