The Internet Pinball Database is a tremendous resource. I have not yet looked for a pinball and found that they did not have any photos of it. There are also ratings of the machines and links to download roms and pinball manuals.
I had never heard anything about the creation of the IPDB or how it continues to operate until I came across this interview with one of the men behind the site.
Lyman’s is a new pinball location in DC. On August 30, there is a tournament there that will likely have some strong competition. Not sure in what state the WPPR points count (DC championship?), but it should still be a very good time.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVK8SaJUccY
PAPA is back and ready to teach you how to play High Speed.
There is a LOTR on location on midlo tpke in skyzone trampoline park. It is in pretty good shape for a routes game. The rubber and the pops are tired and the switch on the left vuk doesn’t work. It also leans right, but it is still pretty fun.
They aren’t what you would call a tutorial, but this is how some of us responded to the heat and the pressure of the River City Flipper season 3 tournament.
http://youtu.be/vmwf0B3qsAw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEF6IhHDuao
Bowen has returned with another excellent tutorial. I have only seen this game once. I played it a few times and felt like I had no idea what was going on. Bowen is better at pinball than I am.
Season three ended with a pot luck dinner/tournament. Here is how things ended. Congrats to the winners!
Vid1900 is a pinside.com member who has a tremendous knowledge of pinball history and repair. His guides are so well done that they have been included as sticky topics on pinside.com.
In order to make them easier to access, a pinsider has converted them to .pdf and uploaded them to Dropbox.
They can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ec0fk9vgy0wvysc/vXKp5Spsla.
http://http://youtu.be/4Y1ApD20trI
Dutch Pinball has released another slick video for Big Lebowski. This one contains a cabinet mock up showing some good looking cabinet art and what looks like an LCD in the backbox displaying a clip from the movie.
Tiltwarning is a group that works with artists to create custom re-themed pinball machines. In looking at their website this morning, I noticed that they were responsible for the machine Freak Out. This machine has striking art that made it stand out among the many, many machines in the PAPA facility. Taylor played it during his round at Pinburgh this year and I don’t think he walked away happy with his outing. Take a look through the site at the incredible art on their machines.
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