Rocket III (Bally, 1967), Ted Zale "zipper flipper" game and the disk feature is classified as a spinning bumper, versus a spinning wheel due to the fixed posts, but the concept is essentially the same.
It has a very effective design. It certainly was a further development in the concept discussed in this thread. The only negative is the general inaccessibility of the continual motorized disk after the ball drops below the top half of the playfield. You need a good richohet off the rubber ring or pop bumper.
General innovation of most ideas in pinball today are less than satisfactory, many are simply repeated concepts, just like the movie industry. Hence, higher interest in games of the past as people discover things they never knew could be done with a small silver ball.
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