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Silver Ball Century ep. 61 - Mid-1991 - The DMD Rush

This episode: Cactus Jack's, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gilligan's Island, Batman, Terminator 2. Next episode: Hurricane, Class of 1812, Party Zone, Star Trek, Surf'n Safari.

Last episode, we saw Data East bring us the first DMD pinball machine, Checkpoint. It was quickly followed by a lot more, although Gottlieb is contentedly doing alphanumerics still. What Gottlieb brings us instead is an animatronic dancing cactus, in the delightfully silly Cactus Jack's.

We build up to Bally/Williams's Terminator 2, an instant classic. It wasn't even close to first in the DMD race, but it defined a lot of what people expect from a DMD pinball game.

Silver Ball Century goes live on Thursday, June 17, at 8:30pm Eastern, on twitch.tv/arborelia.

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