From the italian newspaper “La Repubblica”, 8th August 2000, a cartoon about high costs of the national soccer game (“an action from the appealing game of soccer”), still topical even today!
Author: Federico Croci
04/2004 – Bonus Scan: Lorenzo Rimondini, pinball artist
1977: a really rare photo of Lorenzo Rimondini at work, working on the graphics for the Zaccaria “Circus”, of which you can see some master films hanging on the wall. Rimondini was the man behindContinua la lettura
01/2004 – Bonus Scan: D.Gottlieb & Co. 1971 – Display Room
From the Gottlieb’s archives, a picture of their 1971 display room! From left to right, “Astro”, “Pop-a-Card”, “Orbit”, “Lawman”, “Outer Space” e “Drop-a-Card”; on the right, some samples of their first games: “Baffle Ball”, oneContinua la lettura
12/2003 – Bonus Scan: Farfalla (Zaccaria, 1983)
A lucky find! We’ve been able to put our hands on Zaccaria games and pinballs’ graphics archive! As an example, here’s to you the original color sketch of “Farfalla” backglass. Other samples will follow…
11/2003 – Halloween!
This nice little witch has been created exclusively for Tilt! by Silvia Masetti, keen attendant of the Pinball Frunz, and we think it’s quite perfect in this time of the year for the Bonus section!Continua la lettura
09/2003 – Bonus Scan: Red Bull Soap Box Race (Napoli, giugno 2003)
Two images of the “Bullwinkle Team”, around their kart, which ran the first italian “Red Bull Soap Box Race“! In the pictures, that we received thanks to our reporter Alex Vegliante, the ex-Data East pinballContinua la lettura
04/2003 – Zaccaria Home Pinball, ~1977
A curious home-version, made by Zaccaria, of one of their first pinballs, the “Strike”, maybe built for the english market; you can see in the picture that there’s no hint of a coin-door in theContinua la lettura
05/2003 – Bonus Scan: UFO (Model Racing, 1975)
A curious videogame-pinball, built by Model Racing (Italy) back in 1975. Housed in a pinball-like cabinet, gameplay was more similar to a “Break-Out” than a pinball. Interesting Nixie tubes’ scoring, though.
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