5.1 - What was the first pinball game?
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This article is from the General Pinball FAQ, by Keith Johnson keefer@access.digex.net with numerous contributions by others.
5.1 - What was the first pinball game?
This depends on what exactly you're asking. Before pinball as we know it
today, there were machines that just had pins in them and balls would fall
down from the top (like a Pachinko machine, except they weren't upright).
This is probably why it was called pin-ball. This coin operated pinball
industry as we know it today came into being around 1931. The term "pinball"
wasn't coined until 1936.
-- Thanks to Terry Cumming <terry.cumming@canrem.com> for information.
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