Comments on: Rediscovering the classic American game of pinball

CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits the country's only pinball museum to learn about what makes the machines work.

[amandachuck]

Of course there are many shots of the Addams Family machine, the nearly perfect modern machine despite it's age. humor and challenging gameplay. I bought one 9 years ago and it's only gone up in value.

[ptzkiler]

I don't like pin ball games at all.. I most prefer to play games GTA serious New gta 4 released last feb.. did any one play it. Helo released by Microsoft even it not need more computer resources try it .
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[WalterAnonymous]

Keep playing games, laddie-boy. I don't think you'll have to concern yourself with such mundane issues as going to school or learning to write coherently, so enjoy yourself. By the way, my lawn needs thatching, so why don't you get started on it?

[thonnaral]

It's a shame that most of the pinball manufacturers are out of business.

In a video game, you mostly learn the sequence and then the game is pretty much over. Once you've run through it and you've mastered the pattern there frequently isn't any excitement left to the game.

Tom WIlliams said 'the ball is wild'. That's still the essence of pinball. No matter how often you play the game, you never completely learn it. The ball is allways wild.

I think that kids are trained by video today to think of the world in a particular way. If you just learn the pattern, just master the sequence like you do in a video game all good things will follow. Pinball is more like real life. Learning the pattern isn't enough. Things will go wrong, you have to adapt. Some days it seems that you can't go wrong, and other days the ball drains before you can get a flipper on it. Good days and bad days. A better way of looking at life.

Pinball as philosophy!

[flavum4]

Wow! That is exactly how I feel about pinball! A programmed game is a Cull De Sac. Pinball is "Real steel balls + Gravity = real physics." Every pull of the plunger offers a brand new scenario. The choices are endless and you can Always improve your game on any given machine. The beauty of it is, the more you know about any machine's "characteristics", the better chance you have of defeating it and setting the ultimate high score. I am always in awe of it and very impressed that we, as a species, have developed the pure toy, that pinball is.

[flavum4]

Wow! That is exactly how I feel about pinball! A programmed game is a Cull De Sac. Pinball is "Real steel balls + Gravity = real physics." Every pull of the plunger offers a brand new scenario. The choices are endless and you can Always improve your game on any given machine. The beauty of it is, the more you know about any machine's "characteristics", the better chance you have of defeating it and setting the ultimate high score. I am always in awe of it and very impressed that we, as a species, and Americans, have developed the pure toy that pinball is.

[xtingu]

Lucky Juju is a goldmine; I used to spend every other Friday night there for a while. I hardly recognized it in the video -- I've never seen the place so brightly lit before.

The video's fact about Juju being "the only American pinball museum" is inaccurate; we can't forget about the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, started by Tim Arnold (www.pinballmuseum.org).

Either way, I'm psyched to see pinball getting some press!


/pinball geek

[benjaminstraight]

Pinball is a classic American game.