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The forerunner to modern pinball; our Bagatelle is custom-made in Devon, one of the finest on the market with brass pins and steel balls and a plunger mechanism for ease of play.
Descended from old English bagatelle that has been played upon slate-bed tables for centuries in certain British pubs, table-top bagatelle or "Parlour Bagatelle" has been enjoyed by children and adults at home for almost as long.
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Features
- Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is an indoor table game related to billiards, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the nineteenth century) past pins (which act as obstacles) into holes. It probably developed from the table made with raised sides for trou madame, which was also played with ivory balls (Gloag 1969 illustrates a London design that was current in 1782) and continued popular into the later nineteenth century. Bagatelle is a precursor of the pinball machine (which is also descended from pachinko), and laterally related to miniature golf.
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