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Definition

A type of LED display used in pinball machines that shows both letters and numbers, serving as a predecessor to DMD (dot matrix display) technology for score and text display.

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Definition History (62)

  • Early pinball machines with alphanumeric displays instead of dot-matrix or modern displays

    enrichmenthigh“...o him he's just like I don't care about that thing and he's just like he's fully embraced the older alphanumeric like just that's the level of pinball that he loves and that's great that's great that it's out the...”Apr 6, 2026
  • display type using letters and numbers (pre-DMD)

    enrichmenthigh“...e era, by the way? Oh, good question. I really like the for back of a letter term I really like the alphanumeric era I love all pinball I mean I love everything from a single player wedge head up until like the s...”Mar 8, 2026
  • Alphanumeric display era of pinball (1980s-1990s)

    enrichmenthigh“...love, and I'm sure you love this one, is Alien Star for the early solid state. I believe that's not alphanumeric, right? No, it's early solid state. Okay. I love that game because it's so simple to play, but yet...”Mar 7, 2026
  • alphanumeric display pinball games

    enrichmenthigh“...games though why not i'm assuming that's the realm of cgc and no others i don't know if there's an alphanumeric that is worthy really of remaking i'm gonna put it out there how about that well as snobbish as you...”Mar 7, 2026
  • type of display showing both letters and numbers

    enrichmenthighMar 7, 2026
  • a display format using letters and numbers (pre-DMD pinball display technology)

    enrichmenthigh“...he brought up an interesting point and that is what do you do with a back glass that's, say, for an alphanumeric table? Oh, yeah. Where it's not in the DMD. Or what do you do with a table where the information is...”Mar 7, 2026
  • Pinball display era/platform

    enrichmentmedium“...c facial Fortnite pinecoats At SJC, shanaton, strokey Aut interconnected, Okay, so then let's go to alphanumeric. Probably Funhaus. That was one of my first games. Funhaus or Mousing Around were one of the earlie...”Mar 7, 2026
  • Segmented LED display with letters and numbers (classic pinball display type)

    enrichmenthigh“...e Classic essentially are the extended display, more like a CGC color animation display rather than alphanumeric. And you get RGB lighting, the auto launcher, which is people would love to have. So auto launcher....”Mar 7, 2026
  • Pinball display type using alpha and numeric characters rather than dot matrix

    enrichmenthigh“...that much money. Funhaus did okay. It's technically WPC. Yeah, Funhausing System 11. But it's still alphanumeric. Sure, but that's not our condition. So you would have to make Radical more LCD. I just don't know...”Mar 7, 2026
  • Display technology era of pinball machines (LED alpha-numeric displays)

    enrichmenthigh“...love, and I'm sure you love this one, is Alien Star for the early solid state. I believe that's not alphanumeric, right? No, it's early solid state. Okay. I love that game because it's so simple to play, but yet...”Mar 7, 2026
  • pinball machines with alphanumeric display (pre-DMD era)

    enrichmenthigh“...DMVs, expensive, hard to get into. might get lucky yeah let's let's go back a step let's go back to alphanumerics um i mean are we going to just alphanumerics are we going back into well we're going to go back in...”Mar 7, 2026
  • Pinball machines with alphanumeric display capability (generation between EM and DMD)

    enrichmenthigh“...c facial Fortnite pinecoats At SJC, shanaton, strokey Aut interconnected, Okay, so then let's go to alphanumeric. Probably Funhaus. That was one of my first games. Funhaus or Mousing Around were one of the earlie...”Mar 7, 2026
  • Display type on older pinball machines

    enrichmenthigh“...it. It's got a ramp and that gimmick on the right. Yeah. Actually, does it have? We get rid of the alphanumeric. We just make it regular numbers. There you go. Wow. We really made this game suck. That game sucks...”Mar 6, 2026
  • Display type with both letters and numbers, used in older pinball machines

    enrichmenthigh“...up there you got an idea with what was happening that's just numbers yeah no it's not just numbers alphanumeric yes right thank you there's letters to Tom you hear that Josh time to piss Tom off more so I don't...”Mar 6, 2026
  • Display technology used in pinball machines before DMD

