by Andrew MacBain | Oct 18, 2020 | Pinball Buzz, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
How It All Started The Pinball Expo started way back in 1985 by Robert Berk in Chicago which is known to be the city with the most pinball manufacturers. Robert started playing pinball as a child and was immediately drawn to it. He knew his dream was to be able to...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 12, 2020 | Pinball Adventures, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
Pinball Was Illegal Pinball was illegal, it was banned from the 1940s to the mid-1970s in most of America’s big cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, where the game was born and where virtually all of its manufacturers have historically been...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 12, 2020 | Pinball Adventures, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History
What Is A Pinball Skill Shot? In Pinball games, a skill shot is a bonus that the player could earn by performing some particular task when launching or plunging the ball. How To Be Better At Skill Shots First off, every pinball game is different. The speed, slope,...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 12, 2020 | Pinball Adventures, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
So How Do Pinball Machines Really Work? To understand how pinball machines work we got to go back to the beginning, since the first true pinball game, Humpty Dumpty, was released by Gottlieb in 1947, people the world over have had an obsession with making a little...
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 | 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...
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