Meanwhile, classic competitive clichés apply. Last month they did a “Pin Golf” tournament on CCBC’s machines and a couple that were trucked over, spliced with a small circuit of disc golf. On occasion Lynn’s cross-pollinates with other sports and Carmel Craft Brewing Company. It’s mainly just hanging out with friends and playing for the fun of it.” “We started growing and pinheads started coming out of the woodwork,” Talley says. Lynn’s, a namesake nod to both Carmichael’s dad Lynn and Flynn’s Arcade from Tron, currently keeps around 25 pinball games, a chunk of them contributed by league members. League members kept joining and moving in their own machines. They migrated to a warehouse owned by Carmichael’s dad in Salinas, where his dad kept a half dozen personal machines, and Carbone’s in New Monterey, and back to the warehouse. Lynn’s started long before its location opened this fall, with Talley and co-owner Cary Carmichael, Carmichael’s wife Nikki (who’s also a Lynn’s principal) and Steve Hawthorne meeting at Angelina’s Pizzeria in Corral de Tierra to face off on their four, and later six, machines. “Terminology,” is one thing Talley says tells him he has a true “pinhead” on his hands Edible Monterey Bay has verified “Keep flipping,” is a valid phrase among them.
Namely, there’s a whole living, breathing and booming pinball subculture, complete with its own vernacular and the global scoring system. *Back to the asterisk: There’s more to this place than multi-ball dreams and hipster-grade cerveza. It’s just a mellow and clean environment.” One of the rarest pinball machines (photo: Mark C. It’s not super fancy, we did all the work on the floor, and paint, and bathroom ourselves. “A chill vibe, a place to relax, that’s what we’re going for. “We’re keeping it the same vibe as those places,” he says. (Those ranking have hopefully risen since the drafting of this piece.) They may or may not recognize him as number 108 pinball player in California, and number 1,345 in the world by virtue of his International Flipper Association Point totals. Locals-in-the-know may recognize Talley from his managerial posts at least two cult hits, the defunct Ol’ Factory Cafe in Sand City and Carmel Belle in Carmel-by-the-Sea. “Our philosophy is: offer really good beer and really good pinball,” says co-owner Matthew Talley, “and let them shine for themselves.” The Lynn’s team, which chronically “hunts” collectible machines on Craigslist, isn’t afraid to drive to the Bay Area for a craft beer drop from Auburn-based Moonraker, or fly to Denver for a machine the seller refused to ship because the cargo was too precious (the rare and highly-sought-after Big Lebowski game, which cost a cool $13,000 and now is valued at upwards of $20 grand). Every choice, from The Walking Dead machine that was re-themed from a Baracora machine to the Nightmare Brewing Company Colombian Necktie sour beer-with can art as savage as the gose-style beer is tasty-feels like a revelation. If one quality is reflected in both collections, it’s the archeological level of curation. On top of the beers (many in 16-ounce doses), there are craft canned kombuchas, sodas and waters. The beer list, for now (and available updated via Untappd), includes 19 “hoppy” beers like Moonraker Brewing Company’s Juke imperial IPA and Alvarado Street Brewery’s DeLorean Dust double IPA three pales like Omnipollo May American pale ale five “light” beers like Evil Twin Brewing’s Low Life pilsner and 13 “specialty” beers like Soquel Fermentation Project’s American Wild #3 With Blueberry. The pinball list, at the moment: The Big Lebowski 2001 Paragon The Walking Dead Dirty Harry Attack from Mars Getaway 2 Star Trek Jurassic Park No Fear Terminator 2 Hocus Pocus Jacks Open Total Nuclear Annihilation Congo Family Guy The Hobbit Houdini Godzilla Big Buck Hunter The Addams Family Bram Stoker’s Dracula Eight Ball Deluxe Indianapolis 500 Rollergames World Cup Soccer Tron. The rosters of each, which rotate constantly, could comprise all you really need to know about this place*. It’s a wonderland of glowing machines and small-batch beverages. So goes the fundamental formula for upstart and semi-underground “pinhead” paradise Lynn’s Arcade: A Pinball Parlor and Can Slangery, tucked in a nook at the heart of University Plaza in Seaside. In the meantime, there is a new candidate for this lofty category of couplings: pinball and craft beer in a can. These are pairings worth celebrating on a regular basis, though we’ll have to wait on the Splash Brothers.
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