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	All About Pinball - Pinball
		Pinball is still very much alive, and pinball machines continue to be a fixture in home rec rooms, bars, and pool halls across the country.
		Gottlieb and Bally, two pinball machine manufacturing companies that were responsible for many of the pinball machine innovations of the 20th century, were founded in that decade.
		Classic pinball machines from Gottlieb or Williams Manufacturing are highly valued, and their backglasses can be as artistically appealing as vintage neon signs.
	www.homefurnish.com /gameroomgym/games/allaboutpinball.aspx (555 words)

	CNN.com - Review: Pinball wizards step up to Xbox - Aug 27, 2004
		Also, some pinball fans may prefer familiar tables, such as "Twilight Zone," "8-Ball Deluxe" or "Royal Flush." The four included in "Pure Pinball" are all original designs.
		"Pure Pinball" is missing one feature that's usually found on real and virtual pinball tables alike -- the option to control the power of the silver ball when it's first launched onto the table.
		Though it's not perfect, "Pure Pinball" should appeal to kids and adults eager for a chance to return to the days when arcades were reserved for pinball wizards.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/fun.games/08/26/pinball/index.html (640 words)

	Pinball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They didn't have flippers which were called "replay's" they were more like those little plastic pinball games where the marbles drop into a little cup to score.
		It was also the first pinball game I remember that was 50 cents to play.
		Yeah I play extreme pinball and ultra pinball 3D on my PC but they are not the same.
	members.tripod.com /vulcanjedi/pinball_wizards.htm (407 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- Neon - Pinball Wizards
		Tim Arnold of the Pinball Hall of Fame services one of the many vintage pinball machines that can be found at the museum.
		But when it comes to old pinball machines, there aren't a lot of options, other than buying one.
		Except for the not-for-profit Pinball Hall of Fame, a combination pinball museum and arcade created by Tim Arnold and Mike Clark.
	reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2006/Apr-14-Fri-2006/weekly/6799975.html (583 words)

	Pinball Wizards: 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Some people might laugh to hear pinball called a sport, but its aficionados say it requires physical strength and endurance.
		The criminal association with pinball harkens to the '30s.
		Back then, pinball was essentially a gambling machine that rewarded players with money.
	desires.com /1.3/Style/docs/pinball2.html (376 words)

	Welcome to Stern Pinball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		April 1, 2005 - Stern Pinball, Inc. is being prominently featured on the Business Week Online website (www.businessweek/smallbiz) in an article called "Portrait of a Pinball Wizard." Written by Seth Porges, the article discusses Stern's place as the sole pinball machine company, as well as Gary Stern's genuine affection for the pinball business.
		In "Portrait of a Pinball Wizard," Gary Stern discusses the ways in which the company is expanding into new pinball markets.
		Finally, "Portrait of a Pinball Wizard" offers a history of the pinball business, including Roger Sharpe's account of pinball's transformation from a banned gambling machine to a game of skill with the invention of the flipper.
	www.sternpinball.com /PR_010405.shtml (317 words)

	Pinball Wizards Computer Gaming World - Find Articles
		Classic pinball machines were on the brink of being relegated to dusty warehouses and private collections, but one man took it upon himself to save pinball from history’s dustbin in early 2000.
		Visual Pinball made it (relatively) easy for people to re-create their favorite old pinball tables using photos and manufacturer’s schematics.
		Others have created their own pinball games, either based on popular licenses (The Jetsons is one notable example) or using an original idea.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdcgw/is_200410/ai_n7180516 (826 words)

	Pinball wizards in Japan tilt toward a shake-up - Marketplace by Bloomberg - International Herald Tribune
		TOKYO Japan's pinball parlors, which generated ¥29.5 trillion, or $260 billion, in sales last year, are going through a shake-up.
		Operators of "pachinko" halls such as Gaia and Daiei Com., are using asset- backed bonds to pay for new machines and venues to reverse a decade-long decline in the nation's biggest leisure industry.
		Pachinko is a Japanese version of pinball in which the player seeks to amass piles of small, steel balls that can then be exchanged for prizes.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/07/12/bloomberg/sxpinball.php (873 words)

	Pinball Expo: Organizer Bios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		My love for pinball began at an early age with visits with my father to the local arcades in Miami, Florida.
		I later heard about the Ohio Wizards Pinball Club, where I met fellow enthusiasts, including my future assistants in pinball Expo, Mike Pacak and Bill Kurtz.
		Pinball Expo is the worlds largest gathering of industry and hobby celebrities, avid and casual collectors, and, of course, classic pinball machines from all eras.
	www.pinballexpo.net /bios.php (515 words)

