The comeback of pinball was first spotted by BBC News five years ago: Competition from electronic arcade machines and fruit machines helped drive them close to the brink of extinction.

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It was a big success in a moment where pinball had a lot of pull. In the early 1990s, advances in computing had allowed pinball machines to get ever-more complex, and arcades were still big business.