Williams is a self-proclaimed pinball nerd who collects and builds pinball machines as a hobby.
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A 230 Williams "Winner" pinball machine (L) is displayed in Guenter "Pindigi" Freinberger's pinball museum in Ruprechtshofen, Vienna.
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From Pinball Dreams on the Commodore 64 to the mobile app Zen Pinball, Williams has played them all.
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Today, the pinball wizards at Stern Pinball announced a new machine based on Netflix's hit series Stranger Things.
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Kirby's Pinball LandFully embracing the hardware limitations of the Game Boy, Kirby's Pinball Land had that tiny pink blob battling enemies and attempting to defeat each level-specific boss on a virtual pinball table.
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Smartball New Star Pinball Okay, so we can't really call it an arcade, but these old-school pinball machines are oddly addictive.
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He thought Pinball FX 2 VR did a great job of replicating the experience of playing a pinball game in real life.
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Bethesda is transforming its biggest games into pinball tables: the publisher just announced that it's partnering with Zen Studios on Bethesda Pinball.
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Here's an interactive pinball locator map, so you can find GoT pinball — or The Walking Dead, Metallica or Elvis — wherever you live.
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Members of the pinball community have been clamoring for a Stranger Things pinball machine, with one person going so far as to build their own virtual version that's in the top 30 downloads of the virtual pinball table-sharing site VPinball.
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His love of pinball started after playing a Judge Dredd pinball machine, and he's been heavily into it for the last five years.
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But as someone who spent way too many hours in 3D Pinball for Windows, hyper-realistic virtual pinball is a strangely satisfying experience.
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The Art of Pinball, created by Red Paper Heart, reimagines the experience of a vintage pinball machine, into a tool of digital art performance.
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He streams a lot of different video game content as well as in-depth pinball coverage, which includes playing, analyzing, customizing and repainting pinball tables.
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I have seen my fair share of pinball machines and it sure doesn't look like any pinball I've ever seen, not merely because it's vertical.
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Still, as realistic as virtual reality can make pinball feel, Williams thinks the true beauty of playing pinball can never be fully captured in a simulation.
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It acts as the IMDB of pinball, with over 2,000 contributors and where you can find detailed rankings of top 300 pinball machines of all time.
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Related: Meet the Interactive 8-Player Indonesian Pinball Machine Wall-Sized Pinball Machine Seeking Wall-Sized Wizard An Arcade Meets a Temple at the Brooklyn Museum
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I spent a rainy afternoon inside the Pinball Hall of Fame, a 10,000-square-foot warehouse packed with playable pinball machines dating back to the 1950s.
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The kitsch value of retro pinball machines has seen a resurgence in bars and arcades, and existing and new companies like Stern, Jersey Jack Pinball and Heighway Pinball are doing their best to ensure fanatics continue to get a fresh supply of new machines to try out.
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Indeed, the state also pegged pinball as gambling for decades until Roger Sharpe famously called and made a shot on a pinball machine in a 1976 courtroom.
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Bars started to realize they could capitalize on a group of heavy drinkers who liked to play pinball, and Portland started to get a lot more pinball machines.
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The law was changed in 1976 after a pinball expert and top player, Roger Sharpe, played for officials to prove that pinball was not a game of chance.
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If he was going to play pinball in virtual reality, he wanted to be playing it with the same kind of controller he uses on a real pinball machine.
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Both tables are coming to all versions of Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2 as part of a $4.99 pack (or $2.99 individually) during the week of Jan. 12.
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And the boys' unanimous highlight was the Asheville Pinball Museum, where $15 ($12 for kids) bought unlimited plays on a collection of dozens of vintage pinball and arcade games.
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And one place that pinball will surely live forever—or at least until rising sea levels cause the collapse of human society—is the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, California.
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"The flipper rubber bands wear out, I've got switches up the fuckin' wazoo," Jon Ehrlich, who does his own pinball repairs and owns a Brooklyn pinball bar called Jackbar told us.
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Above: Image courtesy of the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association/Replay Foundation Pinball has been "dying" for decades now, its death-knell sounded repeatedly over the years as the industry has contracted.
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Das einstimmige Highlight für die Jungen war das Asheville Pinball Museum, wo man für 15 Dollar (12 Dollar für Kinder) unbegrenzt oft an Dutzenden von historischen Pinball- und Arcade-Automaten spielen kann.
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Having pinball brain is not going to get him there.
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Pinball would remain banned in New York City until 13.
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And then there's Zoë Vrabel, the World's Women's Pinball Champion.
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Instead, go there, play pinball, and don't be a dope.
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But when does anyone actually play pinball in the movie?
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What does pinball have to do with Akira, at all?
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" –in FvJ after playing telekinetic pinball with Jason's body "Grounded!
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He was something of a pinball wizard, traveling for tournaments.
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One of his raps, "Grand Champion," extols his pinball prowess.
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For most of us, pinball machines are just magical monsters that eat all the dollar bills in our pockets somewhere around last call at drinking establishments, but for some people pinball is very serious.
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In the last few years, there's been a pinball resurgence—maybe because a generation of people, like Ehrlich, who grew up with pinball have the money to spend it on the machines from their youth.
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It should be no surprise that competitive pinball is a thing.
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You think Supreme would be upstaged by a Ghostbusters pinball machine?
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The Portland pinball scene began in a garage, Vrabel told me.
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By his own estimates, he's logged around 10,000 hours on pinball.
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Ultimately, there's nothing quite like playing a real-life pinball machine.
