by Andrew MacBain | Jan 13, 2021 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Adventures, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Looking to make a customized toy for your pinball machine? We got you covered with the DIY Injection Molding process and what you’d need! Injection Molding DIY & Process What Is Injection Molding? It a process used for manufacturing a wide variety of items...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 18, 2020 | Pinball Buzz, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
How It All Started The Pinball Expo started way back in 1985 by Robert Berk in Chicago which is known to be the city with the most pinball manufacturers. Robert started playing pinball as a child and was immediately drawn to it. He knew his dream was to be able to...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Originally, machines were all single-player games. It was one player at a time. But starting in 1954, Gottlieb came up with the idea to have two or even four people playing at a time. Player one would play ball one, then player two would play ball one. Then player one...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Gottlieb was really good at card themes. They were known for that. Card games like poker, you’re trying to get different hands, a royal flush, they used that name a bunch of times—Card Whiz, Royal Flush, Pop-a-Card. . In the 1950s, Gottlieb would run a machine for...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Bally was the first company to do that. They were the first company to get an official licensed theme. During the 1950s, Gottlieb had done some unlicensed themes. They had a game called Guy’s Dolls, and it just happened to come out at the same time as the Broadway...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Yes, they had preferred artists. During the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, artwork wasn’t always created in house. Williams or another company would design a game, and then they would hand the game over to another company that just did art. This second company had their own...
