![]() “When you’re slinging around that steel ball and controlling it to get high scores, you can’t really replicate that on a digital format,” he said. Though he doesn’t play by sense of smell like the character in that song, Ruymen enjoys his ability to help people through his side hobby and the friendly competition that comes with pushing toward high scores in his favorite game. “It’s just a niche and they wanna help you fix things and get them working.”įrom there, he made friends within the game’s larger community, bought and sold several more machines, and connected with arcade owners able to spread the word about his services.Īfter he moved to Manlius with his family this past July, Ruymen started cleaning and refurbishing machines for Skill Shot Arcade on East Molloy Road while building up a social media presence using the moniker Timball Wizard-a reference to The Who’s 1969 hit “Pinball Wizard.” “All pinball people wanna help pinball people,” Ruymen said. To do so, he relied on YouTube channels, Facebook pages and online forums devoted to lending helpful tips and schematics for solving just about every pinball-related problem known to man. To get by on a steady-enough income, keep busy and have some fun during quarantine, Ruymen decided on a whim to purchase his first-ever household pinball machine and learn how to repair it for his sake and for others who possess their own. With nothing to shoot, he was drawn back to an avid interest in pinball that began when he was a teenager frequenting arcades and the occasional pizzeria in the 1990s. TOWN OF MANLIUS – Once the outbreak of COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020, Tim Ruymen’s career on Long Island as a video editor for weddings and corporate events came to a sudden stop.
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