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Ontario man takes love for restoring pinball machines to the next level

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.

Nick Angel has been restoring pinball machines for nearly 3 decades

Ontario man takes love for restoring pinball machines to the next level

7 months ago
Duration 1:56
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. Angel's entire basement is now filled with numerous arcade games and pinball machines, many of which he has learned to restore on his own. Now, the self-proclaimed "pinball addict" is turning his hobby into a business.

As a child, Nick Angel couldn't get enough of playing arcade games.

"I promised myself when I got my first house, I would get an arcade machine of my very own," he said.

That's exactly what the Georgetown, Ont. resident did.

As soon as Angel became a homeowner, he headed to an auction to purchase an old Star Wars arcade game."And then suddenly, I had 20," he said.

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.

"There's a lot of broken ones out there," he said. "We're going to help people fix them all."