Popular Mechanics Lists Top 8 Innovative Pinball Machines and other news
Posted: August 8th, 2008 by BounceBack
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4276614.html
And Kickback has one of them sitting in his basement, in need of loving mechanical TLC…
In other news, the CurrentTV documentary got picked up for cable! so hopefully we’ll be hearing some new voices on the message boards and seeing some new posts. Keep adding content.
If anyone has time, it would be great to get some pics and a solid review of Batman up on the website, from our perspective. So far Pinballnews.com is the only place online with much at all to say about it, and it would be nice to get some solid opinions up from the CFF POV. Seems like it could be a good game if they would complete the modes and give players something to go on. Disappointing that this is yet another new game with only one ramp.
Also, if we’re serious about adding a Reno chapter and deepening the Seattle chapter, i know a couple of people in Reno who would be interested.
Lastly– the last meeting was low-energy and low-turnout. There are tons of ballers in this town. It would be great if people would invite anyone they see around town playing that seems at least a little interested, to come out to a meeting and see what it’s about. Bring some friends to the next one– we’re going to have a cool mini-tournament and hopefully some intense ripping.
CFF!
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mgk 8 Aug 08 at 7:26 pm
any of you headed to Pittsburgh in a week?
Kickback 9 Aug 08 at 4:48 am
if I wasn’t broke
BounceBack 10 Aug 08 at 7:49 am
i wish i were, i didn’t realize it was august this year since it was so late last year, and i should’ve bought my ticket back in june when i was still out of town
mgk 10 Aug 08 at 8:53 pm
pinball
drinks
and pingpong
maybe i’ll catch back up with you all next year
PAPA 12 – August 13-16, 2009
(shhh)
peace
death save 10 Aug 08 at 11:59 pm
the entire seattle chapter will be at PAPA this year. imagine that!
BounceBack 11 Aug 08 at 11:09 am
well, it’s nice we finally got some rich folks on the team… win some prize money so we can put it all in the kitty! next year we’ll have a tournament and the winner can earn a ticket to PAPA.
actually… if we’d get on that shit ahead of time maybe we could get some sponsorship to actually do that around town here… that would be pretty nice.
rom 11 Aug 08 at 6:19 pm
I don’t think batman is worth an in-depth review. It’s simple, easy, and uninspired. And the 2.0 software still sucks. As you said on the message board, Stern is on a disappointing run. If batman does well (pulls in money) in the field, it’s because of branding, not gameplay.
Let’s hope something better comes out soon. The news games certainly have nice bounce and smooth playfields, but they just don’t have much flow or challenge or diversity.
mgk 13 Aug 08 at 11:16 am
hrm, dunno if this’ll work or not
mgk 13 Aug 08 at 11:16 am
html denied
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m75/overlookedover/PAPA11sneakpeek.jpg
Michael 14 Aug 08 at 9:06 am
Hey guys,
I’m JNK from Coinball.com… a pittsburgh-based pinball site. Check us out, join if you’d wish. I’m here visiting friends (I should be back home playing at PAPA) and just looking for some good pin-action.
I’m going to Ground Kontrol tomorrow afternoon, feel free to email me @ michael.jankosky at gmail if you’re playing at all this weekend
Cheers,
JNK
ROM 14 Aug 08 at 10:34 am
Michael, we’re putting together a mini-tournament this Sunday at the Alleyway on Alberta. Check out the message board for more details. You’re not at PAPA, but at least you can hang out at a bar and have a little competition.