Step into Mike Loftus’s shrine to pinball, and you could be forgiven for thinking you’d stepped back in time.
Earlier this month, the Manotick man opened the Ottawa Pinball Arcade inside the Neighbourhood Pub on Baseline Road.
His goal, as he told CBC Radio’s In Town and Out this weekend, was to recreate the feel of the mid-1970s and early 1980s — or as he puts it, the “golden era of the arcade.”