{"id":4210,"date":"2009-11-19T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2009-11-19T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T08:00:29","slug":"tiltonomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4210","title":{"rendered":"Tiltonomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cheeptalk.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/17\/the-economics-of-pinball\/\">The Economics of Pinball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The economics of pinball at its peak, when it took advantage of programmable electronics that would shortly be its downfall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1980, pinball went digital, multi-ball, and multi-media starting with the game Black Knight.  Black Knight brought pinball to a new level, literally speaking because it was among the first games with ramps and elevated flippers, but even more importantly because it brought a new challenge that drew in and solidified a pinball crowd.  In doing so it also set the pinball market on a path that would eventually lead to its demise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember Black Knight, and reading a story about how it was developed.  The voice synthesizer programming had to be tweaked to make the &#8220;s&#8221; harder, because &#8220;I will slay you&#8221; was sounding more like an uncomfortable proposition than a challenge.  But even then video games were already beginning to displace pinball machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economics of Pinball The economics of pinball at its peak, when it took advantage of programmable electronics that would shortly be its downfall. In 1980, pinball went digital, multi-ball, and multi-media starting with the game Black Knight. Black Knight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-history","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}