"We were driving from Philadelphia back to North Carolina," Collin Ward said. One couple had no idea it was the last day. Two young women with glassy eyes and a peculiar odor surrounding them gave the Nose an idea: What if Delegate Curt Anderson's bill to legalize recreational marijuana had been in effect: Could stoners, the traditional champions of pinball, have saved the museum? The Nose called the delegate, but got no response by press time. "And we heard it was the last day, so it gave us a good excuse to come up to Baltimore." "My husband took our son to a competition last week where people were really good," said Jackie Davey, while her husband's eyes focused on the game he was playing. At one point, there were 50 people milling about the three-story museum's second story, where most of the games are.Īn older couple came up with their son from northern Virginia. It moved barely more than a year ago from Georgetown in Washington, D.C. The Nose isn't a pinball wizard, but we spent a pleasant hour playing Queen of Hearts, Sea Hunt, Big Bang Bar, and Nugent, a game whose backboard features the eponymous rocker wielding a half-guitar, half-machine gun device, in the National Pinball Museum on Sunday, the museum's last day in operation near the Power Plant Live! complex. But then, as the silver ball coasts down the board, directly between the frantic flippers, there it is in flashing lights on the backboard of one of the 60 pinball machines buzzing, flashing, and pow-ing: Game Over.
It's not often that a death knell is quite so joyously cacophonous. Blip, bonk-bonk, ring-a-ling-a-krooow, ka-bling, pow, ring!
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