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From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Old pinball machine favorites
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 10:42:52 EST
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> I am something of a purist, and while there are some video games that I like,  I
> much prefer good old fashioned pinball.  I'd like to see if we can get a
> discussion of old-time favorite pinball machines up.
> 
> Let me start...
> There was one, I believe it was called Fireball.  It appeared years before
> the modern multi-ball machines, yet it had multi-ball capabilities.  The other
> remarkable feature about it was a big rubber spinner in the middle of the
> table that (when turned on) would put incredible spins on the ball.  It
> included targets and pins representing Odin and another mythological god
> (Roman?  Greek?) whose name escapes me.
> 
> Anyone care to add anything???
> 
The other god was Wotan, also a Norse god, I believe, from an
earlier mythos than Odin and his contemporaries [something like
Cronos and the Titans giving way to Zeus, Poseidon, etc.].

Anyway, this was one of my favorite, favorite machines. The spinner
had little buttons around it that could open or close the flippers. 
With the flippers closed, it was much more difficult to lose a ball
down the middle-- you really had to try.  

Also, you had a tilted area at the top where the ball would first
enter the playing field.  Agood shot here would get you 3000 points.
Too hard and the ball would go thru a chute and down towards the
bumpers.  Not hard enough and you wouldn't get the ball to go into
the lane.

I really like old pinball machines and was very sorry to see them
go.  I still own a half share in one of them that a friend and I had
in college.  We also had a Space Invaders machine [the pinball
machine-- with the mirrored backglass] for awhile.

Two of my other favorite machines were "Wizard" and "King Kool".
Any other pinball fanatics out there?

Mark Modig
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