Nick Angel poses for a portrait in front of some of the nearly 60 pinball machines he has in his basement at his home in Georgetown, Ont.
Self-proclaimed "pinball addict" Nick Angel has been collecting arcade games and pinball machines for nearly three decades. Now, with almost 60 games filling his basement, he is turning his love for repairing and upgrading the machines into a business.When Nick Angel was a child, he promised himself that when he grew up and owned his own house, he would buy his very own arcade game. But the Georgetown, Ont., resident didn't stop at just one.
While he initially acquired classic video game machines such as Donkey Kong and Pac-Man, it didn't take long before the collector began purchasing pinball machines at auction. In 1996, he obtained a two-year-old Twilight Zone-themed pinball machine. "It had a hundred things wrong with it, which was typical of games in the auctions back then," said Angel.
But that machine became the catalyst for Angel's repair hobby. With the help of the internet, he learned how to not only repair the machine but to make it even better than when it was brand new. Now, with nearly 60 games filling his basement, the self-proclaimed "pinball addict" has turned his decades of knowledge into a business.Become a garbage-picking raccoon in this new — and extremely Toronto — game
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