Author Topic: Wheel of Fortune pinball machine (Read 6374 times)

clemon79 · « **Reply #30 on:** October 08, 2007, 12:47:26 PM »

[quote name=\'clanky06\' post=\'165903\' date=\'Oct 8 2007, 07:44 AM\']
I'm sure just about everything "Game Show" has been discussed before!
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Well, close. I'm sure a few things have been missed between here and there. But certainly enough that when someone says "I'm surprised nobody mentioned...", chances are, we have.

clanky06 · « **Reply #31 on:** October 09, 2007, 04:25:28 PM »

I wonder if there is some correlation between the game show and pin ball heydays occurring about the same era.

TimK2003 · « **Reply #32 on:** October 09, 2007, 07:52:50 PM »

[quote name=\'clanky06\' post=\'166075\' date=\'Oct 9 2007, 04:25 PM\']
I wonder if there is some correlation between the game show and pin ball heydays occurring about the same era.
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Probably not, but it is a bit of a co-winky-dink how the scoring mechanisms have kept up with top prize money on game shows over the years and vice-versa:

1960's -- Game Show Top Prizes were maxed at around $10,000...

...In Pinball, the score would roll back to zero if you surpassed 10,000 points (in pinball lingo, you would have "flipped", or "turned over" the machine once past 9,999)

1970's -- Game show top prizes were around $100,000...

...In pinball, the analog scoring dials went as high as 99,999.

1980's & 90's -- Top Game Show Prizes at $1M...Pinball went to 6-digit analog and digital scores, maxing at 999,999

2000's -- Top game show prizes now at $10M...Pinballs now go to 9,999,999 and beyond, pretty much eliminating any chance of 'flipping' a machine anymore.

NickS · « **Reply #33 on:** October 09, 2007, 08:52:06 PM »

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'166102\' date=\'Oct 9 2007, 06:52 PM\']
2000's -- Top game show prizes now at $10M...Pinballs now go to 9,999,999 and beyond, pretty much eliminating any chance of 'flipping' a machine anymore.
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I can tell you pins were already passing 10M without a rollover in the '90s. Jack*Bot was released in the 90s, right? That's a game that can/will go into the BILLIONS.

trainman · « **Reply #34 on:** October 09, 2007, 10:01:01 PM »

Attack from Mars (1995) also comes to mind as a machine on which I've scored well over 1 billion. Scores these days are actually a little more reasonable than that.

Anyway, then there were the days before the scoring wheels, when scores were kept with lights only...

Here's a machine from 1950 that has scores up to 4,900,000.