![]() ![]() The project got started thanks to van Zijll de Jong’s chance comment that he would like to play every pinball title ever made. ![]() Online ads relevant to pinball players may also be used to cover the server’s running costs. That means you’ll need a data connection to use the app, and some of the Kickstarter money will be used to pay for the online server. Since the app will have a huge amount of content the data itself will be held online. There are also costs associated with getting it into app stores and publicizing it. Neither he nor van Zijll de Jong are coders, so they need to pay someone to sit down and develop the app for both iOS and Android devices. So back to the original question: what will the $17,000 be used for? The answer is actually quite simple, according to Vos. “I asked him what he was doing and he explained how you can cheat the game. ![]() “I played Jack – Bot against (former PAPA World Pinball Champion) Cayle George and I saw him pressing the extra ball button,” says Vos. What about playing tips? The idea for that came when Vos saw top pinball talent in action. “We are trying to get hold of photos of all of them: we take our own, and we are getting people to send them in,” he says. Vos reckons that about 2,000 different machines – including prototypes and custom ones – have been made since pinball began. The Pinball Assistant will run on iOS and Android phones. “We think it would be a shame if all that information gets lost for ever, so what we are doing is trying to preserve some of pinball’s heritage and making something beautiful at the same time.” “Many people are only interested in games from the 1990s, and during our research we have found it very hard to find any information at all about some older machines,” says Vos. De Jager has given his permission so that the treasure trove of information it contains can be made much more freely available through the app. In total they have put in thousands of hours of their own time, and they’re still working.Ī starting point for the database was information from a little-known book called “A Magical Machine”, written by Henk de Jager and distributed to just a handful of people. Each has been working between twenty and thirty hours every week on it, building up a database of information about every machine ever made. These two Netherlanders* are genuine pinball people, and the project is a labour of love for them. Gerard Vos has put thousands of hours into the project ![]()
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