THE POWER OF PINBALL

The Star Trek in the Young Oncology Unit

August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 | Pinball News

It’s far from a new phenomenon, but pinball has shown how it can really play a significant role in aiding the recovery and treatment of hospital patients, and in particular youngsters.

Just recently, UK pinball owner Erdinch Degirmenciogl of the Pinball Mill was able to supply a Star Trek pinball to the Young Oncology Unit at Christie Hospital in Manchester.

The Unit is run by the Teenage Cancer Trust, the chosen charity of Northern Lights Pinball who supply and run the pinball element at the Play Expo show in Manchester each year. They have worked with the Teenage Cancer Trust in previous promotions, and at the last Play Expo show the charity asked about getting a pinball into their dedicated hospital unit.

Lorraine Wright, the Teenage Cancer Trust Youth Support Coordinator at the Christie Ward, told Pinball News how they were looking for something to engage the young male patients and give then something new to occupy their mind during their hospital stay.

She said, “We recognised that something with a competitive edge generally gets their interest and David (another member of my team) suggested a pinball machine. The machine is fabulous. It is already getting lots of use and everyone seems to love it! It’s another opportunity for young people to get involved in something when they are here having their treatment – this is invaluable as it stops boredom and low mood and ultimately aids young people through their treatment.”

This is probably the first such case of pinball helping with the treatment and recovery for youngsters in the UK, but it’s a well-known aid in the US where charities such as the Pinball Outreach Project and Project Pinball as well as several individuals and pinball suppliers work closely with hospitals and support groups to leverage pinball as a therapeutic and recuperative aid.

Nicole Anne Reik-Dunlap is the founder and Executive Director of the Pinball Outreach Project and is a volunteer at Randall Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. She told Pinball News how she introduced pinball into the lives of patients at the Hospital and the effect it had on them.

She said, “We had two games at the hospital for almost a year and I came up with an idea for a program called Friday Night Lights. On Friday nights I would go around to the rooms inviting patients and their families to play pinball with me. A lot of the parents were excited for an opportunity to have someone engage with their child as most of them have been staying in the hospital for long periods of time. There’s also a great physical component that allows patients to get up and out of their beds for a while. It’s a motivator for them.“

Playing pinball with their children has brought further benefits beyond the purely therapeutic ones. Nicole explained how she has seen “…parent’s having the opportunity to bond with their kids over something from their generation, something they can’t do with the video game consoles that you see at every hospital game room.”

The remedial effects are easily seen as Jessica Thompson, Child Life Specialist at Randall confirmed. She said, “Pinball provides a great opportunity for our patients and siblings, especially our older kids and teens, to engage in developmentally appropriate play, get out of their rooms and interact with peers, and forget about being ‘sick’ for a small amount of time.”

Lori Mathios from Rady’s Children’s Hospital in San Diego, California, is another beneficiary of the Pinball Outreach Project’s work. She also expressed how pinball helps both the children and their parents at such a difficult time. “The pinball machines provided a much needed diversionary for our patients and their siblings, and allowed the parents to relive their own childhoods”, she said.

So if you have a pinball you could spare and maintain, you too could change the lives of countless children at a local hospital or therapy centre. Pinball is all about having fun, and who needs fun more than children going through such an incredibly tough time?

After all, as Amber Chavez from the Cherese Mari Laulhere Child Life Department at CHOC Children’s Hospital in Orange, California explained, “Patients are able to take their minds off of being in the hospital and enjoy some quality time with their families. Thank you for making that possible and brightening up their day.”

RETROVOLT ARCADE

August 1, 2017August 3, 2017 | John Brothers

Southern California has a new ‘retro’ pinball and video game spot that focuses on the way arcades existed in a now-bygone era, without the domination of prize and/or ticket redemption games that are now the norm.

And that’s exactly how owner Bob Elson envisioned his place from the very beginning, with special emphasis on a family-friendly environment that preserves that same fun and magic that people fondly remember.

The appropriately-named Retrovolt Arcade is located in Calimesa, California, about 75 miles east of downtown Los Angeles (less than a 90-minute drive depending on the time of day). The arcade first opened in April 2017 in the neighboring town of Mentone but was forced into a 3-month-long relocation to its present site because of zoning issues at the original location.

As of this writing, the arcade is open for business four days a week (Thursday thru Sunday); doors open at 4pm Thu & Fri, 12 noon Sat & Sun, and close nightly at 11pm (9pm Sunday).

Retrovolt at present has approximately twenty-three pinballs and forty video games, all set on free play. Admission into the arcade is $10 (€8.47/£7.57) per hour per person, for unlimited play. Currently this is the only rate offered (no half-hours, child rates, etc.), but Bob says this may change in the future as the business gets more established.

Upon pre-paying your time at the front door, you are given a large white sticker (like the kind used for address labels) that has your “end” time written on it with a Sharpie, and you apply this sticker to the front of your shirt. Customers’ time is overseen using a large LED digital clock that hangs high over the front counter, and the Retrovolt employees walk the floor at regular intervals, letting people know their time is up as is necessary. Additional time can be purchased anytime at the front counter (up until one hour before closing, obviously).

The pinball lineup focuses on late-’70s to mid-’90s solid state pins, with some variation either way. The newest games presently on site are Star Trek and Ghostbusters (both Pro models).

The pins have all had considerable cleanup and restoration work done on them, resulting in very good overall playability. (One small example that caught my eye was the presence of a brand-new ‘Dunk the Dummy’ drop target on the 1985 Williams Comet pinball.) Several of the older pins have had their bulbs changed out to LEDs and are, for the most part, kept true-to-form in terms of lamp color and appearance. (Attack from Mars looks especially nice in this regard.)

The current Retrovolt pinball lineup:

Attack from Mars
Centaur II
Comet
Demolition Man
Genie (w/PI-1 CPU board)
Ghostbusters (Pro)
Indiana Jones (Williams)
Judge Dredd
Jungle Lord
Jurassic Park
Lost World, The: Jurassic Park
Monday Night Football

Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man
Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Silverball Mania
Simpsons, The (Data East)
Space Shuttle
Star Trek (Stern, Pro)
Star Wars (Data East)
Stargate
Tales from the Crypt
Whirlwind
World Cup Soccer

The video games are likewise from the ‘golden era’ of arcades, and all the biggies are here (Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros. and Zaxxon, just to name a few). A small handful are modern-day recreations and/or outfitted with LCD screens, but many are vintage originals. There was even one multi-game cabinet that had 600+ games to select from (I believe it was called Pandora’s Box 4.)

No food or alcohol is available on site, but sodas and bottled water can be purchased from a cooler kept behind the front counter. There is also a New York-style pizzeria next door to Retrovolt that specializes in pizza, pasta and subs for dine-in or take out.

Two parted-out EM cabs form the front counter

Retrovolt Arcade offers a well-thought-out and well-done look back at arcade gaming the way it used to be, and this, along with the friendly and knowledgeable staff, is already earning tremendous player appeal based on reviews on the site’s Facebook page and elsewhere online.

For those in the Inland Empire (or anywhere else, for that matter) that were part of those days – as well as those that simply can’t wait a full year for the next Arcade Expo show in nearby Banning – Retrovolt Arcade is definitely worth a look.

PINTASTIC 2017

July 16, 2017July 21, 2017 | Jack Starkey

On July 6, 7 and 8, 2017, over 2,000 people converged at the crossroads of New England, USA to experience the region’s only major pinball exposition, the Pintastic Pinball and Game Room Expo.

Each facet of the show is represented by an icon

Dave Marston talks with the WSKB morning team

Back for its third year in 2017 at the only lakeside venue in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center, Pintastic featured over 200 pinball machines from the 1950s right up to this year’s new releases, including the world premiere of the highly-anticipated Star Wars machine from Stern Pinball!

There were many hard-to- find games, sometimes even in duplicate

Many recent games were in two different rooms for day and night shifts,
allowing more playing time

New England band Aerosmith had to be represented at a New England show
while in the background, the booth where buyers could get at-show financing

The world premiere of Stern’s Star Wars pinball

There were several Dialed In! games, both Pro and Limited Edition

There was a generous supply of stools to support up-and-coming players

Panorama of the main free-play room where EMs dominate the wall positions

There were technicians in abundance. Can you identify this game?

Not all games were coin-op

The hotel served food and drinks right outside the main free-play room

Enthusiastic guests and collectors delighted at the chance to witness over eighty years’ of pinball innovation, as well as classic video games, entertainment for kids, a massive vendor hall featuring the coolest ideas for your home and game room, pinball and video game tournaments for adults and kids, pinball machine auctions, an outdoor flea market in strolling distance of Cedar Lake, as well as informative seminars and lively entertainment, all in one convenient and well-equipped venue.

There were some vendors selling pop culture items

Pintastic New England has several T-shirt styles

There were re-themed games at the show,
and the ingredients to start your own re-theme

PinBox 3000 kits were for sale at the Cardboard Teck booth

The vendor hall had some free-play games in the middle
and the tournaments at the back

The tournament games

Tournament prizes and Pintastic pint glasses

Pintastic Founder Gabriel D’Annunzio congratulates the winner of the Kids’ Tournament

Entertainers were brought in to broaden the family appeal

After the outdoor flea market closed, fire juggler Eric Girardi stoked the crowd

Pintastic was thrilled to welcome honored guests and seminar presenters including legendary game designer Barry Oursler, pinball artist Jeremy ‘Zombie Yeti’ Packer, Todd Tuckey of TNT Amusements, pinball sound and music creator David Thiel, and Butch Peel of Jersey Jack Pinball clued us in on the intricacies of Dialed In!

Jeremy ‘Zombie Yeti’ Packer gives his first-ever solo pinball seminar

Todd Tuckey makes a rare visit to a distant pinball show
– his seminar included many video clips, of course

Free rectangular pizza at the Jersey Jack update seminar

Butch Peel of Jersey Jack Pinball gave a seminar on Dialed In! that included
holding a video camera inside the game

Barry Oursler and Jeremy Packer start the autograph session.
The poster on the table was done by Packer for the Pintastic show

Pintastic and its guests also supported several charities during the event including the Worcester County Food Bank, Project Pinball, The 200 Foundation, and The Andrea Ritz Clinics of Paraguay through a charity auction and several games set up for paid play.

Money was raised for several charities, including an auction of this donated machine

There was a pick-your- prize raffle

Folks at this year’s show were particularly excited to get their flipping fingers on Stern’s new Aerosmith table, the John Trudeau-designed Ghostbusters, Pat Lawlor’s Dialed In! from Jersey Jack and of course, the belle of the ball was Stern’s new Star Wars table!

Visitors came from the six New England states and well beyond

Stay tuned for next year’s dates coming soon and visit the website Pintastic at pintasticnewengland.com.

ART & SCIENCE OF PINBALL EXHIBITION

July 16, 2017July 24, 2017 | Scott Horton

We have reported on a number of pinball exhibitions in the past, but a new one has recent opened at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Northern California. Scott Horton tells us about it.

The science, engineering, design, whimsy and style covering nearly 200 years of the evolution of pinball will be featured in a new exhibition through September 24, 2017 at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, CA.

The Art & Science of Pinball Exhibition

Co-curated by Michael Schiess and Melissa Harmon of the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, The Art and Science of Pinball careens from bagatelle boards to the sophisticated contemporary machines.

Thirty-five pinball machines – the public can play all but two of them – are featured, from Parlor Bagatelle and Surf Queens, early flipperless games, all the way to the Hobbit from 2016. In addition, two see-through machine, models and diagrams that de-mystify and explain how the machines work and a full complement of public activities and programs will be presented through the exhibition run.

Thirty-three pinballs at the exhibition are available to play

During the exhibition, Chabot Space & Science Center will be energized with the sounds of bells, buzzers and bumpers as pinball machines old and new fill the space and the public can enjoy an adrenaline rush learning about science in a completely new, interactive way. Pinball’s compelling mix of skill and chance together with increasingly ingenious and complex designs, engineering, science and art have made it enduringly popular for two centuries.

Some of the exhibits demonstrating the science of pinball

The Art and Science of Pinball unpacks the historical roots and the science and art behind the gravity-defying game using a selection of machines the public can actually play and learn about.

