Pinball Perspectives: Ace High to World's Series (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) [Hardcover]

Marco Rossignoli (Author), Graham Mcguiness (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2007 | Series: Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide

Pinball games combine excitement, challenge, technology, and fantastic artwork. They are sought after collector items, snapped up by enthusiasts who keep them running and "alive" both mechanically and cosmetically. Silverball lovers of all ages and tastes will be enthralled by the fifty pinball games -- both vintage and contemporary -- showcased in this book. Each has its own chapter outlining the game's special features, historical background, game rules, graphic images, collectibility and current value. Over 400 extraordinary full color photographs give a complete visual survey of each game. Enjoy whole machine shots, close-ups of backglasses and playfields, and ball's-eye-view images that reveal wonderful details of the playfield action. Along with its companion volume, Pinball Snapshots, this outstanding book will be thoroughly enjoyed by pinball collectors, historians, and graphic artists, as well as devotees of coin-operated amusement games.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing (April 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764326090
• ISBN-13: 978-0764326097
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #788,289 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great Pinball book, December 16, 2008

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Fusion Mark "clubsprint" (East Oakleigh, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinball Perspectives: Ace High to World's Series (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) (Hardcover)

Pinball Perspectives follows the format of Marco Rossignoli's previous books Memories and Snapshots. He's picked an assortment of fairly popular machines from throughout the pinball era with some great photos. An in-depth description of each machine including the rule set/game play plus incidental trivia is featured over a number of pages per machine interspersed with great photos. Marco obviously loves pinball and it shows in his presentation of the subject. These are excellent books both as a photographic reference and an interesting coffee table book. Highly recommended.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great birds eye view, July 15, 2007

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Donovan "Gamer" (Macomb, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pinball Perspectives: Ace High to World's Series (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) (Hardcover)

I bought this book to help me understand pinball playfield design. While it has been a great resource to learn about machines, it is not as in depth as I was hoping. Each chapter has 1 full photograph of the whole machine (like on the cover) and several smaller close up shots showing important features. For my purposes, as I read about the machines features and rules I had to keep skipping back to the beginning of the chapter to see the full photo to get a better understanding.

I would have liked to see more pictures and perhaps some diagramming of ball movement on the playfield.

A definite plus is when you get a chapter with comments from the artists or designers involved and they share with you a bit of what was going on in their industry at the time. Also the snapshots of people playing pinball in various locations as well as Marco Rossignoll's snippets of personal life add charm to this book.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pinball Perspectives: Ace High to World's Series, May 20, 2007

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Peter Colombo "TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon" (Andover, MA - USA) - See all my reviews
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Pinball Perspectives: Ace High to World's Series

This is a fantastic book! Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful photos accompanied with great text describing these nostalgic machines. This book is a "must have" for all pinball collectors or anyone who has an interest in mechanical marvels!