It’s going to be a busy summer full of activities in the Maritimes. First, Halifax gets the biggest drive in theatre east of Montreal and now PEI will be home to the biggest pinball arcade in Canada.
Seven Graylands, from Cornwall, PEI has a collection of 75 odds machines, 50 of which are going up at the arcade.
It’s still coming together, but you already get that old school arcade feel.
“When I got to about eight or nine machines, and I was getting his feedback, I just basically said ‘let’s just open an arcade,’” said Graylands, owner of Seven’s Pinballorama.
He tried to open one where he was living in B.C., but the city passed a bylaw banning arcades.
Some of the machines date back to the 30s and 40s, some are as new as the 90s.
Arcades have been gaining popularity over the past few years, after all but disappearing in the early 2000s.
Even though Graylands played them growing up, he said he’s no pinball wizard.
“I’m terrible at pinball, like I really am not very good,” said Graylands. “I love it though because it’s just something that you can kind of get into, this world under this sheet of glass, and you can kind of just climb in there and just play around.”
You won’t have to feed quarters like you used to, here will pay at the door to play all the machines you like.
Graylands aims to be open for customers before the end of June.
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