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No.
There’s no possible “innovation” left in pinball. Just more of the same.
Deal with it folks!
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Quoted from frenchmarky:How bout still a flipper, but controlled differently than with just a button that either turns it on or off? Like some kind of hand grip (or a button) with precise pressure sensors, and the flipper is powered by a powerful stepping motor or something. Where the flippers would be more like one of your own fingers with a lot of control other than just timing of the on and off. Anybody ever fooled around with something like that?
No.
But python was experimenting with a pinball machine you wore like a hat so the ball was at eye level (True story!)
Quoted from oldbaby:The first thing that jumps to mind is an entire pinball machine like the mini-playfield on Twilight Zone. I don't know how hard it would be to make the magnets strong enough. The pinball machine could be smaller, maybe a bit smaller than a cocktail pin.
And of course, there's the paddle from the mini-playfield of The Shadow.
Now I'm envisioning a mechanical amusement where instead of a big paddle you move back and forth, there's a row of piano key-like paddles with solenoids that you can can use to bounce the ball upward. Maybe controlled by a piano keyboard.
There's also Screwball Scramble and Labyrinth. I would consider those to be pinball-adjacent. So tilting something to move the ball could be fun. Of course, there's Rat Race.
Pitch and bats are cool, there could certainly be more variations on that concept. I think I saw one that had a golf club instead of a baseball bat.
These ideas would all instantly put whatever company tried them out of business. I'd love to see someone homebrew some of these crazy ideas though.
It's fun to daydream this stuff but I just don't think it's practical. Williams did some pretty crazy shit in the first half of the 50s (games with ramps, only one flipper, other nuts stuff) and I think they realized pretty quickly just to make the same kind of games as everybody else.
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