Crazy find!! There was a Caleb Calloway who was a judge at the tournaments I went to in the early 2000s. Maybe one of the passionate Pinheads I met in that era, just like on a technical level. Dude could diagnose a loose paddle from the next room just from the sound of its coin drop lol. If it's true that only a few years before he "[didn't] do pinball", that's a crazy turn-around. Not a crazy uncommon name but I'm pretty sure he said he came up from Aurora or Elgin or something like that.
Anyway, a '96 spotting is really interesting because obviously Sega put out Twister that year. Partial prototype? Spirals, twisters... kind of a stretch, but-- maybe worth figuring out if we can find an ideation timeline on the Twister machine to see where that leads?