    enrichmenthigh“...love, and I'm sure you love this one, is Alien Star for the early solid state. I believe that's not alphanumeric, right? No, it's early solid state. Okay. I love that game because it's so simple to play, but yet...”Mar 6, 2026
  • pinball display type using alphanumeric characters (1980s-early 1990s)

    enrichmenthigh“...IPs. Still not as hot of a trend as later eras of pinball. But early solid state games. What about alphanumeric games? That's where Back to the Future falls into. Can you really get the immersion of an IP in an...”Mar 6, 2026
  • text/letters and numbers display vs pure numeric

    enrichmenthigh“...up there you got an idea with what was happening that's just numbers yeah no it's not just numbers alphanumeric yes right thank you there's letters to Tom you hear that Josh time to piss Tom off more so I don't...”Mar 6, 2026
  • Display type used in older pinball machines before dot-matrix, shows letters and numbers only

    enrichmenthigh“...that much money. Funhaus did okay. It's technically WPC. Yeah, Funhausing System 11. But it's still alphanumeric. Sure, but that's not our condition. So you would have to make Radical more LCD. I just don't know...”Mar 6, 2026
  • early pinball display type with alphanumeric characters

    enrichmenthigh“...o him he's just like I don't care about that thing and he's just like he's fully embraced the older alphanumeric like just that's the level of pinball that he loves and that's great that's great that it's out the...”Mar 6, 2026
  • pinball display technology era

    enrichmenthigh“...love, and I'm sure you love this one, is Alien Star for the early solid state. I believe that's not alphanumeric, right? No, it's early solid state. Okay. I love that game because it's so simple to play, but yet...”Mar 6, 2026
  • Pinball era/display type (alphanumeric display machines)

    enrichmenthigh“...love, and I'm sure you love this one, is Alien Star for the early solid state. I believe that's not alphanumeric, right? No, it's early solid state. Okay. I love that game because it's so simple to play, but yet...”Mar 5, 2026
  • pinball machine display technology from older eras

    enrichmenthigh“...o him he's just like I don't care about that thing and he's just like he's fully embraced the older alphanumeric like just that's the level of pinball that he loves and that's great that's great that it's out the...”Mar 5, 2026
  • Pinball display technology

    enrichmenthigh“...have a translator thing that you gave me, but it's behind Pinbot or something. So continuing in the alphanumeric age of System 3 here. This is also what year? 1991. So there's still online and we're still doing i...”Mar 5, 2026
  • display technology/pinball board generation

    enrichmenthigh“...have a translator thing that you gave me, but it's behind Pinbot or something. So continuing in the alphanumeric age of System 3 here. This is also what year? 1991. So there's still online and we're still doing i...”Mar 5, 2026
  • Alphanumeric display era pinball machines

    enrichmenthighMar 5, 2026
  • pinball machines with alphanumeric displays (classic era)

    enrichmenthighMar 5, 2026
  • Alphanumeric display era of pinball machines (before DMD)

    enrichmenthigh“...c facial Fortnite pinecoats At SJC, shanaton, strokey Aut interconnected, Okay, so then let's go to alphanumeric. Probably Funhaus. That was one of my first games. Funhaus or Mousing Around were one of the earlie...”Mar 5, 2026
  • Display technology using alphanumeric characters, predating DMD displays in pinball machines

    enrichmenthigh“...was big. A state ball? Yeah. But we're talking, I mean, these are, yeah, so anything before DMD, so alphanumeric. So there are some really cool, it was, I mean, these are the games that, yeah, typically have a th...”Mar 5, 2026
  • pinball display type (letters and numbers)

    enrichmenthighMar 4, 2026
  • Early generation DMD-era pinball machines with alphanumeric displays (7-segment LED displays), predating full dot-matrix displays

    enrichmenthighMar 4, 2026
  • pinball display type with letters and numbers (pre-DMD)

