• Baffle Ball is a pinball machine created on November 19, 1931, by David Gottlieb, founder of the Gottlieb amusement company. For one US cent players get...
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    Pinball (redirect from Pin ball)
    Redgrave's plunger device to propel the ball into the upper playfield. In 1931 David Gottlieb's Baffle Ball became the first hit of the coin-operated...
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  • "don't you know that a 'bug hunter' is just a nickname for a repairman?" Baffle Ball, the first mechanical pinball game, was advertised as being "free of...
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    machines, including the first successful coin-operated pinball machine Baffle Ball in 1931. Electromechanical machines were produced starting in 1935. The...
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  • include: Baffle Ball (1931), Humpty Dumpty (1947), Knock Out (1950), Slick Chick (1963), Spirit of 76 (1975), Haunted House (1982), and Cue Ball Wizard...
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    blast. The designs progressed from tubular type double baffle muzzle brakes to single baffle ball shape muzzle brakes, which proved to be insufficient in...
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  • Midwest Novelty. When Gottlieb's Baffle Ball started to become popular, Moloney tried to secure a steady supply of Baffle Ball cabinets for Midwest Novelty...
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  • Arcade Baffle Ball (1931) Humpty Dumpty (PC only; 1947) Knock Out (1950) Slick Chick (1963) Spirit of 76 (1975) Haunted House (1982) Cue Ball Wizard (PC...
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    Due to the lack of double baffle muzzle brakes, a few L/48 guns mounted on F/8s were fitted with the single baffle ball type muzzle brake used on the...
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    such pin-based games was Baffle Ball, a precursor to the pinball machine where players were given a limited number of balled to knock down targets with...
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    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several...
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  • Division I FBS football season. They were led by head coach Brady Hoke. "Bison baffle BSU". The Star Press. September 24, 2006. Retrieved October 8, 2021 – via...
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  • Dragon Ball Super is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation that began airing on July 5, 2015, on Fuji TV. It is the first television...
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  • 31 1982 by Gottlieb. It was the first game with three playfields that the ball can move between, including one below the main playing surface. Haunted House...
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  • Arcade Baffle Ball (1931) Humpty Dumpty (PC only; 1947) Knock Out (1950) Slick Chick (1963) Spirit of 76 (1975) Haunted House (1982) Cue Ball Wizard (PC...
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  • 1976: Pioneer - a two-player version and New York - a special 2-player Add-a-ball version in celebration of the 1976 lifting of the ban of pinball in New York...
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  • when lit. When each ball is plunged into play, the blocking gate between the flippers is activated and remains in place until each ball achieves 300k points...
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  • slogan "Gottlieb Presents CUE BALL WIZARD!". Cue Ball Wizard has a two and three ball Multiball and an oscillating captive ball kicker at the upper playfield...
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  • And I'm going to give you a ball.'...I was...sort of baffled....I felt a little bit like Truman was going to give the ball anyway and that I was part of...
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  • Retrieved May 25, 2023. "4x4". Recreativas.org. Retrieved May 25, 2023. "8 Ball". Open Pinball Database. Retrieved May 25, 2023. "A-Go-Go". Open Pinball...
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  • Smith (6 April 2013). "The Golden Age Arcade Historian: Pinball Before Baffle Ball". Allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com. Retrieved 26 October 2016. "Internet...
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  • suspension span in the world. November 19 – David Gottlieb introduces his Baffle Ball machine in the United States, the first commercially successful pinball...
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  • Rally Play Company, Bally, Data East and Stern. After the success of Baffle Ball, Gottlieb used the existing production line to produce a new game. The...
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    The Bradley-Martin Ball was a lavish costume ball at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City on the night of February 10, 1897. Cornelia Bradley-Martin, wife...
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    body shape with the two halves of the body being separated by an internal baffle. This has an opening that forms a seat onto which a movable plug can be...
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  • pace in order to baffle the batsmen. Spin bowlers or spinners impart rotation to the ball to get a batter out. The spin on the ball makes its movement...
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    appear more progressive on racial injustice than they really were. In The Baffler, policy analyst Matt Stoller criticized the musical's portrayal of Hamilton...
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  • when Kevin Ball (played by Steve Howey) discovers that he may have ancestors from that group. Family aggregation "Blue-skinned family baffled science for...
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  • show of Andrew W.K.'s, and coming away from the experience equal parts baffled and impressed by his style of music. The song featured Andrew W.K. performing...
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  • November 2015). "Nigella Lawson's BBC return draws 2.3m viewers – but baffles Only Connect fans". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2015. "'Avocado-gate':...
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