Any fatwallet or anandtech junkie will know that this deal will never be honored. But if there was any chance that it would, posting it up on/. killed it. If you find a deal like this, keep it quiet until your item has shipped! Nothing kills a deal faster than telling the world and having 20,000 people try to order it within 1 hour.
Actually, the marriage of pinball manufacturers and gambling devices such as a slot machine is not a new development. They were intertwined as early as the 1930s when pinball was still a flipperless game. Slot machine manufacturers branched out into pin games because they were less regulated and saw an opportunity to break into areas where gambling devices were outlawed.
There was a long time when many considered pinball machines themselves to be a form of gambling. The states of New York and Wisconsin declared the winning of free pinball games a form of gambling and outlawed it. The work around for this was a style of game called Add-a-Ball, where a player would get a free ball instead of the free game. This satisfied all uptight anti-gambling measures.
It really is sad that pinball is the product that didn't make it out of this alive. With the exception of Stern, all manufacturers have pretty much abandoned it. Barring any major resurgance in the industry, kids will never know what it was like to hang out at the arcades in the mall, pumping all of your allowance money into Black Knight.
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Any fatwallet or anandtech junkie will know that this deal will never be honored. But if there was any chance that it would, posting it up on /. killed it. If you find a deal like this, keep it quiet until your item has shipped! Nothing kills a deal faster than telling the world and having 20,000 people try to order it within 1 hour.
Actually, the marriage of pinball manufacturers and gambling devices such as a slot machine is not a new development. They were intertwined as early as the 1930s when pinball was still a flipperless game. Slot machine manufacturers branched out into pin games because they were less regulated and saw an opportunity to break into areas where gambling devices were outlawed.
There was a long time when many considered pinball machines themselves to be a form of gambling. The states of New York and Wisconsin declared the winning of free pinball games a form of gambling and outlawed it. The work around for this was a style of game called Add-a-Ball, where a player would get a free ball instead of the free game. This satisfied all uptight anti-gambling measures.
It really is sad that pinball is the product that didn't make it out of this alive. With the exception of Stern, all manufacturers have pretty much abandoned it. Barring any major resurgance in the industry, kids will never know what it was like to hang out at the arcades in the mall, pumping all of your allowance money into Black Knight.