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You bounce, pinball fashion, among the show's parts, seduced into cognizance.
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He had a job delivering newspapers and a pinball machine business.
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You are a human pinball who thinks he literally invented masturbation.
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I've always wanted to like pinball games, but it's never clicked.
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People like Andy Cobb, current reigning Oregon State Pinball Champion; Derek "DMX" Miazga, ranked first in the state by points; Noah "Opto" Davis, ranked 162nd in the world and gaining; Greg Dunlap, who has nearly two-and-a-half decades of experience as a dedicated pinball player and volunteer with the Pinball Outreach Project, a charitable group that gets kids into the sport.
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The K sisters and krew rocked matching black jerseys -- names on the back and a "Pinball Pu$$ies" logo on their chests -- as they bodied up to a line of pinball machines in an L.A. arcade.
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Luckily, it won't be too long before we can see what a Fallout pinball machine looks like — Bethesda Pinball is launching December 6th on PC, Mac, Xbox One, and PS4, with mobile versions coming on December 8th.
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Hooker systematically destroyed me on all of them, before turning to the only pinball game he's actually kept: Happy Clown, an electromechanical pinball board produced by Gottlieb in 1964 whose art features a disembodied, bouncing clown head.
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King Brothers, a trio of pinball-machine magnates turned minor movie moguls.
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Jaime bounced from person to person, moving like a pinball across Winterfell.
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Much like pinball, foraging taps into the obsessive, competitive side of chefs.
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He already had plenty of pinball machine parts laying around his garage.
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He says playing Pinball FX 2 VR with the PinSim is elating.
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After one week, they had $25, enough to buy another pinball machine.
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He regularly won such prizes at the monthly pinball tournament held there.
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High scores aren't enough for me, and in pinball, that's the point.
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And before that, it was a comic book and the pinball machine.
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It sliced the air, like the balls whizzing in a pinball machine.
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Michael gave us the tour, in his habitual style ("Um—pinball machine").
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Every once and a while, though, video games give me what I want: pinball dropped into something outside a regular pinball table, a game with more concrete objectives, a way to feel satisfaction beyond watching sheer numbers tick up.
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However, the live broadcast of pinball is a recent addition to the scene.
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Afterwards, we swing by a pinball bar and I play a few games.
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Over ¥3.53trn ($203bn) is waged annually on pachinko, a noisy variant of pinball.
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The Pinball Hall of Fame is an enormous quadrangular warehouse jam packed — surprise!
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Yes, a virtual reality pinball arcade sounds a little silly, and it is.
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And then there's the unranked bar leagues, pinball pub crawls, and charity events.
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For a long time it was just a laundromat and a pinball place.
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For $15 in quarters he could play his favorite pinball machines for weeks.
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Seeing Mr. West treated like a pinball, or a carrier pigeon, is uncomfortable.
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I watched the article pinball around Twitter faster than I had ever imagined.
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CreditCreditArthur Eddington So this is what it is like to play cosmic pinball.
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Fargo features a gaming cafe, indoor skateboarding and even a classic pinball arcade.
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There is a lot going on when you play a game of pinball.
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Pinball blizzard The season 7 finale of "Game of Thrones" is upon us.
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It's Hooker's job to make sure pinball players are able to make music.
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Granted, the advent of video games gave pinball a hefty kick up the coin slot, and ever since then sales of pinball machines have been a mere shadow of what they used to be back in the 1960s and '70s.
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That beauty, he says, is found in the individuality of each physical pinball machine.
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When Gottlieb hung up its flippers in 1996, pinball was declared dead then, too.
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A replica of the motorcycle from the movie stood where pinball machines once did.
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As a teenager, Buffett partnered with a friend and began a pinball machine business.
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It's a pinball summer, jump in the backseat and come along for the ride.
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They're all from the 90s, which was apparently some kind of pinball golden age.
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Pretty recently, the owner opened a bar, a pinball bar in the back room.
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A basement game room serves up foosball, table tennis, video games and pinball machines.
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LG: The slide looks really cool, there's a human gumball-style machine. Pinball. Gumballs.
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They had a very good partnership, and that was a very good pinball machine.
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They reflect a creative restlessness, the pinball movement of one idea firing into the next.
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Models, who also played at pinball machines, wore colorful socks, at times teamed with sandals.
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Modern pinball machines are typically loud and brash, full of bright lights and flashy effects.
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"Things like pinball get people over the seriousness of artwork," says creative director Zander Brimijoin.
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Some of the games included are Limbo, Stardew Valley, Marvel Pinball, and Ticket to Ride.
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One booth -- part pinball machine, part shower stall -- waited for customers across the small room.
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Officer Stropkey (Alyson Hannigan) loves pinball and dreams of one day becoming a celebrity chef.
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But to be honest, none of the film's target audience was watching for the pinball.
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The Pinball people heard it and were interested in using the medley for their movie.
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Looks like they were shooting for 'KUWTK,' but who knew these chicks were pinball wizards?
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During the first three months of 2018, the economy was whacked around like a pinball.
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He used an app called Pinball Map to find a place to play in Austin.
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Four steel balls — the kind that are inside pinball machines — had torn into my flesh.
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It looks like someone's cool house with lava lamps and pinball machines and cheetah skin rugs.
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But when the eye came into contact with the mountains, it bounced around like a pinball.
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Pachinko is a Japanese pinball-style gambling game, which continues to achieve national levels of obsession.
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" Cameron, who called the original "a masterpiece," said his brain "lit up like a pinball machine.
