rbion

Regular readers of this blog know that the RBION on location at Third Rail Bar & Grill (where I play in league) is particularly evil and often confines even world-class players to seven-digit scores. Part of this is due to its blinding LED package; it's often hard to see what's going on...

Got to try my hand at helping run a competitive pinball event (the 2013 Missouri Open at the Third Rail Bar and Grill) instead of playing in one yesterday. A long day, but thankfully I just had to deal with registration and scoring and bracketology (head-to-head matches in a double elimination...

No, not machines with 6 pinballs in them (Twilight Zone, Indiana Jones, ST:TNG, Tales from the Crypt, and probably a few others). I rate TPA table difficulty on a scale of 1 to 5 pinballs, and I sometimes compare real machines with that scale as well. Given that I've assigned the real TZ a...

Haven't seen either of these mentioned here yet...but they've been annoying me. For months now, the plastic above the idol magnet (under the toucan) instead of being transparent plastic is actually textured with random offcuts from elsewhere on the machine. (Looks to me like the Believe it or...

Here's a video I made of reaching Atlantis for anybody that is curious and hasn't made it there yet.