Score and credit reels explained

“Pinball is an amazing American art form, interactive kinetic art that is pay to play,” says exhibition co-curator Michael Schiess. “Its aesthetics are rooted in attraction and distraction as an attempt to remove coins from the pockets of what started out as a predominately male audience. At first, the bright colors, flashing lights, bells, chimes and wild action of the ball zipping around the playfield brings an excitement to the player. Slowly, you realize the thing that enticed you to put a coin in and try your skill and luck is designed to distract and impede your abilities. But it does it in such a fun, entertaining way you don’t even care.”

Seeing how the game functions with the Visible Pinball

Co-curator Melissa Harmon adds, “The Art and Science of Pinball tells stories on many levels. Visitors view the fun and fantasy shown in the art, leading them to think creatively about the social situations at the time the machine was made. They have a scientific vision of how pinball mechanisms evolved from pins in a board, and complexity grew over the last century. Then the visitor becomes a player and makes his or her own flashy combinations of silver ball magic! The Chabot Space and Science Center is a great place for this exhibit, extending people’s imaginations from gaming into the final frontier, outer space.”

The exhibition runs until September 24th

For information on the The Art and Science of Pinball exhibition visit www.chabotspace.org.

FLIP FLIP, DING DING

July 13, 2017July 31, 2017 | Pinball News

Call it fate, call it serendipity, but whatever it was, it was a nice surprise to stumble over Flip Flip, Ding Ding on the way back from a nice meal at Stellar Pizza in Georgetown, south of Seattle.

We were staying in Georgetown and using it as a base to explore the greater Seattle region prior to the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show. Hotels in central Seattle are notoriously expensive, so we picked the Georgetown Inn as a good compromise location.

Georgetown is an up-and-coming suburb which has that ‘shabby-chic’ semi-industrial feel to it. Sitting in the shadow of the I-5 to the east and bounded by Boeing Field to the south, the Duwamish Waterway to the west and the BNSF railroad to the north, it looks rougher than it feels.

Former home of the Rainier Brewery, Georgetown is now home to several newer beer makers, including Elysian Brewing, Machine House Brewery, Georgetown Brewery, Lowercase Brewing, Counterbalance Brewing and Jellyfish Brewing.

On our way back to the hotel from Airport Way on Sunday night, we spotted what looked like a pinball machine in the window of a distant shop unit on 12th Ave S.

Upon closer investigation, we discovered it was actually the well-known Flip Flip, Ding Ding pinball bar/arcade. We were so unprepared we didn’t even have our good camera with us, so please excuse the mobile phone pictures here.

We had heard good things about Flip Flip, Ding Ding, so wasted no time investigating what they had to offer.

Seattle, like much of the Pacific Northwest of the US, has a seemingly unquenchable thirst for both craft beer and pinball. So any bar/arcade hoping to succeed here needs to have plentiful supplies of both.

First, to the beer. Flip Flip, Ding Ding has eight taps mostly dedicated to local craft beers but with a nod to the staples such as Bud Light.

Additional cans are available from their large fridges.

The bar area is suitably functional and characterful, featuring numerous bumper stickers offering words of wisdom to patrons.

And so onto the games.

Flip Flip, Ding Ding has a mix of pinball and videos, with pinball dominating as you might expect from the name. We counted twenty-seven pinballs in total:

Addams Family, The

Atlantis

Black Knight 2000

Buccaneer

Champion Pub, The

Circus Voltaire

Diner

Earthshaker!

Fire!

Funhouse

Game of Thrones

Grand Lizard

Judge Dredd

No Good Gofers*

Phantom of the Opera

Pinbot

Robocop

Rollercoaster Tycoon

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Starship Troopers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Twilight Zone

Walking Dead, The

Wheel of Fortune

Whirlwind

World Cup Soccer

Xenon

*indicates machine not working

Wheel of Fortune, Judge Dredd and Star Trek: The Next Generation

Grand Lizard and Fire!

The business’s floor area is not huge, so the games are split between two floors with the addition of a side room containing another eight machines. We found the pinballs to be in good condition with reasonable tilt settings and priced even quite conservatively. The all take quarters (there’s a change machine by the stairs) and were mostly 50c a game.

The Champion Pub, Phantom of the Opera and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Diner, No Good Gofers and Atlantis

Xenon, Pinbot, Starship Troopers and Rollercoaster Tycoon

Videos mixed in with World Cup Soccer, Robocop, Black Knight 2000 and Earthshaker!

More videos – a multi-game cabinet and Mario Bros.

A multi-player Hydro Thunder

As befits the area, there’s a cool and laid-back vibe at Flip Flip, Ding Ding, with customers spilling out onto the street or just sitting at the bar, ignoring all the games surrounding them.

There are plenty of food options at neighbouring restaurants, at the end of the street, and along Airport Way, from great burritos to multiple pizza choices and some solid burger combinations.

Although everything is very casual here, if you want something a little more organised they run a monthly pingolf tournament at 1pm on the last Sunday of each month. It’s $10 to enter with a limit of 36 players.

If you can’t make that date, other tournaments are often held here too, along with league meetings.

Flip Flip, Ding Ding is an unassuming but welcoming place to visit. It’s a short way outside the centre of Seattle, but a 124 bus or a $10 taxi ride quickly gets you there.

It’s the essence of a good pinball bar – great games and great drinks in a truly fun atmosphere.

STAR WARS SEMINAR

June 17, 2017July 31, 2017 | Pinball News

Steve Ritchie spoke recently at the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show in Tacoma, Washington, where he gave more details about his upcoming Star Wars game.

You can read the full show report in our Shows section, but here’s the relevant part about Star wars.

Steve Ritchie

Steve said he was recovering from some optical treatment and therefore had to avoid the kind of bright light shining through the multiple glass panels in the seminar area.

He then continued by thanking the many people at Stern Pinball who had contributed to his latest game Star Wars which is soon to be released. He said production of the Pro model would begin in about a week.

Although always diplomatic about the details, it was clear from Steve’s talk that his and Stern’s dealings with Lucasfilm on the Star Wars franchise had not been without some difficulties, especially in getting approval for their artwork ideas for the game.

Steve was then joined by Greg Freres who talked further about the artwork approval process.

Steve and Greg

Greg showed pictures of the team’s initial ideas, working through the first licensor submissions to the final approved product.

Initial cabinet art ideas

Initial backglass art ideas

Initial playfield art ideas

After showing a promo video for Star Wars Steve described the gameplay, saying at the start of the game you can choose one of four characters – Luke, Leia, Han or R2-D2. He said they had a lot of fun despite all the grief from the licensor, although they didn’t interfere with the design of the playfield.

Steve said there are nine multiball modes in the game, and when asked how Stern Pinball were able to secure the Star Wars licence said it was simply that they offered more money than anyone else.

We’ll have much more about the new Star Wars Pinball game very soon here at Pinball News.

STERN APPOINTS NEW CONSUMER SALES POSITION

June 16, 2017July 17, 2017 | Pinball News

In recognition of the large and growing importance of sales of machines and merchandise to home buyers, Stern Pinball has made a new appointment to the post of Director of Consumer Sales.

Erik Gilly, the former US Sales Manager for Bandai-Namco with responsibility for contracts with Dave & Buster’s and Chuck-E-Cheese amongst others, takes up the role to promote sales of pinball machines, accessories and merchandise.

Erik Gilly

He will also be looking to grow the US network of Stern Pinball dealers, pushing the company’s products into new area.

Here’s how Stern Pinball made the announcement.

Stern Pinball Announces The Hiring of Erik Gilly New Director of Consumer Sales

Elk Grove Village, IL – May 22, 2017 – Stern Pinball, Inc., the world’s oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball machines, announced today the hiring of Erik Gilly Director of Consumer Sales.

Erik most recently worked for Bandai Namco Entertainment where he served as U.S. Sales Manager since October 2012. Erik was accountable for managing a sales portfolio that included Dave and Buster’s, Chuck E Cheese, and other National Accounts.

Erik will lead SPI in expanding its rapidly growing U.S. dealer market while focusing on growing the Stern brand portfolio including pinball machines, merchandise, and accessories.

“Erik is a great fit for Stern and has an industry background rooted in interactive gaming. Erik also shares our vision for Everything Pinball,” said John Buscaglia, Chief Revenue Officer of Stern Pinball.

About Stern Pinball, Inc.

Recent Stern titles include Aerosmith, Batman ‘66, Ghostbusters, Game of Thrones, WWE WrestleMania, The Walking Dead, Mustang, Star Trek, Metallica, The Avengers, X-Men, Tron, Transformers, Avatar, Iron Man, Batman, Spider-Man and many more! All of Stern Pinball’s games are crafted by hand and assembled by Stern Pinball’s expert team. A broad range of players enjoy Stern’s games from professional pinball players that compete in high-stakes international competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time.

To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.

NORTHWEST PINBALL & ARCADE SHOW 2017

June 11, 2017July 24, 2017 | Pinball News

This year marks the tenth holding of the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show. After starting in central Seattle, it is now held at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center in downtown Tacoma.

The show poster designed by John Youssi

The Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center

The building sits on a hill, meaning there is a ground floor entrance at the front and a third floor entrance at the side.

The side entrance

Thursday

The show is held on the fifth floor which, thanks to the terrain, has a ground-level loading bay at the rear, from which an army of volunteers unloaded trucks as soon as they arrived. Games were initially unloaded onto the dock and then wheeled into the hall.

Another truck is unloaded

The loading dock

Games are wheeled into the hall

Games in the hall

Pinballs in the hall

EM Pinballs being set up

Pinballs being set up

Stern Pinball has an impressive line-up of current titles, including Ghostbusters, Batman 66, Game of Thrones, AC/DC Remake and Aerosmith.

A line-up of new Stern Pinball games

Spider-Man VE and Batman Premium

There are two Dialed In! games set up in the centre of the hall.

Two Dialed In! games

Nitro Amusements had an Alien Pinball and a Medieval Madness Remake set up, with a Houdini also on its way.

Alien and Attack from Mars Remake

Spooky Pinball is also represented

As usual, the tournament area is found on the left side of the hall.

Setting up tournament machines

More tournament games

At the front of the hall, the prize desk was being constructed. This is where the regular hourly prize draws will be held, along with the daily grand prize draws.

Building the prize desk

The show is held in exhibition hall B, but registration takes place in the lobby along with the seminars and a kids play area.

The entrance door to the show hall

Setting up the registration desk and kids play area

Building the seminars technical area

The seminars area

In the lobby just outside the show hall entrance were a few stands selling artwork, T-shirts and promoting comic books for kids.

Stands in the lobby

Artist Hilma Josal was exhibiting some of her artworks and there to talk about them and take private commissions.

Hilma Josal’s stand

Next door, T-shirts promoting assorted pinball and arcade themes and locations could be purchased.

Get your T-shirts here

Also in the lobby, Comics4Kids were giving away comic books as a part of their drive to improve literacy and foster imagination in kids.

Comics4Kids’ stand

Friday

Before the opening, a large queue had built up to buy entry or to pick up pre-purchased tickets.

The queue for registration

Collecting wristbands for show entry

To keep the younger guests entertained while they waited for the start of the show, there was the kids area with games on free play.

The kids area

The doors to the hall opened on schedule at midday.

The first guests through the doors

Inside the hall there had been some changes since Thursday night.

The Houdini game had arrived, along with Jolly Backer and Joe Balcer from American Pinball.

Houdini from American Pinball

Jolly and Joe

Also on the same stand, Heighway Pinball’s Alien Pinball was being checked out by the game’s sound designer and composer, David Thiel.

David Thiel plays Alien Pinball

Jersey Jack Pinball had their The Wizard of Oz and The Hobbit games, in addition to the two Dialed In! games in the centre of the room.

Jack with one of the two Dialed In! machines

The number of Stern Pinball games brought by Marco Specialties had also increased, with the display expanding to two rows.

The many new Stern Pinball machines

The prize desk at the front of the show was complete, exhibiting the many prizes on offer and the complete machines which would be given away to lucky ticket-holders.

The prize desk

The show’s grand prize – a Batman 66 Premium

Friday’s grand prize – a Nintendo Switch

Saturday’s grand prize – a Stellar Wars

Sunday’s grand prize – a Mario Bros video

If you didn’t think you were lucky enough to win, you could always make a silent bid on a new Ghostbusters playfield, or just buy some of the show merchandise.

The silent auction item

Swag available from the prize desk

The first seminars of the show also took place on Friday. All the seminars were intended to be streamed live and also made available on YouTube after the show, Due to technical difficulties, they weren’t all streamed, but should all be available on the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show’s YouTube channel.

