Now, in most of the spots listed in this pinball places article, there’s a full-time person on site keeping the machines rolling. In the old days there were roving technicians who spent all day making repairs, traveling from bar to arcade to pool hall. Pinball machines take up more room than most (but not all) video games, plus they are much more complicated machines. It wasn’t just changing tastes that led to a decline though. (See more about that in Sheila’s post on the National Videogame Museum.) They just don’t do the huge sales numbers they used to back in the days before Pac-man, Asteroids, Centipede, and Donkey Kong started taking their place. Pinball is not a dead form of entertainment: new machines are still coming out all the time, like that one pictured here that I just spotted in a local brewpub in Tampa Bay. Most of them are tagged as pinball museums, but they’re arcades where you can actually play with the exhibits. jackyrileap wrote a comment on 2FA_Sidecar.Are you a budding pinball wizard or are you an oldster like me who prefers the tactile feel of those machines over the bits and bytes of video games? Fortunately for you, there are still some great places to play pinball in the USA.Peter has added a new log for Homebrew 16 bit relay computer.axelroarings liked Light Electric Utility Vehicle.Kenneth wrote a reply on M1: A Monster Tool in Compact Form.Tim has updated the log for Dissecting Low-Cost Electronics.svofski wrote a reply on project log Couleurs.sphaleron has updated the log for Manhattan SX - Hacking a low cost DVB-S2 receiver.Spritle on When Is Damascus Steel Not From Damascus?.HaHa on Stage Lighting Hack Keeps La Bohème From Becoming A Dumpster Fire.Anonymous on Using LEDs To Determine A Video Camera’s True Framerate.Agammamon on When Is Damascus Steel Not From Damascus?.BrightBlueJim on NFTs And Tulipmania: A Little Bit Of History Repeating.Martin Sundhaug on NASA JPL’s Voyager Team Is Patching Up Both Voyagers’ Firmware.fiddlingjunky on Using LEDs To Determine A Video Camera’s True Framerate.Joshua on NASA JPL’s Voyager Team Is Patching Up Both Voyagers’ Firmware. ![]()
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