Extremely petty feedback: The selections on the 'mystery' where R2 is rotating the interface port thing should have some sort of a rotation based animation, not the goofy zooming square box. GOSH.

Originally done by Zaccaria maybe?

Or how bout this nugget I dug up on RGP:

"The four-flipper version of Paragon had a gap with no wireform to stop the ball between the top and bottom flippers on the right. If you tried to trap the ball on the lower flipper, it'd drain. According to IPDB there was a three-flipper version made specifically because people in the Italian market complained about this; the more standard arrangement we know and love was referred to as the "Italian bottom"."

More detailed quote from IPDB's paragon entry from Greg Kmiec:

"If my memory serves me correctly, I seem to recall that the Italian, French and German markets were quite strong for Bally during that period and Bally was often visited by various foreign distributors. I recall that they relayed the fact that their players liked to hold the pinball by the flippers. The way it was relayed to designers through interpreters was that their players liked to hold the pinball on the flipper, take a drink of beer and brag to other players about the skill shot they were about to shoot. That couldn't be done with the original Paragon design. I tried something different with Paragon, since it was Bally's first wide-body game. It was relayed to Bally that the foreign player preferred one return lane on each side at the bottom of the game that "returned" the pinball to the flippers for a playfield skill shot. This type of design became known within the industry as the "Italian Bottom." It was used extensively then throughout the industry and is still in use today. "