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The Plaza has a mix of VR games and more traditional fare likes this Pinball game.
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JusticeMonstersFive, a pinball-style game, is getting a mobile release across iOS, Android, and Windows 10.
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" Amelia Krales/The Verge "They're gonna be sort of like a concert pianist, but for pinball.
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And thank god for memes, which have destroyed more young minds than syphilis and pinball combined.
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It was supposed to be a barnburner, a track meet, a pinball game, a basketball score.
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He also sold golf balls and stamps, buffed cars, and set up pinball machines in barbershops.
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Gambling at "pachinko" pinball parlors, ubiquitous throughout Japan, is also tolerated despite its legally ambiguous status.
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The result is a pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor.
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Above me, the stars were as crisp and detailed as the lights on a pinball machine.
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While he was a high-school student he and a friend operated a lucrative pinball business.
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Mr. Grant grew up in Manhattan and has played pinball since he was 4, he said.
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Dave had nerdy hobbies like pinball and his taste in music and movies teetered on inspiring.
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There's Terminator pinball, offbeat Arnie artwork, and plenty of car-sized signage sporting his chiseled mug.
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He's a freelance pinball repair tech, one of the last serving the New York City area.
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I first learned of the world of competitive pinball when a coworker at the restaurant where I work weekends, who I'd known to be an avid streamer of Borderlands and Destiny, told me he was selling his PS4 and buying a pinball machine to stream that instead.
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For example, "The Bronze Pinball Machine with Woman Affixed Also" (1980) is a piece that consists of a Playboy-branded pinball machine that makes a woman's body (just the half below the torso) an accessory to the pleasure of the presumed male who would play this game.
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The likes of The Pinball Arcade (which recreates a bunch of classic licensed tables) and Zen Pinball (which offers original tables based on the likes of Marvel, Star Wars and South Park) make sure those who prefer their entertainment digital don't forget what their tastes replaced.
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"I don't really know what to say about it other than it was a pinball," DeKeyser said.
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"Sometimes somebody wants to make the pinball of their dreams," said one of its creators, Roman Miletitch.
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While his company primarily repairs computers and cellphones, Lezama said he can fix anything, including pinball machines.
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"Pachinko" pinball parlors, ubiquitous in Japanese towns and cities, are also tolerated despite their legally gray status.
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"Things like pinball get people over the seriousness of artwork," says Zander Brimijoin, the company's creative director.
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I just remember frantically playing pinball and not speaking to anyone the whole time I was there.
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Germain and I are old friends and we had worked together many times prior to Pinball Summer.
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I'm not running, jumping, and dodging in the way I usually am—I'm smackin' a dang pinball.
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Maybe that's why Japandroids don't have the time or care to brush up on their pinball skills.
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Inside the building, a pinball machine clanged to life, playing "Limbo Rock" while gang members took turns.
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The constant pinball machine of time zones has also severely mucked up my already iffy sleep habits.
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One can picture a giant pinball bouncing from the top of Vagelos and rolling down Haven Avenue.
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Many Japanese identify gambling with the noisy, garishly lit pachinko pinball parlours that dot neighbourhood shopping streets.
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Inks by State Of Play Games: It's pinball, mashed up with a puzzle game, mashed up with.. paint?
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"Video games were becoming more and more popular and they were stealing the fire from pinball," he said.
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I mean, I don't think I betrayed too much, but my brain lit up like a pinball machine.
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We're taking huge openings tens of thousands of light years wide, an epic black-hole game of pinball.
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He designed it to work with the game Pinball FX 2 VR, currently available on the Oculus Rift.
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Pinball is a game that has so many variables that set it apart and gives it its longevity.
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It was difficult to focus on the song when the room resembled a pinball machine heading toward tilt.
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ARKANSAS: A pinball machine can't give away more than 25 free games to a player who keeps winning.
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Additionally, it boasts multiple game tables, full-sized video-game machines, in-bedroom pinball, massage chairs, and more.
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The third floor has a game room in the current configuration, complete with a Dirty Harry pinball machine.
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This Wolfenstein pinball machine is a strong contender for most depressing video game easter egg of 217 pic.twitter.
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Two buddies spending their vacation hanging out at O.J.'s Drive-In burger joint and Pete's Pinball Arcade.
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I met with them and we struck a deal to write, record and produce the music to Pinball.
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There's also the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association, which hosts tourneys for the best and brightest button togglers.
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He's five-feet-seven-inches tall, and his right arm works like a flipper on a pinball machine.
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Or at least that's how it felt, vibrating around like a lost ball in an arcade pinball machine.
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I found out soon enough when I saw him a few weeks later playing pinball at a bar.
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For ethnic Koreans in Japan, one route to economic improvement has been pachinko, a pastime derived from pinball.
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But this movement will not succeed if it becomes a pinball in the partisan politics of personal destruction.
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The warehouse was a game, the products little more than flippers in search of a pinball to thwack.
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Early accomplishments include "The Wall," a game show on NBC where contestants play what is essentially vertical pinball.
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One team even added flames to a large kick-pinball machine, which they then kicked a ball toward.
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It was an International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA) sanctioned event, where participants could get points on the world circuit.
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After checking out his setup, I hopped into some some top pinball streams to see what it was about.
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Adams reportedly will be keeping his comic book collection, pinball machines, a 2008 Porsche Carrera and a 1959 Cadillac.
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This weekend, Black uploaded his first real video to the channel, taking viewers into the Pinball Hall of Fame.
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The books will center around a boisterous family of monster trucks named Elbow Grease, Pinball, Flash, Crash, and Tank.
