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Silverball Chronicles Ep 27: A Brief History Of Pinball
Silverball Chronicles with David and Ron
Episode 26: A Brief History of Pinball
Want to Support the Show? Join Our Patreon and get early access to each episode: www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles
Topic Starts at 10:03
Episode Summary
A Brief History of Pinball is a great place to begin! Let’s wind the clock back WAYYY back. We're going to visit the beginning of many 'games' in the early days of fancy pants Europe, the importation of table games to America, New Jersey's part in all this, Harry Williams, Wayne Neyens, and all those innovations that make pinball, pinball!
Games:
Baffle Ball, Ballyhoo, Contact, Skyscraper, World’s Series, Rockelite Humpty Dumpty, Triple Action, Saratoga, Army Navy, SuperJumbo, Balls-a-Poppin’, Vegabond, Swing-Along, The Spirit of ’76, Flash, Gorgar, Checkpoint, Revenge from Mars, and The Wizard of Oz.
Sources:
Bagatelle. Here
Pinball. Here
ThoughtCo. The History of Pinball. Here
Baldridge, Nick. This Week In Pinball. A Beginner’s Guide to Bingo Pinball. Here
Pinball News. Illuminating. Here
Remembering Harry Williams. Here
Shalhoub, Michael (2004). The Pinball compendium: 1982 to Present. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Kocurek, Carly A. "Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Sharpe, Roger. "Pinball!" New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.
Sullivan, Barbara. "Ballyhoo Over Goldberg Hardly Whole Bally
Saga." Chicago Tribune, June 17, 1996.
Sweeney, Melodie. "The bagatelle wizard instead of the pinball wizard." National Museum of American History, October 31, 2012.
Terry, Clifford. "How the Pinball Machine Got Those Flippers." Chicago Tribune, August 8, 1993.
Wolf, Mark J. P. "The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to Playstation and Beyond." Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
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Silverball Chronicles with David and Ron
Episode 26: A Brief History of Pinball
Want to Support the Show? Join Our Patreon and get early access to each episode: www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles
Topic Starts at 10:03
Episode Summary
A Brief History of Pinball is a great place to begin! Let’s wind the clock back WAYYY back. We're going to visit the beginning of many 'games' in the early days of fancy pants Europe, the importation of table games to America, New Jersey's part in all this, Harry Williams, Wayne Neyens, and all those innovations that make pinball, pinball!
Games:
Baffle Ball, Ballyhoo, Contact, Skyscraper, World’s Series, Rockelite Humpty Dumpty, Triple Action, Saratoga, Army Navy, SuperJumbo, Balls-a-Poppin’, Vegabond, Swing-Along, The Spirit of ’76, Flash, Gorgar, Checkpoint, Revenge from Mars, and The Wizard of Oz.
Sources:
Bagatelle. Here
Pinball. Here
ThoughtCo. The History of Pinball. Here
Baldridge, Nick. This Week In Pinball. A Beginner’s Guide to Bingo Pinball. Here
Pinball News. Illuminating. Here
Remembering Harry Williams. Here
Shalhoub, Michael (2004). The Pinball compendium: 1982 to Present. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Kocurek, Carly A. "Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Sharpe, Roger. "Pinball!" New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.
Sullivan, Barbara. "Ballyhoo Over Goldberg Hardly Whole Bally
Saga." Chicago Tribune, June 17, 1996.
Sweeney, Melodie. "The bagatelle wizard instead of the pinball wizard." National Museum of American History, October 31, 2012.
Terry, Clifford. "How the Pinball Machine Got Those Flippers." Chicago Tribune, August 8, 1993.
Wolf, Mark J. P. "The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to Playstation and Beyond." Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
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