A review by frasersimons
Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball by Jon Chad

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is very informative and the information design is great. I can’t say I ever cared to know about pinball, but this was an Eisner book, so I checked it out anyway. To be honest, even when I was a kid, enamoured with arcades, pinball never once drew me in. The history of the game was interesting and I had no idea there was such a sub culture around it, but it makes sense. There is one around basically everything and we live in globalized times, so to each their own. 

I do think that even though this is a teaching text, and in them reiteration is good, but there was facts repeated many times over only pages apart, and those stick out to me as annoying because they were also making the same points with the same information. How it’s presented is exceptional, though.