TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball

August 9 screening: at Edinburgh's Filmhouse Cinema as part of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.
July 22 television interview: Pinball Wizard Brings Film to South Bay on KNTV NBC 11.
July 19 screening: at the California Extreme coin-op show in San Jose. Showtime at 9pm.
June 12 screening in Palo Alto as part of the IDEO Know How series of seminars. Public welcome.
June 3 review: PopMatters.com: "A thoughtful and grounded look at the pinball industry's efforts to adapt to the digital age..."
April 15 interview: iF Magazine interview with TILT director Greg Maletic.
» April 8 DVD release: Buy it now!
April 8 interview: Game, Set, Watch interview with TILT director Greg Maletic.
April 8 review: The New GAMER's Glenn Turner reviews TILT.
October 5-7, 2007 screening: TILT at the Pacific Pinball Expo.
July 23 review: A designer's-eye view of TILT at Subtraction.com: Coin Operated, User Experienced.
June 7 screening: TILT shown at a special screening held by the Austin Film Festival.
April 19 radio interview: Listen to director Greg Maletic on Public Radio International's Fair Game with Faith Salie.
June 30-July 6, 2006 screening: TILT showing at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon.
May 14, 18, 2006 screening: TILT showing at the 2006 San Francisco DocFest.

"King of Kong has received so much press, but TILT may be better...one of the best, hottest DVD sets we will see for all of 2008."

—Nicholas Sheffo
Fulvue Drive-In

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THE SITUATION facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever.

And Williams' designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine—"Pinball 2000"—that fused video with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball yet opening up all-new possibilities for a product thought to be on its last legs.

Yet soon after its successful and highly-profitable launch, Williams pulled the plug, leaving behind unanswered questions and abandoning one of the world's great design organizations. TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball is a documentary that tells the story behind one of entertainment's most mysterious failures.

Not just for pinball fanatics, TILT tells an account that any follower of technology, design, or business will find fascinating. Seen from the perspective of the designers that created Pinball 2000, TILT is a story about personality and passion, of bold success dizzyingly followed by stunning failure.

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