Disco Pinball: Declining Games and Depression in Disco Elysium
Ryan Banfi
Abstract:This essay examines the influence of the pinball industry's late twentieth-century decline on Disco Elysium's (ZA/UM, 2019) narrative. Reference points to pinball must be sought out in Disco Elysium as they are hidden, but once found they implore the player to consider the downfall of games. Gleaning from academic work on ZA/UM's text, archival research, pinball history, and by using formal narrative analysis this paper explains how the downturn of the pinball industry conveys Disco Elysium's political strife—… Show more
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