Talk:Pinball

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History section overlap - 1970s solid-state and 1980s-90s digital age

There's a lot of overlap between the "1970s Solid-State" section and the "1980s/90s Digital Age" section, where both sections mention things like Bally selling its assets to Williams and video games generally taking over arcades. We should separate these sections a bit.

Here's my suggestion:

The 1970s section should be updated to "1970s-80s" and focus on both the move to solid-state tech and the early takeover of video games in arcades. I believe we should end it at the point where Bally and Gottlieb exit the business.
The next section should focus more specifically on the resurgence of pinball starting in the late 80's and most prominently in the 90s to early 2000's.
This should include the transition from segmented displays to dot-matrix displays, which introduced greater gameplay depth and new features (e.g. Video mode).
This section should probably segue into modern-day pinball following Williams' departure, talking about Stern's takeover and the transition to LCD displays, video pinball cabinets (e.g. Zen Pinball), etc.

This way, we can avoid saying the same things more than once. As time allows, I may try to take this on. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:51, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

"[[:Pintable]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]

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"[[:Pingame]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]

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List of pinball museums?

See related discussion at Talk:Pinball museum ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:26, 20 March 2025 (UTC)