![]() ![]() I'll go home and sleep well from all the jumping around and shifting, and nudging the machine," she tells me. "I'll be tired at the end of the night sometimes after a tournament. Pin-and-ball then quickly became pinball.Īfter dominating the scores of a weekly pinball tournament in June, Kalyn Smith sits outside Louisville's most treasured arcade bar, Zanzabar, in the cooling evening. Then, during a gambling trial, one of our circuit court judges reportedly used the term to classify the new type of games that had never appeared before in legal literature. Louisville newspaper reporters dubbed them pin-and-ball games. ![]() What most people don't know about pinball is that the word itself was coined by Kentucky journalists. (Photo by Rae Hodge) The machinery of physical joy ![]() The underside of a pinball playfield reveals the seeming chaos of its carefulĮlectrical structure. Want more health and science stories in your inbox? Subscribe to Salon's weekly newsletter The Vulgar Scientist. Just get up, walk over to that clattering carnival in its magic cabinet and pull the plunger. And the next time you spot a pinball machine in a bar, forget about how others may turn their heads at its sound. Regardless of whether you grew up with pinball, if you've ever been stirred to even a passing smile by the sight of a faded old Bally machine flickering alone in the corner of a dim bar, do me one favor. Silicon Valley makes everything worse: Four industries that Big Tech has ruined ![]()
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