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Pinball

Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en-route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails called 'pins' and had hollows or pockets which scored points if the ball came to rest in them. Today, pinball is…

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Scoring points

Playing techniques

Manufacturing process

Competitions

Video game simulations

In popular culture

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Pinball

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Edges233
Triples295
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008547
Components1

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Pinball

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related to Scoring points · 28
Pinball → Baby Pac-Man, Canasta, CGA, Checkpoint, ColorDMD, Contact, Dakar, DMD, DMDs, Electrical, Game, Gators, Granny, In, Inder's, It, LCD, MarsaPlay, Mr, New Canasta
related to 1931: Coin operation introduced · 26
Pinball → At, Baffle Ball, Bally, Ballyhoo, By, David Gottlieb's Baffle Ball, Gottlieb, Hercules Novelty Company's Double-Shuffle, In, In January, IPDB, Its, Juggle Ball, Later, Lion Manufacturing, Moloney, Montague Redgrave's, Ohio, Raymond Moloney, Rock-Ola
related to Video game simulations · 21
Pinball → Apple II, Atari, Bill Budge's Pinball Construction, Bomb Bee, Chicago Coin's TV Pingame, Cutie, David's Midnight Magic, Exidy's TV Pinball, Inc, Midway Manufacturing, Other, Pin Pong, Pinball Action, Set, Simulating, Tehkan's, The, This, Toru Iwatani's Gee Bee, TV Flipper
related to 2000s and beyond: Revival · 18
Pinball → After, Australia, Bally, Cactus Canyon, California, Crocodile Hunter-themed, In, In November, Medieval Madness, Melbourne, October, Planetary Pinball Supply Inc, Steve Irwin, The Pinball Factory, TPF, Williams, Williams Electronics Games, With
related to Toys, magnets and captive balls · 17
Pinball → Captive, Contrary, Electromagnets, In, Magic, Newton, Newton Ball, Some, Sometimes, The, The Twilight Zone, The Williams, Theatre, They, This, Toys, Usually
related to 1933: Electrification and active bumpers introduced · 15
Pinball → Another, By, California, Chicago, Competition, Contact, Contact's, Electric, Harry Williams, Illinois, Los Angeles, Other, Pacific Amusements, The, Williams Manufacturing
related to 1869: Spring launchers become mainstream · 14
Pinball → Bagatelle, Billard, British, Cincinnati, Improvements, In, Montague Redgrave, Ohio, Patent, Redgrave, Redgrave's, The, The Redgrave Bagatelle, United States
related to history · 12
Pinball → Bueschel, Gottlieb's Baffle Ball, Kent, Montague Redgrave's, Raymond Maloney's Ballyhoo, Richard, Roger Sharpe, Some, Steven, The, These, World War II
related to Late 18th century: Spring launcher invented · 12
Pinball → Also, Billard, English, In France, Japanese, Louis XIV, Pins, Players, Somewhere, Stosspudel, The, Western Europe
related to Sources · 12
Pinball → Arcade-Style Game Design, Christopher Lee, Coin-Op Videogames, DeLeon, Digital Media, Georgia Institute, Master, May, PDF, Pinball's Connections, Science, Technology

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Pinballis arock opera album Tommy0.90text
the tilt-sensing mechanisminstance ofImprovements0.80text
the awarding of free gamesinstance ofImprovements0.80text
High Speed started incorporating full soundtracksinstance offollowing video games.Games in the latter half of the 1980s0.80text
elaborate light showsinstance offollowing video games.Games in the latter half of the 1980s0.80text
backbox animations - a radical change from the previous decade's electromechanical gamesinstance offollowing video games.Games in the latter half of the 1980s0.80text
Epic Pinballinstance ofthese video versions of pinball0.80text
Full Tiltinstance ofthese video versions of pinball0.80text
Theatre of Magicinstance ofIn games0.80text
captive balls sometimes have what is called ainstance ofIn games0.80text
mechanical leaf switchesinstance ofthese were often controlled by solenoid-level drivers.A game typically includes 64 to 96 TTL-level inputs from a variety of sensors0.80text
optical sensorsinstance ofthese were often controlled by solenoid-level drivers.A game typically includes 64 to 96 TTL-level inputs from a variety of sensors0.80text

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