a Man with Balls
a Man with Balls
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Highlights
- Pinball has a 250-year history dating back to board games with spikes.
- Mayor LaGuardia of New York banned pinball in the 1940s, leading to mass destruction of machines in bars.
- In the 1970s, a court ruling established that pinball is a game of skill, not gambling.
- Humpty Dumpty (1947) was the first pinball machine to add flippers.
- Dutch Pinball Museum is unique in the world and houses 165 playable machines.
- A visitor from North America took four flights to visit the Dutch Pinball Museum as the primary purpose of their trip.
- Wooden rails on pinball machines are rare in the Netherlands; steel edges became standard by the 1970s.
- Early pinball machines used mechanical computers based on binary code (yes/no, 1/0) to control gameplay.
- Modern pinball machines like Harry Potter use RGB LED lights that can display hundreds of colors instead of single-color lamps.
Notable quotes
“To put it very briefly, pinball means nothing more than a board with spikes.”
“We are not the flipper box museum, we are the pinball museum.”
“A service was called into action. It went through all the bars to pick up the equipment and it was mass destruction. They were put in the toilet. They were beaten up by the mayor himself with a big hammer. Or they were sunk in the huts.”
“The judge who had to decide was convinced that it was a skillful game.”
“The magical moment the very first time that flippers are added to pinball”
“And actually we are talking about a mechanical computer.”
“Now you have a red light and now every light can take on hundreds of colors. We can also think in 3D so we can play many different layers and it becomes very deep.”
“You can actually just completely integrate the whole film into the game. Yes, phenomenal.”
Entities
- Harry Potter· game
- Humpty Dumpty· game
- Toupie Hollandaise· game
- Delftshaven· organization
- Dutch Pinball Museum· organization
- Spangen· organization
- Gerard van der Sanden· person
- Mayor LaGuardia· person
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