The History of Pinball Part 1: The Electromechanical Era

In this video, we go through the history of pinball from its humble beginnings in the 30's to the mid-70's (aka the electromechanical era cause they're all EM's) Special video credits go to the following. If you wanna see more detailed videos/gameplay for individual machines, I highly recommend checking these guys out TNT Amusements Inc, Vintage Pinball, Flipper-Automaten, Pinrescue, London Pinball, David Yopp, Arcade Jason, The Pinball Collector, Fordeisel69, World of Virtual Pinball, gringonaut, Slamtiltproductions, Csepregi Ivan, ALJO1122, SCV Games, Ron Valkenburg, KingofTheCrap, Joel garblik, dtown8532, Whoahboomshakala, Tenholtpianist, pingeek777, Dr. Dave's Pinball Restorations, Jdswainjr, Pinball Evangelist, Doug Barger, tubz2965a, hoverbeaver, pafasa1972, Home Leisure Direct, Gee Tee, Joe Cole, Ballen Van Staal, Pindude152, Robothut, Derek Fugate, Roxer, Pinballwiz45b, Joe's Classic Video Games Also, this whole project couldn't be possible without great resources like The Pinball Compendium series by Michael Shalhoub, IPDB, and Pinside. Highlighted Tables 1.Baffle Ball (Gottlieb) 2.Ballyhoo (Bally) 3.Airway (Bally) 4.Jack and Jill (Bally) 5.Brokers Tip (Gottlieb) 6.Contact (Pamco) 7.Criss Cross ‘A’ Lite (Genco) 8.Beam-Lite (Chicago Coin) 9.Bumper (Bally) 10.Dux (Chicago Coin) 11.Humpty Dumpty (Gottlieb) 12.Triple Action (Genco) 13.Sally (Chicago Coin) 14.Saratoga (Williams) 15.The 4 Horsemen (Gottlieb) 16.Spark Plugs (Williams) 17.Niagara (Gottlieb) 18.Marble Queen (Gottlieb) 19.Coronation (Gottlieb) 20.Silver Chest (Genco) 21.Army Navy (Williams) 22.Super Jumbo (Gottlieb) 23.Balls-A-Poppin (Bally) 24.Turf Champ (Williams) 25.Flying Aces (Genco) 26.Gusher (Williams) 27.Miss Annabelle (Gottlieb) 28.Hi Straight (Keeney) 29.Flipper (Gottlieb) 30.Magic Clock (Williams) 31.Vagabond (Williams) 32.Sunday on Ice (Rally) 33.Show Boat (Gottlieb) 34.King Pin (Williams) 35.Sun Valley (Chicago Coin) 36.Moon Shot (Bally) 37.World Fair (Gottlieb) 38.Palooka (Williams) 39.Big Day (Bally) 40.Bazaar (Bally) 41.Rally Girl (Rally) 42.Flower’s Child (Rally) 43.Super Score (Gottlieb) 44.Blast Off (Williams) 45.Beat Time (Williams) 46.Hayburners II (Williams) 47.Domino (Gottlieb) 48.Airport (Gottlieb) 49.Miss Universo (Inder) 50.Snow Queen (Gottlieb) 51.Klondike (Williams) 52.Sea Hunt (Allied Leisure) 53.Fireball (Bally) 54.King Rock (Gottlieb) 55.Travel Time (Williams) 56.Jack In The Box (Gottlieb) 57.Strike (Zaccaria) 58.Amigo (Bally) 59.Super Flipper (Chicago Coin) 60.Wizard! (Bally) 61.El Dorado (Gottlieb) Thanks for watching. Part 2 will probably take a bit longer to come out, but I'm very excited to finish this project.