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The Greatest Science Fiction Pinball Machines Of All Time

Long before the current obsession with console processing power and how many billions of polygons can be display onscreen at the same time, the only way to get your game on was via pinball machines. There have been tons of scifi pinball machines, with some amazingly garish artwork. Besides all of the Star Trek, Star Wars, and other licensed games, take a look at some of the forgotten scifi pinball machines of yesteryear. We'd give our eyeteeth for one of those The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot games. More »

5:30 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Kevin Kelly
5,835 views, 37 comments

Latest by null: Comment on The Greatest Science Fiction Pinball Machines Of All Time @Kevin Kelly - Not according to the Designers who created the game... see http://www.ipdb.org/ more »

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Martian Invaders Go To Pinball Hell

There's something pulpy and eye-searing about these images of Attack From Mars, a 1995 Bally pinball machine. This guy is selling his machine online, and he's taken insanely detailed photos of every part of the machine, including a hauntingly gorgeous image of the plastic aliens trapped in a glowing red pinball inferno. Click through for more images, but be warned: this machine can cause epilepsy! More »

6:30 AM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,285 views, 16 comments

Latest by MercuryPDX: @Go Like Hell Machine: "Attract Mode". Our bar had F14 Tomcat. The flashing cop lights at the top made for quite the "patron freak outs" before we had its attract mode disabled. more »