1978

KISS Pinball

FROM: Bally

BEHIND THE MUSIC: Resplendent in dragons, flames, lightning bolts and black-and-white face paint, this classic flipper-swatter features enough flashing lights and table-shaking tones to pass for one of its headliners' infamous stage acts.

WHY IT ROCKS: Lovingly showcases Gene Simmons' proboscis-like tongue, and offers chilling foreshadowing as to fellow rockers' insatiable appetite for high-tech merchandising that would follow. Amusingly, later reprised with a horrible, but unrelated PC/PlayStation follow-up which didn't even feature licensed music or speech samples.

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