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translucent
This adjective describes something that allows light to pass through it but a person cannot see through it. Playfield inserts are commonly translucent as one cannot look through the insert from above [..]
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translite
A thin piece of translucent white substrate containing artwork, located behind a clear piece of glass in the backbox, used on newer games instead of a painted backglass. It is created via a photograph [..]
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woodrail
A term referring to games manufactured prior to around 1961 that used wood to frame the playfield glass rather than the metal siderails used on later games. The lockdown bar was also made of wood on [..]
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wizard mode
A mode of game play which requires a lot of effort and skill to reach, and which only Wizards are likely to reach.
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wizard
An extremely skilled pinball player.
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wireform
A length of single-strand hard metal wire used on a playfield to guide or control the path of a ball. In most cases, each end of the wire is embedded into the playfield surface. Flipper inlanes, for i [..]
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whirlwind spinner
The original term for Spinning Disk. The term first appeared on the flyer for Bally's 1972 'Fireball', one of the first pinball games to have one.
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whirlpool
A funnel-shaped device where the ball enters at the top and spins to the bottom.
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video mode
A mini video game used as a mode on a pinball machine, displayed on a dot-matrix display.
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vari-target
Gottlieb's term for a playfield target which scores higher and higher values the harder the target is hit by the pinball. Chicago Coin called their version the Power Target. Williams called their [..]
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