When you're more new to pinball you seek out the games that hover at the top of the
Pinside Top 100 list, for the most part. You want to play the classics, the fresh hits, understand the buzz. When you enter a pinball show's doors you go right to them and hunker down. But when you've played them all, you start to notice the machines that aren't there at every show. The machines you had never seen before, or might have seen out of the corner of your eye when you were more green. I quickly came to understand that many of the obscure titles at the shows had one thing in common: They weren't from North America.
Welcome to the European pinball machines.
In the
Digital Niche Games post I mentioned how amazing it is to be able to play the Zaccaria games digitally, because chances are you'll never be able to play them all in real life. And that is true for most people, including some of the biggest pinball collectors. But there are a handful of pinballers who have sought out the European games, played them, and even built collections of them.
Niche Collection 006: Neo Skywalker's Euro pinball machines
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| Mexico 86 (1986, Zaccaria) + Zankor (1986, Zaccaria) |
the basics
who: Neo Skywalker
where: USA
what: "
Trying for a full collection of Gen2 Zaccarias, with other rare obscure games thrown in for good variety."
what country are these machines from: "
Bologna, Italy for Zaccaria. SLEIC is from Spain, Cirsa is from Spain as well."
when: "
I started collecting pinball machines in 2004, but have been playing tournaments, since 1991. Started going for a full Gen2 Zaccaria collection for about 6 years."
how many: "
Currently 42"
