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Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball

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THE SITUATION facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever. And Williams' designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine—"Pinball 2000"—that fused video with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball yet opening up all-ne

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2006-05-14

Runtime: 58 mins

Director: Greg Maletic

Writer: Greg Maletic

Spoken language: English

Genres: Documentary

Original title: Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball

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Production Countries: United States of America

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