A curious home-version, made by Zaccaria, of one of their first pinballs, the “Strike”, maybe built for the english market; you can see in the picture that there’s no hint of a coin-door in theContinua la lettura
05/2003 – Bonus Scan: UFO (Model Racing, 1975)
A curious videogame-pinball, built by Model Racing (Italy) back in 1975. Housed in a pinball-like cabinet, gameplay was more similar to a “Break-Out” than a pinball. Interesting Nixie tubes’ scoring, though.
05/2003 – Spot the difference!
Bally "Monte Carlo" artwork by Dave Christensen – George Clooney in "Confessions of a dangerous mind"
09/2003 – Bonus Scan: Zaccaria’s italian pinball tournament (1982)
A picture from the final game of the tournament organized by Zaccaria for the year 1981-82, held at the Enada coin-op fair of that year. After some months of regional selections, the selected pinball playersContinua la lettura
03/2003 – Enada, 1972
In the 1972, in Rome, we see the birth of ENADA; with its 33 exhibitors, it’s the first italian coin-op show exclusively dedicated to coin-op games. To celebrate, the Gottlieb’s italian importers created this littleContinua la lettura
02/2003 – Virtua Pinball (Sega, 1998)
1998: before halting their pinball production, SEGA was going to realize a “Virtua Pinball”, which was never made. The game was inspired by their own video game line. A working prototype was never built, butContinua la lettura
01/2003 – Pinball monument?
This monument can be found in Paris. Maybe the artist was an hardcore pinball fan..? 🙂
01/2003 – Mr. Kuhlmann!?
“Card Castle” from Nordamatic is an EM pinball machine from the 70s designed with an electronic “score to beat” feature. A score level was choosen randomly at the beginning of the game and displayed byContinua la lettura
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