Coin Slot Magazine - #040 - 1978 - May [International Arcade Museum]
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BY:
John Fetterman
Steve Young
243 S. Third St.
Velie Road
Catawissa, Pa 17820
Lagrangeville, NY 12540
Phone (717) 356-2233
Phone (914) 2235613
The other day I went to play pinball at a local university. I was
treated to several brand-new games with brand-new problems, several
very old games had seen their last good games before needing a
major overhaul years ago, and a host of recent games in horrendous
shape. They had a host of problems — some out of order entirely,
others limping along with one or two weak flippers, broken contacts;
some sat lopsided and all were saddled with free play scores much
too high for even a game in mint condition. I hopped from game-to
game hoping to find an enjoyable time somewhere, but finally gave
up and left for home. I mentally tallied up how much I had spent
and, surely enough, I spent much more than I would have had the
games given me a reasonable chance to win replays. This would
make the operator happy.
But I also made a mental note not to
return again, more than I'd wished, not just that I had suffered the
disappointment of not being able to play a satisfying game of pinball
all night — and it seems to happen to pinball more and more these
days — the problem was that the person operating those games is
shortchanging an art.
Oh yes, fine pinball is an art, just as surely as the results of any
other action of man can be considered an art.
In all its forms, design,
operation, and play, there is an art to the proper execution of that
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with no prior conditioning will find the simplest pinball entertaining.
(c) Copyright 1978 by John H. Fetterman and Steven P. Young.
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