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The goal with Inks was to not only make pinball beautiful, but also something approachable to non-hardcore players.
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Zen Pinball is giving Star Wars fans a chance to witness the "Might of the First Order" for themselves.
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If you've played a pinball machine, you've likely played a Williams machine like Addams Family, Pin*Bot, or Funhouse.
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The company has previously turned the likes of Star Wars, Portal, and The Walking Dead into digital pinball experiences.
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It has an uncommonly diverse mix of residents and restaurants and a staggering number of pinball machines per capita.
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In off hours, he and his colleagues slept, drank or played pachinko, a Japanese gambling game that resembles pinball.
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These weighted balls bounce and roll while inside of you, giving extra attention to your prostate, like sexy pinball.
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"'I bought this old pinball machine for $25 and we can have a partnership,'" Buffett says in Schroeder's retelling.
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"There's a lot of pinball action," said Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Second, the solar system's first billion years or so were a pinball-like pandemonium, with protoplanetary objects constantly colliding.
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In a couple of months, Buffett was a pinball kingpin with several machines operating at barbershops across his town.
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The pop-up in New York has a Supreme pinball machine and a station to personalize graphic T-shirts.
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Many people give up easily for this reason and end up thinking pinball is mostly a game of chance.
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When they did a Back to the Future pinball game at Data East, they worked with Bob Gale directly.
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In the early 2000s, Cage did a series of commercials for Sankyo pachinko pinball machines that aired only in Japan .
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Do they pull the levers of pinball machines, check their inbox of ravens, or paint miniature figurines in their basements?
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The upcoming iPhone game plays like pinball, but it uses color in a way that makes the tables come alive.
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The Pinball game cleverly uses the mouse as the ball (you can see it blazing by just right of center).
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Walking back to the hotel, the soft glow of pinball lights at My Father's Place was too inviting to resist.
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Knives out for Cruz Without Trump on stage, Cruz entered the night expecting to be bounced around like a pinball.
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Jeremy Williams, who previously designed light-up video game pixel art, has built a virtual reality pinball controller from scratch.
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As a kid, Cobb spent most of his nights at the nickel arcades of Portland, where he first discovered pinball.
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"Sometimes, suddenly you can hear this 'pling, pling, pling, pling' like a pinball machine," he said in a telephone interview.
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In one story, a cartoon car runs over a real man and a woman has breasts that resemble pinball bumpers.
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On the Showtime comedy "White Famous," he was the agent with pinball energy propelling Jay Pharoah's up-and-coming comic.
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He honed his game at Broadway Arcade, a pinball mecca at Broadway and 52nd Street that closed in the 1990s.
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His pinball manages to light a lot of stuff up, so it's hard to begrudge him this sometimes reckless game.
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A lot of people came to win, but I wasn't the only one there experiencing competitive pinball for the first time.
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We've got Kingsglaive, the Brotherhood anime series (again, watchable on YouTube), the pinball-style Justice Monsters Five mini-game, and more.
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From food-coma levels of pizza eating to impromptu pinball tournaments, it seemed like we couldn't stop laughing and enjoying ourselves.
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What you make within these assets is the point that alluded me, a pinball dweeb to the point of self-destruction.
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Special mention also goes to Hudson's Alien Crush Returns, a gross Giger-esque 3D sequel to the TurboGrafx-16 pinball game.
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The app features at least one game that looks kind of like pinball, except you control the flippers with your penis.
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Animated by Aleksander Saharovsky, it pays homage to great pinball machines like The Addams Family and Tales of the Arabian Nights.
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Soon enough, Buffett had pinball machines operating in barber shops all over Washington, D.C., where his family lived at the time.
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There are a couple of ways to unlock the more advanced parts of a pinball game and beat the high score.
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While most casual players will turn up and just play for fun until they lose their three balls, each table can be mastered with practice, just like any video game, as this Professional and Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) tutorial video for the Batman Forever table shows: It isn't something that'll slowly fade away as pinball fans get older, either.
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While he started out playing pinball, he began to notice a lot of hype around this cool new thing called arcade games.
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"I'd be a liar if I didn't say I get a kick out of being the 'pinball guy' on Twitch," said Danger.
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In this pinball mindscape, odd connections are made, and I can pluck-out some shiny bits to form my art and identity.
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Many of the remaining families are drawn from the shelters nearby, creating classroom rosters that pinball up and down throughout the year.
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Jeremy Bentham famously said that there is no difference between poetry and pushpin (pushpin being an early 19th-century equivalent of pinball).
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I'm craving bread and cheese, and I'm also PMSing and dealing with a pinball game going on in my uterus and ovaries.
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He jumps up just as the seatbelt is whirring and clicking, and the dashboard warning lights start flashing like a pinball machine.
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New York City Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien smashes illegal pinball machines in a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on March 30, 1945.
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An official Tuesday Night Tournament soon followed, registered with the International Flipper Player Association, the global governing body of all things pinball.
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Watching some of the greatest pinball players on the planet is like watching any competition between the world's best of any activity.
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So far, the studio has packed its pinball machine with sensors that detect when the ball triggers different reactions throughout the cabinet.
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There are plenty of digital pinball apps out there, but Inks is a new option that stands out because of its beauty.
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Vanessa Torre is a freelance writer in Phoenix, AZ. Living life like a flaming pinball, she is a regular contributor to Medium.
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Shot in the summer of 1979, George Mihalkas's debut feature Pinball Summer is a classic late 70s t&a teenage romp/comedy.