    enrichmenthigh“...s a very early pin, early 90s, I think. One of Data East's first games. It doesn't have a DMD. It's alphanumeric. If you can get there early, play it. The music's great in it, and unfortunately you're not going t...”Mar 4, 2026
  • Vintage pinball games using alphanumeric LED displays

    enrichmenthighMar 4, 2026
  • Alphanumeric display type on pinball machines

    enrichmenthighMar 4, 2026
  • Pinball game generation/category with alphanumeric displays (pre-DMD)

    enrichmenthigh“...it. It's got a ramp and that gimmick on the right. Yeah. Actually, does it have? We get rid of the alphanumeric. We just make it regular numbers. There you go. Wow. We really made this game suck. That game sucks...”Mar 4, 2026
  • Pinball display type (letters and numbers, predates dot matrix/LCD displays)

    enrichmenthigh“...e era, by the way? Oh, good question. I really like the for back of a letter term I really like the alphanumeric era I love all pinball I mean I love everything from a single player wedge head up until like the s...”Mar 4, 2026
  • Display technology used in older pinball machines (LED text displays)

    enrichmenthigh“...f him he's just like I don't care about that thing and he's just like he's fully embraced the older alphanumeric like just that's the level of pinball that he loves and that's great that's great that it's out the...”Mar 3, 2026
  • Pinball machine display type era (early solid state with text displays)

    enrichmenthighMar 3, 2026
  • pinball machine display type (letters and numbers only)

    enrichmenthigh“...o they do next? Are they going Tee'd Off be doing license tables? Are they going Tee'd Off be doing alphanumerics? And the ever plea that everybody does which is please just give us something that we haven had be...”Mar 3, 2026
  • Display type using letters and numbers rather than dot matrix

    enrichmenthigh“...very early pin, early 90s, I think. One of Data East's first The Games. It doesn't have a DMD. It's alphanumeric. If you can get there early, play it. The music's great 'in there' or similar interjection it, and...”Mar 2, 2026
  • alphanumeric pinball game (pre-DMD era)

    enrichmenthigh“...atever. What was the one? Jokers. Jokers, yes. The one that I ended up winning on. So you want that alphanumeric as well, which is why I bought Brian and Brian's old Whirlwind and everything. But there's Brian up...”Mar 2, 2026
  • Early pinball display type (pre-DMD)

    enrichmenthigh“...was big. A state ball? Yeah. But we're talking, I mean, these are, yeah, so anything before DMD, so alphanumeric. So there are some really cool, it was, I mean, these are the The Games that, yeah, typically have...”Mar 2, 2026
  • pinball display type using alphanumeric characters

    enrichmenthigh“...o they do next? Are they going Tee'd Off be doing license tables? Are they going Tee'd Off be doing alphanumerics? And the ever plea that everybody does which is please just give us something that we haven had be...”Mar 2, 2026
  • Older pinball games with alphanumeric display scoring

    enrichmenthigh“...atever. What was the one? Jokers. Jokers, yes. The one that I ended up winning on. So you want that alphanumeric as well, which is why I bought Brian and Brian's old Whirlwind and everything. But there's Brian up...”Mar 2, 2026
  • Display technology using light-up alphanumeric characters (pre-DMD era)

    enrichmenthigh“...e you know late 80s pins not you're not going Tee'd Off get a dmd but you're going Tee'd Off get an alphanumeric and it's going Tee'd Off have a heck of a lot more mode it's going Tee'd Off have a heck of a lot m...”Mar 2, 2026
  • Pinball display technology using numeric and letter characters before dot matrix displays

    enrichmenthigh“...of this era. We start this right off, right at the beginning 'in there' or similar interjection the alphanumeric era. Like everything else, Alvin Gottlieb fumbled the launch of the dot matrix display, the DMD scr...”Mar 2, 2026
  • Pinball game era classification

    enrichmenthigh“...ault Edition)' been on the show. And we would only go Tee'd Off locations that had at least two pre-alphanumeric The Games, ideally, so solid states. No, we do alphanumerics. Pre-DMD. Yeah, pre-DMD is what we wou...”Mar 1, 2026
  • pinball machine with alphanumeric display (pre-DMD era)