As is usual at the show, the seminars are kicked-off by Dave Okert and David Shoemaker who this time held three technical seminars – NVRAM For Pins & Vids, Scan Line Generator For LCDs and Wizard Of Oz Pinball Troubleshooting & Repairs.

Dave Okert and David Shoemaker’s The Wizard of Oz seminar

You can watch their three seminars here:

Then at 5pm Stern Pinball game designer John Trudeau held a seminar to talk about his Ghostbusters game. He was joined by Stern’s Art Director, Greg Freres who described how the game’s artist, Jeremy Packer a.k.a. ZombieYeti, created the cabinet, playfield and backglass art packages for the three models.

John Trudeau and Greg Freres

John began by talking about his design ideas, things he really wanted to get into the game, the things which were taken out, and the various elements from the first and second movie incorporated into the game.

Greg then showed some initial sketch ideas for the backglass, all of which features a montage of the four Ghostbusters, but arranged in different post ions and poses. He also said how Bill Murray was not happy with the idea of a hand-drawn depiction, but was eventually brought around to the idea and Jeremy’s stylised treatment.

Early concept art for Ghostbusters
(Click to expand)

After John and Greg it was time for a seminar by Tim Kitzrow.

Tim is a voice artist who has provided the commentary track for many sporting event along with arcade and console games. His pinball credits include NBA Fastbreak, World Cup Soccer, Judge Dredd, Roadshow, Twilight Zone, Attack from Mars and The Shadow.

His catchphrase is “Boom Shaka-Laka”, which he was promoting with special T-shirts and on his MrBoomShakaLaka.com website.

Tim Kitzrow

Here’s Tim’s seminar split into two parts:

Saturday

As anticipated, Saturday is the busiest day at the show. That meant most of the 192 free play pinball machines along with many of the video games were in use for most of the day, while the team of medics were fully occupied making repairs and sorting out stuck balls.

Show visitors enjoying the games

Here’s a full list of the pinballs available to play at the show.

Free Play Pinballs (192)

2001

4 Square

AC/DC Lucie

AC/DC Vault Edition

Addams Family, The

Aerosmith Premium

Aerosmith Pro

Alien Pinball

Attack from Mars Remake Special Edition

Aztec

Batman 66 Premium

Batman Forever

Baywatch

Big Brave

Big Hurt, Frank Thomas’s

Black Hole

Black Knight

Black Knight 2000

Black Rose

Breakshot

Buccaneer

Buckaroo

Capersville

Capt. Card

Capt. Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Captain Hook

Caveman

Centaur II

Champion Pub, The

Checkpoint

Cleopatra

Congo

Cosmic Gunfight

Countdown

Crescendo

Cross Town

Demolition Man

Dialed In!

Doctor Who

Dogies

Dragon

Earthshaker*

Egg Head*

Eight Ball

Evel Knievel

F-14 Tomcat

Faces

Fire!

Firepower

Firepower 2

Fish Tales

Flip a Card

Flip Flop!

Flying Carpet

Freddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Funhouse

Galactic Girl

Galaxy

Game of Thrones Pro

Game Show, The Bally

Ghostbusters Premium

Golden Arrow

Grand Slam

Grand Slam*

Guns N’ Roses

Guys Dolls*

Harley Davidson (Bally)

High Speed

High Speed 2: The Getaway

High Speed 2: The Getaway*

Hobbit Smaug Edition, The

Hokus Pokus

Houdini

Humpty Dumpty

Independence Day

Jack in the Box

Jacks Open

Judge Dredd

King Kool

Kiss Pro

Lady Luck

Laser War

Lethal Weapon 3

Lord of the Rings, The

Lucky Hand

Lucky Strike

Magic Castle

Metallica Premium

Metallica Pro

Meteor*

Miss-O

Monster Bash

Motordome*

Mousin’ Around

Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man

Mustang Premium

NASCAR

NBA Fastbreak

Night Rider

Nip-It

No Good Gofers

Old Chicago

Party Zone, The

Pinball Pool

Playboy (Bally)

Police Force

Popeye Saves the Earth

Power Play, Bobby Orr

Punchy the Clown

Rescue 911

Ripley’s Believe it or Not!

Roller Disco

Rollergirlz

Safecracker

Scared Stiff

Seawitch

Shadow, The

Shrek

Simpsons Pinball Party, The

Sky Line

Skylab

Slick Chick

Solar Ride

Sopranos, The

Space Invaders

Space Odyssey

Space Shuttle

Speakeasy

Spider-Man Vault Edition

Spin-a-Card

Spot Pool

Spring Break

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Wars (Data East)

Steampunk Royale

Stellar Wars

Striker Xtreme

Strikes and Spares

Super Mario Bros.: Mushroom World

Sure Shot

Swords of Fury

Tales from the Crypt

Tales of the Arabian Nights

Tattoo Mystique

Taxi

Teacher’s Pet

Team One

Terminator 2

Theatre of Magic

Tommy, The Who’s

Top Card

Truck Stop

Twilight Zone

USA Football*

Viper Night Drivin’

Volley

Whirlwind

Whitewater

Whitewater*

Wizard of Oz Emeral City Limited Edition, The

Wizard of Oz Standard, The

World Cup Soccer

X-Men Magneto Limited Edition

* denoted machine was out of action

Pingolf Tournament Pinballs (10)

Black Hole

Capt. Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Joker Poker

Mars Trek

Mata Hari

Nitro Groundshaker

Paragon

Trident

Volley

Vulcan

Match Play Tournament Pinballs (16)

Congo

Dracula, Bram Stoker’s

Fish Tales

Funhouse

Grand Prix

Hot Doggin’

Lord of the Rings, The

Medieval Madness

Monster Bash

NBA

Stargate

Tron

Walking Dead, The

World Cup Soccer

World Poker Tour

WWF Royal Rumble

Saturday’s seminars began at 11am with the team from American Pinball, led by Joe Balcer.

The American Pinball Team:
Dhaval Vasani, Jolly Backer and Joe Balcer

The team was here to talk about their Houdini game which was on the show floor at the Nitro Amusements stand.

Joe did most of the talking, describing the history of the game, how it totally changed from the original concept, and how they rejected the pre-order sales model in favour of building the game first and then offering it for sale.

Joe Balcer

He said they will build the game at the American Pinball factory in Streamwood, Illinois, with playfields coming from an external company. There are, he continued, a number of options available for playfield suppliers both in the US and in Europe. Similarly, some of the game assemblies will be built and tested externally, although the two largest mechanisms will be built in-house.

Joe said they were planning for an initial production run of 1,000 machines, with the intention of ultimately getting production up to 100 machines a week.

Jolly then talked about setting up the distribution network, saying they had no intention of selling machines direct to customers, along with all the pre- and after-sales support that results.

The American Pinball Team

Jolly also said that the 1,000 machine number quoted by Joe was only for North American sales. The company already had 12-15 distributors in the US and Canada but hadn’t yet appointed any European or Australasian distributors. However, Jolly expected an additional 1,000 machine sales from those areas.

Watch the American Pinball seminar here:

At 12:30, John Youssi took to the seminar stage.

John Youssi

John is a renowned artist with many pinball game credits. He is especially well-know for his many collaborations with game designer Pat Lawlor, having created the artwork for all Pat’s games since Whirlwind in 1990.

John talked specifically about their latest collaboration – the Jersey Jack Pinball game, Dialed In!. He explained how the final artwork evolved from a series of pencil sketches – many of which were not ultimately used in the game – through to black and white artwork and then to full colour, often changing along the way to better match the physical playfield toys.

John’s inspirations and concept drawings for ‘Betty’

Concept drawings for the Q.E.D. electric guy

He also showed the different versions of cabinet, backbox, bottom arch and backglass art used in the Collector, Limited Edition and Standard Edition of the game. John also revealed how he was responsible for the exclamation mark at the end of the Dialed In! title. He put it in and, he said, nobody asked him to remove it.

After his seminar John talked to guests and signed translites, flyers and other items he designed.

John talked to guests and signed their pinball items

Here’s John’s seminar:

Then, continuing the theme of Dialed In!, Jack Guarnieri a.k.a. Jersey Jack was joined on stage by Butch Peel and David Thiel to talk about the conception and subsequent development of the game.

Jack Guarnieri

Jack talked about how he first got Pat Lawlor to design a game for his company, and how he was sold on the original concept of a disaster-themed game, following on from Pat’s earlier Whirlwind and Earthshaker! titles.

He showed pictures from the factory showing the first production Dialed In! games on the line.

Butch Peel and David Thiel

Here’s the Jersey Jack Pinball seminar in full:

After a long day at the show, we took the opportunity to dive out for some lunch at a wonderful Japanese restaurant just up the street in Tacoma called The Koi.

Their happy hour began at 2pm when all shareable dishes are just $5, beers $2.50 and they have a couple of specials on sake. We especially recommend their Panko Oyster, Yummi Mini and Fancy Jalapeño. The 7 Seas Seven Ballz Deep IPA is also very tasty. They were so good this was our second consecutive lunchtime visit, having vowed to return after the first visit.

When we returned at 3.30pm, refreshed and relaxed, Mark Ritchie was just taking to the stage to talk about his life in pinball.

Mark Ritchie

Mark described how he got into the pinball business, first at Atari and then at Williams, initially as a technician and then as a game designer starting with Thunderball which was never manufactured beyond the ten prototype games. After that, he did Firepower II – the sequel to his brother’s game – and Pennant Fever, a pitch-and-bat baseball game which was, he said, Williams’ first solid-state pitch-and-bat game.

Mark then talked through all his games in chronological order, including such classics as Big Guns – one of his collaborations with Python Anghelo – Taxi, Diner, Fish Tales and Indiana Jones.

Mark certainly didn’t rule out a return to pinball, but did confide to us that rumours of his involvement in a Pulp Fiction game being built by Stern were just that – rumours, with no truth behind them.

You can watch Mark’s seminar here:

Mark’s brother Steve Ritchie was next to take to the stage with his 5pm seminar.

Steve Ritchie

Steve said he was recovering from some optical treatment and therefore had to avoid the kind of bright light shining through the multiple glass panels in the seminar area.

Steve was then joined by Greg Freres who talked further about the artwork approval process.

Steve and Greg

Greg showed pictures of the team’s initial ideas, working through the first licensor submissions to the final approved product.

Initial cabinet art ideas

Initial backglass art ideas

Initial playfield art ideas

After showing a promo video from Star Wars Steve described the gameplay, saying at the start of the game you can choose one of four characters – Luke, Leia, Han or R2-D2. He said they had a lot of fun despite all the grief from the licensor, although they didn’t interfere with the design of the playfield.

Steve said there are nine multiball modes in the game, and when asked how Stern Pinball were able to secure the Star Wars licence said it was simply that they offered more money than anyone else.

Steve and Greg’s talk can be seen in this video of the seminar:

Meanwhile back in the show hall, here’s a look around the show using our aerial camera.

The Stern Pinball corner

The front of the show hall

The modern pinball area

The tournament area

Video games at the back of the hall

The queue to play the World’s Largest Space Invaders

More video games and pinballs

Custom and EM pinballs

More EM pinballs

Keeping the games up-and-running, the show medics’ area

No show would be complete without its selection of vendors and the NWPAS didn’t disappoint here either.

Rich Bro’s Pinball and Arcade

Rob Anthony’s Pinball Classics

Pogs, trading cards, patches, decals and more

Local arcade/bar Another Castle were promoting their two locations

Red Floor Arcade’s multi-game cabinets

Starship Fantasy had their usual huge display of ramps, playfields and backglasses

Fast Pinball were showing their pinball controller boardsets…

…plus a few project games

Nitro Amusements had the latest games from three companies

Alien, Attack from Mars remake and Houdini

In addition to Dialed In!, Jersey Jack Pinball had their first two titles to play

Pinball Bulbs had a large stand filled with LED choices

There were three compact games from VPcabs

Console game players were not forgotten either

While BuzzBuzz Games provided even more choice

Handheld gamers had something for them too

Not forgetting to feed the body as well as the mind

Here’s our exclusive Twenty-Five Minute Tour video walk-around at the NWPAS 2017, showing you everything from the lobby, through the main hall and into the seminars.

