Roger Sharpe helped overturn New York City's 30-year ban on pinball in, as chronicled in the new film ' Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game.'
in Frisco, March 24–26, grew up in the pinball industry mecca of Chicago, but he didn't think he had the chops to play the game until he went to college in Wisconsin. His obsession with the game fueled his drive to report on and overturn the ban in 1976 by playing a perfect game in a court proceeding. His story has been chronicled in a new film that opened on Friday called"I watched a fraternity brother, and this is in Madison, Wisconsin, with the game.
Roger Sharpe, left, showed the New York City Council in 1976 how he could call his shots in a game of pinball, proving that the machines can't be used for gambling because they are games of skill instead of chance."I never knew there was skill involved," Sharpe says."I realized I could gain some level of control as a person. I could actually enjoy the act of playing pinball machines, of just being this insipid person who was just overwhelmed by it all.
"I was being incredibly selfish and wanted my own game," Sharpe says with a laugh."When I started doing research for an article, I was dumbfounded because when I went to the public library, there were no books on the subject. I was beside myself.
Sharpe's legendary story of pinball's redemption is well known and retold among pinball players and collectors, but it's about to get an even wider audience thanks to a new movie directed by siblings Austin and Meredith Bragg.West Side Story'sDennis Boutsikaris, who plays the modern-day version behind Sharpe's bushy, eye-catching mustache.
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