The Pinball Wizard
Ever since John Weeks was a young boy, he played the silver ball. Weeks had over 800 pinball machines and 1,000 various other arcade games before he needed to auction them off. At only 14 years old, Weeks got his first pinball machine and opened a small arcade in his parent’s garage. It didn’t work out at the time, but the dream never died. He eventually opened the Museum of Pinball for all of his machines, but it couldn’t survive the downturn from the pandemic. On a positive note, auctioning the machines yielded millions of dollars. Among the most expensive machines was a “Back to the Future”-themed machine that sold for $14,000 and a limited-edition Addams Family machine that fetched $22,500.