Digital pinball just doesn't have the same feel as hitting a physical ball. Addams Family was my all time fave

Kinda surprised you didn't mention Stern Pinball at all. Originally founded in 1977. After his father(Sam Stern) passed in 86, Gary Stern helped form Data East, which was bought by Sega becoming Sega Pinball, which was then bought again by Gary renaming it to Stern Pinball Inc. Also fun fact, Sam Stern was part owner and then current president of Williams Electronics!

Farsight Studios are absolute LEGENDS!!!

My fav. pinball machines are from late 70's and 80's. I like the aesthetics of that era. Machines like Gorgar (1979.) by Williams and Bally's Flash Gordon (1981.), Lost World (1978.) and Centaur (1981) to name the few. They are modern enough to have some sound effects instead of plain (and slightly irritating) ringing sound like all pinball machines used to have prior to 1978. Though I'd like to play some of more recent and complex machines like Twilight Zone from the 90's I'd liked my pinball machines all moderately simple and straightforward. I figure that more complex machines are harder to maintain.

The original kiss pinball machine was awesome along with the TMNT,Rolling Stones,Star Wars and The Simpsons of course my favorite pinball machine is my 1977 Star Explorer which I ve had since I was four and still to this day have 40+ years of the love of pinball

Great Video Man! As a guy that has bought and fixed a few real pinball machines himself, I know a lot about the pinball history! You did great on this video! Also I believe that Pinball could make a comeback one day with the 2 main companies still alive (Jersey Jack Pinball & Stern)! Keep up the great content! I also subscribed to you!

Wow nice video editing is so cool! i love this project!! More video please!

I've always been a fan of pinball since I was a little kid, I say the 90s was pretty much the golden era but they still put out some cool new games these days

Glad to see a good short history of pinball!

I played space cadet as a kid but the kirby pinball minigame in kiby mass attack was what got me hooked

On my MacBook : Zen Pinball 2 and Zen Pinball Party On my Windows laptop: Pinball Arcade and Pinball FX3 And back in the DOS days : Pinball Fantasies and some others I was more into videogames than pinball back in the day. So only recently starting playing them digitally.

Awesome video fam! I appreciate your work. I liked and subbed.

One of my favorite pinball video games was the ms dos game Epic Pinball. Idk if you played that game... but it gave me some epic memories of me playing it when I was young.

Devil's Crush for the TurboGrafx and the Genesis/MegaDrive is pretty dope.

I've just recently been getting back into pinball. I remember in like 2007 I used to go to this arcade whenever my family took a lake trip, and I will never forget playing the Addams family game there. It was amazing, and truly cemented my love for pinball that I am only now rediscovering. Sucked when I heard that Pinball Arcade lost most of their licensing, so you can't get those classic tables anymore...

Unfortunately, Farsight lost the license to the Williams//Bally tables, so their no longer available for purchase for new customers. However, if you had already purchased those tables for a specific platform, you keep access to them, even if you get a new device for the same platform. A few of my favorite tables are The Addams Family, No Good Gofers, Funhouse, and Scared Stiff.

Been mesmerized by pinball from I was 3 years old, until today - 45. Never gets out of date. Too bad, they are almost extinct. Love video games too, thogh. How about Golden Axe, or Blood Bros. There were the days.

I totally forgot about Pokemon pinball. Good video bud. :)

In the 1970s, when I was a kid, my friends &I would walk 2 miles to the northborough Mass fish and game to play 1976 Royal flush in a bar that we shouldn't have been in. But the bartender and the customers were so asleep at the bar that they didn't really give us too much crap. One day in sixth grade, new in the junior high school, the intimidating 8th grade science teacher, Mr Lincoln, showed us a gigantic magnet that he had in his classroom. It must have weighed at least 10 to 15 lbs, shaped like a horseshoe. I somehow managed to muster up the courage to ask him borrow it overnight and he let me. While it was flurying snow, three other friends & I walked the railroad tracks to the fish and game with the giant magnet. We lined the three non-players up shoulder-to-shoulder on the side of the machine, so no one at the bar could see what we we're up to. We placed the giant magnet on the glass , thinking it would pick the ball up. But it wasn't strong enough because of the distance between the glass in the playfield. But we did notice it had influence on the ball (perhaps the first magnaball ever -so proud). After about 10 minutes of experimentation, we were able to finagle it so the ball would get stuck right on top of one of the joker rollovers near the top of the playfield. Anyone who's played a1976 electromechanical game, knows that there's a lot of dead air, soundwise between the scoring. There's no background soundtrack, there's no constant scoring sounds. You can hear the ball rolling around sometimes and when it does hit things it's the belo tone with rolling analog scoring wheels. In my head it goes ching ching ching ching ching meaning 500 points. So now, the ball is stuck on the roll over and is continuously going chitty chitty ching, ching, ching ching ching ching, with no breaks in between. By comparison, it sounds very wrong, almost like the machine is broken. So now, as kids we all realize that this is going to draw attention from the bar and get us kicked out, so I tell my three friends to pretend that I'm having an awesome, awesome ball, so they start cheering two playoff all of the scoring noise. Meanwhile, I'm standing at the flippers with nothing to do because the ball is stuck on the roll over. So now, I have to pretend that I'm playing out of my mind (picture a continuous air guitar solo but for pinball) while my friends all cheer for me, and the machine continually cracks cracks cracks more and more games and we're trying not to draw any attention from the bar that's 10 ft away. Eventually, we racked up like 15 games after rolling the machine about six or seven times all of us look at each other like we had just hit the lottery. We played for free for about an hour-and-a-half, using up a lot of games. But I'm we got down to 3 or 4 left we said to 1of the friends to get the magnet we're going to do it again. He didn't realize how heavy it was, and when he went to place it on the glass, he more like dropped it on the glass making a loud cracking sound. It didn't break the glass, but it did get the bartender's attention who threw us all out. We bitched out our friend for about half of the walk home for doing that, but it was a memorable pinball experience for all of us!

