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

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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.

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.

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!