Thank you Steve Kordek

[ark_ader]

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/24/local/la-me-steve-kordek-20120224



You will be missed...

[CheffoJeffo]

+1

[saint]

+1 indeed.

[Howard_Casto]

I kinda liked Graig Ferguson's comment about it.  It went something like:

"The inventor of pinball died this weekend.  He lived a full life though passing away at 100.  And when he turned 90, they gave him an extra ball!!"

He doesn't get credit for it, because technically pinball existed before he was around, but he really should....  flippers at the drain, multi-ball.... drop targets. I just can't imagine pinball being much fun prior to those additions.

[Gray_Area]

I kinda liked Graig Ferguson's comment about it.  It went something like:

"The inventor of pinball died this weekend.  He lived a full life though passing away at 100.  And when he turned 90, they gave him an extra ball!!"

He doesn't get credit for it, because technically pinball existed before he was around, but he really should....  flippers at the drain, multi-ball.... drop targets. I just can't imagine pinball being much fun prior to those additions.

I don't consider it Pinball without those, but apparently the early games were pin-ball, because of the pachinko-like pins. (Until getting into emulation, I really had no idea why it was called pinball.) And, damn, I didn't know multi-ball play went back to '63. Doesn't seem to have caught on really until the 80s, though.