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What is Pinball 2000?

April 26, 2017pinball

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What is Pinball 2000?

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Pinball 2000 has a 19 inch video game monitor which has been integrated with a traditional pinball playfield. Virtual images are projected onto the playfield, allowing the ball to interact with video targets as well as traditional “hardwired” targets. Images on the video monitor can be moved and animated in respect to the playfield architecture, creating 3-D video targets. With a hardwire target behind the animated 3-D video target, the computer knows when the ball “hits” the animated 3-D video target. It can then project a 3-D explosion of the target, or any other computer generated affect, seemingly right on the playfield! Unfortunately there were only *two* pinball 2000 game titles manufactured: Revenge from Mars (aka RFM), and Star Wars Episode 1 (aka SWE1). Game number three, titled Wizard Blocks (designer Pat Lawlor) was never produced. Likewise for game number four, Playboy (designer George Gomez). The existing two Pinball 2000 games (RFM and SWE1) were rushed to market while th