Before video games, there were pinball machines. Not that they don’t exist today, but a modern pinball machine will likely have microprocessors and other fancy things that traditional pinball ...

Pinball machines ... enough time for the score to advance, the relay uses something like a mechanical flip flop. Sound complicated? That’s nothing. Don’t forget, the machine also has to ...

machine -- the "Spirit of 76" built by Mirco Games Incorporated in 1976 -- appeared just as laws banning pinball games were fading. The technological changeover from electro-mechanical to solid ...