Title: Pacific Pinball Museum
Content: is a 1930s-era Art Deco machine called the Bally Bumper. The machine was seized by police in Oakland during Prohibition. The museum's collection has also been displayed at San Francisco International Airport. Pacific Pinball Museum The Pacific Pinball Museum is an interactive museum/arcade offering a chronological and historical selection of rare bagatelles and early games, to over 90 playable pinball machines from the 1940’s to present day. Throughout the museum are hand-painted murals, Jukeboxes and rotating exhibits. There are rooms for parties, events, field-trips and STEAM educational programs as well. The museum was founded in 2004 by Michael Schiess, a

Title: Pinball
Content: seven balls for a penny. The game resonated with people wanting cheap entertainment in the Great Depression-era economy. Most drugstores and taverns in the U.S. operated pinball machines, with many locations quickly recovering the cost of the game. Baffle Ball sold over 50,000 units and established Gottlieb as the first major manufacturer of pinball machines. In 1932, Gottlieb distributor Raymond Moloney found it hard to obtain more Baffle Ball units to sell. In his frustration he founded Lion Manufacturing to produce a game of his own design, "Ballyhoo", named after a popular magazine of the day. The game became a

Title: Pat Lawlor
Content: original theme. On October 13, 2016 the original machine "Dialed In" was announced, which is the first pinball machine to feature Bluetooth connectivity and smartphone integration. Pat Lawlor Patrick M. Lawlor (born 1951) is a video game and pinball machine designer. Lawlor's pinball career began as an engineer for Williams in 1987, when he co-designed a dual-playfield machine called "Banzai Run" with Larry DeMar. Pat Lawlor had previously been a video game designer and had entered the coin-operated game design world in 1980, working for Dave Nutting Assoc. In 1988, he was given the reins of his first individual design

Title: Gottlieb
Content: Like other manufacturers, Gottlieb first made mechanical pinball machines, including the first successful coin-operated pinball machine "Baffle Ball" in 1930. Electromechanical machines were produced starting in 1935. The 1947 development of player-actuated, solenoid-driven 2-inch bats called "flippers" revolutionized the industry. Players now had the ability to shoot the ball back up the playfield and get more points. The flippers first appeared on a Gottlieb game called "Humpty Dumpty", designed by Harry Mabs. By this time, the games also became noted for their artwork by Roy Parker. In the late 1950s the company made more widespread use of digital score reels,

Title: Pinball
Content: machines. The mayor participated with police in destroying machines with sledgehammers before dumping the remnants into the city's rivers. The ban ended when Roger Sharpe (a star witness for the AMOA – Amusement and Music Operators Association) testified in April 1976 before a committee in a Manhattan courtroom that pinball games had become games of skill and were not games of chance, that is, gambling. He began to play one of two games set up in the courtroom, and – in a move he compares to Babe Ruth's home run in the 1932 World Series – called out precisely what

Question: In which city was the pinball machine invented?
Answer: Chicago