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Technology Connections: Tilting, taking turns, and winning free games: the many tricks inside old pinball machines (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

technology connections is a gem

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If anyone's curious, modern "virtual" pinballs, which are just a computer under a large screen inside a pinball frame, replicate this by using an accelerometer (like the one in our phones).

The pinball emulation software is fed tilt metrics, and usually that software decides when to call it fault.

And if anyone is really curious you can read in detail here: http://mjrnet.org/pinscape/BuildGuideV2/BuildGuide.php?sid=tilt

[–] Xain52 6 points 4 weeks ago

That’s pretty cool i had no idea there were multiple players on pinball machines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I had a friend who was such a master of how much he could abuse the machines.

[–] RebekahWSD 1 points 4 weeks ago

That era of physical technology is just so very cool. I like modern stuff, but man hope they made all it work was so neat!