The History of Pinball Part 3: The Golden Age of Pinball
In this video, we go through pinball's biggest, most iconic boom in the late 80's/early 90's to Pinball 2000. In this time, we see some of the most beloved pinball machines get made with a amazing amount of new features and gimmicks.
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Also, this whole project couldn't be possible without great resources like the Pinball Compendium series by Michael Shalhoub, IPDB, and Pinside.
Highlighted Tables
1.Strange Science (Bally)
2.Pin-Bot (Williams)
3.Laser War (Data East)
4.Space Station (Williams)
5.TX-Sector (Premier)
6.Truck Stop (Bally)
7.Banzai Run (Williams)
8.Dakar (Mr. Game)
9.Taxi (Williams)
10.Time Machine (Data East)
11.Earthshaker (Williams)
12.Black Knight 2000 (Williams)
13.Elvira and the Party Monsters (Bally)
14.Bone Busters Inc. (Premier)
15.Lights… Camera… Action! (Premier)
16.Robocop (Data East)
17.Radical! (Bally)
18.Dr. Dude and his Excellent Ray (Bally)
19.Flip-VI (Inder)
20.Silver Slugger (Premier)
21.Whirlwind (Williams)
22.FunHouse (Williams)
23.Checkpoint (Data East)
24.The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot (Williams)
25.Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Williams)
26.AG Soccer-Ball (Alvin G)
27.AG Football (Alvin G)
28.Michael Jordan (Data East)
29.Star Wars (Data East)
30.Jurassic Park (Data East)
31.The Addams Family (Bally)
32.Super Mario Bros. (Premier)
33.Super Mario Bros. Mushroom World (Premier)
34.Cue Ball Wizard (Premier)
35.Fish Tales (Williams)
36.Creature From The Black Lagoon (Bally)
37.Al’s Garage Band Goes On A World Tour (Alvin G)
38.White Water (Williams)
39.Bushido (Inder)
40.Mach 2.0 Two (Spinball)
41.Street Fighter II (Premier)
42.Twilight Zone (Bally)
43.Punchy The Clown (Alvin G)
44.Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure (Williams)
45.Gladiators (Premier)
46.The Who’s Tommy Pinball Wizard (Data East)
47.World Cup Soccer (Bally)
48.World Challenge Soccer (Premier)
49.The Pinball Circus (Bally)
50.Kabuki (Data East)
51.Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Sega)
52.Red & Ted’s Road Show (Williams)
53.Shaq Attack (Premier)
54.Stargate (Premier)
55.No Fear: Dangerous Sports (Williams)
56.Theatre of Magic (Bally)
57.Jack-Bot (Williams)
58.Strikes N’ Spares (Premier)
59.Pinball Magic (Capcom)
60.Attack From Mars (Bally)
61.Jolly Park (Spinball)
62.Breakshot (Capcom)
63.Tales of the Arabian Nights (Williams)
64.Scared Stiff (Bally)
65.Flipper Football (Capcom)
66.Big Bang Bar (Capcom)
67.Junk Yard (Williams)
68.Verne’s World (Spinball)
69.NBA Fastbreak (Bally)
70.Barb Wire (Premier)
71.Cirqus Voltaire (Bally)
72.Medieval Madness (Williams)
73.No Good Gofers (Williams)
74.The Champion Pub (Bally)
75.Monster Bash (Williams)
76.Cactus Canyon (Bally)
77.Revenge From Mars (Bally)
78.Star Wars: Episode I (Williams)
Thanks for coming back for part 3. Part 4 will be the final part and won't take too long I hope.
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wait
wait a minute
oh you know what
i see what the problem is
yep yep this is part three of the
pinball history have you seen the other
parts yet
oh just just making sure
remember context is key
a little bit of a recap from last time
video games came in kicked pinball out
of arcades and killed some companies the
nes came out and killed arcade games
leaving pinball just sort of there with
a decade's worth of hard-fought
improvements and now it's time for
pinball to go absolutely wild all cut up
alright let's go
wow we survived that
okay boys go crazy
and went crazy they did competing with
arcade games really pushed pinball to
make a ton of advancements and now they
were free to kind of do whatever they
wanted all right all right i know i
haven't done a whole lot worth
mentioning in a while so here's strange
science look it has 5 ball multiball
that's a lot of multi-volt that's pretty
neat huh
move over bali let me show you why i'm
top dog to kick off the new era of
pinball williams released the iconic
pinbot with his crazy flipper fingers
and magic opening visor what a great
game artist and co-designer python
angelo thought it was a great game too
so he asked the then president ken
fredenza if the whole team could get
credited instead of just the designer
which was standard up to this point he
said sure why not and from that day on
the whole team finally gets the credit
they deserve which makes my job a whole
lot easier you want to know another
trend that started here
well what adds little to nothing to a
game but pinball enthusiasts love anyway
what do i have to pay extra for today
just to get one that's right toppers
