Everything about Pinball
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Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en-route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails called 'pins' and had hollows or pockets which scored points if the ball came to rest in them. Today, pinball is most commonly an arcade game in which the ball is fired into a specially designed cabinet known as a pinball machine, hitting various lights, bumpers, ramps, and other targets depending on its design. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PinballA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Intuitionistic fuzzy twin support vector machines with the insensitive pinball lossInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Novels (1973年のピンボール / 風の歌を聴け)The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Electron pinball and commensurate orbits in a periodic array of scatterersCited 534 times
- Go sideways: Glossary of pinball termsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: The Spirit of '76 (pinball)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A game, played on a device with a sloping base (a pinball machine), in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
Noun The ball used in pinball.
Noun A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.
Verb To dart about rapidly.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Electron pinball and commensurate orbits in a periodic array of scatterers
Probabilistic individual load forecasting using pinball loss guided LSTM
Support Vector Machine Classifier With Pinball Loss
Contact‐impact by the pinball algorithm with penalty and Lagrangian methods
Estimating conditional quantiles with the help of the pinball loss
A Novel Twin Support-Vector Machine With Pinball Loss
Rewarding pinball wizardry: Effects of evaluation and cue value on intrinsic interest.
Marketing the Pinball Way: Understanding how Social Media Change the Generation of Value for Consumers and Companies
🆕 Influential since 2022
Intuitionistic fuzzy twin support vector machines with the insensitive pinball loss
Diagnosis of breast cancer using flexible pinball loss support vector machine
Granular Ball Twin Support Vector Machine With Pinball Loss Function
Multi-view intuitionistic fuzzy support vector machines with insensitive pinball loss for classification of noisy data
Cluster-based hierarchical network model of the fluidic pinball – cartographing transient and post-transient, multi-frequency, multi-attractor behaviour
📚 Books worth reading
Novels (1973年のピンボール / 風の歌を聴け)村上春樹 · 1979
風の歌を聴け村上春樹 · 1987
PhoenixLeonard Herman · 1994
The Ultimate History of Video GamesSteven L. Kent · 2001
The Complete Pinball BookMarco Rossignoli · 1999
The History of NintendoFlorent Gorges, Isao Yamazaki · 2008- 📕Pinball artKeith Temple · 1991
- 📕Pinball portfolioHarry McKeown · 1976
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