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I've been working on another clone (as is oft my wont) the past couple weeks to maybe build upon, this one for Nintendo's Pinball for NES. Not going too badly so far. Physics is fun to play with after working on a Shadowgate clone (very much non-physics).

Road Show is in one piece! We still need to manually test everything before the first game, but damn, it's been a long project.

The characters will get their final eyes soon-ish, those still need to be painted.

But look at all the ramps and habitrails in this beast. I only now truly got to appreciate how complex those are in this game!

Oh the most important part: nothing immediately caught fire on the first boot!

I just watched a great video covering #Pinball #VideoGames up through the year 2000.

While not covering EVERY game the video does a great job of hitting the highlights of both good and bad releases.

Only briefly touching on Epic pinball there was no mention of the related Silverball which I loved dearly back in the day.

Its by no means a must play but it holds a special place in my heart.

What are some of your favorite video pinball games?

#Gaming #RetroGaming
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Zur Erinnerung an den epischen Battlestar Galactica Tisch auf meinem selbstgebauten Virtual Pinball, der seit dem letzten Update von Vpin einfach nicht mehr läuft 🥴 diese Konfiguriererei ist echt ein Kreuz... aber wer daddeln will, muss sich leider kümmern.
Hat noch jemand von euch 'nen Vpin im Einsatz?
Wie geht ihr mit den Updates um, wenn's mit der Abwärtskompatibilität nicht mehr läuft?
#vpin #diyvpin #battlestargalactica #pinball #lovewhatyouplay

In 1976, Sesame Street had a segment in rotation called “Pinball Number Count.” The music is captivating, hopping between 4/4, 4/3, and 5/4 time signatures. And the animation is bursting with color and life. It has forever lived in my head.

Fun fact 1: the song counts to 12, but there were only 11 segments.

Fun fact 2: the vocals were provided by The Pointer Sisters.

More:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_

fan theory: Jane Austen had #pinball in mind when plotting "Pride and Prejudice". The book looks perfectly designed to be adapted into rules for a pinball machine, where you have to make certain shots for stages of courtship to pair off the sisters, avoid Lydia ending up [spoiler redacted], country dance multiball mode...

(hope this Kickstarter is successful with their literary-themed pinball, maybe they will do Pride and Prejudice next kickstarter.com/projects/wonde )

I recently posted a video of Stern's painted light bulbs and mentioned the bulb condoms Williams used. Naturally I was asked to show the condoms!

So here's the difference. Williams put these silicone filters over theirs to change the color. While I'm pretty hardcore Williams fan, I somehow always liked how the painted incandescent bulbs look like.