Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine by Bernard, Andreas
Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine by Bernard, Andreas

Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine

This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals...
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Author: Andreas Bernard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine by Bernard, Andreas

Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine

$15.58
Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine by Bernard, Andreas

Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine

$15.58
Author: Andreas Bernard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pub, and amusement arcade from the 1960s to the 1990s, but today they have all but disappeared. Andreas Bernard, looking back on his coming of age as an avid pinballer, reflects on what the disappearance of pinball machines tells us about the modern transformation of leisure time and public spaces.

The demise of pinballing at the end of the 1990s converged with huge social shifts which eroded the distinction between work and leisure. Now we use the same screen to organize both work and leisure, and games have been absorbed by a professionalization of daily life that is impossible to escape. Is our free time, as we know it, really free? Bernard also shows how the replacement of pinball machines by pocket-sized vessels of distraction was accompanied by the ebbing away of social critique.

At times nostalgic and lighthearted and at others bitingly astute, this book will appeal to all pinballers, past and present, and to anyone interested in the changing world of culture, gaming, and entertainment.



Author: Andreas Bernard
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.82w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9781509569441

About the Author

Andreas Bernard teaches History of Science at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.


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