Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Pinball Game Including Elevated Ball Pathway

Filed October 29th, 1980

I’m not trying to document the evolution of pinball in the 1980s here–frankly, I like the purely mechanical machines from the 1960s and 1970s far better–but here’s a Bally patent just so I don’t completely ignore it, either.

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