Love love over this vid

Junk Yard by Williams. Underrated, in my opinion.

I really love Pin Ball Games, but if I had to pick one game, that game would be, Attack from Mars! Best pinball game around!

My favourite pinball machines right now are Attack from mars, Addams Family, Iron Maiden,and Godzilla ( the Stern one)!!

Pinball FX3 is my favorite. I can practice on a number of (IRL) machines for free (once I own the digi-table). After learning the game and practicing the shots, I can save coins when I play IRL.

The largest number of games record actially goes to flash which sold 19000 in the us and 4000 overseas.

interesting! keep it up

I got zen pinball 3 on my switch, it simulates the pinball experience, like animations on the dot matrix display , it is free to download with Pay for once add-on packs with that has array of different choice tables!

What about the pinball ban in major cities?

TMNT Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles table that my dad's workmate owned was my first table but Twisters has to be my fav

Black hole from Gottlieb and High speed from Williams are my 2 favourites

Sonic spinball is my favorite classic. Zaccariah seems to have the best modern day virtual pinball though, they just did everything right mechanics wise! Free download on the nintendo switch too!

You must be over the age of fifty to appreciate the old pinball machines.

I always figured movie companies and theaters made them. It's also funny how I recognize all those proto-pinball games because of Price Is Right.

Solar Ride and Spider Man were my favorites

Black Knight 2000 is still one of my favs

Well, I still playing Pinball Window xp on my computer

you forgot about the day everyone destroyed pinballs

The gold age of the best machines in my view was prior to 1978. The digital machines lost the feel of the earlier machines.

Nothing/nobody simulates pinball and its physics better than Visual Pinball (free digital pinball machine creation software), and the strong community of creators behind it. Give it a Google if you're bored and you won't regret it. Heck, you can even create your very own machine with it. So much fun.

The only computer oinball game that was legit was space cadet 3d pinaball on windows 98 as a kid in early 2000s when i was in school in colputer class or computer lab we would have a all time high score leader board thebteacher kept track of and at the end of each quarter who ever had the highest score on the board got some cool prizes and even a bunch of tokens to the arcade down the road that was loaded with tons of pinball machines from 70s and 80s they had 46 different pinball machines i counted last time i wwas in there. They closed 4 years ago and since im a adult with adult money i bought 6 of the machines that they even had sent off to have the recalibrated and belts and bunpers and flippers all replaced fornfree for me that was included in the deal of me buying them and now us adults that was kids thst played them back then now play 6 of the most popular ones still to this day in my at home arcade where i have 31 arcade machines as of now and a legit skiball machine that had two lanes i love skiball

I like to play on PS4 the tables of star wars, and Tesla, love it, but my dream is to have a real pinball machine

People really hate that stern pinball arcade, guess they really dropped the ball as it were

I went to the one in Vegas before it moved. I assume it’s one and the same. I went for the old EM games. I found them to have slow action and weak flippers.

Sonic Spinball FTW

mine has to be white water

Pinbot!!!!

You could have at least linked the Wikipedia article since you basically just read it out and added some video. Unless you wrote the Wikipedia article. Then I guess good on you. I doubt it though.

I can't believe you refer to a 1940 to 1960 machine called triple action and then you show people playing Williams 1975 triple action which has nothing to do with the one you mentioned. I know I own the 1975 Williams triple action.

follow up: digital pinball sucks

Triple Action was one of my favourite machines, along with Spanish Eyes. Triple Action must have been made or remade for a long time though because I was playing it well into the 80s. Personally I prefer the machines of this vintage. Not a fan of the digital machines. Much wasted youth spent on these machines.

Its sad they tried to putlaw pinball cause they saif it was gambling and no skill involved when there is skill