	Pinball wizards agree law needs changed - Sunday, 09/05/04 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The illegality of pinball came as a shock to Tyler Davis, 10, who has a pinball machine at home and spends his free time on the weekends playing the game.
		He said pinball is now a harmless game and that other arcade games are more like gambling.
		It is unlawful for any person having custody or charge of any pinball machine where the same may be operated to permit any minor under the age of eighteen years to play, operate or use any such machine or to loiter about the same.
	www.tennessean.com.cob-web.org:8888 /government/archives/04/08/56959903.shtml?Element_I... (534 words)

	Amazon.com: Microsoft Pinball Arcade: Computer & Video Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In pinball, you're basically playing "against" the design of the table so that the goal is to overcome the obstacles with a limited number of control factors (flippers, nudging, and plunger).
		Like the little pinball games of your childhood, the object is not to "keep" the ball in play, but by using proper force on the plunger and nudging, try to maximize your score for 10 balls.
		From the 90's, Cue Ball Wizard is the typical chatterbox Pinball machine with ramps, elevated ball "tubes" and very complex scoring modes, designed to force the player to aim his shots.
	www.amazon.com /Microsoft-0050820-Pinball-Arcade/dp/B00001LDBZ (2859 words)

	:: TheSouthern.com - The Southern Illinoisan ::
		The pair who are from Hallsville and Columbia, Missouri came to Herrin to have the chance to play pinball machines they havent been able to play.
		HERRIN - Pinball wizards and arcade addicts were in coin-op heaven Friday as the second annual Heartland Pinball and Arcade Supershow brought fifty years of gaming history to the Herrin Civic Center.
		Offering more than 85 playable pinball and video arcade games from 1955 to 2006, the show gave gamers a chance to try out tables from five decades as well as participate in a pinball tournament for cash prizes and trophies.
	www.southernillinoisan.com /articles/2006/09/30/local/17720927.txt (619 words)

	Game Trivia for Balls of Steel
		The first appearance anywhere of a pinball machine named "Balls of Steel" is in level 1, "Hollywood Holocaust", of Duke Nuken 3D.
		Since 3D Realms and Pinball Wizards (a group formed solely to publish this non-3D title) are both divisions of Apogee, either this early appearance inspired the actual Balls of Steel product or was a leak / early promotion of their pinball video game that would come out of the pipe nearly two years later.
		Pinball Wizards is actually a project group of Apogee.
	www.mobygames.com /game/balls-of-steel/trivia/triviaId,11532 (410 words)

	GearBits: Pinball Wizards
		The ball, a 150-micron magnetic bead, is inserted in the 24-mm square pinball table, which is tilted at 20 degrees.
		The flippers are electromechanical silicon cantilevers which flick the ball at speeds of up to 0.75 km per hour against silicon bumper structures.
		The team says that the revolution is in replacing traditionally complex MEMS patterning fab steps with a single simple step, and using room temperature plasma bonding.
	www.gearbits.com /archives/2003/08/pinball_wizards.html (245 words)

	CNN - PC pinball - Mar. 10, 1998
		Sierra's intentions were to make TLC a good balance for novice players and true pinball wizards, but the final result tends to lean more to the newcomer to the genre - in terms of both storyline and gameplay.
		Balls of Steel (ahem) was developed by Australia's Wildfire Studios and Pinball Wizards (a division of Apogee Software), and was published by GT Interactive this past December.
		Unlike other pinball games, the default setting has "scrolling" enabled, meaning the player only sees about a third of the entire table at one time as it scrolls up or down as needed.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9803/10/pc_pinball/index.html (1129 words)

	Mr. Pinball Home Page
		This show covers everything that homeowners need to make their dream game rooms a reality: pinball and arcade games; pool, hockey and foosball tables; hot tubs; video game systems; home theatre systems; satellite television; bars; neon signs; slot machines; jukeboxes; poker tables; darts, etc. This is a one-of-a-kind event for upstate New York.
		Texas' premiere pinball event features over 100 new and vintage pinball machines and arcade games on free play and for sale, seminars, tournaments throughout the weekend, coin-op swap meet, door prizes, giveways and a pinball raffle.
		Pinball and video game vendors will be on hand to buy and sell pinball machines and parts.
	www.xmission.com /~daina/pinball.html (1081 words)

	Full-tilt wizards - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Nearly 400 competitors gathered Sunday at the Pro-Am Pinball Association's headquarters in Scott to compete with the world's best pinball wizards for more than $33,000 in cash and prizes at the Ninth Annual World Pinball Championships.
		Ortscheid said he's been playing pinball "about my whole life, probably." His parents, Marvin and Grace, have pinball machines at home and Ortscheid said he practices at least once a day.
		Pinball machines appeared in the early 1930s as countertop machines without legs and grew to become elaborate digital machines with blinking lights, sound and complicated rules.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_466952.html (890 words)

