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Pinballs and the lack of recognition


Being a old-school pinball buff (and dreaming to expand my game collection up to pinball tables, aside for videogames and arcade boards), I was very interested by the Gottlieb Pinball Classics compilation for PSP. Looking around for reviews, I stumbled upon a lot like this one, that failed in the most basic of the review requirements: tell us what’s inside the box.

It seems like if, to new videogame reviewers, Pinballs are something not even worth mentioning, a dark age of gaming. Most of the revews don’t even list the table names, and prefer to use generic paraphrases to describe them, which is more than sad.

I guess that’s what you get when you live out of your sponsor’s expectations instead out of your writers’ competence.