Playfield Manufacturers

[Jonwolf]

A post on the EBay thread about a BSD with a poor playfield got me noodling around the Internet.
Found this interesting article on playfield manufacturers. May have been posted before but here it is anyway:

http://www.flippers.be/pinball_playfields.html


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[Tony]

"Diamondplate was maybe too good. It is said that one of the reasons why demand for pinball decreased in the late 1990ies was that operators did not need to buy new pinball machines as fast as they did before. In the past an operator was almost forced to buy a new pinball machine when it had too much playfield wear (players want games that look like new, not worn out). Diamondplate added several years to the commercial lifespan of pinball machines, taking away a bit of the need for operators to buy new games."
Now that's a victim of there own success!