I have been playing pinball ever since I can remember and I absolutely love it, even though I have never been a pinball wizard as the song says. Mike Reynolds has been pretty busy the last four decades at Pinball Pete's in East Lansing on Grand River Ave, until now. Because of the pandemic, Pinball Pete's had to close its doors temporarily. He is now in his early 60s, and was in his 20s when he helped a pal Ted Arnold open the arcade's first location on Grand River Avenue. The former donut shop was next to Coral Gables. A fiberglass elephant sat on its roof. They painted it pink to draw attention to the arcade, then pondered adding a cowboy to the display, Reynolds said. The cowboy never went up but the name they'd planned to give him — Pete — stuck and Pinball Pete's became a popular hangout.