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CFF Message Board
Announcing a new feature on the website: a message board! It’s been noted that we need more ways to communicate with one another. So we set this up. So sign up and start communicating already.
http://crazyflipperfingers.com/talk
This is a public forum, centering around the gang and also any other pinball-related concerns in Portland. Tell friends, rivals, operators, and anyone else, and then let’s get this thing rolling. The portlandpinball.com message board is mostly dead and pretty impossible to sign up with. Our board has an easy registration, and, if it becomes active enough, we can turn it into the hub for pinball news and discussion in the region.
At the moment there is a “Site Suggestions” subforum. Use this forum to give us feedback, and to suggest additions/changes to the message board and website. This message board is new, so if something glitches, chill out and then tell us, and then we’ll fix it.
Gang members: There is a hidden, private forum intended for internal matters. When you register, Multiball or I will grant you access to this forum (within a reasonable amount of time). If you aren’t given access within a few days, shoot me an email at master.cob at gmail.com, and I’ll get you set up.
Have at it!
New Members and Pinball Business News
Crazy Flipper Fingers is proud to present two recently initiated members:
Slingshot (previously known as Josh Pio) is the youngest member of CFF. Slingshot is always surrounded by beautiful women. He is truly a Pinball Playboy. This factor weighed strongly in our decision to initiate him. Aside from his lovely companions and charming disposition, Slingshot is also one of the most versatile and loyal Pinball players on the Planet. He has earned himself a reputation on the local Pinball circuit as a man who is never satisfied nor satiated. This same reputation applies to beer, too.
If you see Slingshot playing Spiderman till close at Bar of the Gods, offer to buy him a drink. I guarantee that he will beat you to the bartender and return with a pitcher of Pabst Blue Ribbon for everyone. (This factor also weighed strongly in our decision to initiate Slingshot.) Til’ Death!
ROM (previously known as Ryan Gratzer) is an amazing and energetic Pinballer. He has shown constant dedication to the pursuit of new levels of Pinmania. He even practices Pinball in his sleep on the virtual machines that he has mapped out in the ether of the Universe. Not only is he a Grand Champ on Attack from Mars, he is the Grand Champ of the Planet Mars. He could probably cure cancer or be the world’s next young billionaire, but instead he would rather get to BOSS on Sopranos. We thank ROM for making the right decision.
If you see ROM at your local arcade please offer him a towel. He is probably still soaked with beer from CFF’s wettest initiation EVER! Til’ Death!
In other important Pinball news, Crazy Flipper Fingers has filed paperwork with the state of Oregon to become a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation. We figured that one scumbag probably can’t save the world, but maybe 20 scumbags that play Pinball can. Our goal is to spread the good word of Art, Life and Pinball to the children of Multnomah county so that they may grow up with the love of Pinball instilled in their hearts. CFF will be holding Pinball fundraisers, tournaments and marathons to raise money to start a CFF Youth Brigade. The children are our future, it is our goal to corrupt them in the present.
Stay tuned in for more details…
Til’ Death!
Golden Girls Pinball?
In theory you can have a great pinball machine without having a great theme. STERN, the only manufacturer of pinball machines has just released Wheel of Fortune. When I first heard of Wheel of Fortune pinball, I was thinking it could be pretty cool and despite the geriatric theme it might actually be a fun table to play on. Angelo’s in Portland was the first to pick up the new machine and so far the verdict is that the new game is horrible.
I must admit the graphics and displays on the game are really cool and the actual wheel isn’t that bad, it’s the shots the drains the bumper in the middle and about 100 other things about this machine that are just wicked.
Why didn’t someone at STERN just step up and say, “Hey, this gameplay really sucks.”
I guess not all machines STERN produces can be winners, I’m going to say that Wheel of Fortune is probably better than Nascar at least.
Spiderman pinball was and is a totally awesome game, I hope that the next machine they produce (Transformers?) will be more thought out and have a bit better play to it.
What is the demographic of pinball players really?
Here are some ideas for pinball machines that will reach out to that older demographic that Wheel of Fortune seems to be marketed towards.
Murder She Wrote Pinball
Matlock Pinball
The View Pinball
Opera Pinball?
Wilfred Brimley’s Quaker Oats Party Pinball?
I’m sure the list could go on and on.
The theme doesn’t really matter as long as it has good play.
Nice try STERN.
I’m wonder what Crocodile Hunter is going to be like???
