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Pacific Pinball Museum Halloween Bash

October 29, 2014

The PPM will be hosting its annual Halloween party including a dance party and live Comedy.  Only 20 bucks, you cheap bastards.  No better Halloween deal in the Bay Area.  See you there!

 

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Deleted Pinball Scene from the film ‘Blended’

October 20, 2014

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Embedding disabled so click the link: http://vimeo.com/105089731

Antidoto Design

October 14, 2014

A soccer promo.

Pin a Go Go is only Seven Months Away!

October 14, 2014

This pic will get out there anyway so I might as well post it…

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Bonus hidden cow in this pic

Huge thanks to Brad Grant for opening his home and collection for the Pin a Go Go volunteer appreciation party.  It was an awesome time.

The next PAGG is May 15 – 17, 2015.  The show keeps getting better.  Book your hotel/motel/No-tel spots early!

Tournament at Gestalt Haus 11/4

October 13, 2014

Hey folks.  Recent bay area transplant Aaron Nelson will be hosting a tournament in SF.  Details below

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Gestalt Haus along with Allagash is hosting a Pinball and Beer event to raise money for Pinball Outreach Project on Nov. 4th.

Qualifying: Will be open from 1:00pm to 9:00pm. If you sign up from 1-4 you will receive 6 chances, from 4-8 you will receive 4 chances. No player may sign up after 8:00pm. Entry is $20.

There will be four machines that players will compete on using only two balls per game to record their best score. The top 3 scores on each machine will advance to the finals. If any player has a top score on more than one machine, the only score that will count will be the machine located furthest to the left on the leaderboard. Therefore allowing the 4th score on the next machine to advance to the finals.

Finals: Will be 4 player single game matches. The 4 players with the highest qualifying scores per machine will receive a bye. The other two matches will consist of two 2nd place scores and two 3rd place scores randomly assigned. The machine played will be randomly assigned as well.

Prizes: The top 4 players will be payed out after the pot is split and half is donated to POP.

Side Tourney: There will be a single ball high score side event where the winner will receive a Big Bang Bar translite. Unlimited entries, $5 a try. The entire side tourney cash take will be donated to POP.

Allagash Beer Specials: The entire day there will be beer specials on limited, special, and unique Allagash beer. A portion of the proceeds from all Allagash beer sales will be donated to POP.

Hope to see you all there.

Giant Heinekin Pinball Machine

October 13, 2014

This thing puts the Magnificent Marble Machine to shame.

HSN Arcade Advert

October 10, 2014

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HSN Advert.  They don’t allow embedding so you’ll have to click here: vimeo http://vimeo.com/97545563

Full Tilt

October 10, 2014

Now this one is special.  And who knew the god of pinball was Cee Lo Green with silver face paint?

The Morricones – Pinball

October 10, 2014

Andrei Massenkoff wins Ironman pinball machine!

October 10, 2014
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Above: Andrei Massenkoff plays Ironman

PAPA 2011 World Champion Andrei Massenkoff defeated 15 other finalists in the RadioShack Pinball tournament to commemorate the lifting of the decades-old pinball ban in Oakland, CA.  In addition to winning a $5000 pinball machine, Andrei also received $2500 cash to pay the taxes.

1 Andrei Massenkoff
2 Trent Augenstein
3 Hal Erickson
3 Neil Shatz
5 Dan Dempsey
5 Tim Hansen
5 Aaron Nelson
5 Mitch Tunick
9 Damien Charlety
9 Matt Willmarth
9 Chris Heilig
9 TJ Beyer
9 John Lautmann
9 Devon Kelly
9 James Squires
9 Walter Hurwitz

Big Lebowski Pinball Abides

October 1, 2014

The Onion has a feature article on Dutch Pinball‘s upcoming Big Lebowski machine.

http://www.avclub.com/article/amazing-prototype-big-lebowski-pinball-machine-abi-209821

Tim Arnold – Stop playing a boy’s game

September 11, 2014

The never-bashful Tim Arnold, the mind behind the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, drops an interview with www.casinotop10.net.

The full article and interview is here