An interesting article

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/video-games/4276614

Quoted from aerostarz

An interesting article

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/video-games/4276614

Seen that before. First licensed theme? who cares...

here are other categories that should have been mentioned (info from here: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/pinball/pinball-firsts.html ) :

First commercially successful game: Gottlieb's Baffle Ball (1931)
First use of a tilt mechanism: Williams' Advance (1932)
First use of a bumper: Bally's Bumper (1936)
First full-size backglass on game: Dux (1937)
First pinball game to use flippers: Humpty Dumpty (1947)
First pinball game to use "jet bumpers" and locate the flippers at lower end of playfield: Williams' Saratoga (194
First pinball game with score wheels: Williams' Army Navy (1953)
First pinball game to use a ramp on playfield: Williams' Nine Sisters (1953)
First four-player machine: Gottlieb's Super Jumbo (1954)
First multiball machine: Bally's Balls-a-Poppin' (1956)
First pinball game with a moving target: Williams' Magic Clock (1960)
First pinball game to award an extra ball: Gottlieb's Flipper (1960)
First pinball game to use drop targets: Williams' Vagabond (1962)
First pinball game to use a microprocessor: Mirco Games' Spirit of 76 (1975)
First talking pinball game: Williams' Gorgar (1979)
First solid-state electronics multi-ball pinball game: Williams' Firepower (1980)
First pinball game with "lane advance" (player control of top rollover lane lights): Williams' Firepower (1980)
First pinball game to combine mechanical pinball with a video game: Bally's Baby Pac-Man (1982)
First three-level playfield: Gottlieb's Haunted House (1982)
First game to feature a complete song/soundtrack: William's High Speed (1986)
First jackpot to carry over between games: William's High Speed (1986)
First dot matrix scoring display: Data East's Checkpoint (1991)
First pinball game to reward for a "death save": Data East's The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1993)
First pinball game to overlay interactive video on to the mechanical playfield: William's Revenge From Mars (1999)

nice!
got two out of eight in my gameroom.....

And I have the first game with three level