Quoted from Pinball-is-great:I believe pin tables games and "table" terminology has been around since about the 1750's, more so in Western Europe.
My guess is that the term Pinball Machines became more widely used in USA in the mid/late 1940's after WWII as the games took on more varied and complex parts and mechanisms, playfield components, flippers, etc.
Virtual pinball did give new life to the word tables.
Dude,i live in western europe, we call everything a table over here..
Lol
But we call it "flipperkast" and translated from our Dutch language to english that means "closet with flippers"!!
Never thought about that,real stupid name in Dutch?
But nobody calls it table over here.