As usual, several pinball tournaments were held at the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show, with the largest being the Match Play tournament, entry to which cost $25. The tournaments were run by Dave Stewart and Germain Mariolle.

Trophies for the many tournaments

Amy from Congo awaits the winner of the Match Play Tournament

This had five three-hour qualifying sessions, starting at 1:30pm on Friday with the final session at 8pm on Saturday evening. Each session saw players put into 3- or 4-player groups to play a single game on a specified machine. Points were then awarded for positions, with bonus points awarded according to how large the gap was between players’ scores.

After the first game, new groups were made and a second machine played in the same way as the first. This continued until five machines had been played, when the seven players with the most points had qualified. The top qualifier received a bye through the next round, while the remaining six played in the first round of play-offs on Sunday morning. Those who didn’t qualify could try again in up to two more sessions.

Qualifying in the Match Play Tournament

Sixteen machines were used in the Match Play area. They were:

Congo

Dracula, Bram Stoker’s

Fish Tales

Funhouse

Grand Prix

Hot Doggin’

Lord of the Rings, The

Medieval Madness

Monster Bash

NBA

Stargate

Tron

Walking Dead, The

World Cup Soccer

World Poker Tour

WWF Royal Rumble

Meanwhile, the Pingolf Tournament was played on ten machines on the other side of the tournament area.

Play in the Pingolf Tournament

Entry to this was also $25, which got you one game on each of the ten machines. Each machine had a score target to achieve using the fewest balls possible. All the machines were set to five ball play, and the number of balls used to reach the target was your score for that machine. If the target wasn’t reached with the five balls, a sliding scale gave you a score from six to ten, depending on how close you got.

The ten machines used were:

Black Hole

Capt. Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Joker Poker

Mars Trek

Mata Hari

Nitro Groundshaker

Paragon

Trident

Volley

Vulcan

The 27 players with the lowest scores qualified for the play-off round which took place at 5pm on Saturday.

The Pingolf Tournament play-offs

In addition to these two, there was also a Rookie Tournament for players with an IFPA ranking of 2,000th or lower, or if they are unranked, a Women’s Championship where the top prize was a restored Ali pinball supplied by sponsors Nitro Amusements, and a Kids Tournament held on Shrek out in the lobby.

The main Match Play Tournament was the last to finish and came down to a three-way final between Eden Stamm, Jesse Mullene and Jesse Labbe.

Time is always very tight for the tournaments at the NWPAS, with the show closing at 3pm and no tournaments allowed to continue past that time. As a consequence, the final of the Match Play Tournament is played as three concurrent three-player games with players moving from machine to machine as their turn comes up.

The three machines chosen were WWF Royal Rumble, World Cup Soccer and NBA.

Eden, Jesse and Jesse in the Match Play Tournament final

After winning on World Cup Soccer by 728,720,800 to 674,773,190 and 350,062,980, and also on NBA by 14,485,210 to 5,456,350 and 1,219,210, Eden looked unassailable with only WWF Royal Rumble to complete.

Eden on WWF Royal Rumble

The shot shown above gave him the win on WWF as well, with Jesse Mullene in second place and Jesse Labbe in third. Prizes and cash awards of $1,000 for first, $700 for second and $500 for third were presented by Tournament Director, Dave Stewart.

Tournament Director Dave Stewart announces the results

Winner of the Match Play Tournament, Eden Stamm

Second place, Jesse Mullene

Third place, Jesse Labbe

There was also a B Division in the Match Play Tournament for the quarter-finalists who finished in 8th-21st places.

These B Division players played alongside the A Division players shown above, with their final taking place on The Walking Dead, The Lord of the Rings and Congo.

Josh Bartlett won on the first two and came second on Congo to win the final.

Dwayne Smith was second on the first two and third on Congo to tie on points with Nic Crowson who was third on the first two but won on the third, but Nic won the play-off to take second.

Winner of the B Division in the Match Play Tournament, Josh Bartlett

Second place, Nic Crowson

Third place, Dwayne Smith

Match Play Tournament

Pos	Name
1	Eden Stamm
2	Jesse Mullene
3	Jesse Labbe
4	Jordan Semrow
4	Robert Gagno
6	Chad Bruhaug
6	Raymond Davidson
8	Joshua Bartlett
9	Mika Rollin
9	Todd Rafacz
11	Chris Perlot
12	Sergey Posrednikov
13	Craig R Jones
13	Dave Grant
13	Dwayne Smith
13	Nic Crowson
17	Robbie Finnigan
17	Todd Larsen
19	Dave Stewart
20	Colin Urban
20	Sean Lind
22	Daniel Rone
22	Mathew Peterson
24	Brooke Lukens
24	Germain Mariolle
26	Alex Tada
26	Jared Baldridge
26	Xavier Marin
29	Thomas Urban
30	John Cambareri
30	Simon Stocker
32	Alan Wiley
33	Jon Salzman
34	Trevor McDonald
35	Chris Chinn
36	Brandon Tibbetts
36	William Scott Jordan
36	Zach Amador
39	Andrew McCann
39	Flash Haze
39	Kevin Birrell
39	Maka Honig
39	Mike Pantoliano
44	Bre Lloyd
44	Brooke Borcherding
44	Bryan Eastman
44	Derek Price
44	Eric Wagensonner
44	Erin Harting
44	James Daniels
44	Julie Gray
44	Lonnie Langford
44	Louise Wagensonner
44	Mark Lindbergh
44	Michael Tibbetts
44	Patrick Carlson
44	Peter Schatzer
44	Sean Shypula
44	Tracy Lindbergh
44	Travis Maisch
61	Claire Burke
61	Dwayne Collins
61	Fabian Benabente
61	Josh Bellinghausen
61	Nick Cline
61	Sam Atlas
61	Sean Leary
61	Zoe Vrabel
69	Aaron Garberding
70	Allison McClure
70	Cameron Staley
70	John Robinson WA
70	Joseph Salender
70	Justin Hugeback
70	Katie Janis
70	Lou Nemphos
70	Mike Corbett WA
70	Miles Grant
70	Sean McDonald
70	Timm Shere
81	Anthony Welters
81	Blake Hurdle
81	Dan Griffin
81	Darin Lange
81	Eric Morales
81	Greg Poverelli
81	Heather Loudon
81	Jarrett Gaddy
81	Kay Kay
81	Matt Anderson
81	Nick Pernisco
81	Ramsey Sierra
81	Rob Moller
81	Thomas Stepp
81	Tim McCool
96	Anthony McCammant
96	Cody McPike
96	Jack Slovacek
96	Jeff Anderson WA
96	Kayla Greet
96	Luke Camarda
96	Matt Galbraith
96	Matt Slater
96	Ronnie Vanwormer
96	Ryan Newstrum
96	Stephen Rakonza
107	Brandon Bras
107	Collin Topolski
107	Corbin Sheffels
107	Heather Thompson
107	James Southern
107	James Stubbington
107	Jeff Gagnon
107	Jonathan Hawthorne
107	Mike Magruder
107	Neil Kubath
107	Ryan Hess
107	Todd MacCulloch
107	Zac Petersen
120	Aviana Smith
120	Bo Kellogg
120	Brett Wolfe
120	Chelsey Oedewaldt
120	Christel Macabeo
120	Corey Roberson
120	Emmalyn Smith
120	Gilbert Sandejas
120	Jason Dowell
120	Jessica DeNardo
120	Karri Kuoppamaki
120	Nigel Colbert
120	Nycole Hyatt
120	Philip Joupperi
120	Rob Dancu
120	Tressa Points
136	Alex Bowen
136	Jaakko Kuoppamaki
136	Kylie Waibel
136	Marcus Schmick
136	Neil Oney
141	Altwin Hawksford
141	Brian Chesbrough
141	Darren Hensley
141	David Rauschenberg
141	Jeff Sawyer
141	Mike Arena
141	Rachel Helm
141	Robin Moore
141	Sara Urban
150	Matt Wolfe
150	Theresa Martin
152	Bob Klossner
152	Matt Ewan
152	Matt Golden
152	Matt Sarnoff
152	Max Stewart
152	Simon Hearsey
152	Tyler Beard
159	Alex Skinner
159	Amber Marie Simon
159	Dan Danger
159	Kathy Gagno
163	Brock Herriges
163	Jackie O’Malley
163	Michael Warfield
163	Nickie Dowell
163	Sean Morrow
168	Joe Slovacek
169	James Beard

The Rookie Tournament was played in a three-strikes-and-you’re-out format, with head-to-head matches between the 97 players who entered. This meant players continued playing in rounds of single two-player games until they had lost three games at which point they were out of the tournament.

Time constraints meant the tournament had to be drawn to a close with a bunch of players still on two strikes, two on one strike and one player undefeated.

The twelve players on two strikes were all given $20 prizes for joint fourth place, while Thomas Stepp who had no strikes yet played in a three-man final with Vincent Sperrazza and Rob Files who both had one strike.

Germain explains the rules to finalists Rob, Thomas and Vincent

The format for the sudden-death final on Hot Doggin’ gave just one ball to Rob and Vincent, with Thomas having two balls to play due to him having one fewer strike against him.

Thomas in the final of the Rookie Tournament

As it transpired, after one ball each Thomas was already in the lead and so didn’t need to play his second ball. Rob was second and Vincent third.

Winner of the Rookie Tournament, Thomas Stepp

Second place, Rob Files

Third place, Vincent Sperrazza

Rookie Tournament

Pos	Name
1	Thomas Stepp
2	Rob Files
2	Vincent Sperrazza
9	Chris Wolf
9	Matt Ewan
9	Andrew Dale
9	Umboon Moore
9	Jack Slovacek
9	Ramsey Sierra
9	Aviana Smith
9	Andrew McCann
9	Claire Burke
9	Nick Pernisco
9	Allison McClure
9	Tim McCool
19	Torrey Whiting
19	Max Stewart
19	Peter Schatzer
19	Fabian Benabente
19	Maureen Hendrix
19	Stephen Rakonza
19	Heather Thompson
19	Altwin Hawksford
29	Evan Adkins
29	Sandy Magallanes
29	Chelsea Rakonza
29	Eric Einke
29	Sarah Oberender
29	Dwayne Collins
29	Philip Joupperi
29	Keith Foster
29	Angie Mortimore
29	Cody McPike
29	Rita Perez
29	Sean McDonald
43	Luke Camarda
43	Kellan Kirkland
43	Debbie Smith
43	Jamey Harting
43	Stuart McPherran
43	Derek Price
43	Will Kirkland
43	Jason Dowell
43	Paul Borth
43	Mary Weeks
43	Gilbert Sandejas
43	Michael Williams
43	Michael Blue
43	Scott Mortimore
43	Tressa Points
59	Brett Pulliam
59	Nickie Dowell
59	Cameron Lessing
59	Casey Jones
59	Blaise Ritchie
59	Brandon Mortimore
59	Tyler Dellinger
59	Jon Whiting
59	Alex Skinner
59	Cameron Staley
59	Natay Hendershot
59	Meg Griffin
59	Jake Hei
59	Theresa Martin
59	Sean Shypula
59	Neil Oney
59	Adam Kurth
76	Jeannette Marin
76	John McConnell
76	Robin Moore
76	Mike Mortimore
76	James Stubbington
76	Josh Bellinghausen
76	Joe Slovacek
76	Scott Loveless
76	Sarra Jones
76	Neil Derksen
76	Mike Witschen
76	Todd Mulvahill
76	Mike Hendershot
76	Amber Marie Simon
76	Ken Sieker
76	Sara Urban
76	Brad Smelser
76	Kelsie Sherman Hall
91	Alex Bowen
91	James Poblete
91	Bryan Eastman
91	Sarah Ledray
91	Bryn Bomar
91	Timm Shere
91	Jessica Van Wagner
91	Kim Green
91	Cindy Pealstrom
91	Anthony McCammant
91	Chelsey Oedewaldt

The final rounds of both the Women’s Tournament and the Pingolf Tournament were held on Saturday night when a prior dinner engagement prevented us being in attendance.

However, the final of the Women’s Tournament was a series of four games played by the four finalists who were Julie Gray, Alexa Philbeck, Sara Urban and Maureen Hendrix. The machines chosen were the same as the A Division of the Match Play Tournament – WWF Royal Rumble, World Cup Soccer and NBA – with the addition of Stargate.

