Zombiepirate@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoGallery of pinball gamers in the early 40slemmy.worldimagemessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1189arrow-down1imageGallery of pinball gamers in the early 40slemmy.worldZombiepirate@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to !historyphotos@piefed.social@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square14linkfedilinkfile-text
1 (OP): Aliquippa, Pennsylvania 1941 2: Ambridge, Pennsylvania 1941 3: Clinton, Indiana 1940 4: Fort Belvoir, Virginia 1942 Photos from Library of Congress.
minus-squareWhostosay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoNope. Fucking no sir. More info is required, are we talking like duel plungers for the pit or does it all come back to the start and you just have to be quick enough? Heeeelp
minus-squareCandleTiger@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 months agoThey had a plunger, ball goes up and hits targets (or not) and falls down. Your score is however many targets it hit while it was up. Your controls were bumping and rocking the game case to try to make the ball bounce better off of things. Games have … improved since then.
minus-squareZombiepirate@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months ago Your controls were bumping and rocking the game case to try to make the ball bounce better off of things. The original Pro Gamer move.
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoIt’s important to point out that at this point in time, pinball wasn’t seen as gaming the way you would think of it today, it was almost exclusively for gambling. Like a way cooler slot machine.
Nope. Fucking no sir.
More info is required, are we talking like duel plungers for the pit or does it all come back to the start and you just have to be quick enough?
Heeeelp
They had a plunger, ball goes up and hits targets (or not) and falls down. Your score is however many targets it hit while it was up.
Your controls were bumping and rocking the game case to try to make the ball bounce better off of things.
Games have … improved since then.
The original Pro Gamer move.
It’s important to point out that at this point in time, pinball wasn’t seen as gaming the way you would think of it today, it was almost exclusively for gambling. Like a way cooler slot machine.