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MEDFORD, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — For pinball lovers, there's nothing like the feel of an actual full-sized pinball machine with the flippers on either side and all of the flashing lights and buzzing and beeping sounds.
When computers and mobile phones started offering computer arcade games, lovers of classic pinball had less places to play the game they love.
But Pop's Pinball Parlor has now opened in Medford Square inside Deep Cuts, the second Pop's to open in this area.
The first opened in 2023 at Bow Market in Somerville.
Owners Ty Ueda and Daniel Radin are both full-time passionate pinball machine operators and collectors.
Radin said there's nothing like playing pinball on a real machine. "They can't be replicated on your phone or on your computer the same way Pac-Man or a classic arcade game can be," he said.
Pop's features newer pinball machines made in the last decade, to the classics, and even rare and unique pinball games.
Radin said he developed his love for pinball from his Dad. "The most fun, the most work, and the least money is pinball," he said. "So, it's absolutely a labor of love."
Radin and Ueda said they hope to get more people into pinball.
And they have the advantage of opening their parlors in the Boston area where Radin said there already is an "extreme love of pinball."
WBZ NewsRadio's Chaiel Schaffel (@CSchaffelWBZ) reports.
