The Air Hockey Table is truly a Baby Boomer classic game - returning us back to the nostalgic recall of the aggressive clacking and fluorescent cheers on those windy winter nights. I vividly remember stopping by the local singles pub after my college classes, stamping off the slush and greeting my friends. Then I’d amble to the jukebox to try to speculate on the line-up, move to the solitary pinball machine to check the high score and who held it, and then make my way to the Air Hockey Table to get my nightly catharsis.
The Air Hockey Table was one of the first Baby Boomer novelties in my college town in the early 70's. My first Air Hockey experience involved a low-hanging light that got dinged every once in awhile when one player got especially rambunctious with the paddle and sent the typically close - hovering puck flying midair. The table top surface was primary blue and produced that recognizable sound of a hydraulic sheet of air which got louder the closer I leaned in for the kill.
One Baby Boomer has crafted (or lifted) the slogan that Air Hockey is “not a game — its the world’s fastest table sport.” Another Air Hockey enthusiast speaks to the upgrades done on the air hockey table over the years, including some new “photon” table Dynamo, while another writes to forum fellows to denounce the discrimination of titles such as “Best Woman Air hockey Player” and to determine who is — the Best Air Hockey player in the WORLD.
Wow, the air hockey table sure has come a loooong way from my days, when it was often occupied but certainly not for any championships more involved than the best player in the bar, where, at the most, on any given night ten or twelve of us would gathered to hip-slam pinball and slide-slam air hockey pucks until the weather cleared enough for the local ice hockey game to commence.
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