The History of Pinball Part 2: The Rise of the Solid-States
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2022
- In this video, we go through pinball's history from where we left off in the late 70's through the rapid advancement in the 80's. In this time, we see the shift from Electromechanical pinball machines (EM's) to the use of Solid-State (SS's)
Special video credits go to the following. If you wanna see more detailed videos/gameplay for individual machines, I highly recommend checking these guys out
For Amusement Only e.V. - Flipper- und Arcademuseum Seligenstadt, London Pinball, Doug's Home Arcade Collection, Cagey Cretins, Dr. Dave's Pinball Restorations, PAPApinball, Long Island Retro Gaming, Jeffrey Rank, Chris Hibler Pinball, GRC Pinball Official, Tomyelectronic, John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech, Kelly Corcoran, Intuitiv Spielen und Verbinden, Eddie Cramer, SeeburgSam, CGR Publishing, tattyadams, Sylvain Simard, The Crow Continuum, Pinsation, Pinball Reviews, PinballHelp, muckman2001, AoFparson, Basileous Productions, Carls493, brutalmoose
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.The Atarians (Atari)
2.Freedom (Bally)
3.Hot Tip (Williams)
4.Rodeo (Sega)
5.Space Mission (Williams)
6.Capt. Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy (Bally)
7.Supersonic (Zaccaria)
8.Bigfoot (Bally)
9.Mata Hari (Bally)
10.Millionaire (Sega)
11.Woman-Lib (Sega)
12.Winter Sports (Zaccaria)
13.Disco Fever (Williams)
14.Eight Ball (Bally)
15.Phoenix (Williams)
16.Orbit 1 (Hankin)
17.FJ (Hankin)
18.Paragon (Bally)
19.Black Velvet (Game Plan)
20.Flash (Williams)
21.Stellar Wars (Williams)
22.Superman (Atari)
23.Hercules (Atari)
24.Sharpshooter (Game Plan)
25.Genie (Gottlieb)
26.Gorgar (Williams)
27.Firepower (Williams)
28.The Amazing Spider-Man (Gottlieb)
29.Pinball Lizard (Game Plan)
30.James Bond 007 (Gottlieb)
31.Black Knight (Williams)
32.Xenon (Bally)
33.The Empire Strikes Back (Hankin)
34.Eight Ball Deluxe (Bally)
35.Fireball II (Bally)
36.Fathom (Bally)
37.Locomotion (Zaccaria)
38.Black Hole (Gottlieb)
39.Centaur (Bally)
40.Elektra (Bally)
41.Hyperball (Williams)
42.Orbitor 1 (Stern)
43.Haunted House (Gottlieb)
44.Le King (Jeutal)
45.Devil’s Dare (Gottlieb)
46.Caveman (Gottlieb)
47.Varkon (Williams)
48.Soccer Kings (Zaccaria)
49.Baby Pac-Man (Bally)
50.Time Fantasy (Williams)
51.Rat Race (Williams)
52.Time Machine (Zaccaria)
53.Firepower II (Williams)
54.Amazon Hunt (Gottlieb)
55.Farfalla (Zaccaria)
56.Af-Tor (Wico)
57.Space Shuttle (Williams)
58.Robot (Zaccaria)
59.Brave Team (Inder)
60.Sorcerer (Williams)
61.Clown (Zaccaria)
62.Comet (Williams)
63.Cyclopes (Game Plan)
64.High Speed (Williams)
65.Raven (Premier)
66.Super Star (Recreativos Franco)
67.Grand Lizard (Williams)
Thanks for coming back for part 2. Part 3 will probably take about as long as part 2 did, which could be quick I wasn't really keeping track. - ตลก
This is one of the best documentary series on TH-cam. You deserve so many more subs
I've never seen so many flavors of sarcasm combined together in one place as I have in this series.
Between all the multiball juggling and loop around callbacks, as well as the high score tables...it's the rare documentary that perfectly understands and captures the spirit of the subject matter.
I'm really disappointed he did not mention high speed or Tommy
Thought I was on a 100k sub channel judging by production quality, was very surprised seeing you had just 238 - now 239. A very interesting series and I don't even play pinball. Thanks TH-cam
I had the same feeling. Amazing Series. See you at 100K soon I hope
Because it's pinball.
Swatstika and Nazis suck! They really stink!
Too much commentary. Loses clout.
Great series. The jokes always catch me off guard, too
I love Pinball, the machines have taken over my house & all my friends think I lost my mind. Your speed of presentation, clips & humor is a refreshing way of educating & locking in viewers instead of putting us to sleep 💤 . Part 3 cannot come to soon. Continue in strength!
