After reading the news about the new Pinball Compendium member in the series I had some questions that I really needed to ask and contacted the writer of these marvelous books, Michael Shalhoub.

Michael lives Down Under in Australia and truly has a hart for pinball.

He interviewed almost every legend that was still alive when he started writing the first Pinball Compendium. One of them was Ed Krynski, a designer who probably had the most influence on the industry by designing over 250 Gottlieb games.

As a Pinball Compendium fan I was rather sad to see the series coming to an end. But then a new part became available and I bought one right away.

I asked Michael what was the main difference between this book and volume 1 & 2 of the previous ones.

 The reason the book was written was Alvin Gottlieb gave me many rare photos never been seen before. A few I have sent you of his father(David Gottlieb)