this is actually a pretty profound experience, just listening to this. all this being written and designed and recorded in what, 1993? by '92, 93, the United States had climbed out of their first George Bush Depression, and were really picking up steam under Clinton's Economy. the 1990s were an unprecedented boom time for the U.S., and this pinball machine really speaks to me about that. (I'm not American, by the way, I'm Canadian. I have an outsider perspective, so I tend to romanticized the States. I've always loved the country and its people, Florida essentially being a second home during my childhood.) in 1993 the U.S. still _made_ stuff. they weren't on top of the world, they seemed to BE the world. and 30 years later it's . . . that picture's changed. tragically changed. I think the U.S. will get up there again, but it'll never again be what it was -- India and China (and Russia, even) have claimed too much of the pie to ever realistically allow a U.S. stranglehold again, and to many people of this planet that's a GOOD thing. not to me, though . . . my childhood was founded on the basis of United States No. 1, so I'll probably always have that idealized version of it. anyway. I don't mean to get political, these sounds and this machine just seem to bring it out of me. a Boom Time. the '90s were a boom time, not just for pinball but for the United States itself. 9/11 would change that trajectory, probably forever. it sickens me to say this, it really does, but it seems the Terrorists won. if their goal was to destabilize, disorient and ruin . . . if their aim was to engage the United States of America into a decades-long war that'd cost the average American trillions of dollars . . . well, I just don't know how to refute their success right now. and now with Covid . . . Post-Trump . . . anyway. it's nice to reminisce on a time when America at least _seemed_ innocent, still. no, I'm not a Liberal, I'm not a Republican. I'm not anything, really. I'm just a fan of the U.S. God bless you all down there in these times. I'm sorry to go on about NOT pinball. I just think these sounds are really telling of the times in which they were written. God bless you, God bless America, God bless the world. we'll get through this. corny. I know. these are corn-eatin' times. --HC
actually sir, you said the truth that no one accept, america as we know it may no longer get back, but still who the hell cares in a world when all want power over the media?
