Something fun about pinball machines. Certainly in the 80s the pinball machine might have gotten a bit stale especially with the wow factor of Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Pac Man but it seems there is something retro about sending a metal ball around a table. Went to a pinball convention (?) where you paid a flat fee to get in the door and then had free reign on about 50 machines. It appears that pinball has its origins in France in the late 18th century with improvements incorporated in the late 1800s in America by a British inventor in Cincinnati. With advent of electronics the modern day pinball machine took off in the late 1970s...Disco! Fascinating topic the most interesting machine I played today was the Joust pinball game. Basically a flat table with players playing across from each other and having balls bounce back and forth between both players. Pretty neat!
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