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The Economics of Pinball

November 18th, 2009

I have just read through an interesting article on the Cheep talk blog .
In 1986, Williams High Speed changed the economics of pinball forever.  Pinball developers began to see how they could take advantage of programmable software to monitor, incentivize, and ultimately exploit the players.
Although I don’t think the Manufacturers “exploited” the players any more [...]

A blog about pinball in the 21st century?
I caught the pinball bug in 1992 after seeing one of the Adams Family machines delivered to the hotel arcade, whilst on holiday in Greece. I chose to play it after thinking that arcade games now seemed expensive, due to the home consoles spoiling us at the time. I figured [...]