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a steel ball, gravity, and your ego, arguing for three minutes.
means an arcade game where you use flippers to keep a metal ball in play against tables designed to steal it back.
from descended from bagatelle, a 18th-century french tabletop game with pins and a cue; the electric flipper wasn't added until 1947, before which it was basically just fancy marble-dropping and briefly illegal as a game of chance in american cities.
banned decadesillegal in nyc from 1942 to 1976
legalized by skilla player demoed skill to end the ban
tilt mechanismpunishes players who shake the machine too hard
for instance
the twilight zone — 1993 bally table, ranked among the greatest ever made
medieval madness — 1997 williams game, still remanufactured due to demand
addams family pinball — best-selling pinball machine of all time, over 20000 units