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Chris -- 2025-05-10
A pre-electric pinball game was a wooden board with panel pins, small nails, forming little enclosures which might catch one or several of the ball-bearings launched by means of a compressed spring.
Electronic pinball machines certainly ping, and make lots of other noises too.
The early, manual verions were also known as bagatelle games. On eBay at the moment there is a vintage one called The Wizard Pin Ball Game for only £260.72. Pinball Wizard!
Bagatelle Savant or Adept just doesn’t have the same ring to it.And there was a machine where we played pingball!” “Pinball,” Dawn corrected her. “And then you broke the machine. And then some guy grabbed your ass, you …
Hi! Do you guys have any idea how to turn off the pingball’s game sounds?
I can say for certain that playing Pingball was one of the most enjoyable activities of my life.
I’m a tallarse with short legs but have some Elton John Pingball Wizard boots.
i remember a pingball machine with the EYE OF THE TIGER theme, it featured minoton, i became a pingball wizard on it.
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Nice. So Elton’s single could have been called “Bagatelle Bewitcher.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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