Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball

May 14, 2006

0h 58m

★ 6.9

Overview

THE SITUATION facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever. And Williams' designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine—"Pinball 2000"—that fused video with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball yet opening up all-ne

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Documentary

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George Gomez

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Pat Lawlor

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Larry DeMar

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Tom Uban

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Cameron Silver

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Duncan Brown

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Louis Koziarz

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Jim Patla

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Roger Sharpe

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Steve Kordek

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Lyman Sheats

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