CANOGA PARK – Joining a long, wacky tradition of Guinness record seekers, Mandi Martin played her 17th straight day of pinball Wednesday – just four days from establishing a new world record.
“It’s not really about points,” said the 55-year-old Martin, as she kept her eyes on the flying metal ball, “my all-time high score is 1.8 billion, and I don’t even keep track of anything below 300 million anymore.”
This article appeared in the L.A. Times on March 23, 2000.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Current Guinness Book of World Recrods pinball endurance champion Mandi Martin, longtime member of the board of governors of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, will attempt to break her still-standing 505-hour record set in 1979 with a 555-hour pinball marathon extravaganza scheduled for [...]
The following article was published in L.A. WEEKLY in the November 16-22, 1979 issue: IT TAKES BALLS Mandi Martin Plays Pinball For 500 Consecutive Hours by Alfa-Betty Olsen & Marshall Efron Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath read the Guinness Book of World Records – or at least [...]