re: Need a reminder re: bar fights and who is the most feared player and why

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it’s funny how after smartphones, we have way less instances of people slinging 900 pound machines around as if it were a traffic cone.

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Speaking of 900 pound pinball machines, according to my smart phone google search, the vintage machines weighed between 200-350 pounds depending on their quality.

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Thank you for your research.

I will admit that that 900-pound weight was an estimate -- a very inaccurate one, evidently -- from what I remember from the time.

Back then, those old machines were called “biffers” -- you had to bang on them, to try (mostly unsuccessfully) to control the ball, and get it to go into the desired hole.

Today, the collector community (there actually is one) refers to them exclusively as “bingo” machines, to differentiate them from modern flipper machines.

They were heavier, then, because they were entirely electro-mechanical. There were no lightweight modern electronics inside -- just motors, and rotors, and relays, and solenoids, and incandescent lights, and lotsa real wiring.

So I stand corrected: now I won’t be wrong about that, anymore.