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Comedy Short about Early Pinball Competition: 1972's Pong (YouTube, 3 minutes)
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<blockquote data-quote="Todd Trumpet" data-source="post: 83146" data-attributes="member: 3019"><p>I did some additional research after making my original post here, a little "nostalgia search" for the Fireball pinball machine. I didn't realize it, but it debuted almost exactly at the same time that "Pong" did, around 1972.</p><p></p><p>Both games were only available in one place in the town I lived in back then (just outside of Detroit). It was a mom-and-pop pizza joint with just a handful of machines in the waiting area (it was primarily a pickup and delivery place). One was Fireball. And one was Pong. It was several blocks away from our house, but a friend and I used to make the bike trip whenever we had enough spare change. Fascinated as we were by Pong, it really did cost a quarter when Fireball could be had for a dime (or three 5-ball games for a quarter). An entire pizza was only about $5 back then, and it was the size of a trash can lid, so Pong seemed a bit extravagant.</p><p></p><p>Little did we know...</p><p></p><p>Todd</p><p></p><p>P.S. Speaking of Fireball, I got the total number of possible balls in play at one time wrong - it's not two but three. I remembered "Odin" but forgot about "Wotan"!</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/fireball/fireball_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Todd Trumpet, post: 83146, member: 3019"] I did some additional research after making my original post here, a little "nostalgia search" for the Fireball pinball machine. I didn't realize it, but it debuted almost exactly at the same time that "Pong" did, around 1972. Both games were only available in one place in the town I lived in back then (just outside of Detroit). It was a mom-and-pop pizza joint with just a handful of machines in the waiting area (it was primarily a pickup and delivery place). One was Fireball. And one was Pong. It was several blocks away from our house, but a friend and I used to make the bike trip whenever we had enough spare change. Fascinated as we were by Pong, it really did cost a quarter when Fireball could be had for a dime (or three 5-ball games for a quarter). An entire pizza was only about $5 back then, and it was the size of a trash can lid, so Pong seemed a bit extravagant. Little did we know... Todd P.S. Speaking of Fireball, I got the total number of possible balls in play at one time wrong - it's not two but three. I remembered "Odin" but forgot about "Wotan"! [IMG]http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/fireball/fireball_1.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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