Silverball Chronicles Ep 27: A Brief History Of Pinball

Silverball Chronicles with David and Ron

Episode 26: A Brief History of Pinball

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Topic Starts at 10:03

Episode Summary

A Brief History of Pinball is a great place to begin! Let’s wind the clock back WAYYY back. We're going to visit the beginning of many 'games' in the early days of fancy pants Europe, the importation of table games to America, New Jersey's part in all this, Harry Williams, Wayne Neyens, and all those innovations that make pinball, pinball!
 
Games:
Baffle Ball, Ballyhoo, Contact, Skyscraper, World’s Series, Rockelite Humpty Dumpty, Triple Action, Saratoga, Army Navy, SuperJumbo, Balls-a-Poppin’, Vegabond, Swing-Along, The Spirit of ’76, Flash, Gorgar, Checkpoint, Revenge from Mars, and The Wizard of Oz.

Sources: 
Bagatelle. Here
Pinball. Here
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Baldridge, Nick. This Week In Pinball. A Beginner’s Guide to Bingo Pinball. Here
Pinball News. Illuminating. Here
Remembering Harry Williams. Here
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Sullivan, Barbara. "Ballyhoo Over Goldberg Hardly Whole Bally
Saga." Chicago Tribune, June 17, 1996.
                             
 Sweeney, Melodie. "The bagatelle wizard instead of the pinball wizard." National Museum of American History, October 31, 2012.
Terry, Clifford. "How the Pinball Machine Got Those Flippers." Chicago Tribune, August 8, 1993.
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