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[Bogdan Giusca]

Thursday, January 4, 2007, 3:47:10 PM, The wrote:

> How would it appear on a pinball machine? Electronic displays started
> appearing on pinball machines in the 1970s (if Wikipedia is to be
> trusted), the same era as the introduction of video arcade games.

But you don't need an electronic display for that: all you need is a
small lightbulb behind a coloured glass: when the game is over,
the light bulb lights up.

These "electromechanical" pinball machines have been made from the 1930s
until the advent of electronics.