https://www.ipdb.org/search.pl

click on "advanced search"

You'd have to run a report in small 10 year batches. If the results are higher than 5,456 matches, IPDB returns a null finding.

You'll be starting in 1870.

Also here’s a list of top Pinside ratings by decade since the 1970s

https://pinside.com/pinball/top-100/various/decade

There was a book produced yearly until 2018, the 'Mr Pinball Pinball list and price guide'.

The web page is this:

http://user.xmission.com/~daina/pinlist_info.html

And while it seems that the hard cover is no longer available, you might be able to get an electronic version from them.

They don't have EXACTLY what you are asking for, they have a listing Chronological by Manufacturer.

So if you want to know that APPLE TIME's THUNDER MAN pinball (they made only one pinball...) was made chronologically about the same time as GOTTLIEB's MONTE CARLO, well you could probably contact the people at pinlist and have them sort the data for you. Or extract it from the PDF.

For my purposes, I'm mostly looking at the big 5 producers of pinballs, so Chronological by Manufacturer is fine.

Hah. I shall now forever refer to the current millennium as the twothousandies.

This list omits many, many games that do not have enough pinside ratings to qaulify.

If you go to the top of the Pinside page and click on machines there is a list of machines by year from most recent all the way back to the 1930,s