#Pinball

[theglitterdome]

A 1992 advertisement for the Creature From The Black Lagoon pinball machine by Bally Games.

[prokopetz]

While pinball-like games – i.e., glass-fronted inclined tables with bells, bumpers, and spring-loaded ball launchers – were developed in France as early as the mid 1700s, these examples were games of chance, lacking any mechanism for the player to manipulate the ball once it was in play. Initial experiments in introducing an element of player skill by adding flippers proved unsatisfactory, as even the most efficient mechanical flippers were too weak to propel the ball all the way up the table. Pinball would not realise its modern form until the 1940s, with the introduction of power-assisted flippers driven by small electric motors; this final step could in theory have taken place much earlier, the first commercially viable small electric motors having been developed in the 1880s, but economic factors made it impractical.

At this point, one may note that Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula takes place around 1897.

Thus, permitting only slight anachronism, it is just barely historically possible for Count Dracula to have owned a pinball machine.

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[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

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[shortboxcomicsfair]

1962. Pinball, condemned in the hearts and minds of every citizen in America, has been successfully eradicated off the Mid-Atlantic coast in a bloody crusade. Only Margaret remains, a pinball engineer toiling away at her final masterpiece, THE LUMINARY LARK-MIRROR. A new unmissable comic from @marcheriest, coming to the fair this October! This comic will be available digitally from October 1-31st as part of ShortBox Comics Fair, an online-only event that sees the release of over 150+ new, original comics from artists all around the world!

[grickle14]

Kermit the Pinball Wizard!

[retroscifiart]

Pinball machine art by Morgan Weistling for Sega Pinball, 1997

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[eightiesfan]

Pinball Alley (1982)

From "La Balance" by Bob Swaim

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𝔓𝔦𝔫𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔐𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔰

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[caleod]

19-3-25

[gameraboy2]

1979 Star Trek Pinball ad