    enrichmenthigh“...atever. What was the one? Jokers. Jokers, yes. The one that I ended up winning on. So you want that alphanumeric as well, which is why I bought Brian and Brian's old Whirlwind and everything. But there's Brian up...”Mar 1, 2026
  • pinball table type with alphanumeric display

    enrichmenthigh“...t. So, two more volume packs of the unlicensed tables. Is it the intent that you guys will be doing alphanumeric and solid-state tables, or is Zen going Tee'd Off only do DMD tables? It's fine. Were you reading m...”Mar 1, 2026
  • ASR error for likely 'era' or 'age'

    enrichmentlow“...gave me, but it's behind Pinbot or something. So continuing 'in there' or similar interjection the alphanumeric age of System 3 here. This is also what year? 1991. So there's still online and we're still doing i...”Mar 1, 2026
  • Display type for pinball machines

    enrichmenthigh“...ern, so it's $69.99 instead of $3,200. Yeah, when it was originally. Wow. All right. And we make it alphanumeric. Oh, Jesus. We make the sound mono. Oh, no, it already was mono. Oh. Let's see. Also, I would like...”Feb 28, 2026
  • Early pinball display technology using letters and numbers only

    enrichmenthigh“...ly are the extended display, more like a Chicago Gaming Company color animation display rather than alphanumeric. And you get RGB (red-green-blue LED color system) lighting, the auto launcher, which is people wou...”Feb 28, 2026
  • Pinball machine era/generation

    enrichmenthigh“...he people who don't know, for Pinberg, it's basically electromechanical, like an early solid state, alphanumeric, and then a DMD or like a new Sam Stern. Okay. So he chose, for his EM, target pool. Okay. Early so...”Feb 28, 2026
  • pinball machine display type used in 1970s-1980s

    enrichmenthigh“...similar interjection the 90s. Like, okay. But then they made it 'in there' or similar interjection alphanumeric, which would have never been, I mean, Barnyard the time Beavis and Butthead was out, they were alre...”Feb 27, 2026
  • Display type used on certain pinball machines

    enrichmenthigh“...l say Harry Williams on the front. Okay. Oh, that's right. Funhouse is a WPC, but it still used the alphanumeric. Is that what you're saying? Or am I correct 'in there' or similar interjection assuming that? Yeah...”Feb 27, 2026
  • reference to alphanumeric-display pinball games (pre-DMD era)

    enrichmenthighFeb 24, 2026
  • Pinball machines with LED/LCD alphanumeric displays (generation between EM and video games)

    enrichmenthigh“...Oh. See, Jared might not have understood my thing. But that's okay. We're fine. So anyway, DMD, an alphanumeric that we both want to see, and then an original licensed Zen pin that we would like to see. An origi...”Feb 20, 2026
  • alphanumeric display system used in Williams System 11 pinball machines

    enrichmenthigh“...on, in terms of new Williams. Are we... I honestly don't think that we're going to be getting a new alphanumeric yet. I don't think until we see Funhaus and Space Station and Dr. Dude, until we see those become l...”Feb 20, 2026
  • A type of LED display used in pinball machines that shows both letters and numbers, serving as a predecessor to DMD (dot matrix display) technology fo...

    refinementhighFeb 17, 2026
  • alphanumeric display—text and number scoring display (vs older 7-digit numeric only)

    enrichmenthighFeb 17, 2026
  • Alphanumeric display - pinball display showing letters and numbers

    enrichmenthighFeb 17, 2026
  • LED display type used in pre-DMD pinball machines showing letters and numbers

    enrichmenthigh“...'t even know if I'd seen that game before. Yeah. That Backglass? Yeah, because it's a pre-DMD. It's alphanumeric. alphanumeric the back glass was like semi-translucent yeah with the mask oh yeah and you could see...”Feb 17, 2026
  • refers to alphanumeric score display (standard pinball feature)

    enrichmenthigh“...it. It's got a ramp and that gimmick on the right. Yeah. Actually, does it have? We get rid of the alphanumeric. We just make it regular numbers. There you go. Wow. We really made this game suck. That game sucks...”Feb 17, 2026

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