Welcome to RUSS JENSEN'S PINBALL HISTORY PAGE!

Genco's METRO (1940)

This "city of the future" artwork was done by famous pinball artist ROY PARKER

This site is primarily devoted to the fascinating history of the wonderful amusement device known as the "pinball machine". It is nothing fancy, and was not intended to be.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!  A new website in France has just been opened to the public which contains many flyer scans, and much much more!  See my Links Page for details!

VOLUME 2 OF PINBALL COMPENDIUM NOW AVAILABLE!

If you want to buy a fantastic pinball reference book full of great pictures of games from 1970 - 1981, and personal information about industry greats (and other “pin people”) written by Australian Michael Shalhoub then you will want to check this out. (The first volume covering games from the 30s through 60s is also referenced). THE PINBALL COMPENDIUM

GREAT  PINBALL REFERENCE BOOK!

If you want to buy a great new pinball reference book compiled and written by my good friends Rob Hawkins and Don Mueting then you will want to check this out. The PINBALL COLLECTOR'S RESOURCE (Millennium Edition)

GREAT PINBALL BOOK!

If you want to buy a great pinball book (the only one to really cover modern solid-state pins and well as early ones) then you will want to check this out. The Complete Pinball Book

ALSO RELEASED from the same author Marco Rossignoli!!! 

PINBALL MEMORIES

AND NOW, MARCO’S LATEST BOOK!

PINBALL SNAPSHOTS

NEWS!!! Many of the photos in my 1300 plus game pinball photo collection are now available on THE NEW INTERNET PINBALL DATABASE (See my LINKS below)

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I have been writing articles on pinball and it's history for coin machine collectors magazines since 1978. Below you will find a selected list of my articles for you to read. As time permits, I will ad more articles and have more here for you to look at. Meanwhile, enjoy what is here.

Here is a chronological list of Articles I Have Written (Updated 4/13/02) over the years. If you would like copies of any you can
Click here to email me and I can make arrangements to copy and send them to you - Or add them to this site if you would like.

OR You can go to the following website and read all the articles I have written over the years!:

MY ARTICLES

My First Article - My "Introduction"
The Evolution of the Flipper
The Evolution of the Bumper
Pinball Scoring Themes
Pingames And Gambling
Pingame Conversions
The Hawkins Thesis
Pinball Dating
The Year That Could Have Ended Pinball!
A Visit With Harry Williams
Multiple Coin Pinballs (1-Balls & Bingos)
The "Wonder Star" Pingames - They're 'Special When Lit'

 THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE … AND MORE (pins in the media)

REMEMBRANCES

PINBALL RESEARCH

TRIBUTE TO DICK BUESCHEL 

GENCO'S 7-UP - AND THE CHALLENGE OF PLAYING PRE-FLIPPER PINGAMES

If you would like to read my last articles which were published in PINGAME JOURNAL CLICK HERE

For those of you interested in "bingo" pinball here is a little piece describing some of the basics of how they work. Inside Your Bingo. You can also visit a brand new website devoted to those fascinating games by going to my Links Page.

LINKS: If you would like to visit some other interesting pinball related web sites CLICK HERE

Russ Jensen - Camarillo, CA
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THIS SITE LAST UPDATED: 1/21/2005

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