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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 794.75
Fabric Type: 9780764316876
Legal Disclaimer: 0764316877
Maximum Color Depth: Schiffer Publishing
Metal Type: Schiffer Publishing
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 272
Total External Bays Free: August 30, 2002
Total Firewire Ports: Schiffer Publishing
Schiffer Publishing
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Pinball games have long been regarded as the twentieth century's ultimate coin operated amusement, touching the lives of generations of players in numerous cultures. This visual chronicle, with examples from the game's beginnings to the present day, focuses in particular on the years from 1958 to 1998. It showcases fifty fascinating pinball games, each with its own chapter outlining the special features. Covered in detail are cultural influences, design and artistic trends, historical connections, collectibility, values, and unique game rules. Over 800 full color photographs display whole machine shots, close-ups of backglasses and playfields, and ball's-eye-view images. They put the pinball enthusiast right into the action! This beautiful book is an essential reference for the libraries of pinball collectors and aficionados everywhere.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Pinball Memories by Marco Rossignoli is a big, colorful impressive tome at first, and probably appreciated by pinball aficionados, and while it does try at times to be reference-like, it fails on that front due mainly to gross omissions of necessary information.
First off, this book has spectacular photography, and it's obvious Rossignoli's real talent is photography and not writing. The book focuses on a seemingly arbitrary selection of classic pinball games, most likely having to ... Read More
Rating:  -
This book on pinball machines has examples from the games beginnings to the present day, focuses in particular on the years from 1958 to 1998. It showcases fifty pinball games, each with its own chapter outlining the special features. Covered in detail are cultural influences, design and artistic trends, historical connections, collectibility, values, and unique game rules. Over 800 full color photographs display whole machine shots, close-ups of backglasses and playfields, and ball's-eye-view images. ... Read More
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