Credit Dot Pinball: The Update Thread

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Getting all sappy about trading a game, and the difficulty of "letting go".

http://creditdotpinball.com/2015/04/14/opinion-the-complications-of-letting-go/

[DSB]

Great story. Well worth a read.

[spiroagnew]

Credit Dot interviews Jeff Miller, aka THE PINBALL PIMP.  Mr. Miller has been restoring machines since 2005...more importantly, he has recently began to offer the definitive stencil sets for older Bally and Williams machines for public sale...and they are licenced and everything!


PEOPLE: Jeff Miller, the Pinball Pimp
http://creditdotpinball.com/2015/07/07/people-jeff-miller-the-pinball-pimp/

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Bumping this one up with two recent articles...an EM themed one, and a DMD themed one. Something for everyone!


Credit Dot looks at Gottlieb's Target Alpha/Solar City, with a discussion about Gottlieb 2-player and 4-player games of the 1970s and Gottlieb's reliance on EM technology while Bally was smashing sales records with their Solid State offerings.


FEATURED GAME(S): Gottlieb’s Target Alpha & Solar City
https://creditdotpinball.com/2016/08/18/featured-games-gottliebs-target-alpha-solar-city/

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Credit Dot Pinball explores the bumpy road Data East designers and artists had to endure to get WWF Royal Rumble out the door. I had the opportunity to speak with game designer Tim Seckel about his experiences getting the game built.

FEATURE: Smaller Muscles and Fewer Wrestlers, The History and Production of Data East's WWF Royal Rumble
https://creditdotpinball.com/2016/08/26/feature-smaller-muscles-and-fewer-wrestlers-the-history-and-production-of-data-ea[/img]sts-wwf-royal-rumble/

[4_amusement_only]

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