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Danley's side of the deal was to fix up the old pinball machine while Buffett handled negotiations with the barber, Frank Erico.
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You would not be surprised, then, to learn I'm a huge fan of games like Kirby's Pinball Land, Odama, and Sonic Spinball.
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In the early 1990s, the company was coding pinball games and working on Hardcore—a 2D action and exploration game like Metroid.
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What we have right now isn't so much a government as a pinball machine — all clanging and pinging and bells and whistles.
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The lira has long been a pinball of geopolitics and lightning rod for relations between Ankara and its Western allies, specifically Washington.
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In 2010, the city of Beacon, New York, forced an arcade museum to close because of the city's ban on pinball machines.
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Pinball machines are finicky and getting harder to repair because most of the companies that made them have gone out of business.
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Some machines are passive, with players watching to see whether the balls land in winning holes and others are more like pinball machines.
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"It's really helpful for growing pinball," said the organizer of the night's event, Monty, who preferred to not have his real name published.
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Going through the motions, meeting people who pinball our trajectories and shape parts of us, often without realizing that it even ever happened.
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A girl plays a Pac-Man-themed pinball machine at a video arcade in Times Square, New York City, on June 220, 21981.
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According to its creators, the most fun isn't found in a scientifically designed pinball table or a manic scribble, but something in-between.
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At the bus stop, if I didn't stop it, the other kids would push him back and forth between them like playing pinball.
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Although it may look like your typical pinball game, with a heavy infusion of heated noble gases and a dance-club soundtrack, PinOut!
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An optimal path somewhat resembles a pinball flying through a narrow track and hitting every apex of every inside corner along the way.
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While some attendees got their groove on, others opted to play the pinball machines set up in two different areas of the hall.
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The game is a lot like pinball, in that you have to send a ball down a path, avoiding obstacles along the way.
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In a lab in Boulder, Colorado, physicist Daniel Slichter plays an excruciatingly tiny version of pinball—with an individual atom as the ball.
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You'll see the main cast of four friends do everything from push a broken down car down the street to play pinball together.
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On top of Rimondini's vivid art (pinball fans have a particular fondness for Farfalla), Zaccaria machines have a passion for creative mechanical doohickeys.
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That's thanks to Red Paper Heart, a small Brooklyn studio that's transforming a 1970s pinball machine into a tool for creating digital art.
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The next day, the same racers had to demonstrate a different skill set as they maneuvered around a pinball game of a course.
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It's mostly tourists, hipsters, and drunks walking in off the street for a quick round of Addams Family pinball or Daytona USA racing.
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But whether pinball's your passion or you're just a filthy casual, animation studio Device's short film The Greatest Pinball Machines is for you.
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" They seemed less than impressed, but The Times reported that "thousands" of other Americans were already hooked on "the space age pinball machine.
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Watching world champion Robert Gagno play South Park pinball is like zoning out to a really intricate fireworks display, only with fart noises.
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Were they all like the pinball wizard in "Tommy" — the rock opera in which Turner portrayed the Acid Queen — deaf, dumb and blind?
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Everything about this video screams "THE 1990s WERE HELL," from the term "cyber sitcom" to 3D pinball to actors' "party" at the end.
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As motorized robots controlled by partygoers fought in a nearby boxing ring, Mr. Sudeikis chatted with me about his gaming interests, namely pinball.
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Curiously, a 1942 law made pinball machines in public places illegal in New York City because of associations with gambling and the mob.
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Watson had racked up pinball numbers in the defeat that night, but he said he did not care about statistics, only about winning.
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She describes Jewish life as a pinball game, a pleasant cycle of recapitulation, handed down with only minor variations: Once that princess pinball was whacked out of her slot, she hit the top of the board and tumbled down, hole to hole — the schools, the Houses of Worship, the Junior Holiday and Varieties, the Blind Dance, the camps, the tour of California, the tour to Europe, the college, the marriage, then — thwock — out comes a new princess-pinball and she drops into the last hole and people rub their eyes a few times at Riverside Memorial.
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When the producers of "Cleveland Hustles" came knocking, Gordon Square was already humming with the new Superelectric Pinball Parlor, home to more than 20 vintage pinball games; a poutine-focused restaurant and beverage shop called Banter; and longtime tenants like Happy Dog, a bar that looks unchanged since the 1940s and is renowned for its myriad hot dog varieties and occasional polka parties.
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The hurricane also flooded Mr. Rosen's basement and damaged several jukeboxes, but it did not creep up to the bodies of the pinball machines.
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Japanese people wage over ¥20trn ($180bn) a year on this pinball derivative, fleeing the tedium of office and home life for its noisy thrills.
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This game is both unique and well-crafted, a fusion of (believe it or not) pinball mechanics and gradual exploration of an enormous map.
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When the level starts, the pinball flipper on the left is blue, while the one on the right is red along with the fan.
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Select jewelry pieces, for example, goes for about $1,100, and the high-end version of the pinball machine will set you back almost $8,800.
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It's one of two new tables coming to the ever-growing virtual pinball arcade that's set in the J.J. Abrams-era Star Wars universe.
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It started off in 2005 as a loose group of 20 or so hard-drinking types, united by a pure, obsessive love of pinball.
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No matter what hour of night, sidle up to the bar for poboys and cheap beer or post up for a game of pinball.
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Once the business partners went their separate ways and sold the pinball machine business, Buffett used some of his proceeds to start another business.
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Pac-Man rates only a few mentions here, as does pinball, a disappointment for every young boy (and girl) who played the silver ball.