	Pinball wizards to vie here for world crown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Just across Chartiers Creek from Carnegie and devastated just after last year's PAPA 7 by the flooding that slammed the region in September, the building has been rehabbed to its former hip splendor and will be open to the public throughout the tournament, which starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday.
		Martin, who purchased the century-old former food-packaging factory in May 2004 and transformed it into this pinball playhouse, figured the flooding caused at least $500,000 in damage to PAPA's and his collection of pinball machines.
		His pinball partner Steve Zumoff of the Beehive Coffeehouse (with pair, a tournament co-sponsor) says Martin decided to rebuild in large part because of the outpouring of support from players, collectors, vendors and other enthusiasts.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05222/551169.stm (473 words)

	IGN: Muppet Pinball Mayhem Review
		June 6, 2002 - The arcade pinball industry has actually ceased to be, with machine manufacturers pulling out of the businessso it's up to the videogame systems to give the pinball wizards their flipper fix.
		The real test of a good pinball game is how well it handles the physics, since pinball is a real-world game with many familiar "constants." The way the ball rolls across the field, the way it "feels" against the flippers, how well it travels up and down the tables' network of ramps.
		Digital Eclipse's pinball game, the first of many pinball games that will hit the GBA in its lifetime, is a good, solid premiere for the handheld, with most of the pinball elements that real engineers threw into their machine design.
	gameboy.ign.com /articles/361/361598p1.html (1114 words)

	www.myspace.com/pinballhalloffame
		The Pinball Hall of Fame, while open for business, is a work in progress (and a labor of love).
		The Pinball Hall of Fame is located at the northwest corner of Tropicana Avenue and Pecos Road, (Map) right next to the Tropicana Cinemas.
		The glory of pinball stems from the delicate combination of electronic precision and the randomness of physics.
	www.myspace.com /pinballhalloffame (860 words)

	3D Realms Site: Press Releases: New Pinball Wizards Division Launched!
		Pinball Wizards will be a separated division of Apogee focused solely on creating and distributing computer pinball games.
		Pinball Wizards will not release many pinball games in the future - only the best ones.
		This is exactly the purpose of Apogee's Pinball Wizards and 3D Realms brands (and potentially more to come).
	www.3drealms.com /press/020497.html (410 words)

	Mt. Vernon Register-News - Pinball wizards get to play with exhibit (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Art of Pinball” exhibit, which opened May 6 and runs through July 16, became the center of a four-hour pinball contest on Saturday when Cedarhurst Center of the Arts allowed contestants to play some of the exhibits.
		Hammond said pinball machines have been largely replaced by digital video games and now are harder to find in contemporary arcades.
		Pinball games’; “golden age” was in the 1950s, Sharp said, and games seemed to reflect “cultural concerns” or “public fascinations” of the time.
	www.register-news.com.cob-web.org:8888 /features/local_story_170113601.html (684 words)

	Balls of Steel (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balls of Steel is a pinball computer game developed by Wildfire Studios and published by Pinball Wizards (a division of Apogee Software, better known as 3D Realms), released on December 12, 1997.
		The game includes, most notably, a Duke Nukem pinball table, including graphics from the game and original voice-overs by Nukem actor Jon St. John.
		Set on a remote space station under attack by alien creatures, missions include fighting actual bugs which appear on the table, and a "super-cannon" mode in which players can shoot at eggs with a cannon that pops up out of the table.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balls_of_Steel_(game) (444 words)

	Pinball News - First and Free
		Here we are in Pennsylvania for the 11th Pinball Wizards Convention at the Merchants Square, Allentown.
		Although the show didn't open officially until 4pm, there were several vendors setting-up outside in the car park before that time and some early-bird deals were there for the taking.
		There were also many games set up in the vendor area where games need not be on free play or available for public play and can be withdrawn at any time.
	www.pinballnews.com /shows/allentown2004/index2.html (259 words)

	Pinball Wizards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For the next three days of the international Professional and Amateur Pinball Association tournament, he must tune out the bleating, blipping and taunts from games like Nightmare on Elm Street and Demolition Man.
		He walked away with a pinball machine and $2,000 in cash.
		His father Roger Sharpe is a pinball marketing executive and part of the reason Josh is considered a pinball prodigy.
	desires.com /1.3/Style/docs/pinball.html (383 words)

	A new generation of pinball wizards - Roanoke.com
		If I had a dollar for every time I listened to The Who's "Pinball Wizard" when I was in college, I would be worth a fortune.
		Folks in their 20s are like pinballs in a pinball machine.
		The difference is that their machine is flat, has no beginning or ending, and has no hole of return in which to fall.
	www.roanoke.com /editorials/letters/wb/76774 (716 words)

	Allentown 2005 Pinball Wizards Convention, page 4
		I spent about an hour in line and picking through the parts bins at The Pinball Resource booth.
		I took these pics near the end of the day, but around 11 am when I went to get my parts, there was a crowd all around PBR's booth.
		Pinball Pal had lots of rare backglasses and other cool stuff too.
	host300.ipowerweb.com /~pingeekc/a_town4.htm (333 words)

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