Pinball Games on the Net
Thursday, August 5th, 2010Pinball machines have been known for a long time now, many of you maybe remember them in the Arcades and nightclubs where one could spend quarters with friends and try to beat each others highscore. The early pinball tables, dating back to 1850 where not coin operated or electricity powered, they didn't have any flippers like we recognize them today. When the introduction of electromechanical bells, chimes, lights and buzzers in the mid 1930's, the interest of pinball tables grew quickly. Humpty Dumpty from 1947 was the first table to have flippers, this is known as the golden years of pinball. From then on tables later expanded with features like ramps, multiballs, matrix dot displays and digital soundeffects. The older tables where mostly quite hard but for each game you got 5 balls, where most of today's tables you only have 3 balls. The pinball's are not as popular today as the golden age. Stern are the only company still creating tables and its becoming a rare sight to see a machine. The good news is it is possible to play these tables on a computer, also the old ones from 1930's. Most tables are emulated. Titles like 4Square, Startrek, Balls-a-Poppin and many more are available. So if anyone is searching for Pinball games for your PC, look no further. Visual Pinball is free and many recreate or even share their own original tables which are available to find online. It is a fine community. If you like, you can also start to create your original pinball game and share it with others.
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