Thanks for the offer!

The machine that got me into this was "Cyclone". I remember a family vacation when I was 12 at Disney World, and there was a pinball machine in the Caribbean Beach hotel arcade room that I played a TON of at night - got good at it too, free games etc. Seemed a lot of fun.

Flash forward 13 years later, and the only thing I could remember about that machine was that it was a carnival, fair or circus theme and said the phrases "Step right up" and "Ride the ferris wheel". And of course it had to have existed as of that trip. Eventually pinned it down as Cyclone, but ended up buying The Simpsons Pinball Party instead.