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Pin-Bot
Pin-Bot (styled PIN•BOT and sometimes written as Pin*Bot) is a pinball machine released by Williams in October 1986. It was designed by Python Anghelo and Barry Oursler.
The concept of Pin-Bot began with a poem written by designer Python Anghelo:
I am your pinball game, I'm PinBot.
Your wit is my computer software.
Your fingers my mechanical design.
But your imagination I have not -
To you the spheres of my cosmic playfield;
Planets, Pinballs are the same.
I am a giant, cosmic robot.
A masterpiece of magic and high tech;
But human I am not!
So, on your sapien skills and temper rests
The conquest of the solar system.
As well as my existence.
Python Anghelo created the storyboard for the game in 1983. In a video recorded less than 2 years before his death, Anghelo said with Pin-Bot he "set out to do the greatest pinball game"; it is generally the game he is best remembered for. Chris Granner considered it Anghelo's most important work, a "metaphor for the relationship between computers and man".
When designing the skillshot mechanism he was inspired by the conical swirl in a seashell which followed the golden ratio.
Barry Oursler created the layout of the machine from Anghelo's drawings, completing it in seven months using only two whitewoods.
Originally Python Anghelo wanted Vangelis to create the soundtrack, but this would have exceeded budget constraints. Bill Parod started composing sound for the machine, with the first track completed used for entering a players high score. Chris Granner then early in his career created most of the remaining audio including the main theme. He was later called “The Mozart of pinball” by Python. Granner created what he called a "spacey melody" using chord progression composed on a DEC VAX 11/750 to compile song files. He first played this main theme for Eugene Jarvis, who after returning to listen to it several times in the following 24 hours declared "it's starting to grow on me". After other key people at Williams heard it, the final version was completed with only minor revisions.
Barry Oursler used his own voice with a voice coder to create the callouts. The sound system uses both the slightly older Williams system 11 sound algorithms, and the Yamaha YM2151. The bonus count uses the music and sound effects systems to make an out of sync arrpegio "gesture".
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Pin-Bot
Pin-Bot (styled PIN•BOT and sometimes written as Pin*Bot) is a pinball machine released by Williams in October 1986. It was designed by Python Anghelo and Barry Oursler.
The concept of Pin-Bot began with a poem written by designer Python Anghelo:
I am your pinball game, I'm PinBot.
Your wit is my computer software.
Your fingers my mechanical design.
But your imagination I have not -
To you the spheres of my cosmic playfield;
Planets, Pinballs are the same.
I am a giant, cosmic robot.
A masterpiece of magic and high tech;
But human I am not!
So, on your sapien skills and temper rests
The conquest of the solar system.
As well as my existence.
Python Anghelo created the storyboard for the game in 1983. In a video recorded less than 2 years before his death, Anghelo said with Pin-Bot he "set out to do the greatest pinball game"; it is generally the game he is best remembered for. Chris Granner considered it Anghelo's most important work, a "metaphor for the relationship between computers and man".
When designing the skillshot mechanism he was inspired by the conical swirl in a seashell which followed the golden ratio.
Barry Oursler created the layout of the machine from Anghelo's drawings, completing it in seven months using only two whitewoods.
Originally Python Anghelo wanted Vangelis to create the soundtrack, but this would have exceeded budget constraints. Bill Parod started composing sound for the machine, with the first track completed used for entering a players high score. Chris Granner then early in his career created most of the remaining audio including the main theme. He was later called “The Mozart of pinball” by Python. Granner created what he called a "spacey melody" using chord progression composed on a DEC VAX 11/750 to compile song files. He first played this main theme for Eugene Jarvis, who after returning to listen to it several times in the following 24 hours declared "it's starting to grow on me". After other key people at Williams heard it, the final version was completed with only minor revisions.
Barry Oursler used his own voice with a voice coder to create the callouts. The sound system uses both the slightly older Williams system 11 sound algorithms, and the Yamaha YM2151. The bonus count uses the music and sound effects systems to make an out of sync arrpegio "gesture".