Wikipedia:WikiProject Pinball

Welcome to WikiProject Pinball, a WikiProject formed to become a source for improved Wikipedia coverage of the great pastime of pinball. Please consider participating if you have any interest in the game and wish to help us help Wikipedia cover this great game.

Goals and scope

 * Goals
 * Make Wikipedia a quality source for information about pinball.
 * Create guidelines for articles about pinball, to improve article consistency and make article creation and editing easier.


 * Scope
 * Arcade pinball machines, notable home (small-scale) pinball machines, video game pinball simulators, pinball-related devices or equipment.
 * Individual biographies with a strong association with pinball, including those of pinball developers, designers, artists, champions, etc.
 * Companies, organizations, publications and other non-individuals with a strong association with pinball
 * Games ancestral or closely related to pinball, including pachinko and bagatelle (some of which may also be within the scope of WP:WikiProject Cue sports)
 * Video simulation games of pinball (also within the scope of WP:WikiProject Video Games)
 * All articles with a strong association with pinball, even if it is not the primary topic of the article, which may be within the scope of other projects as well (e.g., Tommy (rock opera)).

Sources for Pinball information
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Databases

 * Internet Pinball Database
 * Pinball rulesheets
 * Pinball instruction cards
 * Pinball instruction cards
 * Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND)

News

 * Pinball News
 * PinGame Journal
 * Pinball Magazine (Upcoming pinball machines at Pinball Magazine)
 * Skill-Shot
 * Performance Pinball

Manufacturer

 * Stern Pinball
 * Jersey Jack Pinball
 * Circus Maximus (CM at FB)
 * Heighway Pinball
 * Dutch Pinball
 * Multimorphic
 * Chicago Gaming Company

Forums

 * The Virtual Pinball Forums
 * Pinball Nirvana Forums
 * Pinball Arcade site and forum
 * VPinball
 * VPUniverse

History

 * Short Pinball History
 * Pinball History site
 * Spanish Pinball history
 * Russian Pinball history
 * Collection of pinball articles
 * Pinball technology

Books

 * The Complete Pinball Book: Collecting the Game & Its History by Marco Rossignoli
 * The Pinball Compendium: 1982 to Present by Michael Shalhoub
 * The Pinball Compendium: 1970-1981 by Michael Shalhoub
 * The Pinball Compendium: The Electro-Mechanical Era by Michael Shalhoub
 * The Pinball Compendium: 1930s-1960s by Michael Shalhoub
 * The Pinball Price Guide
 * The PinBotz Guide to the Greatest Pinball Machines of the 80s And 90s by Kevin Strasser
 * Pinball Perspectives: Ace High to World's Series
 * Pinball Snapshots: Air Aces To Xenon
 * Pinball Memories: Forty Years of Fun, 1958-1998
 * Your Pinball Machine: How to Purchase, Adjust, Maintain, and Repair Your Own Machine

Documentaries

 * TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball (IGN review)
 * The History of Pinball
 * Pinball Madness
 * A Lifelong Love
 * Gottlieb Tour
 * Things That Go Bump in the Night Movie
 * A Lifelong Love
 * Gottlieb Tour
 * Things That Go Bump in the Night Movie
 * Things That Go Bump in the Night Movie

Museums

 * Pacific Pinball Museum, a museum in Oakland, California
 * Pinball Hall of Fame, a museum located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 * Museum of Pinball, formerly the world’s largest pinball museum with over 500 vintage and modern pinball machines in Banning, California.
 * Silverball Museum, a museum located in New Jersey and Florida.
 * Seattle Pinball Museum, a museum located in Seattle.
 * Paris Pinball Museum, a museum located in Paris, France.
 * Pinball Museum Solothurn, a museum located in Solothurn, Switzerland.
 * German pinball museum, a museum in Neuwied, Germany.
 * Pinball museum Schwerin, a museum in Schwerin, Germany.
 * Vintage Flipper World, a museum in Ann Arbor, MI.

Recent changes of everything related to WikiProject Pinball
An automated project watchlist of recent pinball related edits. Note: Some edits may not be relevant to this project.

Bot-generated list of articles needing cleanup
an automated pinball cleanup listing

Article alerts
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Selected new articles
Here you can announce and add links to new created or expanded pinball related articles.

Participants
Feel free to sign up as a participant in this project, and add yourself manually or with the userbox User WikiProject Pinball to Category:WikiProject Pinball participants. Any help is very welcome. :) Feel also free to make suggestions or ask questions on the project's talk page.


 * 1) Fractalchez - Longtime pinball player and enthusiast, current league & tournament organizer
 * 2) DuoDeathscyther 02 - Casual pinball player; created or improved these pinball articles
 * 3) David Pro - Longtime pinball player and enthusiast, has created these pinball articles
 * 4) Rich Fife - Longtime collector and enthusiast.
 * 5) SarahStierch long time pinball enthusiast and will lend a hand when possible to articles (especially the pinball article itself.
 * 6) VMzB - 8-bit era veteran, especially interested in the electronic guts of pinball machines (and some arcade games) and their repair. Imho IPDB is a great resource and we should try to refer to it, or even establish automatic data transfer.

Key articles

 * General
 * Pinball
 * Glossary of pinball terms
 * List of pinball machines
 * Games
 * The Addams Family (pinball)
 * Revenge from Mars
 * Twilight Zone (pinball)
 * Companies
 * Bally Manufacturing
 * Midway Games
 * WMS Industries (Williams Electronics)
 * People
 * Steve Ritchie
 * Jorian Engelbrektsson
 * Technologies
 * Pinball 2000
 * Video game simulations
 * Metroid Prime Pinball [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Good Article
 * Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire
 * Digital preservation & creation
 * The Pinball Arcade
 * Visual Pinball

Templates

 * Infobox Pinball
 * WikiProject Pinball
 * User WikiProject Pinball

Relation to other WikiProjects

 * Parent project
 * WikiProject Games


 * Related projects
 * WikiProject Cue sports (pinball ultimately derives from billiards, by way of games like bagatelle and bar billiards)
 * WikiProject Video games (electronic arcade games, the original video games, were an outgrowth of pinball)