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  1. By Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel)
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    *Count Down* is a single-player [[technology-generation:electromechanical]] table by [[manufacturer:pasini]] of [[location:italy/bo/bologna]]. The name was a common one in the Italian trade: Novamatic's *[[model:count-down-2]]* (1970) and [[manufacturer:lori]]'s *[[model:count-down-lori]]* were separate machines from other makers rather than versions of Pasini's game. Pasini's own output sits in the early 1970s, anchored by its dated sibling *[[model:old-gold]]* of 1970.[1] The firm belonged to the wave of Bologna makers that emerged after a 1965 Italian law banned pinball as a form of gambling,[2] a shop trade that stayed legal by building tables paying out only in [[reward-type:replay]] free games instead of cash.[3]
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    Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) https://www.arcade-museum.com/Pinball/old-gold
    Old Gold was produced by Pasini in 1970.
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    Taste Bologna https://www.tastebologna.net/blog/pinball-museum-bologna
    In 1965 an Italian law declared pinball outlaw because of gambling.
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    Taste Bologna https://www.tastebologna.net/blog/pinball-museum-bologna
    A few artisans in Bologna found a workaround and started to sell new machines that allowed them to win only other balls and not matches.
  2. By Flipcommons Catalog

    tilt.it gives no year; lineage per the source line: Unknown original; shares its name with Novamatic's 1970 'Count Down' (ipdb 4118, catalog count-down-2) and LORI's Count-Down - relationship unresolved. Maker: Pasini..

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    Pasini
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    Pinball
    name
    Count Down
    player_count
    1
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    count-down-pasini
    status
    active
    technology_generation
    Electromechanical
    title
    Count Down