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Pinball is a type of arcade game, in which points are scored by a player manipulating one or more steel balls on a play field inside a glass-covered cabinet called a pinball table (or "pinball machine"). [1]

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Aaron Spelling

Aaron Spelling (April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006) was an American film and television producer.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Ann-Margret

Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941), known professionally simply as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer.

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Apple II

The Apple II (stylized as Apple.

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Arcade game

An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

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Asteroids (video game)

Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. and designed by Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, and Dominic Walsh.

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Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 (or Atari Video Computer System before November 1982) is a home video game console from Atari, Inc. Released on September 11, 1977, it is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and games contained on ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.

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Attack from Mars

Attack from Mars is a 1995 pinball game designed by Brian Eddy, and released by Midway (under the Bally label).

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Babe Ruth

George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.

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Baby Pac-Man

Baby Pac-Man is a hybrid arcade/pinball game released by Bally Midway on October 11, 1982.

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Baffle Ball

Baffle Ball is a pinball machine created in 1931 by David Gottlieb, founder of the Gottlieb amusement company.

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Bagatelle

Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over.

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Bally Manufacturing

Bally Manufacturing, later renamed Bally Entertainment, was an American company that began as a pinball and slot machine manufacturer, and later expanded into casinos, video games, health clubs, and theme parks.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Bill Budge

Bill Budge (born August 11, 1954) is an American video game programmer and designer.

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Bill Paxton

William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor and director.

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Black Hole (pinball)

Black Hole is a pinball game released in 1981 by Gottlieb.

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Black Knight (pinball)

Black Knight is a 1980 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie (who also provides the Knight's voice) and released by Williams Electronics.

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Bocce

Bocce, sometimes anglicized as bocci, is a ball sport belonging to the boules family, closely related to British bowls and French pétanque, with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire.

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Bomb Bee

is a Japanese arcade game that was released by Namco in 1979.

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Boss (video gaming)

In video gaming, a boss is a significant computer-controlled enemy.

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Bowling

Bowling is a sport or leisure activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards a target.

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Bowls

Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls called woods so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty".

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Brand

A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes of the customer.

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Breakout (video game)

Breakout is an arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc., released on May 13, 1976.

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Brooke Shields

Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and model.

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Bumper

Bumper or bumpers may refer to.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.

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Charlie Emery

Charlie Emery is a pinball podcaster and pinball machine designer from the United States.

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Checkpoint (pinball)

Checkpoint is a 1991 pinball machine released by Data East.

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Chicago Coin

Chicago Coin was one of the early major manufacturers of pinball tables founded in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Gaming

Chicago Gaming Company, also known as simply Chicago Gaming, is an American gaming company that publishes arcade video games.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Cincinnati

No description.

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Color Graphics Adapter

The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's first graphics card and first color display card for the IBM PC.

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Compression (physics)

In mechanics, compression is the application of balanced inward ("pushing") forces to different points on a material or structure, that is, forces with no net sum or torque directed so as to reduce its size in one or more directions.

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Computer keyboard

In computing, a computer keyboard is a typewriter-style device which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches.

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Computer mouse

A computer mouse is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.

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Croquet

Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.

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Cue sports

Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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Currency detector

A currency detector or currency validator is a device that determines whether notes or coins are genuine or counterfeit.

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Cutie Q

is an arcade game that was designed by Toru Iwatani and released by Namco in 1979.

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Data East

, also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game and electronic engineering company.

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David's Midnight Magic

David's Midnight Magic is an Apple II pinball simulation written by David Snider and released by Brøderbund in 1982.

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Degree (angle)

A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.

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Dimension

In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

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Dot-matrix display

A dot-matrix display is a display device used to display information on machines, clocks, railway departure indicators and many other devices requiring a simple display device of limited resolution.

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Easter egg (media)

In computer software and media, an Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work.

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Ed Krynski

Ed Krynski (died 16 November 2004) was a pinball game designer and innovator who worked for D. Gottlieb & Co between 1965 and 1987.

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Electromechanics

In engineering, electromechanics combines processes and procedures drawn from electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.

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Electromotive force

Electromotive force, abbreviated emf (denoted \mathcal and measured in volts), is the electrical intensity or "pressure" developed by a source of electrical energy such as a battery or generator.

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Electronic game

An electronic game is a game that employs electronics to create an interactive system with which a player can play.

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Electronics

Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.

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Equal Protection Clause

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Fiorello H. La Guardia

Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia) (December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American politician.

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Firepower (pinball)

Firepower (also known as Multi-Ball Firepower) is a 1980 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams.

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Force

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.

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Full Tilt! Pinball

Full Tilt! Pinball is a pinball video game developed by Cinematronics and published by Maxis in 1995.

