{"id":128937,"date":"2022-10-10T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=128937"},"modified":"2022-12-31T16:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T21:33:23","slug":"sackvilles-hidden-video-and-pinball-arcade-grew-from-pandemic-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/sackvilles-hidden-video-and-pinball-arcade-grew-from-pandemic-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Sackville\u2019s hidden video and pinball arcade grew from pandemic hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A hobby and games shop in downtown Sackville has been gradually piecing together a video and pinball arcade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Harborne, owner of Vortex Games, says his pinball collection grew during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He started off with just two, but now has six, after tracking down limited-run <\/span>machines that became increasingly sought-after as people quarantined.<\/p>\n<p>\"People bought them and put them in their homes,\" Harborne said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His pinball collection spans several decades, the oldest being a <em>Dracula<\/em> table from the 1970s. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The face of Arnold Schwarzenegger gazes down from 1993's <em>Last Action Hero<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Jurassic Park<\/em> table from 2019 features a roaring, animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex. A skillful shot sends the ball straight up a ramp and into the dinosaur\u2019s mouth to trigger a two-ball multiball mode as the machine roars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others include <em>Space Shuttle<\/em> (1984), <em>Stargate<\/em> (1995) and a \u201cblazingly fast\u201d <em>Transformers<\/em> table from around 2010, a machine that Harborne himself upgraded with a colour display.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His machines were previously scattered around the shop before Vortex renovated in November 2021, building an unassuming arcade room in the back. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat created the arcade room so that we could put all of the machines in one space,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHMA\u2019s resident pinhead David Gordon Koch visited the arcade to interview Harborne and check out a few machines on Friday, Oct. 7:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hobby and games shop in downtown Sackville has been gradually piecing together a video and pinball arcade. Chris Harborne, owner of Vortex Games, says his pinball collection grew during the pandemic.\u00a0He started off with just two, but now has six, after tracking down limited-run machines that became increasingly sought-after as people quarantined. &#8220;People bought&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":128941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[714,21202,823,5774,21203],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134284,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128937\/revisions\/134284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128937"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=128937"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=128937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}