YEAR: 1987
DIRECTOR: Sidney J. Furie
PINBALL MODEL(S): Black Knight (1980, Williams), Vector (1981, Bally)
GAME LOCATION(S): penthouse apartment
NOTES: As mentioned in our previous discussion of Penny Marshall's Big, 1980s America was marked by an imperative to acquire wealth and goods; especially those related to leisure and entertainment. In this way, items such as pin-tables become part of the iconography of the rich, while somewhat paradoxically communicating a notion of the idleness of wealthy youth. The passive leisure enabled by the ownership of such devices stands in direct opposition to the degree of ambition needed to acquire them, and thus imparts a degree of irony to pinball-ownership as a token of economic status.
