I love the way so much pre-90s pinball art clearly comes from this unlettered notebook paper-airbrushed van tradition where eventually they kinda got the tits right, but they definitely got the tits
I love how this is a hipsterish nostalgic American proletarian leisure activity themed with another, completely different, hipsterish nostalgic American proletarian leisure activity.
Someone needs to make a pinball-themed pinball machine, so you can play a game of pinball while imagining playing a different game of pinball.
“Silverball turned out to be very ESPN-friendly, with sports-themed games based on baseball, football, college football, auto racing, horse racing, boxing, soccer, tennis, the Olympics, bowling, pool, fishing, and even dominoes (what, no curling?). This pattern of basing pinball games on other games reaches its existential peak in Super Score — a pinball-themed pinball game.”
Since they upgraded from 128x32 pixel dot matrix displays to full video in the last few years (under pressure from new manufacturers finally disrupting the monopoly Stern was left with after the late ‘90s crash) they’ve honestly not known what to do with all that space when they’re not playing a mode display or video clip or something; it’s too big to fill with score alone.
In the new Deadpool pinball table they fill it with a SEGA Model 32-style animation of Deadpool fighting off ninjas while he was trying to play the Deadpool pinball table
