{"id":189,"date":"2017-04-21T20:24:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T20:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2017-04-25T02:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:51:21","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline3\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=1R2z0UIAw-tw2P_7dxDHWS31Ozk5yjGLP_tV8b_Szltg&amp;font=Default&amp;lang=en&amp;initial_zoom=2&amp;height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The pinball machine today is often\u00a0pushed aside and forgotten when the gaming industry is discussed. Pinball has been regulated to the sidelines of American gaming culture today, but it has had quite the past. While unknown in popular culture, pinball has some surprising ancestors and has interacted with American society in some shocking ways. The timeline above shares a broad overview of the history of the pinball machine. For an in-depth look into the nostalgic game, explore the rest of our website!<\/p>\n<p>-Cameron, Laura, Danielle, &amp; Shannon.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Endnotes<\/h5>\n<p>1. Nellum Technologies, &#8220;History of Billiards,&#8221; The Billiard Shop, accessed March 16, 2017, http:\/\/www.thebilliardshop.com\/history-of-pool-and-billiards.<\/p>\n<p>2.United States Croquet Association,&#8221;Croquet in America: From Backyard Game to Worldclass Sport,&#8221; accessed March 16, 2017, http:\/\/www.croquetamerica.com\/croquet\/history\/.<\/p>\n<p>3. James Masters, &#8220;Bagatelle \u2013 History and Useful Information,\u201d accessed March 16, 2017. http:\/\/www.tradgames.org.uk\/games\/Bagatelle.htm.<\/p>\n<p>4. Redgrave, Montague. 1871. Improvement in bagatelles. U.S Patent 115,357. Issued May 30, 1871.<\/p>\n<p>5. &#8220;Pinball\/Baffle Ball,&#8221; TV Tropes, accessed April 3, 2017, http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Pinball\/BaffleBall.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0Christopher Klein, &#8220;That Time America Outlawed Pinball,&#8221; <em>History In the Headlines, <\/em>November 15, 2016, accessed April 4, 2017, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/that-time-america-outlawed-pinball\">http:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/that-time-america-outlawed-pinball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7. &#8220;Humpty Dumpty,&#8221; Internet Pinball Machine Database, accessed April 03, 2017, http:\/\/www.ipdb.org\/machine.cgi?id=1254.<\/p>\n<p>8. Dave Lifton, \u201cThe Day the Who (Reluctantly) Recorded \u2018Pinball Wizard,\u2019\u201d Ultimate Classic Rock, February 7, 2015, accessed April 3, 2017. http:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/the-who-pinball-wizard\/.<\/p>\n<p>9. Ann Struthers, \u201cGod, Ronald Reagan, and the Cosmic Pinball Machine,\u201d<em> Minnesota Review<\/em> 30, no. 1 (1988): 52, Project Muse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pinball machine today is often\u00a0pushed aside and forgotten when the gaming industry is discussed. Pinball has been regulated to the sidelines of American gaming culture today, but it has had quite the past. While unknown in popular culture, pinball has some surprising ancestors and has interacted with American society in some shocking ways. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/pinball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}