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description: Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer) Brunswick was not a dedicated pinball house but a vast American recreation company whose headquarters moved to Chicago in the nineteenth century and remained there for generations. Its pinball footprint is therefore unusual: a small nine-title catalog split between two very different eras. The first consists of five [[technology-generation:id:2]] games from 1932, including [[title:id:1168]], [[title:id:3800]], [[title:id:3821]], [[title:id:4781]], and [[title:id:5322]], all products of pinball's earliest commercial boom. Brunswick returned to the field in the late 1970s with [[technology-generation:id:3]] home machines such as [[title:id:179]], [[title:id:310]], and [[title:id:1164]]. These later games were aimed less at route operators than at the domestic recreation market that fit naturally beside Brunswick's long-established billiards and bowling businesses. That two-part history gives Brunswick an unusual place in pinball: not as a continuous innovator, but as a large leisure-goods company that touched the hobby at both its bagatelle beginnings and its late twentieth-century home-game revival. used
opdb_manufacturer_id: Flipcommons Catalog 40 used
name: Flipcommons Catalog Brunswick used
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