Joe’s Classic Video Games Fixes A Complex EM Pinball

It’s another quick low-effort Youtube post, but I think I’m due it this time, I wrote three large text posts earlier in the week. It’s not an electronic game this time, but it is an electric one, an electo-mechanical game, a classic pinball machine right before they started making ’em solid state: a Williams Grand Prix, a very complex one, as Joe of Joe’s Classic Video Games tells us. The video is long, an hour and three minutes, but it’s informative and makes good background to other things as well. The industry-wide switch to computer-run pinball machines is ultimately what saved pinball, and is probably why pinball is arguably a more vibrant industry than arcade video, at least in the West. Without computer chips, you don’t have good music (and Bally/Williams pinball has great music), you don’t have complex rulesets, you don’t have modes or wizard modes, and you don’t have digitized speech, all things that made the best-selling pinball of all time, Bally’s The Addams Family,…

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