The Pinball Doctors: The Last Arcade Technicians in NYC

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The Pinball Doctors: The Last Arcade Technicians in NYC

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Great video. Hats off to all the Techs out there.
Keep up the great work.
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It's worth checking out the web-article https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... l-machines. I'd be super-surprised if a huge city like NYC didn't have at least dozens of capable Pinball Technicians, though I could believe there's only a handful doing it as a full-time business.
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