So much information presented in such a charming way. Subscribed
Great job man. Ive been into pinball since I was a teen (40 now)😅. Seen and learned some new stuff and am even more hyped now. FK pinball is so awesome. Can't beat physical stuff.
25:55 OMG The Comet! A buddy of mine has one of those at his cabin! played so many hours on that bad boy. The music from it is still stuck in my head lmao
@@Kerlimann HEY TURKEY!
Just got into pinball last month! This is awesome, and the edits are quite amusing
New blood new blood
What a superb and awesome job putting together
these videos and documenting the history of pinball and flippers. ❤
I played a lot of Black Knight back in the day. Pinbot was another one. We used to play in the pub. Low score was obligated to buy a round of shots. I always liked Williams games the best.
That sounds fun. Love a good bar with some pinball machines.
Wait wtf how does this channel only have a couple thousand subs? This is professional quality stuff
Can't recall exactly when (maybe 12 years old) or which game it was but I was hooked from the start. This was early 70s, and I played pinball every chance I got. Bally 8ball was my favorite, me and my friends worked that game over like a second hand ho, put in a quarter or 2 and play on replays after that. When I see the prices for the old games it makes me cry, I'll never be able to afford one. But I can still remember...😂
I LOVED Comet and Cyclone SO MUCH!!!
Amazing series and great production quality. Can’t wait for the next one. Take care.
I REQUIRE A PART 3
I don't know what witchcraft you're using but pinball was never an interest of mine until my recent visit to the Appalachian Pinball Museum. Now this history lesson pops up in my feed. And if there's one thing I love it's juicy history. So yeah now I have a strong interest in pinball and while it isn't all your fault you can take some of the blame if you'd like.
You give me too much credit. I'm just psychic
Just saw the movie Pinball The Man Who Saved The Game - hope you saw it Bralex - very good movie about the 1976 end to the illegal ban on pinball.
That RAT SLIME joke is pure gold!
Corporate office got a Star Wars pinball machine, which led me down a rabbit-hole to a really good channel.
Hell yea which one?
@@bralex2670 one of those $5000 Stern Machines. It was sick. I was working late, and it took a lot of discipline not to play it well into the night.
Great series. Can't wait for part 3. Subscribed
This is awesome! excellent series. Subscribed for the third part
Great job again. Looking forward to part 3!
Comet's "Snowman" as you refer to was a makeshift Skee Ball which was big at Riverview
Thanks! That was also great. I recently found out why Stellar Wars and Superman have so many similarities. Steve Richie designed both... don't know how he got away with it.
This was fantastic! We can't wait for chapter 3!
"Look at it"
2022 ~ probably Bralex ~
Excellent. Looking forward to part three.
Solid state be like: colonel, I’m trying to sneak around, but the chimes of my solenoids keep alerting the guards.
What an unusual, fresh and interesting film about pinballs with so much information, linked so well together. Thank you so much!
Good timing mate. Just watched pt1 yesterday and was a little disappointed there wasn't a pt2 up yet. Nice work. Subbed. 🙂👍
Another great look into po ball history.. especially covering the foreign manufacturers.. Cant wait for Part 3! DMD!
Crazy, Bally went from Pinball to WORLD WIDE fitness chain 😂
Another one of these videogame/pinball hybrids was Bally's Granny and the Gators, released in 1983. So, technically, Bally's the king of these hybrids while Caveman was forgotten.
7:41 Hankin pinball machine FJ is themed for the legendary FJ Holden. Holden was an Australian car manufacturer & the FJ used to be the car evey good ol' aussie larrikin wanted.
Subbed for part three. Great work.
New subscriber. Can't wait for part 3.
Great information!
Appreciate your work
Another cool and amusing installment! Also oh my gosh, bless Roger Sharpe (especially since he mentioned that the shot was erm, lucky).. ;u; Interesting to hear that a film's being made about him and what he's done for pinball too, thanks for mentioning that!
Love these videos
This is so exciting!! 3rd part Subscribing is on the way!!
Great stuff. Very funny.
One thing not mentioned about the Zaccaria Solid States is that they had a 4th "Bonus Ball". During your third ball you would earn bonus time and when you lost that ball, you would get a fourth ball and you could play it for as long as the time you earned during your third ball.
8:17 IM DYING RN 💀
Great again! J'adore
I cannot wait to see part 3.
This was a really entertaining watch. I was and still am a Classic Stern kind of guy.
Looking forward to part 3!
