'PINBALL LOVE' By Jeanne Marie Laskas
The Washington Post Magazine
December 3, 1989
Page 26
Another one of my favorite articles. This person gets it. She is one of us and understands and describes the pinball experience perfectly. If she is still around, she would make a great speaker at one of the pinball shows.
Sorry for the mangled pages. They were ripped from the magazine and sent to me that way.
'Here's A Game That Will Make You Flip Every Time You Play' By Carl Hoffman
(The title in the table of contents is 'Pinball-Full Tilt Once More')
Smithsonian
January 1993
Page 96
This article started with Roger Sharpe, like many magazine and newspaper articles from the 90's did. Roger sent them to me for an interview, I sent them to Dick Bueschel and on and on it went.
I think this article really captures how exciting the pinball world was in the late 80's and early 90's. The article covers everything. Manufacturers, designers, artists, collectors, players and historians. It really was a great time in pinball history.
Saturday bonus page!
'Mega-Ball thrill ride'
Popular Mechanics
May, 1988
Page 22
I assume this ride was never built. That's a shame. Revive this idea and get some pinball designers in on this and there's no telling what they could come up with.
I ran this article in the Pinball Trader in 1988 but it was in black & white.
Quoted from SteveinTexas:This is good reading. Keep them coming Dennis.
Thanks Steve. Whatcha workin' on these days? Still on the Nags? Really looking good.
Yeh, still has some minor bugs. Getting a lot of plays. Wife plays it too so having some fun. Getting ready to pull out a certain baseball game for serious treatment.....
Here's one for my fellow bingophiles. With apologies to all of the 'flipper games only' crowd. We know that bingos were somewhat responsible for some of the anti-pinball madness of the last mid-century. But geez, people were betting on EVERYTHING then! Not just bingos. If you have a REGULAR pinball with a knock-off button, you can bet that payoffs were happening on that game at one time.
I love the caption on the last photo in the article. "New Jersey. 1954. A woman shows off her winning card in the states first legalized church bingo match. Bally Bingos remained illegal."
'THE LAST OF THE BALLY BINGO KINGS' By David Samuels
Civilization Magazine
December 1998/January 1999
Page 51
Quoted from DennisDodel:Here's one for my fellow bingophiles. With apologies to all of the 'flipper games only' crowd. We know that bingos were somewhat responsible for some of the anti-pinball madness of the last mid-century. But geez, people were betting on EVERYTHING then! Not just bingos. If you have a REGULAR pinball with a knock-off button, you can bet that payoffs were happening on that game at one time.
I love the caption on the last photo in the article. "New Jersey. 1954. A woman shows off her winning card in the states first legalized church bingo match. Bally Bingos remained illegal."
'THE LAST OF THE BALLY BINGO KINGS' By David Samuels
Civilization Magazine
December 1998/January 1999
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Dennis these articles are all great, but this "Last of the Bally Bingos Kings" touches home for me.Being born and raised in North Newark NJ from 1956 to 1990's i found this article a very interesting read for me and really enjoyed the story from start to finish. Thanks so much for sharing it.
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Quoted from burningman:These articles are great. Many thanks to the OP and others for contributing...
You're very welcome. I had hoped more folks would have something to contribute. I know there are many more magazine articles out there. I do not have much left, other than the Playboy and Cigar Aficionado articles which I'm guessing most have already seen. I will post those if anyone is interested.
I do have newspaper articles that I will post after the magazines.
Quoted from DennisDodel:Glad you liked it Vic. Do you recognize any of the names in the article?
Didn't recognize any names. I do remember bingos and pinballs being everywhere i went in that big city. I started playing machines from 1966 to around 1990 in Newark NJ ad only knew about the Northward Section.
This article was reprinted (in black and white) in the November 1990 issue of the Pinball Trader. With the authors permission, I had corrected some game name/date errors in that reprint. This post of the article is as it was originally published.
'Heaven Is A Pinball Machine' By Christopher Cook Gilmore
PhillySport
February 1990
Page 48
I have another pinball article by the above author called 'Flipper Tripper' that appeared in the November 1977 issue of Swank magazine. I am not sure if it would be allowed here as it is X-rated material. If a moderator would OK this, I will post it. Maybe hide it? I'm not sure how that works.
Quoted from LTG:These are great ! Thank you Dennis !
LTG : )
Thanks Lloyd.
Quoted from DennisDodel:This one is fresh out of the mailbox. First time I've read it myself.
'Pinball Redux: The Hottest Games'
Time
October 31, 1977
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I remember that one as I was in high school when it came out. A Government class used to have either Newsweek or Time delivered weekly as part of the class material. Two different teachers taught the class during different class periods. I was in the "Newsweek" class. Friends who were in the "Time" class gave me their copies as they knew that I was into pinball.
Thanks for posting.
WARNING! THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS X-RATED DIALOGUE! (Plus an illustration that I have tagged as 'Not safe for work/ Not family friendly')
Posted with the blessings of our open-minded moderators who do a great job of running the place! Keep up the great work!
'FLIPPER TRIPPER' By Christopher-Robyn Gilmore
Swank
November 1977
Page 40
Quoted from DennisDodel:'Pinball Is Back'
Life
September 1990
Page 76
Dennis' thanks for providing these magazine clippings! I believe there are a couple pages missing from this particular mag. One page is 79 and the next starts at 82.
Quoted from JoelOmatik:On the Pinball Is Back article, there seems to be a missing page between 79 and 82. I may have confused you, because the Swank Magazine article had almost the same missing page number
Crap - sorry - there is a page 80 - I don't know how I missed that twice!
Quoted from DennisDodel:'THE PINBALL MACHINES' By William Harrison
The Saturday Evening Post
April 22, 1967
Page 64
I bought that issue of Saturday Evening Post when it came out. For those who weren't so lucky, the story was included in a book that collected several of William Harrison's short stories.
Rollerball Murder
Stories by William Harrison
William Morrow & Co. (New York), 1974
ISBN 0-688-00265-X
The story whose title was used as the book title was the inspiration for a hit movie, Rollerball.
.................David Marston
Bump!
Came across this while looking for Gottlieb North Star info...
It's in the Coin Op section of Oct 24th 1964 Billboard magazine:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=TyAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA61&ots=OpwvK66aWP&dq=north%20star%20backglass&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false
Pinball Art Contest Winners
Starlog
February 1980
Page 42
There were a couple of old posts about the contest, but this one shows the results.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/win-a-1979-bally-star-trek-art-contest#post-2453197
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/1979-starlog-bally-contest-and-story#post-2272996
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