Wednesday, December 1, 2010

THIS IS THE COOLEST

Quick post!

My dad is a patent and copyright lawyer, so I've always had a real fascination with inventions.  He turned me onto the quick-and-dirty patent confirmation tool known as Google Patent.  It's pretty self-explanatory.  I was thinking that there must be some pretty rad PINBALL inventions documented there, and then I found THIS:

Patent for Linkable Pinball Machine

!!?!?!?!??  Designed by George Gomez?!  Connect multiple pinball machine together for cooperative gameplay!?!  Why have I NEVER heard of this!?!  Can you even imagine how amazingly cool that would be!?  Discuss!!

3 comments:

  1. NBA Fastbreak had that feature. You could connect multiple games together using a special cable.

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  2. Whoa, crazy. Is there any documentation of a place that had multiple machines set up???

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  3. The novel WALLS OF THE UNIVERSE by Paul Melko involves travel to alternate universes. A major plot point is the creation of competitive pinball with two simultaneous players facing each other. Seriously!

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