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Future Pinball

Future Pinball is a freeware 3D pinball editing and gaming application for Microsoft Windows.

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Future US

Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets.

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Galaga

is a Japanese arcade game developed and published by Namco Japan and by Midway in North America in 1981.

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Gee Bee (video game)

is Namco's first internally designed arcade game, released in 1978, and licensed to Gremlin Industries for US manufacture and distribution.

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

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Glicko rating system

The Glicko rating system and Glicko-2 rating system are methods for assessing a player's strength in games of skill, such as chess and Go.

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Glossary of pinball terms

A glossary of terms, commonly used in discussing pinball machines.

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Golden age of arcade video games

The golden age of arcade video games was the era when arcade video games entered pop culture and became a dominant cultural force.

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Gorgar

Gorgar is a 1979 pinball machine designed by Barry Oursler and released by Williams Electronics.

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Gottlieb

Gottlieb (formerly D. Gottlieb & Co.) was an American arcade game corporation based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Graphics

Graphics (from Greek γραφικός graphikos, "belonging to drawing") are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Haruki Murakami

is a Japanese writer.

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Heighway Pinball

Heighway Pinball was a British company manufacturing pinball machines and was established in 2012.

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Humpty Dumpty (pinball)

Humpty Dumpty is a historically important pinball machine released by Gottlieb on October 25, 1947.

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Inder (company)

Inder (Industria Electromecánica de Recreativos S.A, Madrid) was a Spanish manufacturer of pinball machines which was in business between 1970 and 1993.

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Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure

Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure is a 1993 widebody pinball game designed by Mark Ritchie (the younger brother of acclaimed pinball designer Steve Ritchie) and released by Williams.

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Jersey Jack Pinball

Jersey Jack Pinball, Inc. is an American company manufacturing pinball machines, which was established in 2011.

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John W. Baumgartner

John Walter Baumgartner (born 1890) was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.

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Kirby's Pinball Land

Kirby's Pinball Land is a 1993 pinball video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy.

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Kokomo, Indiana

Kokomo is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Indiana, United States.

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Lethal Weapon 3 (pinball)

Lethal Weapon 3 is a pinball machine produced by Data East Pinball.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.

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Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals.

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List of pinball machines

This is a partial list of pinball games organized alphabetically by name.

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List of pinball manufacturers

This is a partial list of pinball manufacturers of past and present organized alphabetically by name.

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List of Sega Pinball machines

Sega Pinball Inc. was a division of Sega which existed from 1994 until 1999.

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Loudspeaker

A loudspeaker (or loud-speaker or speaker) is an electroacoustic transducer; which converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.

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Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Mario Pinball Land

Mario Pinball Land, known in Europe and Japan as, is a pinball video game that was developed by Fuse Games and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance and released in 2004.

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Medieval Madness

Medieval Madness is a Williams pinball machine released in June 1997.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Metroid Prime Pinball

Metroid Prime Pinball is a pinball video game themed after the ''Metroid'' series.

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Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ, is an American former professional basketball player.

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Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit (IC), or at most a few integrated circuits.

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Minigame

A minigame (also spelled mini-game or mini game, sometimes called a subgame or microgame) is a short video game often contained within another video game, and sometimes in application software or on a display of any form of hardware.

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Mirco Games

Mirco Games was a pinball and arcade game manufacturer from Phoenix, Arizona that existed from 1969 to 1978.

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Montague Redgrave

Montague Redgrave was an early 19th-century game designer who bridged the gap between table Bagatelle and Pinball through his popular 'Parlor Table Bagatelle' game.

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Namco

is a Japanese corporation that operates game centers and theme parks, but is best known for its previous identity as a video game developer and publisher.

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NBA Fastbreak (pinball)

NBA Fastbreak is a 1997 pinball machine released by Midway (under the Bally brand name).

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New Jersey City University

New Jersey City University (NJCU) is a public university in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.

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Next Generation (magazine)

Next Generation (also known as NextGen) was a video game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now Future Network USA).

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children.

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Numerical digit

A numerical digit is a single symbol (such as "2" or "5") used alone, or in combinations (such as "25"), to represent numbers (such as the number 25) according to some positional numeral systems.

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Pac-Man

, stylized as PAC-MAN, is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan as Puck Man in May 1980.

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Pachinko

is a type of mechanical game originating in Japan and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a Japanese gambling niche comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gaming.

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Pacific Pinball Museum

The Pacific Pinball Museum is a museum that showcases the history of pinball machines since 1879.

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Pall-mall

Pall-mall, paille-maille, palle-maille, pell-mell, or palle-malle is a lawn game that was mostly played in the 16th and 17th centuries, a precursor to croquet.

