Father of Pinball Dies

[Guernica]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/busin ... l?_r=2&hpw

He changed pinball into the form we all know and love it.

 

[used44]

Ol' Pinball MacGee. He will be missed.

 

[LinksOcarina]

Well, that sucks.

Is there a national paintball day or something? If so we need to declare it.

 

[Bretimus_v2]

^Haha, paintball...

I've never liked pinball as a game, but I've always been fascinated by the design and look of the cabinets.

 

[Guernica]

I love pinball. Long time ago the GF and I decided when we finally have a game-room we are putting at least one pinball machine and one arcade cabinet in it at some point.

I don't think there's a holiday for pinball though. Google comes up with nothing on the first page at least. And no one looks past the first page.

 

[danielrbischoff]

Never cared for Pinball, but I just played the Marvel pinball on PS3 and it was pretty fun. At least I beat Brett's score HAHA

 

[Longo_2_guns]

At my house, we have a pinball machine and a galaga/ms Pac Man machine in our game room (and a pool table, dartboard, and big TV).

My dad is so good at pinball.

 

[Chris_Crime]

lived to be 100. awesome. love pinball

 

[Bretimus_v2]

Dan, you didn't beat my score, you beat my son's.

 

[danielrbischoff]

Sure Brett, like you ever let your kids play anyways. Controller hog.

 

[Bretimus_v2]

I wish! The worst part is that I get relegated to my crappy old PS3 while they use the Slim. #nonparentsjustdon'tunderstand

 

[Lien]

I was told there is still a state that have pinball illegal for being a gambling machine. Because of a bureaucratic mishaps back in the 1950's i was told.

But i do know they they stop mass producing pinballs recently. And it's sad cause it's a really fun machine... Spend the best of my quarters on those.

Steve "The original pinball wizard" Kordek
December 26, 1911 – February 19, 2012
R.I.P