Pachinko / Pinball – Examples & Inspiration

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General 

Pachinko

Wikipedia entry – Pachinko

 

Pinball

Pinball Machine Art Across Seven Decades – Gizmodo

Kings and Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago – (exhibition – Elmhurst Art Museum)

Skillshot – The Collaborative Art of Pinball – (exhibition catalog – Columbia College Museum) – great information here

Pinball Wizard – (video) – The Who

Gottlieb Pinball History & Evolution from 1947 to 1979


Research Papers

Pinups and Pinball: The Sexualized Female Image In Pinball Artwork – Melissa Fanton (2016), Rochester Institute of
Technology


Installation Artwork 

Pachinko

Cop to Conductor: Negotiating and Remapping Meaning in Existing Public Art – Todd Berreth, Leonardo Art Journal, August 2018, MIT Press

(paper above – example of building an artistic concept and rhetorical framework around an interactive artifact like Pachinko)

Mr. Conductor (2017) – Todd Berreth, Emil Polyak and Pat Fitzgerald

Bombastic fantastic (Seoul Brothers)(2017) – Pat Fitzgerald and Todd Berreth

Pachinko Machine (2017) – Brigitta Zics – self-learning Pachinko

 

Pinball

Galactic Dimensions (2015) – Niklas Roy

Augmented Pinball (2014) – Team 464 , info

BANG Venus Pinball (1997) – Jason Ditmars – (warning: sexual content)

Boxwood Pinball (2015)  – Travis Hetman and Bill Manke

Urban Pinball (2019) – Mindscape Studio – pinball projection mapping


PC / Console / Mobile Apps

Future Pinball – Pinball Development Simulator (Windows) – Christopher Leathley – not sure if this still works

INKS! (IOS/Android) – pinball meets paintball – wonderful game!

Bethesda Pinball (Windows, XBox, Switch) – Zen Studios – table design based on other Bethesda games