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Toys
High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn’t Really “Get” Pinball
7:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Hammacher Schlemmer’s digital pinball machine crams a 720p, 32-inch display into a full-sized cabinet, and offers by way of emulation 17 classic boards. But I’m not sure pinball freaks are that interested in digitised flippers. More »
Design
Projectors Morph Boring Building Into Giant Pinball Machine
2:00AM Mark Wilson | Urban Screen, the same group behind insane 555 Kubik illusion, built a humongous, functioning pinball machine through facade projection way back in 2007. Why more architecture isn’t decorated with multi-storey video games, we do not know. More »
Games
5:20AM Mark Wilson | After the first Pong cabinet was placed in Andy Capp’s Cavern in 1972, video games exploded, reaching their full stride by the late ’70s. Here are some of the notable games/systems you played (or would have played) back then: More »
Electronic Games 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive As Hell
5:20AM Mark Wilson | After the first Pong cabinet was placed in Andy Capp’s Cavern in 1972, video games exploded, reaching their full stride by the late ’70s. Here are some of the notable games/systems you played (or would have played) back then: More »
Games
HDTV Pinball Machine Is Almost as Good as the Real Thing
8:47PM John Herrman | Pinball machines are more or less a lost art, but one enthusiast really wants to bring them along for this whole “21st century” thing. Hence, the HDTV pinball machine. More »
Games
The Pinball Hall of Fame Gives Me a Headache Just Thinking About It
8:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Joystiq took a trip to Vegas’ Pinball Hall of Fame, where they found popular machines, rare machines, two-player machines, and one machine with the likeness of Ted Nugent. More »
Games
Tiniest Vintage Arcade/Pinball Machine Models For Your Desk
1:10AM John Mahoney | You can use these shrunken game machines to decorate a quasi game lounge to entertain your non-existent train set ghostmen while they’re waiting for the 12:10 to Rochester. Or you can decorate your desk. More »
Games
Pinball Wizard Controller, The Joystick for Pinball Fanatics
6:20AM Mark Wilson | I’ve never played a pinball video game that was quite right—Pinball FX is pretty good—but fans of the genre will need the Pinball Wizard Controller by Nanotech Entertainment. Featuring a real plunger, side flipper buttons, and even the option to tilt the machine, the $US299 PC controller works with a variety of bundled games and promises compatibility for third part titles moving forward. It’s ugly, yes. But so is the current state of pinball. [Nanotech Entertainment via Kotaku] More »
Toys
R/C Pinball Probably Sounded Like a Good Idea
3:30AM Mark Wilson | We’re not sure that there was anything particularly broken about pinball, but this Remote Controlled Upright Pinball machine attempts to reinvent the genre. Featuring LEDs and “hidden tunnels,” you play the game through an R/C remote from distances up to 20 feet (…if you can see the ball from that far away). But in spite of the wall-mountable space-conscious design, the longer we stare at the machine, the more we realise it’s a cheap abomination of the pinball tradition. If the game rocks your world, it’s $US120. [Hammacher Schlemmer via Geek Alerts] More »
Games
Virtual Pinball Game “Moving Parts” Addictive Even In Cooperation Mode
1:30PM Wilson Rothman | Today, when we visited NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program spring 2008 show, we were immediately drawn to “Moving Parts,” a crazy pinball game that’s the brainchild and thesis of physical-interaction designer Daniel Soltis. It’s made of real wood, with wooden buttons and plungers, but the board itself is empty, and stays that way. The game you see is merely a projection from above, but man does it feel real. More »
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