by Andrew MacBain | Oct 11, 2020 | Pinball Adventures, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
The Beginning Here is the origin of pinball, The “ancestor” of all pinball machines is known to be “Bagatelle-Table, This is a sort of hybrid between a “pin table” and pool table. To understand the history of pinball we need to go back to...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 10, 2020 | Pinball Adventures, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball News, Punny Factory
October 10th 2020 Hey Adventurers! Here’s a quick update on The Punny Factory & what we’ve been up to! The Pinball Adventure Team is currently doing some tests on our first game EVER out of many, We’re currently deciding on what colors we want...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Originally, machines were all single-player games. It was one player at a time. But starting in 1954, Gottlieb came up with the idea to have two or even four people playing at a time. Player one would play ball one, then player two would play ball one. Then player one...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Gottlieb was really good at card themes. They were known for that. Card games like poker, you’re trying to get different hands, a royal flush, they used that name a bunch of times—Card Whiz, Royal Flush, Pop-a-Card. . In the 1950s, Gottlieb would run a machine for...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Bally was the first company to do that. They were the first company to get an official licensed theme. During the 1950s, Gottlieb had done some unlicensed themes. They had a game called Guy’s Dolls, and it just happened to come out at the same time as the Broadway...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Yes, they had preferred artists. During the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, artwork wasn’t always created in house. Williams or another company would design a game, and then they would hand the game over to another company that just did art. This second company had their own...
Punny Factory Pinball (Wood Engraved)$7,000.00
Punny Factory Pinball (Standard)$6,000.00