Following the last time we finished talking about the popular science of the window mini-game "Minesweeper" (click here to review), this time we will talk about another small game that played crazy when I was a child, "Three-dimensional Pinball - Space Military Cadet". If you have also experienced multiple iterations of window updates, then this must be the top 3 of your local mini-game list for computer lessons that year.
Originally, the old youtiao also wanted to talk about the reason for the disappearance of "Three-dimensional Pinball" today, but this check found that although this thing disappeared in a version with "Minesweeper", the reason is not worth mentioning compared to "Minesweeper". Because Raymond, the engineer in charge of porting at the time, found that the collision of "Three-dimensional Pinball" in the 64-bit system failed in the process of porting the game, which means that when the game started, the ball would inexplicably fall directly down and fly directly outside the game frame. And because the creators of the game at that time habitually encrypted the game, Raymond, who had no source code, could not figure it out, and in the case of insufficient time, he could only not be new in the end. Of course, you can still find this game on various websites, after all, it is still easy to crack an old game with the current method.
Raymond himself
Although the game disappeared unremarkably, the origin is well worth talking about. Although most of our understanding of pinball comes from "Three-dimensional Pinball", in fact, the origin of this game can be traced back to the 19th century in Europe and the United States. The pinball game at that time was called Bagatelle, which consisted mainly of tables and billiards. In 1871, the British inventor Montague Redgrave began to improve it, including the addition of springs and columns, the increase in the tilt of the tabletop, and the reduction of the entire game, which also allowed Montague to obtain related patents.
Although the game was famous, the spread was not as vast as it seemed, until an American named David Gettylieb appeared. In 1931, he released the first mechanical desktop game "CricketBall", and this machine can also be said to be the origin of the arcade coin-operated fee model, because it was the first game machine that required coin to play. Friends who have played arcade machines know that coin trading is very top,000, and the machine only costs $17.50 to sell to stores, while players only need 1 cent to play 7 balls, and it only takes two days to return the money when they encounter a good game. This has also made the machine a standard for major bars and clubs, and the bosses have made a lot of money.
Seeing this situation, the Americans whose brains are all capital can't sit still, and have opened the road to the transformation and sale of pinball machines, just like the current Razer crazy lights, replace the game board, so that their own pinballs look particularly different. And when a game is on fire, it is naturally indispensable to the appearance of plug-ins. In order to prevent players from improving their scores by shaking the tabletop, as well as to prevent the crash caused by shaking, an inventor in 1933, Harry Williams, added a "tilt" mechanism to the pinball machine, which simply put a metal ring under the table, and the metal block attached to the table was placed in the middle of the ring, and once the table was shaken severely, it would cause the two metals to collide and power up, thus stopping the game console from functioning.
The popularity of the pinball machine also makes many people feel dissatisfied, the main reason is the birth of the derivative slot machine of the marble game, for the family that is not rich, this game that only invests but does not return is a bottomless pit, so a sport is inevitable. In 1940, the first thing the new Mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia, came to power was to crack down on slot machines, and both slot machines and pinball machines were born of one woman, and the pinball machine was also implicated in the first time. In the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the federal government at the time also called on the public to donate old metal support, so the pinball machine became a recycled object.
But because of this, the pinball machine has gone all over the world, and even in Japan, there has been a derivative species "Pa Qing Ge" (how the derivative of the good guy is all garbage products), which is a later story. In 1947, Gottlieb launched the first pinball machine with a controllable baffle, "Humpty Dumpty", which can operate 6 baffles on the game table to form multi-stage catapults, but multiple operating points also deter many players. So the company made a second update to the game, simplifying it to two operability baffles (that is, the two small hooks below the most common today), and named it "Spot Bowler", which has become the basic form of the current marble game.
As in the 40s, various variants appeared once the game was on fire. In 1962 manufacturer Steve Kodek made a "drop target" and in 1963 introduced a multi-ball gameplay; In 1966, the Americans made the first digital scoring pinball machine "Rally Girl"; In 1975, Micro released the first solid-state electronic pinball machine, etc., and a large number of new technologies and new gameplay were integrated into this small desktop.
Of course, in modern times, with computers, a variety of consoles and high-performance mobile phones, desktop pinball games have naturally disappeared in China. But this game still has a place in the heart of lao Mei, and to this day we can still see the linkage of various pinball machine brands abroad, such as Marvel, tide brand Supreme and so on. If you want to buy a pinball machine to put away, then the old youtiao personally still does not recommend. Nowadays, the price of american pinball machines with brands is not cheap, and the complex internal structure + handmade this account makes the price of a single machine come to a large number of thousands of knives, and it is not necessary to like it to a degree. Of course, if you don't need to think about money, that can be when I didn't say it.
In addition to the machine itself, the pinball gameplay itself has improved with the times. In the United States, many manufacturers and organizations have jointly held many pinball machine tournaments in order to promote the pinball machine business, and the more famous ones are the International Pinball Machine Association (IFPA) and the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA). The two organizations are still actively working with manufacturers today, hosting hundreds of events a year, and while the traditional pinball game has become niche, it has never died out.