Unearthing Yesterday's Lost Scripts
Before The Wolffy Four, There Were Two
Southern Illinois Super Show
This is a road crew article that blogged a road trip to Rob Craig's (Silver Ball Podcast) show in Herrin, Illinois with Pinball Life founder Terry Dezwarte. Today these road trips would be divided up into Trippin' After Dark vlogs.
I Now Know Better
Sometimes you miss a hidden gem and other times it takes a while to grow an appreciation that didn't exist prior. Today you would be asked to get lost in the zone as original opinions get revisited.
Two for the Road
The first article to appear was an early road trip to the best flea market and swap meet in Allentown, PA. An updated 2025 visit happened as an After Dark investigative report in to the price trend of game room pinball machines.
The second article to appear in this edition was a revisit to Rob Craig's show in Southern Illinois and was an attempt to create an entire gameroom show. Road Trip excitement is broken up into Trippin' After Dark vlogs.
NBA: Where Pinball Happens
This visit to the launch party for Stern Pinball's NBA would today appear as a first impressions video and possible discussion videos about getting Lost in the Zone with players, desginers or both.
Retracing History
This was an over view as to how to reverse engineer what may have distressed a pinball machine prior to attempting a restoration project. Expanding on these topics going forward would just get us Lost in the Zone of reading tells about the past.
Pingame Throwdown: Meteor
This spoof format was used to show how knowledge can be gained from one verteran and passed down to the up and coming. It's also the introduction of Jackson to the articles and who continues to make appearances on the Geek Zone channel today. While his knowledge of Vintage tech makes him a great collaberator on the main channel he also helps out with the After Dark vlogs.
But That Was Then
This is now. These were fine for the back of a magazine musings. One could always choose to just keep going with their place or one could choose to push forward (literally) to the front of the magazine. Enter the geek zone! (OMG the puns)