Why Pinball ?
I have always been a sad arcade bod longer than I care to remember, and after the demise of what I consider to be the all time great arcade classics i.e. Space Invaders, Galaxians etc, fewer and fewer games held my attention!. Each time a new game cab arrived at my local arcade it was either a SF clone, gun game or yet et another racing simulator, these were ok but didn't quite give me the buzz I was looking for. I even tried my hand at fruit machines but holding my plums...ooh er missus  was the most enjoyment I got out of those pointless money pits. Eventually I turned my hand to a game of pinball or two and quickly found out how addictive these machines really were. Pretty soon it was the Pinball's that drove me back to the arcades time and time again, ah how great it was to be back in Arcade Heaven. All this happened during the late 80`s into the early 90's ending with me biting the bullet and buying my very own pinball and still one of my favorite tables of all time Funhouse, it was only six months old and cost me a whopping £1,750 in 1991.
Ten years on from my Funhouse acquisition (long gone by now!) I had a hankering for another table and with the advent of the internet we have today parts and maintenance seemed so much easier. So began my search, and before long I was picking up a Williams STTNG I had won off eBay. Acquiring the table was the easy part, finding replacement bits was a different matter! Trawling around the WWW opened a whole new world with lots of good sites but I soon came to the conclusion that what was lacking was a good enthusiasts site, hence is my attempt at this one!. I hope it provides you with the information you are looking for whether you are a fellow pinhead like me or just getting into this awesome hobby. Either way I will be happy if it steers a few people in the right direction avoiding some of the pitfalls that I've encountered along the way.

Bally v Williams
Same company really as they merged in the late 80,s. My site will only cover pinball's manufactured between 1990 to their sad demise in Sept 2000. These are the tables I spent my youth and hard earned on. There are literally hundreds of machines from a dozen or so other manufacturers! but quite frankly Bally & Williams in my opinion were generally the best pinball's ever made for both quality and playability.

Please note
Pinballer.com has been designed for broadband internet users with lots of intense eye candy to show how beautiful these machines truly are. My apologies in advance for modem users, please bookmark this site to improve speed on future visits.
Thanks for taking the time to read a little background on myself, now enter the world of the Pinballer...enjoy!