{"id":15466,"date":"2024-05-08T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15466"},"modified":"2024-05-08T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:21:33","slug":"pinball-tables-from-tunstall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/05\/08\/pinball-tables-from-tunstall\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinball tables from Tunstall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the &#8216;Silicon Stoke&#8217; prospectus is starting to pay off. I was pleased to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/westmidlands\/news\/2085903-pinball-manufacturer-signs-deal-at-stoke-on-trent-industrial-estate\">&#8220;Pinball manufacturer signs deal at Stoke-on-Trent industrial estate&#8221;<\/a> at the top end of Tunstall. Not quite a videogame developer, but in a way better. A high-value hardware\/software fusion, in the form of a traditional pinball table able to load and play virtual\/digital tables.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/ironmaidenvirtualpinballmachine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/ironmaidenvirtualpinballmachine.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been keen on pinball, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballia.com\/\">Pinballia&#8217;s website<\/a> shows that their current range of tables goes from \u00a31,279 to \u00a35,920. Yeowch. Although, if they could get the late-great <em>Pro Pinball: The Web<\/em> running on a table emulation, even I might be tempted. <\/p>\n<p>Also good to hear that the three tall bottle-kilns on Bournes Bank, Burslem, have been saved and restored. Apparently someone&#8217;s now going to try to put 40+ houses on that slope, though the last I heard it was unstable and sliding down the hill. Good luck to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the &#8216;Silicon Stoke&#8217; prospectus is starting to pay off. I was pleased to read &#8220;Pinball manufacturer signs deal at Stoke-on-Trent industrial estate&#8221; at the top end of Tunstall. Not quite a videogame developer, but in a way better. A high-value hardware\/software fusion, in the form of a traditional pinball table able to load and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}