Who are we ?

Antwerp, June 2004.

First let's introduce ourselves: We are Nikky and Aeneas, both in our early 30ies and bitten by the pinball virus.

As many stories go: when we bought our house and once we were settled in, we decided to buy a pinball machine. This was around 1999-2000. We looked around for a while and found an operator who had some for sale. By the time we got there the argument started about which one to get. Aeneas wanted a White water and Nikky a more classic machine with bumpers so she choose Road Kings. In the end we made it easy for ourselves and bought both.

After that the (pin)ball just kept on rolling. We had a lot of fun on these two pins but deep inside we wanted more, so went on the lookout for another and another and another...

Aeneas discovered the newsgroup rec.games.pinball and learned more about pins and all different models. The repair guides were detailed enough to try and buy a few 'project' machines which were repaired and enjoyed.

'Only' three years later, our house was too small as we own (too) many pinball machines.. so we built a separate gameroom in the garden that can hold 14 pins..

Our personal homepage started around 2001 with the pinball newbie pages, and has now moved to this domain: www.flippers.be.

Just some clarification about who we are and what we do: This website became the extension of our personal homepage which goal is to help people who are new to the world of pinball (see the newbie pages), and aid people in Belgium.
We are not a commercial entity ! We do not sell pinball machines.
For us it's just a hobby..

Credits: www.flippers.be logo designed by Frans Kwanten.