Alexa won the first game on WWF and continued her success on both World Cup Soccer and NBA to give her an unassailable lead. Maureen was third on the first three but won on Stargate to take second place. Sara and Julie both had two second places and two fourth places but it was Sara who took third place overall with Julie fourth.

Women’s Tournament

Pos	Name
1	Alexa Philbeck
2	Maureen Hendrix
3	Sara Urban
4	Julie Gray
5	Tracy Lindbergh
6	Brooke Borcherding
7	Jessica DeNardo
8	Amber Marie Simon
9	Rachel Helm
9	Chelsea Rakonza
11	Meg Griffin
11	Mika Rollin
13	Heather Loudon
14	Lauren Aquino
15	Bre Lloyd
16	Chelsey Oedewaldt
16	Louise Wagensonner
20	Allison McClure
20	Heather Willott
20	Lainey Welters
20	Robin Brown
20	Sarra Jones
23	Courtney Klossner
27	Aviana Smith
27	Cameron Herpiges
27	Christel Macabeo
27	Emily Beirne
27	Jeanna Beard
27	Kelsie Sherman Hall
27	Sandy Magallanes
32	Brooke Lukens
32	Claire Burke
32	Erin Harting
32	Tressa Points
37	Kayla Greet
37	Nycole Hyatt
37	Sarah Ledray
37	Theresa Martin
37	Zoe Vrabel
41	Heather Thompson
41	Kim Green
41	Natay Hendershot
44	Cindy Pealstrom
44	Emmalyn Smith
44	Max Stewart
44	Umboon Moore
48	Ashley Weaver
48	Katie Janis
48	Mary Lopez
51	Julia McDonald
51	Kathy Gagno
51	Nickie Dowell
51	Sarah Hager
55	Kierra McDonald
55	Rita Perez
55	Tessa Hewlett
57	Alex Bowen
57	Angie McIntyre
59	Megan Beard
60	Karla Rivers
61	Sunshine Beard

The Pingolf Tournament play-offs were contested by the top 27 qualifiers who played in nine groups of three in a three-strikes format where the player or players reaching the target with the fewest balls win, and the other player(s) receive a strike.

It took eight rounds before the final two were revealed as Lou Nemphos and Robert Gagno.

Robert had two strikes from loses on Capt. Fantastic and Volley, while Lou had one from Joker Poker. However, in round nine Robert won on Mata Hari to level the number of strikes, and repeated the feat on Vulcan to win the Pingolf Tournament.

Zoe Vrabel was third, with Joshua Bartlett and Thomas Urban tied for fourth.

Pingolf Tournament

1	Robert Gagno
2	Lou Nemphos
3	Zoe Vrabel
4	Joshua Bartlett
4	Thomas Urban
6	Chris Chinn
6	Matt Sarnoff
6	Todd Rafacz
6	Jeffrey Neumann
10	Tracy Lindbergh
10	jesse labbe
10	Raymond Davidson
10	Dave Stewart
10	Colin Urban
15	Pat Patton
15	Sam Atlas
15	Peter Schatzer
15	Sergey Posrednikov
15	Kathy Gagno
20	Derek Price
20	Andrew Nunes
20	Zac Petersen
20	Eric Wagensonner
20	Maureen Hendrix
25	Jack Slovacek
25	Matt Anderson
25	Kevin Birrell
25	James Southern
29	Bryan Eastman
30	Casey Jones
31	Lonnie Langford
32	Erin Harting
33	Germain Mariolle
34	Matt Bollinger
35	Julie Gray
36	Joseph Salender
37	Mathew Peterson
38	Patrick Carlson
39	Todd Macculloch
40	Stephen Rakonza
41	Eden Stamm
42	Kayla Greet
43	Jarrett Gaddy
44	Chris Perlot
45	Blake Hurdle
46	Nigel Colbert
47	Kelsie Sherman Hall
48	Gilbert Sandejas
49	Mark Lindbergh
50	Maka Honig
51	Aaron Garberding
52	Todd Larsen
53	Dave Grant
54	Michael B Bailey
55	Jamey Harting
56	Jonathan Hawthorne
57	Anthony Welters
58	Miles Grant
59	Craig R Jones
60	Dwayne Smith
61	Sean Shypula
62	Alan Wiley
63	Rob Dancu
64	John McConnell
65	Altwin Hawksford
66	John Robinson
67	Jessica Denardo
68	James Daniels
69	Nina Ricciardi
70	Philip Joupperi
71	Daniel Rone
72	Sean Lind
73	Collin Topolski
74	Matt Ewan
75	Zach Amador
76	Heather Loudon
77	Amanda Kotchon
78	Darin Lange
79	James Stubbington
80	Theresa Martin
81	Katie Janis
82	Jordan Semrow
83	Karri Kuoppamaki
84	Jared Baldridge
85	Christel Macabeo
86	Ryan Hess
87	Greg Harting
88	Rob Moller
89	Simon Hearsey
90	Josh Bellinghausen
91	Geoff Simons
92	Aviana Smith
93	David Rauschenberg
94	Trevor McDonald
95	Darren Ensley
96	Matt Golden
97	Jeff Sawyer
98	Luke Camarda
99	Mike Pantoliano
100	Nick Cline
101	Alex Skinner
102	Chris Wolf
103	Brooke Borcherding
104	Greg Poverelli
105	Lainey Welters
106	Fabian Benabente
107	Neil Kubath
108	William Scott Jordan
109	Claire Burke
110	Meg Griffin
111	Eric Morales
112	Jacob Wallraff
113	Mike Corbett WA
114	Cameron Staley
115	Louise Wagensonner
116	Daniel Campbell
117	Matt Wolfe
118	Cody McPike
119	Lauren Aquino
120	Andrew Dale
121	Chad Bruhaug
122	Jim Gray
123	Timm Shere
124	Alex Tada
125	Sean Mcdonald
126	Mike Witschen
127	Jesse Mullene
128	Marcus Schmick
129	Nick Pernisco
130	Michael Warfield
131	Brooke Lukens
132	Ron Goltz
133	Robbie Finnigan
134	Emmalyn Smith
135	Rita Perez
136	Jason Dowell
137	Brian Chesbrough
138	Sara Urban
139	Alex Bowen
140	Brock Herriges
141	Dan Griffin
142	Bob Klossner
143	Bruce Reed
144	Morihiro Ryu
145	Jaakko Kuoppamaki
146	Chelsea Rakonza
147	Joe Slovacek
148	Neil Oney
149	Anthony Mccammant
150	Corbin Sheffels
151	Michael Tibbetts
152	Tressa Points
153	Stephen Battey
154	Jeff Anderson WA
155	Tyler Dellinger
156	Cameron Herriges
157	Jackie O’Malley
158	Karla Rivers
159	Umboon Moore

You can see all the results from the tournaments as well as a break-down of the individual rounds on the NWPAS tournaments website.

Although the show continues until 3pm on Sunday, around 1pm the official end-of-show ceremony is held in the seminars area out in the lobby. It is presented by President of the board of the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show, Byron Raynes.

Byron Raynes hosts the end-of-show ceremony on Sunday afternoon

Events began with the presentation of prizes and the main trophy to the top players in the Kids Tournament which was held on the Shrek machine. In third place was JJ who was third in 2016 as well. Second place went to Katarina who wasn’t at the presentation, while the winner was Jack.

Winner of the Kids Tournament, Jack

Third place, JJ

All three won some cool prizes including solar-powered robot kits.

Next came the announcements of monetary awards to good causes supported by the show. To help with this, Byron was joined by other members of the NWPAS board.

Members of the NWPAS board:
Chris Walsh, Dave Okert, Toby Udman, Mike Lorrain & Lou Perazzoli

The NWPAS is a nonprofit, so all proceeds go to good causes. The first of these is the Make-A-Wish Foundation, to which the money raised from the silent raffle of a Ghostbusters playfield and other merchandise sales was donated.

Then a cheque for $500 was presented to the Pinball Outreach Project to aid their work teaching children the history and excitement of pinball by bringing pinball machines to children’s hospitals as well as setting up summer camps and creating their own family-friendly arcade in Portland.

A $500 donation to the Pinball Outreach Project

The next donation went to the Beads of Courage organisation. This is a programme where children with serious illnesses can mark milestones in their treatment and recovery through the collecting of special beads. There are numerous different types of beads and collecting them not only shows the many stages each child has undergone, but gives them goals and provides a way for others to give them support.

A $500 donation to Beads of Courage

The final presentation was the NWPAS scholarship award which goes to support the further education of a selected individual in their pinball or gaming-related studies.

This year’s winner of the $5,000 scholarship was Rawuda Jemal.

NWPAS 2017 scholarship recipient, Rawuda Jemal

Rawuda was joined by Michella who was an earlier recipient of the scholarship and who spoke about how the money was used to help in her studies through college.

Rawuda and Michella

Rawuda collects her $5,000 scholarship cheque

Finally, the draws took place for the Sunday raffle prize of the Mario Bros. arcade cabinet, and the grand prize raffle for the Batman 66 pinball.

The Mario Bros. game was drawn first.

The winning ticket for the video game is drawn

The lucky winner claims their prize

Then the draw for the Batman 66 Premium pinball was made. This raffle ran through the three days of the show with tickets costing $20 each.

The draw for the winner of the Batman 66 game

The winner was show volunteer Richard Godwin who thanked the drawer of his ticket.

Winner of the Batman 66 prize draw, Richard Godwin

And with that we bring our coverage from the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show 2017 to a close. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed being there and reporting on the events in Tacoma.

There’s a huge team of volunteers who make the show happen, from the early planning stages, through to the unloading crews, the medics, the registration, raffle and information desk staff, the seminar crew and the tournaments team. That’s before we get to the machine bringers, parts and machine vendors, the seminar speakers and the sponsors. The nonprofit nature of the show, and the fact it supports a number of worthy causes adds a extra feel-good factor to events.

The NWPAS is now firmly established as one of the big shows in the pinball calendar, with a great selection of machines and seminar speakers while winning and keeping the support of the many pinball businesses, collectors and fans in the Pacific northwest.

This was the tenth NWPAS. We’ll already making plans to be at number eleven.

SILVER BALL PLANET PINBALL ARCADE

June 10, 2017July 24, 2017 | Stefan Riedler

Thinking of visiting the Silver Ball Planet pinball arcade in Osaka? It might not be as easy as you think, so Stefan Riedler – who has visited the location several times – has written this useful guide showing the best way to get there.

He also updates us on the most recent arrivals which he discovered at the arcade during his trip there in June 2017.

How to get to the Silver Ball Planet Arcade from Kansai International Airport

The Mario Bros. welcome you to Kansai International Airport

Step 1: Exit the airport on the 1ST FLOOR.

Step 2: Go to the BUS AREA.

Step 3: At BUS STATION C you can buy a bus ticket for Bus 7 which costs 1,550 Yen (around €13) and can be paid for by credit card. The timetable for Bus 7 can be found at kate.co.jp/en/timetable/detail/UH.

Buy a bus ticket at the arrowed point – Bus Station C

Step 4: When the bus arrives, enter and tell them you want to go to the SHINSAIBASHI area. The journey takes around one hour.

Step 5: Leave the bus at the second stop in Shinsaibashi, at the HOTEL NIKKO.

Hotel Nikko Osaka

Step 6: Looking at the front of Hotel Nikko, turn LEFT.

Step 7: Walk two blocks to the APPLE STORE.

Step 8: Turn RIGHT following the front of the Apple Store.

Turn right at the Apple Store – there is a bank with an ATM here

Step 9: Walk around 250m and the BIG STEP shopping centre is on the right.

Step 10: Go right next to STARBUCK’S to the elevator.

The shopping centre floor listing

Step 11: Take the elevator to the THIRD FLOOR.

The elevator

Go to the 3rd floor

Step 12: Exit the elevator to the RIGHT.

Step 13: You have arrived at the SILVER BALL PLANET PINBALL ARCADE.

Stefan with the founder of the arcade, Yuske Namba

Inside the Arcade

The favourite games of the founder of the Silver Ball Planet Pinball Arcade, Yuske Namba, are Capt. Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy and Rolling Stones – older games but with great original artwork.

The Capt. Fantastic game at the arcade

Another of Yuske Namba’s favourites

The seven machines marked as new arrivals at the Arcade are:

The Pabst Can Crusher (Stern)
Rob Zombie’s Spookshow International (Spooky)
Aerosmith Limited Edition (Stern)
The Hobbit Limited Edition (Jersey Jack)
Batman 66 Super Limited Edition (Stern)
Ghostbusters Limited Edition (Stern)
Transformers Limited Edition (Stern)

Batman 66 SLE in the Batman collection

Another new arrival – Ghostbusters LE

Maybe another new arrival soon in the Star Wars collection?

