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Australian Pinball Museum now open in the ‘middle of nowhere’

 
Simon and Lyndon Carter out the front of the Oasis Nhill Motel. Picture: Mark Stewart/Herald Sun
Simon and Lyndon Carter out the front of the Oasis Nhill Motel. Picture: Mark Stewart/Herald Sun
Australia now has a pinball museum thanks to a father and son wanting to make their large collection of the machines accessible to the public.

And in true Australian fashion, the museum is located in the middle of nowhere.

But as Aaron Langmaid from media outlet the Herald Sun discovered, that has not deterred visitors.

Langmaid, for the Herald Sun, reports:

Hundreds of kilometres from the bright lights of the big city, a determined father and son have created an illuminated lure all of their own.

Plugging directly into their gaming obsession, Simon and Lyndon Carter have unveiled what could just be one of the nation’s more unique collections.

The Australian Pinball Museum, plonked on the Western Highway halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide, is now open for business. It is the largest public display of pinball machines anywhere in country.

From the gaming classics to the more complex and contemporary, pinball machines have long occupied their thoughts — and now take up most of the space in the two front rooms of the family-run motel at Nhill.

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