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Silver Ball Century ep. 31 - Winter 1980

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Welcome back to Silver Ball Century, where our chronology has finally reached 1980, the biggest year in pinball. You could build an entire, varied, classic pinball collection only out of machines made in 1980. There is so much to play, and we're going to spend four episodes playing them.

But in addition to the sheer quantity of machines we're about to see from the same year, the big development of this episode is: multiball is back.

We've gone for 15 episodes without getting multiball, because no other designer was bold enough to pick up the mantle of multiball since Ted Zale retired in 1973. Williams' Firepower is the first solid-state pinball game with multiball, and they make sure to let you know.

Silver Ball Century goes live today (Thursday, July 31) at 8pm Eastern, on twitch.tv/arborelia.

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