Happy 150th Birthday to pinball - sort of!

[steve brum]

Just hope to be around to celebrate the centenery of the release of Baffle Ball in November 2031 as that was the first commercially successful coin op pin game

Notice that Montegue's bagatelle had more features than some Stern Pros!

 

[Gary Flower]

For those that don't know he was a Londoner.

 

[domlouis]

Reading about the history of pinball is interesting. As always it is difficult to be precise about when it started. Is bagatelle normally considered to be the great grand father of pinball? In which case 17th century would be when it started.

 

[Tilt_Birmingham]

For those that don't know he was a Londoner.

Thanks now we are can dislike him

 

[Gary Flower]

how can you dislike the guy the Americans acknowledge as the inventor of pinball?
It gives me a frisson to know he was born in England.