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Micro-80 Pinball Machine

1980 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ48999329 ↗
Source-derived summary

Micro-80 Pinball Machine is a 1980 video game published by Micro-80 Inc. for the TRS-80 16K. It was also published as a type-in BASIC listing in the July 1980 issue of SoftSide.

Contents

Micro-80 Pinball Machine is a pinball game that makes use of multiple different scenarios.

Reception

Jon Mishcon reviewed Micro-80 Pinball Machine in The Space Gamer No. 40. Mishcon commented that "Overall, I'd say this is a good buy for kids.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Micro-80 Pinball Machine” is 1980 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Micro-80, Pinball and Machine, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. For this dossier, Micro-80, Pinball and Machine is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1980 video game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48999329. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Micro-80 Pinball Machine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.