The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible. This game kept people busy for hours. What happened to this game it is slowly disappearing into the past. You see fewer and fewer pinball machines around today.
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wow, this guy is awesome. Imagine being 5 years old and actually inventing a game..? I'm speechless
ReplyDeletePretty neat. Although the reason why we don't see them around anymore is simple; console video games are dominating the market. They have just become basically multimedia centers that can play dvds, blueray, go on the internet, etc, right from your couch. Nevertheless, pinball is a pretty cool game.
ReplyDeleteHow old is this video? I mean it’s cool to see where the pinball game originated but I wonder how many people that factory still employs (assuming that factory is still in business). And if pinball machine are no longer being manufactured, I wonder is Mr. Lawlor was able to transition into designing video games. (I don’t know about anyone else but I imagined a pinball game designer to look much less yuppie-ish.)
ReplyDeletePinball is a great game, and to know that this guys gets to play all day and help design newer styles of games is great. He gets to live his dream which you dont get to see much of these days, even though the video is kinda old, it still breaths truth today.
ReplyDeletePinball was king for a long time until Nintendo.
ReplyDeleteThe new generation of youths with the time for such leisure are playing video games that don't cost 25 cents a activities play and from the comfort of home. Convenience of the computer chip killed the pinball biz.
Pinball machines.. remember them? The only time I see one anymore is at a dive bar! Its almost amazin to think that pinball is something of the past!I think when we get older and our children are our age, will nintendo and playstation be a thing of the past?
ReplyDeleteThe end of the pinball machine is no where in sight. Like other products of the past there will be niche markets for purists that will drive a small but robust industry. Remember "The Pinball Wizard" by the Who? It's part of out culture.
ReplyDeletePinball machines are works of art. So many of them are out there and in so many styles. Definitely a big part of our pop culture past. I don't see these things ever completely going away, and it will be a sad day if they ever do.
ReplyDeletePinball is one of the coolest games around. Still, even after all of these years it still invokes the imaginations of masses. Even though the more recent technological games are more visually stimulating, you still find Pinball games on almost every gameing system around.
ReplyDeleteNow HE is a pinball wizard! Pinball machines ruled my gaming life when I was younger, I owned all the high scores wherever I played. Pinball is definitely a large part of my culture.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like Pinball is very similar to records in its appeal and its fate. People used to go to arcades, bars, convenience stores to play this game as people had gone to record stores. Now with the advance of technology (home gaming systems) its popularity and demand has greatly diminished just like the record was replaced.
ReplyDeleteThe home entertainment systems and PC’s are what happened to the pinball machine and games like it. When I was in high school you had to go to the mall or the shore to play your favorite games… oh and you better bring a pocket full of quarters weighing in at hundred pounds, otherwise you were watching. If you had the room in your house you could buy a pinball machine from the Sears catalog, but that was a dream for the majority of us.
ReplyDeletewas the only game you could win 1,000,000,000 points and be able to get nothing with that. I always had tournaments of who get get the most points and everyone whould have to put in a dollar. Good times at arcades
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