My Senseand Two Cents (Score 1)

Upon Reading the title of this article, I became immediately enticed. I LOOoOoOoOVE Pinball. Everytime I went to the East Village Grill or Raccoon Lodge(Same Building, different dress and look) I would play pinball. These were the days when I would jump a few feet in the air everytime I hit the flipper buttons. There was no real rhyme or reason to the hitting of the flippers except that I would start banging as soon as the ball got close to me. My pinballing has evolved since then. I now have tricks to hold the ball, bounce it back and forth between flippers, use one to flip the ball into the other tube to gain points, and flip the ball only when It hits my flipper. We could never have had any of this if we didn't have the flipper. Ahh The Flipper, the evolutionary aspect of modern pinball! The thing that brought pinball to the top and kept it there for a while. According to Russ Jenses(whose pinball genius can be found at: http://members.aol.com/rusjensen/index.htm): "There was, however, another pingame from that same year which could even be broadly considered to be "the first flipper game". That game was called DOUBLE SHUFFLE and was released by the Hercules Novelty Company sometime around the Fall of 1932. DOUBLE SHUFFLE had seven ball hitting devices on it's playfield (3 on the left side and 4 on the right)." Thank you Hercules. Once again the strong man brings us victory. Well, even if that is greek mythology, Hercules Novelty Company brought the world something that would entertain it for years. Well, I'm just trying to show that even though there were pinball machines, they were not pupular at all because the user had no control of the ball. Somebody took something boring and uncontrolable and tried, at risk of losing thousands of dollars, and succeeded in enhancing the pinballing experiance of thousands of users..errr...Players. Pinball has never let us down and I don't think any of us will live to see the day it does. Long Live Pinball!