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porsche911 writes with this excerpt from the New York Times: "Steve Kordek, who revolutionized the game of pinball in the 1940s by designing what became the standard two-flipper machine found in bars and penny arcades around the world, died on Sunday at a hospice in Park Ridge, Ill. He was 100. ... 'Steve's impact would be comparable to D. W. Griffith moving from silent films through talkies and color and CinemaScope and 3-D with computer-generated graphics,' [pinball historian Roger] Sharpe said. 'He moved through each era seamlessly.'" http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Inventor+of+the+Modern+Pinball+Machine +Dies+At+100%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FxxPD65) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F12%2F02%2F25%2F0011254%2Finventor-of-the-modern-pinball-machine-dies-at-100%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfaceboo k) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/02/25/0011254/inventor-of-the-modern-pinball-machine-dies-at-100?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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Gamevet
02-26-2012, 09:09 PM
Next to videogames, Pinball was one of the most revolutionary pieces of hardware to be found in arcades. The man was a genius to change what was essentially Pachinco, into a game of skill.