Thanks, I was going to comment here about that. From your link: >As the years passed, pinball machines continued to pop up around the country in various forms as the furor against them lessened and the laws and bans became more lax. Yet it was not until 1976 that the New York pinball ban was actually lifted.

They made a drama comedy faux-documentary about it a few years ago titled _Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game_. It's cute, regardless of your investment into pinball as a whole.

> "The ban was lifted when Roger Sharpe went in and did a Babe Ruth number where he called his shot, and then he launched his ball. This was after several attempts to prove to them that he could actually beat the machine,” Schiess explains. “But they weren’t buying it until he made that shot. As soon as he made it, they took a vote and the ban was lifted. It was a big deal.”

Yeah, that was weird, I never knew that. My dad was a fan of pinball, we had a jukebox and two different pinball machines in our house in the late 70s/early 80s. Even had a full size Pac Man arcade game for a few months, on loan from a guy he knew who repaired various coin-operated machines.