Test Your Knowledge on the Evolution of Amusement Machines and the Pinball Indus...

Study Notes

Novelty games were the oldest coin-operated amusement machines, including mechanical baseball, horse racing, and shooting galleries.
Shooting arcades were popular, with mechanical pistol games and larger shooting galleries with rifles.
By the 1960s, novelty games had become sophisticated, with black lights and projection screens.
Joel Hochberg worked at every level of the amusement machine industry and helped reestablish a multibillion-dollar company.
Hochberg started in the industry repairing jukeboxes and pool tables, and later worked on novelty games and wall boxes.
Popular novelty themes included shuffle alleys, baseball, and shooting galleries.
Wall boxes were tabletop cabinets linked to central jukeboxes, with volume switches placed behind bars and counters.
Hochberg was an innovator, improving the volume control system for location managers.
Working in the amusement industry had its hazards, including threats and gun violence.
Hochberg's work in the industry changed the evolutionary path of the entire industry.
Joel Hochberg was a successful route operator in the pinball industry.
He was mistaken for a bartender and brutally attacked by two people.
The attack was due to a local area issue involving the bartender's mistreatment of a sister of one of the attackers.
Hochberg was well-liked by many people for his work.
He helped build and manage the arcade at the Cavalier, one of the world's first restaurant/arcades.
In 1961, socially awkward college kids began an experiment that would eventually change Hochberg's life.
Pin games is a slang term for pinball machines.
The history of pinball can be found in the book Pinball! by Roger C. Sharpe.
Mabs and Kordek were both hired by Harry Williams in the pinball industry.
An old political cartoon shows Lincoln playing pinball during his presidency, but it is uncertain if he actually did.

Description

Think you know everything about the history of arcade games? Test your knowledge with this trivia quiz! From the earliest novelty games to the rise of pinball, this quiz covers it all. See if you can identify key players in the industry, popular themes for arcade games, and even some shocking hazards faced by those in the business. So put on your thinking cap and get ready to be challenged!