My friend Greg Maletic, creator of the documentary Tilt, The Battle to Save Pinball and a Director of the Pacific Pinball Museum, invited me to take pictures at the second annual Pacific Pinball Expo in San Rafael, California. For pinball fanatics, the draw is bigger than California Extreme with the largest display of pinball in the world -- about 300 machines available for play and sale. Amidst the cacophony of electronically generated sound effects and mechanically produced bells, buzzers, and clicks, games from all pinball eras are once again given the opportunity to attract and entertain. One of the more interesting games was a tabletop pinball machine called Micropin. No more than a foot wide, this sleek stainless steel and blue machine has a smaller than usual ball, is weighed down with a hefty ballast so you can put a little English on it, and is actually quite fun to play. Generations of hyper-stylized artwork and the symphony of sound effects experienced walking through the room are as much reasons to visit as playing the games themselves.