Here’s a video showing all the games at the Silver Ball Planet Pinball Arcade.

STAR WARS ANNOUNCED

June 8, 2017July 31, 2017 | Pinball News

Stern Pinball today released detailed pictures of their upcoming Star Wars pinball, together with a press release giving more details.

Let’s start with the art packages on the three different models.

The Pro features the most complete set of characters and ships from the three movies.

The Premium edition’s artwork is all about the Empire’s characters, space ships and attack craft.

The Limited Edition’s backglass shows the moment the Millennium Falcon jumps into hyperspace, while the rebels’ characters and ships make up the cabinet and backbox art.

On the playfield, the artwork is very similar on the Pro and Premium/LE variants.

Here’s a side-by-side comparison. As with all the pictures here, you can click for a much larger version.

The Pro on the left, the Premium & Limited Edition on the right

Here’s what Stern Pinball had to say about their new title:

Stern Pinball Announces New Star Wars Pinball Machines

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL – June 6, 2017 – Stern Pinball, Inc., the world’s oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball machines, proudly announced today the availability of a new line of pinball machines celebrating the Star Wars 40th Anniversary.

Star Wars Pinball machines will be available in Pro, Premium and Limited Edition models. The game will immerse players in the dynamic and challenging Star Wars pinball environment as they battle to restore justice to the Galaxy.
Stern’s Star Wars Pro, Premium and Limited Edition machines are packed with features that provide an irresistible game experience.

The game includes select speech and footage from the original Star Wars trilogy; color-changing LED-lighted inserts; a sculpted LED-lit Millennium Falcon; and a sculpted TIE Fighter.

The Limited Edition and Premium models also feature two LCD screens, an exploding Death Star interactive display, and a hyperspace ramp.

“We are excited to bring these pinball machines celebrating the Star Wars galaxy and adventures to our fans,” said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO of Stern Pinball. “Our Star Wars Pinball machines give fans a fun, new way to enjoy the nonstop action and new game sounds, features and effects.”

In addition to the immersive theme and exciting game experience, Stern Pinball’s SPIKE-2 electronic platform enables high-definition graphics and innovative animations. The state-of-art electronic system also powers a high-fidelity 3-channel audio system that is three times more powerful than audio systems of previous generations.

Star Wars Pinball entertains with an amazing array of modern and classic features, making it suitable for all skill levels.

Pricing and Availability:

Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price: MSRP for sales to USA end-users, before any VAT, GST, Sales Tax, Duties, or other taxes

Pro Model: $US 6,199
Premium Model: $US 7,899
Limited Edition Model: $US 8,999

Star Wars Pinball is available through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world.

About Stern Pinball, Inc.

Stern Pinball, Inc., headquartered just outside Chicago, Illinois, is the oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball games in the world. Stern Pinball’s highly talented creative and technical teams design, engineer and manufacture a full line of popular pinball games, merchandise and accessories. Recent Stern titles include Aerosmith, Batman, Ghostbusters, Game of Thrones, WWE WrestleMania, The Walking Dead, Mustang, Star Trek, Metallica, XMen,
AC/DC, Tron, Transformers, Avatar, and many more!

All of Stern Pinball’s games are crafted by hand and assembled by Stern Pinball’s expert team. A broad range of players enjoy Stern’s games from professional pinball players that compete in high-stakes international
competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time.

To join the fun and learn more, please visit: www.sternpinball.com or
www.facebook.com/sternpinball

STAR WARS and related properties are trademarks and/or copyrights, in the United States and other countries, of Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. © & TM Lucasfilm Ltd.

We’ll have much more about the new Star Wars Pinball game very soon here at Pinball News.

THE HIGHLANDER

June 5, 2017July 21, 2017 | M.G. Brown

I have a secret – I love dive bars. So when we are on a trip and I hear about a local dive bar that cranks out killer food, offers micro-brews, pours a stiff drink and has pinball, I have no choice but to check it out.

Here’s what Terri and I found.

The Highlander late night bar in midtown Atlanta has been filling bellies and slinging drinks since 1992. The crowd at The Highlander is mostly alternative lifestyle types and after all of the other bars have closed in ATL, this is where the bartenders, cooks and waitstaff apparently come to decompress.

The exterior seating area of The Highlander

On any given night you will likely find folks shooting pool, feeding quarters into the video games and yes, playing pinball on one of their two machines:

The Walking Dead LE (Stern, 2014)
Star Trek Pro (Stern, 2013)

These games are in the back room by the pool tables. Both games are quarters only; $1 per game or 3 games for $2. The games have been well maintained and are a great deal of fun. Star Trek seems to have been set particularly generously for free games and matches.

It may be of interest to you that AMC network’s popular TV series The Walking Dead was principally filmed in Atlanta and nearby Senoia, GA. We visited Senoia (a.k.a. ‘Woodbury’ in the TV series) on this trip.

A popular location for filming

Supposedly there is a TWD pinball for sale in The Woodbury Shoppe also known as The Official Walking Dead Store located on Main Street in Senoia. We couldn’t confirm this because the store was closed when we visited. It would have been nice if Nic and Norman’s restaurant in Senoia, where we went for dinner, had a TWD game in the bar area. No such luck.

The sign outside Nic & Norman’s restaurant

But I digress.

I am at a loss for words to describe The Highlander’s menu other than possibly say that it is ‘Gastro Punk’, if there is such a phrase. Take for example their Pasta-Rella which is a new twist on the bar favorite fried mozzarella sticks where the cheese is wrapped in pasta prior to deep- frying.

Pastarella at The Highlander

The Highlander’s Jamaican Jerk Chili put them on the culinary map and also was featured on an episode in season 4 of the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives television show hosted by Guy Fieri. Since that show, The Highlander’s head chef ‘Ice’ Jahumpa has crafted a very sat isfying white vegetarian chili with many of the same complex flavors but without the meat.

Jamaican Jerk Chili

Specials abound.

On Tuesday nights, The Highlander offers ‘All You Can Eat’ crab legs served from 11am to 9pm. Wednesday ‘The Devil’s In The Kitchen’ and all burgers are $6.66.

Crab Legs – it must be Tuesday

Thursdays feature $5 pitchers of PBR and three styles of tacos for $2.95 a piece.

Friday’s special is Nashville Hot fried chicken with home-style macaroni and cheese.

Weekends are the time for local metal and punk bands to take the stage at The Highlander (hearing protection suggested).

On any night you can order a pitcher of their award winning tater tots. The Highlander’s ‘Tots All The Way’ were recently voted best in ATL by the Atlanta Thrillist. They are smothered with so much goodness that it would make any plate of nachos jealous.

Tots all the Way

The Highlander proudly offers beer from local breweries such as Three Taverns, Eventide Brewing, 5 Seasons, and so on. Beer not your thing? Shots of Maker’s Mark or Jack Daniel’s are also available.

The Highlander supports local artists, proudly displaying and selling their work featured on the walls.

As you might expect from a hard rock bar, the so called decoration (read: graffiti) in the rest rooms is creative, but on top of that the main entrance is literally opaque with stickers from local bands and record companies. Because of this first timers who might be disoriented are advised to look for the stickers to find the entrance.

Fortunately (or unfortunately), The Highlander is one of the few bars in the Atlanta area that allow smoking inside. Be aware that the inside area of the bar is absolutely saturated with the smell of tobacco smoke. If you are at all sensitive to the smell of smoke, this is not a place for you.

I found The Highlander to be an engaging and fun dive bar with an over-achieving menu, a great selection of drinks and fun to play pinball games. The Highlander is located in an interesting neighborhood with quite a few small shops and places such as The Atlanta Cupcake Factory to explore when you visit.

I understand that dive bars may not be everyone’s ‘thing’ but a visit to The Highlander in mid-town Atlanta might just make this dive bar a favorite.

ANDREW HEIGHWAY STEPS DOWN FROM HEIGHWAY PINBALL

June 4, 2017July 18, 2017 | Pinball News

Almost five years since first announcing his plans to set up a pinball manufacturing business, Andrew Heighway is to stand down from leadership of the company he established.

The Heighway Pinball logo

Heighway Pinball was an established business operating and trading pinball machines before Andrew took the decision to tackle the lack of choice for operators looking for an attractive, affordable and full-featured game to place on location.

Andrew Heighway when he announced his plans

Pinball News broke the news in July 2012 of his plans to set up a pinball manufacturing business, but as with Magic Girl and Capt. Nemo, five years seems to be the make-or-break point for new pinball ventures. 2017 saw all the Capt. Nemo machines delivered and some semblance of a Magic Girl manufactured and made available to original buyers. Five years is also the point where Heighway Pinball sees a change of leadership.

In those five years, Andrew built up a manufacturing facility in Merthyr Tydfill in South Wales and built the 250 Bacardi Baffle Ball games to a very tight timescale.

The original Heighway Pinball factory in Merthyr Tydfill

The Bacardi Baffle Ball games

He also announced the Circe’s Animal House game, re-themed it to Full Throttle after taking on board potential buyers’ feedback, and built the game – the first production pinball with both a playfield and backbox LCD.

Full Throttle

From the start, the focus was on keeping manufacturing costs low. Development grants and other commercial assistance allowed Heighway Pinball to set up and kit out the factory using a mix of manufacturing kit bought at auctions and ex-demonstration devices.

The first Heighway Pinball factory

Pretty soon the company outgrew its original premises and moved across the street to a pair of units which, while providing much more space, ultimately proved too large and costly.

In a quest for a manufacturing home which was large enough but not too large, had more modern facilities and provided an attractive relocation package, the company moved from Merthyr Tydfil to its current home on an industrial estate in Ebbw Vale.

The current Heighway Pinball factory

While Full Throttle was highly-regarded by those who bought or played it, sales were modest. What really excited buyers was the company’s second full title and their first licensed theme, Alien Pinball.

However, pinball manufacturing – especially in the early years – need to be a lean business. With minimal income from sales of the initial title, much of the development and building – both of the company and the machines – for the second and future titles needs to be done on a shoestring, helped along by favours and promises.

But that goodwill and the assorted start-up discounts can only go so far, and so in order to keep the business running, paying wages and paying suppliers for parts, a number of investors were brought in. Five major investors and several smaller ones provided financing to Heighway Pinball, following Andrew to pinball shows in Europe and the US to see how the company and its products were received.

All the investors were owners of other companies with a love of pinball who saw, in Heighway Pinball, the opportunity to help the company and the market grow by producing high-quality full-featured games of a kind not currently available.

However, despite the number of investors with a stake in the business, the running of the company stayed with Andrew.

We’ve covered why ‘Making Pinball is Hard‘ before, but besides being hard it is also costly. Delays in receiving parts of an acceptable quality, asset clearance from licensors and training staff all lead to increased costs, and with minimal sales of existing products, manufacturers can be excused for relying on pre-order money to finance ongoing development.

When extended delays means all that pre-order money is used up, there nothing left in the bank to buy the parts needed to actually build the games. Without those up-front funds, parts have to be bought in small quantities, and buying parts by the dozen costs significantly more per unit than buying them by the thousand, pushing up costs further.

The frustration of being unable to produce the game wanted in the quantities needed also leads to increased stress taking its toll throughout the business, and especially on the guy in charge.

It’s a downward spiral which can only really be escaped with another large injection of capital to build the games on a grander scale at reduced cost, and bring in many more sales.

There’s no doubt Alien Pinball is an excellent game, with an appealing layout, art, sounds and display effects, with the potential to sell by the thousand, if only they could be built by the thousand.

Andrew Heighway with Full Throttle and Alien

The investors can see that potential and have agreed to make another sizeable injection of capital into the company. The big caveat, though, is that they want to use their combined business skills to run the company their way, not Andrew’s way.

Pinball News has spoken to some of the major investors in Heighway Pinball and it is clear they see a bright future for the company, but believe it needs a kick-start with new management at the helm to push production forward, resolve outstanding issues with the games, rebuild relationships with suppliers and distributors, and deliver games at a much-increased rate.