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Epic Megagames' early titles like ZZT, Jazz Jackrabbit, and Epic Pinball set the stage for a company whose technology is fundamental to modern gaming.
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In addition to his music rights, Adams will reportedly keep his comic-book collection, pinball machines, a 2008 Porsche Carrera, and a 1959 Cadillac.
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Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian joined forces with Larsa Pippen and a bunch of friends to form the Pinball Pu$$ies ... their name, not ours.
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I told him about what a big fan I was of Medieval Madness, a really popular pinball machine he did voices for in 1997.
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Because the still-active Stern Pinball factory is nearby, the GameWorks location in Schaumburg, Illinois, tends to get some of the company's newest machines.
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The next morning, she went back to where she was staying, to take a shower, while he played pachinko , a Japanese version of pinball.
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She gained a love of pinball from her father, an avid player who put her on a stool to play when she was 5.
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Because pinball machines have so many moving parts, are regularly jostled, and generally slammed upon, their components break or wear out all the time.
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One of his most lucrative ideas involved setting up pinball machines in barber shops all over Washington, D.C., where his family lived at the time.
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As for the competition being broadcast on Twitch, "I knew pinball was streamed but I didn't think they'd have that here in Ottawa," he said.
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Hanging on the wall like drying shirts was a gallery of other people's pinball tables: rocket space adventures, goblin faces, and Rick & Morty fan art.
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It is it's own new game, a kind of flushed pinball dream where figments of your imagination manifest as objects to batter with metal balls.
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They recently experimented with doing the same thing to a pinball machine, and have done the same crane machine for charity experiment before, in 2015.
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Job opportunities for pro-Pyongyang Koreans were long limited to firms run by members of their community, including nightclubs, barbecue restaurants and pachinko pinball parlors.
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Albion had taken an early lead with a penalty kick, thus making this staggering, three-sheets-to-the-wind bit of pinball wizardry an equalizer.
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Up the stairs, in the back room where all the pinball machines live, players were already shoulder to shoulder, practicing before the tournament would start.
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If it looks like a new machine, it was probably a Stern, which made, AC/DC, Iron Man, or Lord of the Rings pinball tables.
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At its peak, Zaccaria was the third-largest manufacturer of pinball machines in the world, pacing behind Bally and Williams, but has remained largely obscure.
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Spinball is pinball with Sonic himself as the ball, except for in its bonus stages, when Sonic is at the flippers of a regular machine.
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"It's as if you go there to play pinball or table football," Nicolas Bonnet Oulaldj, the Communist leader on the Paris council told Le Parisien.
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The pinball machine emits a yellow/red/pink light, while the remainder of the canvas is effulgent with acid yellow, rose pink, and emerald green.
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Your "canvas" is the pinball table and the more you hit the color blocks at the top with the ball, the more beautiful the table becomes.
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With the games came spinoffs like Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Pinball in 1999, a popular TV show, movies, trading cards, and a lot of other merchandise.
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You might see little soccer balls flying around the screen being blown by giant turbines, or maybe they're hit with paddles out of a pinball machine.
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It's not the first time Aperture Labs has invaded another game — there's also a digital Portal-themed pinball title — but it might be the most clever.
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The most common kid-friendly spots for these cabinets were amusement arcade venues, which were also home to pinball machines, claw cranes, and air hockey machines.
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There's Colin Urban, the unofficial mascot of Portland pinball, who, at the age of 93 beat the world's greatest player, Keith Elwin, at a local tournament.
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In Doom you'll be fighting off demons, but with a pinball, while Elder Scrolls will include the ability to craft weapons and buy and sell goods.
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That'll be the doing of Red Paper Heart, a small studio in Brooklyn that's transforming a 1970s pinball machine into a tool for creating digital art.
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The whole show, organized by the sound artist Aki Onda, is based on the pinball-like Japanese game called pachinko, which is often used for gambling.
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My last stop of the night was the Spacebar Arcade, a retro underground bar where you can drink cheap beers while playing Pac-Man and pinball.
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Rainy-day activity: Watching the wizards down at the Silverball pinball "museum" on the boardwalk, where you can play on machines dating back to the 1950s.
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Then Patrick and Cado talk about the Pinball Roguelike Creature in the Well, and just how imprecise the Switch's analog sticks feel all of a sudden.
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I feel particularly at home at Gramps, with its pinball machines, large outdoor space and D.J.s spinning a blend of West African funk and Italo-disco.
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Like many of the players, Frederick Asher, known as Freddy, is a regular at Modern Pinball NYC, a game center on Third Avenue near 27th Street.
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I am pretty bad at pinball, but I might need to start practicing so that I can someday have a showdown with Stranger Things' famous monster.
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Kiwi Crates (ages 5 to 8) offer more science and technology-oriented projects, like mixing disappearing ink, building a pinball machine or making a flyable kite.
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Twenty-one young plaintiffs -- now somewhat less-young than when they filed the complaint in 2015 -- have watched their lawsuit pinball around the court system for years.
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Jeri Ellsworth began playing pinball when she worked in a bowling alley as a teenager, and a manager there would occasionally give her a few free credits.
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With over 100 pinball and old-school arcade games on display, this is a museum where visitors are fully expected to touch and interact with the art.
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Now, they're taking over The Surf Lodge's small, waterfront gallery with digital graffiti collages, pinball machines, and video games enclosed in walls of multicolored Pop art graphics.
