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Lightning flippers were not even invented at WMS, they were invented by this big euro distributor named Hans. Hans had this vision that if the flippers were shorter, ball times would be less, and the games would make more money. He put those fucking things on all his games out there from what I heard. He then conviced the geniuses in management at WMS to start using these little shits on some games, which they did, and it didn't really work out so well as we all know.
There was not a SINGLE GAME that was originally designed with those things. All the playfields were layed out with real flippers on them, and then later the decision to use the little shits was forced upon them. The one instance where this was not the case was 'Fish Tales', which was designed and tested with regular flippers and the first day of production was changed to lightning flippers by the designer because he all of a sudden thought the ball times might be too long, which they weren't, and it made the game play like shit.
