11 Things You Didn't Know About Pinball History. In 1976, the New York City pinball ban was overturned.
The coin-operated amusement lobby (which represented the pinball industry) eventually succeeded in earning a City Council hearing to re-examine the long-standing ban. Their strategy: prove that pinball was a game of skill, not chance, and thus should be legal. To do this, they decided to call in the best player they could find in order to demonstrate his pinball wizardry — a 26-year-old magazine editor named Roger Sharpe.
Fearful that this hearing might be their only shot at overturning the ban, the industry brought in two machines, one to serve as a backup in case any problems arose with the primary machine. Mental_floss Blog ? The Quick 10: 10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble. Amazing Fact Generator. Useless information — richardpettinger.com.