“Bally wouldn’t have designed and continued to build for 30 years a machine that could be beat by the player. “The guy is full of s-,” Tim Arnold, co-founder of the Pinball Hall of Fame and president of the nonprofit Las Vegas Pinball Collectors Club, said when asked about Kaczmarek’s claim. I was the best pinball machine player that ever lived. The problem with being a purported master of a forgotten art is that such claims are open to skepticism and outright disbelief. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) biggest downside, he said, interrupting himself with a laugh, is that he was always driving his Cadillac, with the personalized license plate reading “SALIVA,” around town with a trunk full of nickels, dimes and quarters.
Jerry Kaczmarek plays on the 'Circus Queen' bingo pinball machine at his home in Bullhead City, Ariz., on Thursday, June 27, 2019.
