[WikiEN-l] Game Over (was Thousands of *awful* articles on websites)

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 14:06:28 UTC 2007


On 1/4/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
True enough. Do we have any examples of that existing so we can fix
the [[Game over]] article?



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