backbox
Noun
The rear upright section of a pinball machine, usually incorporating the score display.
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The game is made exclusively in the new-type Williams cabinet design (a longer, lower styling with pedestal-mounted backbox).
Backbox animation was a steady attraction during the 1950s.
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As if all of that were not enough to make this game special, it also comes with a board game in the backbox. Accomplishing success in the board game is about as important as playing good pinball toward achieving good scores (and it is the easiest way to get tokens to spit out at you).
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