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- Lane change is a control that lets the player move the lit lamps across a set of lanes — pressing a flipper button shifts which of the [[gameplay-feature:inlanes]], [[gameplay-feature:outlanes]] or [[gameplay-feature:top-lanes]] is the one carrying the award.[1]
It is a small piece of software that changes the shape of a shot. Before it, completing a bank of lanes meant putting the ball through whichever one was unlit; after it, the player lines the lamps up with where the ball is already going, and the skill moves from the shot to the timing of the button. [[manufacturer:williams]] built it into *[[title:blackout]]* (1980) and *[[title:space-shuttle-2]]* (1984), [[manufacturer:data-east]] into *[[title:laser-war]]* (1987), and it settled into the standard vocabulary of solid-state design — [[manufacturer:vector-pinball]] fits it to machines built in the 2020s.
1. Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — https://www.ipdb.org/glossary.php Archive Games featuring lane change allow the player to shift the lit lights in a set of lights on the playfield, such as a set of lights on the outlanes and inlanes showing which lane has an award.
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- Lane Change
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- lane-change
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