“Growing up as a kid, me and my old man, he used to love all kinds of old stuff, and this is just something that reminds me of him,” said 24-year-old William Mena. It’s home to more than 150 fully functional pinball machines, some dating from the 1950s, where fans can go back in time - and, in some cases, relive their childhood. ASBURY PARK, New Jersey.- The Silverball Retro Arcade, a low-slung building along the boardwalk in New Jersey beach town Asbury Park, is not your typical museum.
It is free.Įach time you return to comment on the Learning English site, you can use your account and see your comments and replies to them. Or you may create one on the Disqus system. Enter the login for your social media account. They are for Disqus, Facebook, Twitter and Google. Under the box, you can see four images for social media accounts.Would you like to try pinball or go to the museum? a strong plastic used to make music records to look at someone or something for a long time often with your eyes wide open a reward or something special that can be enjoyed on occasion a condition that causes people to have difficulty communicating or forming relationships with other people a group of things that are not specifically describedĪutism - n. a place where many games can be played for money Faith Pirlo adapted it for Learning English. Roselle Chen wrote this article for Reuters. She said, “It's the same as we kept that alive here with the games, and it's something different or it's something from back in time that you remember doing when you were young." you really have to use all your senses," she said.īarber compared the return of pinball machines to the comeback of vinyl music records. “Even for all of us, and for young people now, it is a very tactile game. Patty Barber, senior vice president of Silverball Retro Arcade poses in Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S., August 12, 2022. So, they combined the collections, and in 2009, the museum opened under the name Silverball Retro Arcade. Ilvento’s friend and business partner Steve Zuckerman also had a pinball machine collection. She has autism, and one of her favorite activities is playing pinball. The collection of pinball machines started when the museum’s co-founder Robert Ilvento started collecting pinball machines for his daughter. He's not around anymore, so I come here and I play and it brings back memories from the past.” “…He used to love all kinds of old stuff and this is just something that reminds me of him. He said that growing up they would play arcade games on the Jersey Shore in the town of Seaside. The 24-year-old said that pinball reminds him of his father.
The Arcade offers fans of pinball a chance to go back in time and experience their childhoods again. They date back to the 1950s, when pinball was at the height of its popularity.
Some of the machines are over 70 years old. The Silverball Retro Arcade is also a museum. Pinball is an arcade game in which small metal balls shoot down the machine, hitting targets in order to earn points. It houses more than 150 working pinball machines. The Silverball Retro Arcade is near the boardwalk or seaside walking path in the coastal town of Asbury Park, in the state of New Jersey.
0 kommentar(er)