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Ryan will be the envy of teenage boys everywhere -- he's keeping his comic book collection, some pinball machines ... plus a 2008 Porsche Carrera and a '59 Cadillac.
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Portland has arguably the greatest pinball scene in the world, and tournaments like the one at Ground Kontrol host some of the best players in the game.
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Cobb's first match of the night was on Bram Stoker's Dracula, a machine so perfect and shiny, recently doted upon by one of Portland's priestly pinball techs.
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Crisp and clear, the choreography echoes the disjointedness of Cage's text, yet it's also rich in chain reactions, one move propelling another, like a game of pinball.
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From Herman Melville to Mae West, pinball machines to a slave ship, Robert Indiana drew inspiration for his art from American sources that had deeply personal meanings.
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Japan already has gambling aplenty, from ubiquitous "pachinko" pinball halls - officially tolerated despite a hazy legal status - to government-backed betting on horse, boat and bicycle races.
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Galerie Perrotin displays sculptures in a 22019 textile factory on Orchard Street, while Two-Bit's Retro Arcade offers Ms. Pac-Man and pinball machines on Essex Street.
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Picture Prompts The best pinball players in New York State competed for the championship recently, playing on machines from the 1970s as well as more modern ones.
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Unless he's rebuilding a machine, Hooker usually makes house calls to repair the machines of collectors (moving a pinball machine is expensive and often results in damage).
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Pinball was not an official channel on Twitch until [late] 2015, but after working with them to create its identity, it's now a searchable section of the site.
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Unlike, say, the best space battles in the Star Wars series, the frantic ballistic parrying here often makes the viewer feel as if trapped inside a pinball machine.
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Click here to view original GIFIt's getting harder and harder for pinball machines to compete with the cutting-edge graphics on home gaming consoles, and even VR now.
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But by adding an interactive element allowing players to design their own tables, artists Jérémie Cortial and Roman Miletitch have found a way to make pinball relevant again.
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Why was this event of such sudden importance, yet no one paid this much attention when awards were handed to Pinball Clemons and Michaëlle Jean in previous years.
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Related: Competitive Pinball Is the Best Thing on Twitch Right Now The announcer barked out the matches, and Cobb, the state champ, ponied up to his first machine.
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Thanks to the circuitry he had developed, Computer Space could be housed in a relatively small cabinet that could be slid in next to pinball machines in bars.
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CreditCreditNathan Bajar for The New York Times Arthur Gelb, the human pinball machine who served for decades as The New York Times culture czar, had many fantastic stories.
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Thanks to the circuitry he had developed, Computer Space could be housed in a relatively small cabinet that could be slid in next to pinball machines in bars.
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In addition to the pinball business, Buffett undertook a number of odd business ventures during his childhood such as delivering newspapers, selling gum and soda, and washing cars.
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Included are a full-size basketball court, a two-story climbing wall, a game room with vintage pinball machines, and a landscaped four-grill terrace on the roof.
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Entering the exhibition, you first encounter "Middle World," a massive steel-reinforced concrete altar-slash-pinball machine, centered in a dimly lit room, surrounded by seventy cavorting figurines.
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At Sunshine Laundromat and Pinball in Brooklyn, New York, you can wash your sweaters, dry your socks and take a pregnancy test, purchased straight from the venue's vending machine.
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Done up in red and black, and featuring works from local artists, visitors and regulars alike are drawn in by the cheap drinks, comfortable vinyl booths, and pinball machine.
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Pennington, born Gary Tygert Burton Jr., was playing on a pinball machine with his older brother Wynn, when a man approached them and gave him a handful of quarters.
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After you've laid down a blank piece of paper and sketched your table design, the machine automatically scans your doodles and turns them into a playable virtual pinball game.
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But most spectacularly, the city, already home to the Pinball Hall of Fame and something called "leprechaun wrestling," will welcome the world's largest bong as Cannabition's pièce de résistance.
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You can find machines, new and old alike, in neighborhood bars, college dorm lounges, and teen rec centers—proof that pinball will be around for some time to come.
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The current iteration of Deluxx Fluxx is smaller, but even more interactive, boasting two pinball machines, a foosball table, and two arcade games, all designed by FAILE and BAST.
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After some deliberation, they arrived at a new idea: what if the character rolled into a ball after jumping, and smashed obstacles like a bowling ball or pinball would?
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But Magic Pixel will let you float up and down these glorious machines free of charge charge, which FarSight's Pinball Arcade series bizarrely forces you to pay additional for.
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High school buddies Greg and Steve's fun-filled summer vacation involves driving around in a van, girls, amusement parks, the beach and culminates in a hotly contested pinball competition.
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It looks like a strange mix of strategy combat and pinball, going by what we're shown at "Uncovered," and will be available "soon" for iOS, Windows, and Android phones.
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Related: Everyday Routines Become Live-Action Illustrations | Insta of the Week Minimalist Animation Pays Homage to Great 90s Pinball Machines Meet the Artist Behind Broad City's Awesome Animated Intros
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At the same time, Egypt struggled to find a consistent link to Salah in the middle of the field, where the game often looked more like pinball than soccer.
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An avid collector of arcade games, Mr. Ukaj had spent part of the previous night playing on a pinball machine he had bought for himself as a birthday present.
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Later, at Motorola, he worked on the 6800 chip, a $300 processor used in pinball machines and other arcade games, before turning his attention to a lower-cost processor.
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There is a rapt community of enthusiasts who play in tournaments run by the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) on a circuit that culminates in a world championship each year.