So you ask the question about the weird backbox/scoring arrangement on Centaur II. Check out IPDB. In short, Bally was worried that William's Hyperball was going to be a success so rushed a 'clone' called Rapid Fire into production. They pre-made a ton of cabinets thinking they'd sell well in the market. So....tons of these oddball sized backboxes are sitting around once both the 'crossfire' games failed. Hence Centaur II, Eight Ball Deluxe Limited Edition, and Mrs. and Mr. Pac-Man Pinball all having odd-shaped Backboxes.
Return of the king 👑
Another great one. The humour style kind of reminds me of reddit ten years ago so more up to date (young) dad humour. Great production skills.
Can't wait for part 3.
LOVED Orbitor 2
Braex could explain how paint drys and I would listen!! True talent for comedic history lessons!
HEY PBS!!! Hire this guy! And I probably wouldn’t fall asleep to most of your tv shows!
bro your research and editing are top notch i throughly enjoyed the first two videos .. the monkey sign language joke destroyed me my abs were sore from laughing that shit was hella funny...
Thanks man. I knew that would get someone
had a buccaneer loved it but the disease is real having more games then space this one sold easy at the time
WELL DONE.
pinball movie is a must-see. i await its release with bated breath
Same its gonna be so hype
Warning - copyrighted music from awesome machines in this. And it's awesome. I am so glad I started to play pinball in the 80's. EM's were awful. Even Millionaire music. And Voltaire and awesomeness!
Of course, voltaire's my favorite :)
thanks your great !!!!!!!
Love these cideos
Subscribed for part III. Just a quick correction. Mark Ritchie was credited with designing Blackout in 1980 although some say he ripped off the design from someone else.
15:11 upper playfields started to trend
I agree it is an amazing series, maybe you could make more historical story series after this one.
I plan on covering a lot of things, just wanted to start with pinball cause I love it so much
13:05 - There was a pretty rad Joust pinball that Williams made. There's some videos of it on YT. Made in 1983 the machine is in a cocktail format and two players, one on each side of the table. When you play two player you can knock the balls out of your play field and into your opponents playfield. It's pretty rad. I only got to play it once though before it vanished from the Arcade I played it at. :(
Alright I like And subscribed now I want more educate me more on pinball please :)
What happened to part 1? It’s been taken down for some reason. Great video series btw 100% top notch effort and information
Strange. It's still up on my end.
15:28 best moment of series
Judging from your name I can guess you appreciated the rcdb plug too?
Damn, Wico always keeps popping up in the weirdest places. :D
Great! Now i HAVE to subscribe just so i dont miss part 3. >:(
Yup I'm a dastardly fiend
Black Hole is way more complex than it looks ... truly a great table.
Referencing RCDB, bringing up Brutalmoose, an obsession with geese. Are you me?
Ah, a fellow man of culture I see
@ 7'45" - "What do you think FJ stands for?"
Its a classic Australian car. (yes, we did have a few) FJ was the model designation of the 1953 Holden.
If some young buck wanted a cool car in the 70's, it just HAD to be an FJ.
James bond has a feature where instead of ending your game when a timer reaches zero. They repurposed it to give you bonus after all balls are played
First, I want to say that you did an overall good job on the series. That said, there are few things that should be corrected. I'm unsure if this is your voice or an AI script reader, but 'pseudo,' 'R.I.P.,' 'Bally,' and 'Gottlieb' aren't pronounced correctly in any of the four videos. It's a little odd to have history videos on a subject and mispronounce two of the largest players in the industry. Kind of like Bill and Ted introducing their class to 'So-Crates.' Also, Gottlieb had their first solid-state game in December of 1977, a month before Zaccaria released their first solid-state in January of 1978. You also misrepresented David Gottlieb as someone who was making gambling machines. He was vehemently opposed to making any kind of payout machines that could be considered gambling. It was a constant argument that he had with his competitor and friend, Raymond Moloney, who ran Bally. His opposition came from his deeply held religious views, the same that made his company a great place to work. Also, Gottlieb, while no longer in its heyday, wasn't struggling when Coke acquired Columbia. They were coming out of 1982 with two of their biggest sellers, Q Bert and Haunted House. Mylstar Electronics was just corporate idiots that thought a name change would make that division cool with the kids. Remember, this was the same corporate board that thought New Coke was needed less than two years later. Then you had the video game crash of 1983 and the implosion of home gaming and neighborhood arcades. Coke bought Columbia Pictures for the movies, so selling off Mylstar made sense to them. This means that Mysltar never changed its name to Premier. Investors who bought the assets of Mylstar came up with the name Premier for their new company and their company had the rights to the Gottlieb name.
Thanks for the input. And yeah I do say things funny sometimes don't worry I know.
