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3 unusual facts about pinball


Jorian Engelbrektsson

Jorian Engelbrektsson (born May 15, 1982, Falun, Sweden) became the first non-American to take the Pinball World Champion title, which he did on October 14, 2007 at the PAPA 10 contest (The 10th World Championship organized by the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association which htook place at 101 Keystone Dr

Silverball

Silverball was the first set of pinball games created by James Schmalz and paved the way for the development of Epic Pinball.

Silverball Studios

The company was founded in 2002 by Adrian Barritt and Richard Horrocks, makers of the award winning Pro Pinball series of computer games.


Archangels Don't Play Pinball

The play uses the metaphor of a pinball machine—a new innovation in Italy at the time of and one of which Fo and his wife Franca Rame were fond— to convey mechanisation and conspicuous consumption.

Baffle Ball

The table was virtually recreated in pinball simulation video game, Microsoft Pinball Arcade.

Bally Records

Its full name was Bally Recording Corporation and it was a subsidiary of slot machine and pinball maker Bally Manufacturing.

Between the Canals

The film follows three small-time criminals as they pinball their way about Dublin on a boozy Saint Patrick's Day.

Bill Budge

In 2008, Pinball Construction Set was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for "User Generated Content/Game Modification".

Black Spectre

The character of Black Spectre appeared in the Moon Knight pinball table of the video game Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue developed by Zen Studios.

Blood and Bone

One night, after watching a match involving local champion Hammerman (Bob Sapp), Bone makes a deal with promoter Pinball (Dante Basco) to get him into the fight scene for 20% of his earnings (40% if Pinball puts his own money on the line).

Brian Eddy

When pinball designer Steve Ritchie was asked about the design similarities between his Spider-Man pinball machine and Eddy's Attack From Mars, Ritchie admitted that he had designed Spider-Mans playfield as an homage to Eddy, and specifically to Attack From Mars.

After the closure of Midway's pinball division in 1999, Eddy moved to Midway's video game division, where he worked on Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, and several games in the Mortal Kombat franchise.

Crüe Ball

This game was designed by two people who actually worked on pinball games: Mark Sprenger (artist for such games as 1984's Space Shuttle and 1986's High Speed) and Brian L. Schmidt (composer for Black Knight 2000 and various pinball games by Data East Pinball/Sega Pinball (now Stern Pinball, Inc.).

Data East

Data East is the only company that manufactured custom pinball games (e.g. for Aaron Spelling, the movie Richie Rich, or Michael Jordan), though these were basically mods of existing or soon to be released pinball machines (e.g. Lethal Weapon 3).

Elvira and the Party Monsters

Elvira and the Party Monsters is a 1989 pinball game designed by Dennis Nordman and Jim Patla and released by Midway (under the Bally label), featuring horrorshow-hostess Elvira.

Granville Street

Also, Otis writes that "once dominated by movie theatres, pinball arcades, and sex shops Downtown Granville is being replaced by nightclubs and bars, as ...it transforms into a booze-based 'Entertainment District'." In April 2005, Capitol 6, a beloved 1920s-era movie theatre complex (built in 1921 and restored and reopened in 1977) closed its doors (Chapman).

Hear the Wind Sing

All three books in the Trilogy of the Rat have been translated into English, but Hear The Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, the first two books in the trilogy, were never widely distributed in the English-speaking world, having only been published in Japan by Kodansha under their Kodansha English Library branding, and both only as A6-sized pocketbooks.

Lawrence H. Brown

In his spare time he tinkers with old pinball machines, his custom-designed MAME cabinet, and restores/repairs computers for the volunteer organization LifeByte.

Liberty Games

Their products include arcade games, pool tables, snooker tables, table tennis tables, jukeboxes, pinball machines, retro gaming, air hockey, dartboards, casino tables, outdoor products, driving simulators, slot machines, football tables, and various novelty game products, including multi-game tables, football coffee tables, LED pool tables.

Move Your Car

A Creature from the Black Lagoon pinball game inspired the song's title and the cover art.

Northern Lights Pinball Show

This year, for the first time, Northern Lights will be running Cospin, a slightly different take on Cosplay where attendees are encouraged to dress up as characters depicted in the artwork of the pinball machines.

Pinball and Other Stories

Pinball and Other Stories is a compilation album by Brian Protheroe.

Pinball arcade

The Pinball Arcade, a pinball video game developed by FarSight Studios

Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection

This title should not to be confused with Williams Pinball Classics (2001) by Encore, Inc. that features four tables (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Black Rose and Lost World) for Windows.

Pleiads

Richie Knucklez holds the official Guinness World Record for this game with 279,090 points recorded on June 4, 2011 at the Annual Classic Video Game and Pinball Tournament held at the legendary Funspot in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.

Spin Little Pinball

"Spin Little Pinball" is a novelty musical number from the 1944 musical motion picture Sensations of 1945 featuring Eleanor Powell in her last major film role prior to her retirement.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

The Pinball Arcade

The Pinball Arcade won best mobile game of 2012 in X-Play's Best of 2012 Awards and was also nominated for best remake/retro release in 2012.

Visual Pinball

VPinMAME adds to Visual Pinball's system requirements and, like other MAMEs, uses image files of the actual ROMs from the physical pinball machines, executing them as simulations of the embedded CPUs, sound chips, and displays from the physical machines.

VX 69

vx 69 (aka vx "cheerleader" 69 or just vx, born Vincent Villalon) is a French singer who is best known as a founding member of the bands Punish Yourself, 1969 Was Fine, Le Cabaret de l'Impasse, Pinball Lizard & The Acid Kings, and 'Cheerleader 69.

Williams Pinball Classics

Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (2007), a pinball video game released by System 3 with this title in PAL territories in 2011

Yamaha YM2151

It was also used in arcade games, starting with Atari's Marble Madness, and later being licensed for use by many other companies including Sega, Konami, Capcom, Data East Pinball and Namco, with its heaviest use in the late 1980s, as well as in the Sharp X1 and Sharp X68000 home computers.


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