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Get Competitive You can challenge each other to board games at a café, pinball at an arcade, or darts at a bar — or break out your Scrabble board at home.
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Pinball is a fitting culmination for this program, which documents the growth of an artist striving to conjure ever more expressive forms and access a more plastic representation of time.
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Since most people don't own pinball machines in their homes, it's certainly worth playing at least once for 25 cents a pop if you see it in any retail shops.
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Marino was a bar owner who found that his patrons couldn't get enough pinball action, eventually asking his brothers to drop out of school to help him with his businesses.
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Essentially a light source bounces like a pinball from one angled mirror to another, and finally lands right before your eyes, the same way it does in an S.L.R. camera.
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You can come in and have great Asian food, great wine, great craft beer, and then play as much motherfucking pinball as you want at the end of it all.
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Related: Minimalist Animation Pays Homage to Great 90s Pinball Machines Get Down with Cookie-Headed Dancers and a Rapper'sCartoon Belly Dark Political Cartoons Show How Technology Is Our New Master
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Maybe they haven't paraded around female job applicants with open kimono, à la Charlie Rose, or haven't traumatized female colleagues by subjecting them to pelvic pinball, à la Mark Halperin.
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"To gain market share, it has to come from somewhere," she said with a mischievous grin, padding in sparkly shoes past a "Hobbit"-themed pinball machine at Warner headquarters here.
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Sandra Bernhard and Steve Buscemi caught up by an aquarium, while the comedians Jon Benjamin and Jon Glaser (collectively, the Fuggedabuddies) sat at a table made from a pinball machine.
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Although he wore a T-shirt with the image of a pinball flipper and the words "Keep Calm and Flip On," Mr. Grant paced with single-minded intensity between turns.
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Pachinko, the Japanese game that's part pinball and part slot machine, is one of the organizing ideas for Min Jin Lee's sprawling novel of immigration, national identity, and family cycles.
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"All year I'd save up my quarters for those two weeks, and while the other kids were in camp, swimming and playing outside, I was in the pinball room," he said.
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The house also has a game room with pinball machines and video games, two kitchens, "his and her" guest suites and a massive family room with plenty of room for dining.
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A NEW HOTEL IN ASBURY PARK (WITH PINBALL) The Asbury, a hotel in the seaside town of Asbury Park, N.J., is opening on May 26 and accepting reservations as of today.
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Puddles can be more experimental, with stunts like singing "Pinball Wizard" to the tune of "Folsom Prison Blues"—regularly earning hundreds of thousands of viewers and occasionally scoring a viral hit.
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The Gizmos & Gadgets Kit, 2nd Edition kit also comes with an instruction manual for building 16 different inventions, including everything from a bubble-blowing robot to a pinball-like arcade game.
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It's a fully functioning pinball machine built entirely out of official LEGO parts, from the obstacles on the playfield, to the electronic brains behind the curtain, to the steel ball itself.
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I know this is true, because of brick builder Bre Burns, who has somehow managed to build an entire, fully functional mechanical pinball table out of Lego (as spotted by TechCrunch).
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"I played pinball as a kid, wasn't much for video games, but I remember when my agents explained what the concept was, I thought it was a great idea," Bird says.
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In 2011, Skittles gave him a custom pinball machine that would hold 30 packs of the rainbow-colored candy (or a little more than a day's worth for the big man).
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Even the cynical structure of "It's Always Sunny" — which resets after every episode, releasing its misanthropic bar staff to pinball around the pub again — feels oddly better suited to the moment.
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As a music writer who failed to fulfill a dream of becoming a musician like these guys, it's a little inspiring to know that by comparison, I am a pinball wizard.
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Pachinko, a derivative of pinball played at thousands of noisy parlors around the country, has a gambling element that is technically illegal but is universally tolerated by politicians and law enforcement.
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Technology visionary: Jeri Ellsworth Ms. Ellsworth began playing pinball when she worked in a bowling alley as a teenager, and a manager there would occasionally give her a few free credits.
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A free pinball tournament got me in the door on Wednesday night, where I saw 32 contestants battling head-to-head in a double elimination bracket, which was being livestreamed on Twitch.
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The works themselves were poorly executed, unconvincing variants on his dot paintings — the dots were more irregular; they bounced off each other as if in a pinball machine, you may have noticed.
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It looks like a big white egg, holds a selection of watches and operates on the same principle as a pinball machine, though it really needs to be seen to be understood.
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For example, Vimeo's first original documentary and first feature-length film, "Wizard Mode," offers viewers a personal perspective on autism by telling the story of one of the world's greatest pinball players.
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Teen vampire classic The Lost Boys (1987) plays on one of the television screens overhead, while a Dixieland pinball machine and an out-of-commission Yamaha XT dirt bike are parked nearby.
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Related: 22-Year-Old Animator Crafted an Unbelievable Homage to Miyazaki Minimalist Animations Pay Homage to Great 90s Pinball Machines An Inspiring Animation of Stephen King Talking About the Power of Dreams
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With its flat, minimal graphics, all the classic pinball action remains in the game, but instead of racking up millions of points, you open paint panels on the walls with your ball.
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And at a school in Manhattan, a principal told me how accommodating children from nearby shelters caused her student roster to pinball up and down, and her teachers just had to adjust.
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I heard that Pinball vinyl was popular some 6 years ago and decided to remaster it to make it available on CD. Harry approached us a bit later to release the vinyl.
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Never known for his discipline, the former vice president is entering a media environment unlike that in his first two presidential campaigns; now his every misstep will immediately pinball across the internet.
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