Been lurking forever, adding to the travesty that is this book seems like as good a time as any to start posting. I was going down an internet rabbit hole last night, which I do a lot. And I eventually ended up on an Japanese guys pinball/indie games/general blog site. So I was looking around and found a link to a steam page of an digital pinball table based off a homebrew table that the guy also seems to have made irl. I was looking at it and was surprisingly struck by thoughts "hmm why dose this look so familiar". Then it hit me "wait a second this looks the game on the cover of Todd's book". And sure enough if you look through the pictures in the gallery on steam you can find the exact image they used on the cover after cropping. So not only did this guy take advantage of todd's good will. He's also blatantly stealing the work of people who can't even speak English very well and are attempting to keep pinball alive outside of the west. To have a few unaccredited images inside a book is one thing. To have one blatantly slapped on the cover is another.

I think I vaguely remember thinking this when the cover was first shown too, after maybe stumbling on to that steam page years ago (released 2016). Just took till now for it to all come full circle back around.

The games steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/514570/Pinball_Parlor/
The original company website: http://pinball.co.jp/
From the looks of it this guy is actually an operator in Japan too which is an extremely rare thing nowadays.
If this has already been discovered and discussed forgive me, I last read this thread like three or four months ago.

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