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Pat Lawlor

Patrick M. Lawlor (born 1951) is a video game and pinball machine designer.

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Pepper's ghost

Pepper's ghost is an illusion technique used in the theatre, amusement parks, museums, television, and concerts.

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Pharmacy (shop)

A pharmacy (also called "drugstore" in American English or "community pharmacy" or "chemist's" in Commonwealth English) is a retail shop which provides prescription drugs, among other products.

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Pinball 2000

Pinball 2000 was the last pinball hardware and software platform developed by major pinball manufacturer Williams, and was used in the machines Revenge From Mars (under the brand name Bally) and Star Wars Episode I (under the brand name Williams) before Williams exited the pinball business on October 25, 1999.

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Pinball Construction Set

Pinball Construction Set (PCS) is a video game by Bill Budge published by Electronic Arts.

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Pinball Dreams

Pinball Dreams is a pinball simulation video game developed by Digital Illusions and originally released for the Amiga in 1992.

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Pinball FX

Pinball FX is a pinball machine video game for the Xbox 360.

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Pinball FX 2

Pinball FX 2 (stylized as Pinball FX2) is a pinball video game for Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows (XP and higher) and is the sequel to Pinball FX.

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Pinball FX 3

Pinball FX 3 is a pinball simulator video game developed and published by Zen Studios and was released on Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 in September 2017, and was released on the Nintendo Switch in December 2017.

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Pinball Hall of Fame

The Pinball Hall of Fame is a museum for pinball machines that opened in Paradise, Nevada in January 2006.

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Pinball Number Count

Pinball Number Count (or Pinball Countdown) is a collective title referring to 11 one-minute animated segments on the popular PBS children's series Sesame Street that teach children to count to 12 by following the journey of a pinball through a rather fanciful pinball machine.

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Pinball Wizard

"Pinball Wizard" is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by the English rock band The Who, and featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tommy.

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Pinball, 1973

is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

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PinGame Journal

The PinGame Journal is a publication serving the pinball hobby community.

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Plane (geometry)

In mathematics, a plane is a flat, two-dimensional surface that extends infinitely far.

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Pokémon Pinball

is a pinball-based Pokémon spin-off video game for the Game Boy Color.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.

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Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life

Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life is a 2005 book by Chris Kohler.

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Predators (film)

Predators is a 2010 American science-fiction action film directed by Nimród Antal and starring Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, and Laurence Fishburne.

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Printed circuit board

A printed circuit board (PCB) mechanically supports and electrically connects electronic components or electrical components using conductive tracks, pads and other features etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate.

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Pro Pinball

Pro Pinball is an action video game series developed by Cunning Developments and published by Empire Interactive based on pinball.

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Professional and Amateur Pinball Association

The Professional and Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) is an organization supporting the game of pinball as a recreational and competitive sport.

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Randomness

Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.

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Raymond Moloney

Raymond T. Moloney (died February 26, 1958) invented the "Bally Hoo" pinball machine in 1931, and founded the Bally Manufacturing Corporation of Chicago, IL, USA on January 10, 1932.

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Relay

A relay is an electrically operated switch.

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Retro Report

Retro Report is a non-profit news organization that produces mini documentaries looking back on the biggest stories from the past to see how they affect today's news.

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Revenge from Mars

Revenge from Mars is a pinball machine designed by George Gomez and manufactured by Midway (under the Bally label) released in 1999.

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Richie Rich (film)

Richie Rich (stylized as Ri¢hie Ri¢h) is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character of the same name created by Alfred Harvey and Warren Kremer.

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Rock opera

A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story.

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Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey (born 1 March 1944) is an English singer, musician, and actor.

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Saint Peter's University

Saint Peter's University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic college in the United States.

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Score (game)

In games, score refers to an abstract quantity associated with a player or team.

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Sega

Sega Games Co., Ltd., originally short for Service Games and officially styled as SEGA, is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with offices around the world.

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Semiconductor

A semiconductor material has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor – such as copper, gold etc.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Shuffleboard

Shuffleboard, more precisely deck shuffleboard, and also known as floor shuffleboard, is a game in which players use cues to push weighted discs, sending them gliding down a narrow court, with the purpose of having them come to rest within a marked scoring area.

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Sledgehammer

A sledgehammer is a tool with a large, flat, often metal head, attached to a lever (or handle).

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Smartphone

A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi.

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Solenoid

A solenoid (/ˈsolə.nɔɪd/) (from the French solénoïde, derived in turn from the Greek solen ("pipe, channel") and eidos ("form, shape")) is a coil wound into a tightly packed helix.

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Sonic Spinball

Sonic Spinball, also known as Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball, is a pinball video game developed by the Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega.