So, Andrew has agreed to stand down from running the business which bears his name and which he founded back in 2012. While exact terms are still being ironed-out and he may do some consultancy work for the firm, the major investors have been working together use their combined business experience and skills to push Heighway Pinball forward.

Looking ahead, the future of Alien Pinball and the next few titles in the Heighway Pinball pipeline look far more assured. In the short term one of the major investors is likely to spearhead the changes, but the search is on for a new leader to push ahead with product development, promote the company and its products, and be the public face of Heighway Pinball.

For pre-orderers of Alien Pinball and anyone looking to buy one the message is clear – expect some rapid movement over next few weeks to ramp up production and deliver fully-functioning games. Parts orders are going in now, existing bottlenecks are being overcome, and there is a concerted effort to not just throw more money into the company, but utilise all available skills to accelerate the company’s growth.

Meanwhile, the company continues without the man whose passion for pinball was the driving force behind the establishment of Heighway Pinball as a manufacturer and who put his heart and soul into creating hugely playable games which could bring operators back to a game they may have previously written-off.

UPDATE:

Just under two weeks after we published the report above, Andrew made this posting to Facebook.

Just over five years have passed since I started Heighway Pinball Limited in my home garage. Now, the company has grown to be a multinational business with customers spread throughout the globe.

The company has faced many challenges along the way, which has culminated in our first game, Full Throttle, and our current game, Alien Pinball. I always strived to create a modern and relevant quality pinball product, with many exciting new ideas. I believe that we have fulfilled many of the goals I set for this company.

I am extremely proud of the games that we have produced. In particular, Alien Pinball is the result of tireless work, over the last three years, from a team comprising of some of the most talented and passionate pinball people I could have ever have hoped to assemble. ‘Alien’ is personally my favourite movie of all time, closely followed by ‘Aliens’. I could not be happier with the finished product and how it represents both movies.

The time has come for a change at Heighway Pinball. Substantial monies are being pumped immediately into this company by our existing investors to drive this company forward to producing hundreds of games every month within the coming months. These investors have not been actively involved in the running of the business up to this point but they bring a huge amount of pinball experience to the operating of this company. They are also very successful businessmen in their own rights. Their passion for pinball, business acumen and love of the company’s products will drive this company forwards. There are a lot of expectant customers out there who want delivery of this epic game as quickly as possible – and this is a commitment this company will now strive to deliver as soon as is possible.

As of now, I have now left Heighway Pinball and am no longer involved in any way with the company. A new management structure is already in place at the company, that is committed to delivering games to all of its customers and building the company up into becoming an important market player within the coming years. The company is being left in good hands, with the investors bringing a wealth of pinball experience into this company and everyone is committed to delivering customer games as quickly as possible.

I have not left pinball permanently – but am taking a break away from it as fresh finances and ideas drive the company forwards. I will likely still be seen at pinball/trade shows and look forward to meeting many of you again in the future.

I will no longer be contactable at andrew@heighwaypinball.com and I will not be posting here, any other pinball forums, on Facebook or on Twitter as ‘Heighway Pinball’ from now onwards.

I have met some amazing people over the last five years and would like to thank all of my customers, staff, contractors, investors, distributers and suppliers – who have shared my dream and supported myself and this company over the years. I step away from Heighway Pinball at an exciting time for the company and wish all those associated with the company all of the best for the future.

Andrew Heighway
Former CEO/Managing Director – Heighway Pinball

DIRTY DONNY’S PINBALL PUNK

June 4, 2017July 18, 2017 | M.G. Brown

AMT scale model kit company will be releasing the all new Dirty Donny’s ‘Pinball Punk!’ unassembled and unpainted resin figure kit in June 2017.

The kit includes a stand-up pinball machine with multiple graphic option decals. The figure and pinball machine when assembled is approximately 1/8 actual size.

Dirty Donny’s Pinball Punk! resin kit

As Pinball News readers may recall, Dirty Donny (Gillies) has done backglass and playfield art for several games including the recently released Pabst Blue Ribbon Can Crusher, Aerosmith and Metallica, all produced by Stern Pinball.

Dirty Donny has collaborated with AMT in the design of other model kits including the Vantasy and Dirty Donny’s Super Bee. Suggested Retail Price (USA) $34.99.

AMT is a registered trade mark of Round 2 LLC, 4073 Meghan Beeler Court, South Bend, Indiana 46628, USA.

WELCOME TO THE NEW LOOK PINBALL NEWS

June 1, 2017August 8, 2017 | Pinball News

Hello, and welcome to this new look Pinball News.

Since it was founded at the end of 1999, the design of the Pinball News site has been largely unchanged. However, in the nearly eighteen years since, a lot has changed in web technology, browser performance, internet availability and reader expectations.

The website has remained largely static HTML pages all that time which has made it very fast to load and easy to add to – both new articles and new layouts – but with nearly 2,000 web pages and 30,000 images it has become rather unweildy to manage by hand. In addition, with more readers using mobile devices to view the site, a more responsive layout which adapts to the display size, shape and resolution was needed. It has also become difficult to add new features without going back and modifying all those old pages.

While there are several technologies available to help with these problems, we settled on the WordPress platform. It’s a very common system so there are lots of nice themes and useful plug-ins available to add things like calendars, response forms, article comments, user ratings and content management. It’s also free to use with our existing web host, so we could set everything up in parallel with the previous site and port things across.

That said, with so many articles which have to be remade in the new layout it’s not going to be a quick transition, so please bear with us as we move more and more over. We’ll keep the old site live until every last article has been converted to make sure you don’t lose anything, although once this new site is fully functional we will only add new articles to this new site. But those new articles will feature bigger, sharper pictures and videos with more little helpers to navigate the site.

We have listed some of the new features below in more detail if you’d like to find out more about them.

We hope you like the new look.

We’ve tried to keep the key features which made Pinball News attractive – a clean and spacious look, no annoying adverts or pop-ups, and a focus on the content rather than the delivery method – while adding some nice new features such as the next Diary events right there on the front page along with a much improved search facility, a way to send us a message and the abilty to comment on every page. We have a number of new tricks up our sleeves too, including high-resolution photo and video galleries to help us tell the stories in a better and more entertaining way.

We’re still Pinball News, we’re still First and Free, and now we can give you a bigger and better Pinball News experience.

NEW FEATURES IN MORE DETAILS

This section will look at some of the new ways to interact with the Pinball News site. The examples are from the desktop version, but many also apply to the mobile version of the site.

Let’s start with the basics.

FRONT PAGE

To get back to the front page at any time, click the Pinball News logo at the top of each page.

If you have scrolled down a page so that the logo is no longer visible, a small blue arrow will appear in the bottom right corner to take you staight back to the top.

Below the logo is the menu bar.

This is your direct access to each category of article. Some (such as NEWS, SHOWS and GAMES) have multiple articles – indicated by a small arrow to the right – while others (such as DIARY, DIRECTORY and LINKS) just go to a single page of information.

The menu category names should be self-explanatory and follow those found on the old Pinball News site.

If you hover your pointer over one of the categories with an arrow, a preview of the five most recent reports in that category pops up, allowing you quick access to these.

You can click on any of the five previews to go to that report, or if you then click on the category name you go to a full page of report previews.

Incidentally, all categories are colour-coded. Shows are blue, News is red, Sites is green and so on. Various elements on the page recolour depending on the current category.

Below the menu, the page splits in two.

The left two-thirds shows details of the ten newest articles on the site in all categories. To explore older articles, there are buttons at the bottom to go through further sets of ten articles.

The right third of the page contains the sidebar. This appears on almost every page and contains a number of useful gadgets.

At the top of the sidebar is a miniature version of the Diary, showing the next few upcoming pinball events. You can hover over any for a pop-up preview of the event, click on any for more details, or there is a link to go directly to the Diary page where you can see all upcoming events.

Below the Diary preview is a list of the five most recent articles on the Pinball News site so you can catch up on them without having to go back to the front page each time.

Then comes a sign-up box for the Update newsletters, followed by a search box and a contact form where you can easily send us a quick message.

ARTICLE PAGES

Most pages feature a representative image at the top over which the title is printed. Apart from the title, there are also some useful links, such as a so-called ‘Breadcrumb Trail’ which shows you where in the website this article lives and allows you to click on any level to go straight there, details about who wrote it and when it was published with links to the author’s biography, and an approximate guide to how long it will take to read.

Next to those are buttons and counters for comments on this article, a button the like this article along with the current number of likes, and the number of times it has been viewed.

As you start reading an article and scroll down, the menu bar will ‘float’ up to the top of the page and remain there. Incidentally, as you read through an article, a thin progress bar appears at the very bottom of the page so you can see how much more is left to read.

There are more interesting controls at the bottom of each article.

Clicking on any of the Tags shows articles sharing the same tags.

You can share the current article directly on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest with their dedicated buttons.

There are links to the previous and next articles, by publication date and time.

Articles with some related elements such as tags are shown next, along with a preview image.

Finally, you can comment on any article by clicking the button, typing your message and submitting it.

There are tons more new features – we could write pages about just the new Diary, for instance – but we’ve covered the basic ways to navigate the Pinball News site.

Feel free to try it out, hover over or click things and see what happens.

After all, that’s what we do. 🙂

STAR WARS REVEALED

May 31, 2017July 31, 2017 | Pinball News

The fact that Steve Ritchie’s next game would be Star Wars had been pretty well-known
for several months, but an official announcement wasn’t expected until June 4th, 2017.

Today though (May 31st), The Star Wars Show let the cat out of the bag with details and pictures of the new game.

As expected, there are the usual three variants – Pro, Premium and Limited Edition, with different art packages for all three. The Pro shows all the characters, while the Premium focuses on the Empire’s forces, and the LE features the rebels.

The Pro edition

The Premium edition

The Limited Edition

Onto the playfield, and the Pro is lacking a number of features found on the higher models. Here’s the full-featured Premium/LE playfield.

The Premium/LE playfield

Balls are locked in the Death Star which breaks open to release them for multiball. A wireform loops around in front of the flippers to provide some additional entertainment when balls are locked or released, while the ball is initially plunged across the playfield at the F-O-R-C-E targets.

There appear to be four sets of three modes, each set represented by a colour and a playfield shot – Hoth (blue, centre lane), Death Star (purple, left lane), Tatooine (red, right scoop) and Endor (green, left ramp).

The Pro playfield

The Death Star here appears to be a static toy, with plastic instead of metal ramps, no upper level to the right ramp, no loop-around wireform and no Millennium Falcon toy. The playfield art is very similar though, and all models feature a miniature LCD screen above the Tie-Fighter target bank and back panel artwork.

Stern Pinball will no doubt produce an official press release over the next day or so to bring us full details and prices, and Pinball News will bring you all that information just as soon as it’s available.

TMAP 2017

May 21, 2017July 21, 2017 | Pinball News

We haven’t visit Madrid for a pinball tournament since Spain held the European Pinball Championship there back in 2012. This time we were attending the Torneo Madrileño de Pinballs, better known as TMAP.

The venue for the two-day event was a nondescript building in an industrial area on the southern side of the city which is the permanent home to the private Millonaria pinball club.

For those not familiar with the Millonaria location there was no signage to indicate any pinball presence resides here, let alone the fact that it is the home of a major Spanish tournament.

The unexceptional building on Camino de Hormigueras

However, if you enter the building through the unlocked third door, take the lift up five floors and follow the sounds of flippers flipping, you come across the tournament registration desk.

The tournament registration desk

Playing in the two tournaments – modern and classics – cost €60 per person. Players could also opt to take an organised lunch held in another part of the building for an additional €20. Those who took the lunch received green wristbands, while those who made their own arrangements wore an orange wristband. As you can see, with no catering facilities nearby, the vast majority decided to have lunch at the venue.

The list of players with their lunch choices

Upon registration, players received an orange shoulder bag, two score sheets (one for the modern tournament and one for the classics), a pen and a wipe cloth.

The two score sheets and pen

Alongside the registration desk, the lobby also provided a seating area and there was a vendor with a selection of pinball LEDs and other generic parts.

Pinball parts for sale

From the lobby, a short corridor led past a group of upright video games into the games room, where the eighty-nine machines were arranged in four long rows of around twenty-two machines each.

Video games on the way to the pinballs

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The first two rows of machines

The second two rows

The classics machines were arranged back-to-back down the centre of the room, while the modern pinballs backed against the walls. The rear of the room was open to a multi-storey car park which provided access for loading or unloading machines and gave a small seating area for relaxation between games.

