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featur he probably won ' t cven m ntion ." I thought I
w uld beat him LO the pun h be ausc I kn w hc would
ask about it ; 0 I said, " Your honor , wc did build a littl e
capriciousnes inLO the machine . You ' re not a fine a
player as I am n this machine b cause you hav n ' t had
the opportunity to practice. But you know what we've
put in this machine to keep you interested ? A lilli e
match feature . If thc cor yo u have mat hes that
number up th rc , ou got a free play ."
The judgc lovcd that little sp ech o I was glad it went
a ll the wa to th
upreme Court so that it was
adjudicated there .
PLAY METER : I think th public is becoming mor
and more awar of the inno encc of pinball and I think
we're going LO see progressiv I mor
favorabl
legisla tion in more tat s r garding pinball ma hines
What do yo u think about that ?
WilliAM: I can ' t ee wh r it ' s a harmful device ,
not the wa y it's construct d toda y. For xample , in Lo
Angele there were man Ii ensed machines that wer
called games of kill. I told the judge that pingame
were more s killful than some of those licensed by the
pol ice. I howed him whcre the differ nt chance
features xi ted on those , too . I really had LO do my
homework.
PLAY METER: What do yo u for
e for th future
of the industr ? Do s it look bright ?
WILLIAM I don ' t think wc've ratched the surface
et. oin ma chines are an impulse item . You walk
along and yo u ee a coin amusement machine and
before ou know it , yo u reach inLO your pocket and you
want to tr it. !t ' 11 b that way for age . That ' wh
certain machines build a clientel
PLA Y METER : What do yo u think future pinball
games will look and ound like ?
WILLIAM : I don ' t see drastic changes as far as the
overall dimension
be ause we ' v
tried diff rent
vue sell strong because
we have a lot to sell
with
KIDDIERAMA.
variations and they bombed terribly.
An kind of changes with the ba i game design
bomb . The secr t of the game's longevity is the fact
that the ball is wild . When it hit the thumper bumper ,
yo u don ' t know xact ly where it ' s going to go .
PLAY METER: Did you ever wonder whether pinball
was going to last ?
WlLUAM : Well , when I first saw it , I thought,
" What the hell are grown men doing playing that sill y
board with nails in it ? Here's my beautiful baseball
machine alongside of it and they're not looking at it. " It
LOok me four w eks' co lle tion LO realize pinball wa
here to stay and I decided I was going to be a part of it.
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