I’ve been making a lot of friends lately, and I’ve been lucky enough to find the best players I could find in my location. They have been very welcoming, and I am very grateful that my opinions are considered relevant when having conversations with those who are on a similar or higher level than...
After last season I got a few weeks to take a break. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll play pinball all day everyday happily, but I needed to rest up. I spent my time playing Fez. Solving it all on my own consumed me. It ate up pinball time, but it was nice to switch gears to a different kind of problem...
I did the math. I was going to finish well no matter how I did tonight. I didn’t go overboard with practicing. I’m still trying to rest up because I know there is more competition right around the corner. I actually mostly played Spiderman. I just can’t get enough of that game right now.
This...
I feel like I’ve been waiting forever to write this. Last time I mentioned that there was a thunderstorm on the night of week 7, and that a lot of people didn’t show up. The following week was declared a make-up week. Now that everyone scores have come in, it’s time to jog my memory. I prefer...
Last night I had something really weird happen while playing World Cup Soccer. I was just wondering if there's anyone more familiar with the game who could shed any light on this? Glitch or Hidden Mode?
I went into multiball. At some point during multiball a ball appeared in the launcher. I...
This week the games we were told to practice ahead of time were Scared Stiff and Banzai Run. I got the #1 score on Banzai Run during practice. The furthest I got on Scared Stiff was level 8 of the Stiff-o-Meter. I felt like I was ready.
I got there on Monday night, and only two other people...
We were told the machines to practice for this week were Big Buck Hunter Pro and Monster Bash. My initial plan was to take it a little easier this week. I’ve been wearing myself out physically, and I decided that resting was becoming more important than practicing right now. If this was a race...
We were told the machines to practice for this week were Theatre of Magic and Black Knight. At the end of my last blog I talked about how the #1 ranked guy and I were killing ToM in practice. I ended up with the Grand Champion score. Black Knight was being very difficult and having left flipper...
I prepared harder for this week than ever before. I spent around 24 hours in total practicing on Black Knight 2000 and Grand Lizard. I got the #1 score on BK2000 and the #2 score on GL. I felt very ready to put down a good score on both.
This week’s machines:
Haunted House
The Shadow
Grand...
After almost 20 long years of dreaming about it, I finally found a way to snag my all time favorite machine. This is the first pinball machine I've been able to acquire, but you can't spell gateway without Getaway. I have a very sweet girlfriend who is just as excited as me to try and get a few...
We were told the two machines to practice this week were Whitewater and Pinbot. After taking Tuesday to rest, I returned on Wednesday night and ended up getting the #1 score on both machines. I did not get the Grand Champion of Whitewater, but my #1 Rafter score was 1.2 billion. I went back a...
I made sure to practice really hard this week. I didn't want to find myself in the same situation as last week. We were told two of the four games, Star Trek LE and Genie. There's only so much practicing you can do on Genie, but I played A LOT of Star Trek, and I got to a place where I felt very...
This week's machines:
Monopoly
Transformers
The Sopranos
Demolition Man
I arrived at the arcade a little bit early. I was super excited and actually pretty nervous. I couldn't wait to finally do this. I noticed which four machines had been picked, and I was starting to really regret last...
I've been playing pinball for a very long time now. It was around 1998 that I met The Getaway at a pizza place I worked at, and it all finally clicked for me. I couldn't stop playing it. My friend Mike and I went at each other's throats competing for Grand Champion. Somewhere along the way...
Last night I noticed a user going by "Failsight" had taken the top spot on most games. I'm not looking at it right now, but their Theatre of Magic score was literally in the neighborhood of like 8 Quintillion points, making it their most obvious hacked score. I hate being on the same...
Through the years I came up with my own names for pinball moves because I honestly didn't know there were common terms. It wasn't until I found you guys that I learned I was not alone. To my surprise, some of the terms I came up with were the same ones the community used as well.
Then there's...
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