The back of the room

To help with the relaxation, there was a bar selling soft and alcoholic drinks along with some snacks. Beers were only €1 and gin & tonics €3, both of which were very well received.

The bar menu

The classics machines were largely composed of Spanish games, making an unusual selection of rarely-seen titles for the non-Spanish players attending.

Black & Reed, Big Horse and Poker Plus

Mr Evil, Centaur and Full

Here’s a full list of the machines.

300

30’s, The

Addams Family, The

Aerosmith Pro

Avengers Pro

Back to the Future

Big Horse

Black & Reed

Bumper

Cabaret

Canasta ’86

Centaur (Bally)

Centaur (Inder)

Chamonix

Champion Pub, The

Cherokis

Class of 1812

Corvette

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Criterium 75

Dardos

Demolition Man

Dracula, Bram Stoker’s

Dragon

Elvis

Fairy

Family Guy

Fans

Fantastic World

Fiery 30’s, The

Flintstones, The

Full

Funhouse

Getaway, The: High Speed 2

Ghostbusters LE

Grand Prix

Guns N’ Roses

Incredible Hulk, The

Indiana Jones (WMS)

Indianapolis 500

Jacks Open

Jake Mate

Jalisco

Johnny Mnemonic

Judge Dredd

Jurassic Park

Kiss

Kiss Premium

Luck Smile

Master Stroke

Metallica Pro

Mississippi

Mr Evil

NBA Fastbreak

Nemesis

No Good Gofers,

Pirates of the Caribbean

Poker Plus

Popeye

Pro Football

Revenge from Mars

Roadshow

Rolling Stones, The

Running Horse

Scared Stiff

Sea Scare

Seven Winner

Shamrock

Skyjump

Spider-Man VE

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Wars Episode 1

Stargate

Striker Xtreme

Stripping Funny

Super Bowl

Tales from the Crypt

Terminator 3

Theatre of Magic

Twilight Zone

Underwater

Up Away

Whitewater

World Cup Soccer

X-Men Magneto LE

At the front of the room was the tournament desk where results were entered into the computer system, while a large poster showed the player groups, machines to be played and the results.

The matches in the modern and classics tournaments

Both tournaments worked in the same way; only the machines used and how they were played changed between the two.

Trophies for the classics tournament

Modern tournament trophies

Players were divided into three groups – A, B & C. In each group, everyone played three- or four-player games across nine rounds, so everyone got to play everyone else in their group. Machines were allocated in a semi-random way – keeping each group to a fixed selection of machines – which meant players would often get to play the same machine twice (or more).

In each match, points were awarded depending on finishing position, with 3 points for first, 2 points for second, 1 point for third and 0 points for last place. That meant a maximum of 27 points were available if all games were won.

The classics tournament was played first.

The classics tournament begins

Because many of these machines were single player only, each player in a match played their game in isolation, recording their score on paper and working out the points after the last player in the match finished their game.

Play in the classics tournament

The points were then recorded on the poster.

Recording points in the classics tournament

When all the matches in a round were over, a call went out on the PA to start the next round while the previous round’s results were entered into the computer. The current standings were shown on a monitor.

Current standings

The eight players with the most points in each group qualified for the play-offs on Sunday morning. The first four received a bye through the first round (12 players), while the next four would have to battle it out in four three-player games with only the winner moving on (4 players).

Players check their position

The classics tournament qualification ended around 12:30pm, with the first rounds of the modern tournament starting immediately.

Lunch was scheduled for 2pm, so there was just time for a couple of rounds of qualifying before the break.

Unlike the classics, all modern tournament matches were played as regular four-player games.

Lunch is a big deal in Spanish pinball tournaments and two hours are usually allocated to enjoy it. Those who had signed up for the organised meal went down to the entrance and across to the unit next door for the catered meal, complete with drinks.

We opted to enjoy the hot sunny weather and headed to the nearby town of Vallecas for a leaisurely lunch at a cafe with street-side tables. A nice iced Estrella beer rounded off the meal of bocadillos filled with anchovies and tortilla, alongside other assorted nibbles.

Play didn’t resume until 4:45, when the remaining seven rounds of the modern tournament qualifying took place. Each round took approximately 30 minutes, so everything wrapped up around 8pm.

Players relaxing after completing their games

We were staying at a nearby Ibis Budget hotel which while cheap (€37 a night), modern and a few minutes’ walk to the venue, was basic and not in a great area. So, we made a quick trip back to freshen up before setting off for the centre of Madrid courtesy of Alejandro Yepes Piedra, who had invited us to take part in the tournament and took care of us all weekend.

Central Madrid on a Saturday night is amazingly packed with people. The bars and restaurants are crowded. The streets are crowded. The subway is crowded. It’s like rush hour, every hour.

But it’s also vibrant, exciting and enjoyable. We grabbed a big dish of paella, a couple of jugs of sangria, and headed for Plaza Mayor to explore the city.

Sunday’s action began at 9am for those who finished in positions 5th-8th in their group. The top four skipped this round and so could turn up later, making sure they didn’t arrive too late.

The Pinball News crew were back bright and early on Sunday morning

The modern tournament

Both classics and modern tournaments again followed the same format. Four groups were made, and three three-player games played with points awarded. Only the player with the most points joined the next stage, so it was a tough round to survive.

As well as the modern and classics tournament, there were several side competitions set up on machines at the back of the room.

Play in the side competitions

The pairs competition held on Guns N’ Roses had each player play one ball and then play the third ball in split-flipper mode.

Players in the pairs competition

The blind pinball competition has a paper shield over the flippers of an Indiana Jones machine. The player with the highest score won. Meanwhile there was a one-ball competition run on Avengers.

The remaining play-offs all consisted of four-player groups playing three games per round, with 9-6-3-1 scoring – a system which seemed inherently likely to produce ties. The top two players in each group progressed to the next round, reducing the initial sixteen players to eight and then to a final four who would compete for the top four places.

The classics final took place first and it was a sudden-death single five-ball game played on Master Stroke. The four finalists were Rafitas, Alexxx, Inderman and Cisco120 (everyone uses nicknames in Spain).

The four classics tournament finalists:
Inderman, Rafitas, Cisco120 & Alexxx

Alexxx played first on this single-player game.

Alexxx starts the final in the classics tournament

Hi score of 600.600 set the target for the rest to attack.

Rafitas played next but fell short with 518,100. Inderman was third to play and his total just beat Alexxx, scoring 633,300 to lead the field.

Cisco120 was the last to play.

Cisco120 plays the last game in the four-player final

He sailed past Inderman’s score on his third ball, ending his game when his score reached 657,900.

So, Cisco120 won, Inderman was second, ALexxx third and Rafitas fourth.

Winner of the classics tournament, Cisco120

Second place, Inderman

Third place, Alexxx with his fiancee

Fourth place, Rafitas

The top four in the classics tournament

The full results of the classics tournament are:

Classics Tournament Results

Pos	Name
1	Cisco120
2	Inderman
3	Álexxx
4	rafitas
5	BonelessChicken
5	Santy
7	Ángel
7	DINO
9	Quercus
9	PinballBCN
9	Cga pozuelo
9	Mainwaring
13	Baptur
13	ROMEO
13	Rayo
13	Julio
17	Pochoguerrero
17	Rafa
17	shaolins
17	DAN
21	IKE1
21	Mirloblan
21	NBSJOSE
21	KURSH
25	Fhk
25	Fede
25	LUCIUS
28	Richart
28	Druida
28	Pipo
31	BURN RUBBER
31	Carro
31	KROM
34	Luigivampa
34	Roskalion
36	Javi
36	Capitán
36	Alucinoff
36	Multiball
36	Pulgarin
41	Lieven
41	Juaney
43	Lucky Luke
43	hassanchop
43	Federo
46	Glen
46	Troshinsky
48	ajal
48	Danidrummer
48	Pimiento
48	Drator
48	Jmfl1977
53	Leberry
53	KRISMA
55	Sarten
55	Ayub
55	Tropoglar
58	Shh-ware
58	APE
58	Jetlager
61	Gabrielo
61	Neo-Jesus
61	IronBall
64	metroider
64	Fari
64	dMode
67	DarkZeroIce
67	VIC
67	Rubensaos
70	marchales
70	Igmabor
70	DJ HULK
73	Ronko
73	Gregorio
73	iliciman
76	Steiner
76	tinkui

Then came the final of the modern tournament. This was also a single game, played on the club’s newest acquisition, an Aerosmith Pro. The four finalists were Rafitas (again), Martin Ayub, Julio and Leberry

The four modern tournament finalists:
Rafitas, Martin Ayub, Julio and Leberry

Leberry began the final.

The final of the modern tournament begins

Leberry made a solid if unexceptional start, scoring around 2M. Martin then played next.

Martin is player two in the final

A quick bounce down the left outlane didn’t give Martin much of a start, although he did light a couple of locks.

Julio did a little better, scoring just over a million, while Rafitas had the quickest first ball of the four, not putting up much of a score yet.

Julio picks his song as player three

Leberry started a three-ball multiball to take a solid lead, but Martin and Julio both held out to lock all six balls and maximise their scoring potential. Although it was a risk, it paid off for them both. Leberry ended on 55M, but Martin overtook that with his 61M total. Julio had the much better multiball, however, ending his game on 121M. Despite putting up a valiant fight, Rafitas’s game never really got going and he ended up in fourth.

So, Julio was the winner, Martin was second, Leberry third and Rafitas fourth. Trophies were awarded by the event organisers.

Winner of the TMAP 2017 modern tournament, Julio

Second place, Martin

Third place, Leberry

Fourth place, Rafitas

The top four in the modern tournament

Here are the full results:

Modern Tournament Results

Pos	Name
1	Julio
2	Ayub
3	Leberry
4	rafitas
5	Rayo
5	Ángel
7	Mainwaring
7	Quercus
9	Gabrielo
9	Lieven
9	Troshinsky
9	PinballBCN
13	Cisco120
13	Richart
13	VIC
13	Juaney
17	dMode
17	APE
17	Tropoglar
20	ROMEO
20	Lucky Luke
20	Pipo
20	ajal
20	BonelessChicken
25	Shh-ware
25	shaolins
25	IronBall
28	Ronko
28	Mirloblan
28	NBSJOSE
31	Fhk
31	Fari
31	tinkui
34	Rafa
34	Igmabor
34	KURSH
37	Carro
37	KROM
39	Baptur
39	marchales
39	metroider
39	Fede
39	DJ HULK
44	Druida
44	Álexxx
46	Pimiento
46	Santy
46	Alucinoff
49	Inderman
49	Cga pozuelo
49	Multiball
52	BURN RUBBER
52	Neo-Jesus
52	DINO
55	Luigivampa
55	hassanchop
55	Rubensaos
58	Pochoguerrero
58	Roskalion
58	LUCIUS
61	DAN
61	Glen
61	Jmfl1977
64	Sarten
64	Drator
64	Pulgarin
67	DarkZeroIce
67	Gregorio
67	Jetlager
70	Javi
70	IKE1
70	Federo
73	Steiner
73	Capitán
73	KRISMA
76	Danidrummer
76	iliciman

Awards were also given to the winners of the side competitons.

Winners of the pairs competition, Druida and Ronko

High score competition winner, Pipo

Blind pinball competition winner, Ironball

There was also an award for the Interstellar Championship of Monza, although we’re not quite sure how this was decided.

Winner of the Interstellar Championship of Monza, Jetlaguer

With all the awards presented, the event closed at the very civilised time of 4pm. That meant we still had the rest of the day free to return to central Madrid for plates of tapas and some nice cold drinks.

Like most Spanish tournaments, TMAP 2017 was run in a relaxed though professional way. With the vast majority being local players, everyone seemed to know how it ran and what was expected of them. Those unfamiliar with the venue might have had trouble finding it – we knew the address but still couldn’t work it out until someone showed us – but once inside the format and rules were immediately understandable.

The relaxed timescale also worked well for us. Having a two-hour lunch break split up the day nicely, and the sensible finish times on both days allowed us to enjoy the city – something not always possible with other tournaments.

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to TMAP 2017. Thanks to all the organisers.

While the area around the venue is not the most attractive (and we would probably choose to stay closer to the centre of the city next time), we welcomed the format, the collection of machines, the weather and the hospitality, and would love to spend some additional time exploring Madrid on our next trip.

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