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Posts Tagged ‘Recreation’

Business Thought For A Candy Retailer

Saturday, April 10, 2010 8:30 No Comments

There can be many reasons that may drive you to open a sweet shop in your neighborhood or even from your home. You would possibly wish to open such a candy store because you love eating sweets yourself or maybe because you are great at making sweet treats. The beauty of opening a candy store is that anyone can do it and there aren’t too many technical requirements especially if you’re planning to run the business through homemade candies.

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Modern Classic Pinball Machines: Bally\’s Cirqus Voltaire

Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:07 No Comments

The video game is now a ubiquitous part of American pop culture but pinball still holds a cachet of cool. Pinball went through a few lean years during the early years of the video boom, when designers tried to cram as much stuff onto the playfield as possible, perhaps feeling the clutter was needed to replicate the video game experience. In recent years, however, designers appear to have concluded–and rightly so–that pinball cannot be a video game, nor should it want to be.

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The Rise And Fall Of Pinball

Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:49 No Comments

For most of the 20th century it seemed that pinball was sort of the ‘cockroach’ of the amusement industry–just too tough and/or too adaptable to kill. It survived wars, economic downturn, moral outrage and most recently video games. Despite the changing cultural climate, it was still a shock when WMS Industries, the dominant player in the industry for the past decade and the maker of Williams and Bally machines, announced that it was getting out of the business several years ago. WMS wasn’t in any sort of financial peril, but rather they wanted to focus on their more lucrative slot machine and video poker business.

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