I didn't mean to portray Gottlieb like he loved gambling, it just turned out that a lot of people used pinball thay way early on. I tried to personify the companies to try to detatch any negative aspects (like gambling) but I probably could've done better with gottlieb the guy and gottlieb the company.
At one time there was a part Pack Man and Pin ball .. remember when got 2 plays for a quarter
Part 3, Part 3, Part 3!!!! 😤😁
15:43 - You can see her process in this video - Suzanne Ciani Creates The Soundtrack For A Pinball Machine: th-cam.com/video/r28i-k3mL3o/w-d-xo.html
Interesting that the KISS logo had to be replaced on the pinball as well. Was this internationally renowned? As far as I know they had to do change it on their records for the German market at some point and existing material was replaced on the fly. The band was strictly against it and justly claimed to mean nothing but to depict flashes, but the record company overruled them because of pressure; surely not from their fans.
Yeah, Germany's pretty strict about that kind of thing. Pretty understandably so, but I don't blame kiss for being mad about it
26:32 - Wow... Evil Otto kills another one.
And now.. Stern IS the biggest pinball company because they're THE ONLY pinball company.
I owned a Paragon pin. Then, I bought Hyperball, Haunted House, Black Knight 2000, and Funhouse
Dude. Part. THree. WHEN?!?!
Ive played hercules before, it was pretty jank and used a pool ball for the ball, but was pretty fun
Ramps might have become a staple at one point, But Centaur was perfect without them and Black Knight kinda sucked because of them. So there is that. I still prefer some older machines as you have to use your skill to get the ball where it's supposed to go. Most machines during the 90s,even though there are quite some I like, were mostly about looping through rampshots. Weird.
Centaur >>>> Black Knight
I gotta agreee
Thank god for transistors
can you make an 8 hour special on robot bridge?
15:15 Lightning
Actually, many states would still ban people under the age of 18 from playing pinball well into the 80's. The state I live in (Tennessee) banned players under 18 up until around 1986. I remember moving here from South Carolina where it was legal for all ages to play. All the arcades here had pinball machines segregated from the arcade games. The first time I tried to go play pinball, I remembered one of the attendants yelling at me to get away from those machines. My mom, who was with me at the time, and I looked at each other, bewildered. She asked what was wrong, and the attendant snapped back, "You can't play pinball in the state of Tennessee unless you're over 18". We literally had to tell the guy we just moved here from South Carolina where pinball was 100% legal for everyone. We knew people there that even had full sized pins in their homes. We asked who came up with this stupid rule. And he said the law had been on the books since the 40's. We walked out of the arcade and didn't look back. Ironically, they were raided and shut down 2 months later for having poker machines. Video games took over anyway. Most arcades didn't even have a pinball machine again here until the late 80's. Around the Williams System 11 era. F-14 Tomcat was the first pinball machine I finally got to play in the 7 years since we moved to Tennessee.
there is a movie about sharp the man who saved pinball
Yo I ❤ the series, but didn't Bally's Xenon come out before Firepower?
Making it the 1st Solid State powered game with Multiball?
+ Question: Is Xenon the 1st game with a ramp?
Thx :)
There were some EM's that had ramps like Bally's 4 Million BC, but that was just for the skill shot from the plunger. I think it'd be safe to say that Xenon's ramp was the first to be an important shot and a key part to the game's overall design (of which most ramps are like nowadays)
Great series! Where's part 3?
Not for a bit. Thanks!
Brown dirt cowboy was a bally home use 76. You had captain fantastic em in the video, mistake. Brown dirt was a freeplay only ss. Just a correction, not too mad.
lol... seeing my own Time Machine footage in this video confused me for a moment.
thanks!! subtitles pls!!!
I don't think I would say that arcades started to die in the late 80s. If anything home consoles and arcades fed off each in a cycle where the good version would come out in the arcade and then home consoles would get a port*. It wasn't really until he mid to late 90s with the Saturn, PS1, and N64 that we started to really see the decline of the arcades.
*Oh, and of course the exception to this was the Neo Geo. Since that home console was basically just the arcade without the cabinet. Not to many people had that. They did have this neat system to copy things from arcade to home but I never really saw it used much.
The only way a timer
inside of a Pinball machine works
is if the name of the game
is disarmed the bomb
You have a time limit
to get to a specific score
and if you don't reach that score
the game cuts off
if you do reach that score you can keep playing
What if the timer resets
Implying you have to
Disarm more than one
There would be 2 ways to play
either try to disarm In the time allotted
Or try to rack up extra lives before the clock stops and every time the clock stops it takes one of your extra lives
pinballin' 2: balls revenge
No mention of Bally Gold ball 1983?
Oh how it makes my blood boil
How many stern Arcade Pinball packs did you buy for this video?