
It maintained a high level of complexity and sophistication. Designed by Greg Kmiec and art directed by Paul Faris, Xenon was something different. Xenon pinball machine was manufactured by Bally Entertainment and hit the market and theĮnd of 1980. Machine and restart the game was to throw a coin into the machine’s voracious belly. The word tilt was appeared on the scoreboard, ball was lost and everything was suddenly extinguished. You could even cheat by slightly shaking the table to divert the ball from its course – but if you moved it too much, everything was gone, The steel ball bounces the various obstacles, enters corridors, pass throughĭoors, rails, tunnels and when it touches any of that, an electric circuit turned on flashing lights and activated sounds while a tube sendĪway from the “balloon” a moving spring until inevitably, due to the player’s wrong move, the ball fall in the hole again. Inclination, rolled downwards until it’s lost in a hole. On the right side was a spring piston which popped-out a steel ball at the top of the table, which due to its The player position was in front of the table, Holes, flashing lights, moving plates and open lane passageways. Under that glass, were surface-mounted obstacles with tires, Back in the 80’s, they were not digital.Īn elongated, slightly sloping table covered with a strong glass. Pinball machines are still beloved by those who remember them.Įlectrical wonders, invited you in an unreal world. Although today have been declined to the point of near extinction,


Pinball machines were the original arcade games.
