For Pinball Fans

[NovaXpress]

The Business Week story on Gary Stern and the world's last pinball manufacturer:

Pinball Wizard

 

Stern credits the stable sales of traditional pinball machines to increases in nostalgic home buyers, which now account for roughly 20% of total sales -- and the number keeps growing.

[sku_u]

I heard some rumors that Bally may be returning to the world of pinball in the near future. I hope it becomes more than a rumor. Pinball's one of my favorite past times. I miss the days when I could walk into a gameroom and see 20-30 pinball machines coexisting alongside videogames and crowded around by enthusiastic pinball players.

[shiva]

I heard some rumors that Bally may be returning to the world of pinball in the near future.  I hope it becomes more than a rumor.  Pinball's one of my favorite past times.  I miss the days when I could walk into a gameroom and see 20-30 pinball machines coexisting alongside videogames and crowded around by enthusiastic pinball players.

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The Bally name, trademark, all websites and rights to all orginal (non-licensed) games from the Bally name was bought by Mr.Pinball from Austrialia. Presently, there is a whiteboard being made, but in the very early stages. (For those of you who do not know what a whiteboard is, it is a initial design on wood, pre protype, just to put together the concepts of a design to see how it works at scale. It also is refered to as a Monster Board by other people)