<![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> That is one of the most beautiful things I have seen.

MeNotYou

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]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> Well, FIEROCK, a lot of us enjoy playing older style EM games, which rely on stepper motors and all sorts of cool moving parts instead of three green PCBs to accomplish pretty much everything. If you tried this with Simpsons Pinball Party or the new Spiderman game, you'd be disappointed at what little there is to see other than wiring.

TVGenius

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> I think it's "San Rafael"

soopafly

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> As cool as it is to see the guts, it seems as useful as the see-through guppies you see in aquariums. May be fun to look at, but boring as hell to play with.

There are no graphics or displays to indicate what targets to hit and there is no theme, as all great pinball machines have. Like the original Gottlieb Surf Champ, there are no ramps, second levels or extra bumpers etc.

But I could see how this could be useful for showing beginner students how the gutsin pinball machine repair courses.

Fierock

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> Beautiful!

I'm possibly a one person minority on this site as I love pinball over video games by an indescribable margin.

And Keebler, thanks for the pics!

HeyBeav

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> Also, the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas is an incredible place to visit. It's got some of the rarest and most popular games of all time, all available for play. Even Pinball Circus, a prototype game from the 90s that was only rumored to exist until recently, and a some foreign games too.

www.pinballhall.org
www.pinballmuseum.org

I just saw the transparent pin teased in the issue of the PinGame Journal I just got last night...

TVGenius

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> shorty's in seattle. pinball + hot dogs + beer = win.

omfgitsdon - RUN

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> Pics of the venue:

[www.papa.org]

Keebler

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> That place definitely looks cool... though I think the pinball place outside of Pittsburgh has it beat. There's a huge pinball competition going down there in a couple weeks:

[www.papa.org]

Keebler

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> ok, maybe I'll read the original article first before posting such comments next time. Looks like the cabinet was completely redone (and planned out in CAD, holy crap) so all the actual inner workings are the only parts that came from the original machine. After looking closer it appears this project seems to have taken a ton of hours to complete - kudos and congrats

lightshow

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> So was this built from scratch using spare parts from "Surf Champ"? Or did they just take out all the non-transparent parts of an existing machine without really doing much else to the inner workings, and maybe refurbishing the case a bit? Looks like the latter to me.

Still cool looking even if it is recycled from an existing machine.

lightshow

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> Wait a minute, wasn't it already unveiled, like when pictures of it got posted online? Unveiled for the first time in public would be correct.

But as a hardcore pinball wizard, I would sell certain items and/or body parts for this machine.

thechansen

]]> <![CDATA[Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful]]> well slap my booty and call me nancy, i do declare this is the most ravishing pinball machine my eyes have ever beheld

jarobi

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