Believe it or not. Danish television ran this voice controlled pinball quiz on a Saturday night show through the summer of 1989.
Flash, with what looks like rubber less banana flippers, doing roll pass'es on their own. Cannot be too tough, right.
Interesting concept. I tried watching but its like in a total different language or something. 
Silly American I am. 
I remember in the early 80's, the bozo show (wgn Chicago) had something similiar. They had a space invaders-like video game (probably so they didn't have to pay royalties), and they'd have kids call up and say "pow!" when they wanted to fire a missle. Of course it only played as good as the reaction of the person controlling the game listening to the phone (which had delay). Neat concept for pre-Internet. You have to wonder if someone could hook up an arduino to a real pinball, control it through a web browser, stream live video. Not sure what the lag would be like but would be an interesting project.
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