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game franchise created and produced by Sega.

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Space Invaders

is an arcade game created by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978.

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Space Shuttle (pinball)

Space Shuttle (full title: Space Shuttle: Pinball Adventure) is a Space Shuttle themed pinball machine designed by Barry Oursler and Joe Kaminkow and produced in 1984 by WMS Industries.

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Special When Lit (film)

Special When Lit is a feature length documentary film about pinball written and directed by Brett Sullivan.

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Spring (device)

A spring is an elastic object that stores mechanical energy.

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Star Fox

Star Fox is a science fiction video game series created by Nintendo.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation (pinball)

Star Trek: The Next Generation is a widebody pinball game, designed by Steve Ritchie and released in November 1993 by Williams Electronics.

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Star Wars Episode I (pinball)

Star Wars Episode I is a 1999 pinball game designed by John Popadiuk and released by Williams and the second (and last) machine to use the Pinball 2000 hardware platform.

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Stern (game company)

Stern is the name of two different but related arcade gaming companies.

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Steve Irwin

Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist and television personality.

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Steve Kordek

Steve Kordek (December 26, 1911 – February 19, 2012) was an American businessman of Polish descent who was best known for the design of the pinball machines.

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Supreme Court of California

The Supreme Court of California is the court of last resort in the courts of the State of California.

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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a portable personal computer, typically with a mobile operating system and LCD touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package.

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Tavern

A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and in most cases, where travelers receive lodging.

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The Addams Family (pinball)

The Addams Family, released in March 1992, is the best selling pinball machine of all time.

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The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 American crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

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The Crocodile Hunter

The Crocodile Hunter is a wildlife documentary television series that was hosted by Steve Irwin and his wife, Terri.

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The Magnificent Marble Machine

The Magnificent Marble Machine was an American television game show that featured a giant pinball machine as its centerpiece.

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The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis (credited as The Wachowski Brothers) and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.

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The Pinball Arcade

The Pinball Arcade is a pinball video game developed by FarSight Studios.

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The Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B singing group from Oakland, California, who achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Spirit of '76 (pinball)

The Spirit of '76 was the first microprocessor-based pinball table.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The Who's Tommy

The Who's Tommy is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Pete Townshend and book by Townshend and Des McAnuff, based on The Who's 1969 rock opera Tommy.

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The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard

The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard is a pinball machine based on the rock musical The Who's Tommy.

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The Wizard of Oz (pinball)

The Wizard of Oz is a Jersey Jack Pinball, Inc. pinball machine designed by Joe Balcer and released in April 2013.

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Tilt (1979 film)

Tilt is a 1979 comedy-drama film about pinball hustling, starring Charles Durning and Brooke Shields as the young titular lead.

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Tommy (1975 film)

Tommy is a 1975 British independent rock musical fantasy drama film based upon The Who's 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a seemingly disabled boy who becomes a religious pinball champion.

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Tommy (album)

Tommy is the fourth studio album by the English rock band The Who, a double album first released in May 1969.

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Toru Iwatani

is a Japanese video game designer, best known as the creator of the arcade games Pac-Man (1980) and Pole Position (1982).

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Twilight Zone (pinball)

Twilight Zone is a widebody pinball machine, designed by Pat Lawlor and based on the TV series of the same name.

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Video Pinball

Video Pinball is a dedicated video game console released in 1977 as an Atari Inc. coin-op-to-standalone home console translation, by bringing the game Breakout to home players.

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Visual Pinball

Visual Pinball is a freeware and source available video game engine for pinball tables and similar games such as pachinko machines.

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Windows ME

Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows ME (marketed with the pronunciation of the pronoun "me", commonly pronounced as an initialism, "M-E (Codenamed Millennium)", is a graphical operating system from Microsoft released to manufacturing in June 2000, and launched in September 2000.

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Windows XP

Windows XP (codenamed Whistler) is a personal computer operating system that was produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.

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WMS Industries

WMS Industries, Inc. is an American electronic gaming and amusement manufacturer in Enterprise, Nevada.

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Xenon (pinball)

Xenon is a 1980 pinball machine designed by Greg Kmiec and released by Bally.

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Zaccaria (company)

Zaccaria, (later briefly reorganized under Mr. Game before ending production) was an Italian company of pinball and arcade machines that existed in Bologna from 1974 - 1990.

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Zen Pinball

Zen Pinball is a series of pinball machine video games for iOS and the PlayStation 3 developed by Zen Studios.

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1932 World Series

The 1932 World Series was a four-game sweep by the American League champions New York Yankees over the National League champions Chicago Cubs.

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2D computer graphics

2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital images) and by techniques specific to them.

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References

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