Saturday November 2nd at 7PM Eastern (4 PM PST)

“Multi-year World Pinball Champion Bowen Kerins visits PAPA Headquarters for a live tutorial broadcast on Twitch.tv. Bowen will be demonstrating his skills as well as taking questions from viewers in the PAPAtvPinball Twitch chatroom.”

http://www.twitch.tv/papatvpinball

Today at Pinball Expo in Chicago, Planetary Pinball announced they will produce 1000 remakes of the extremely popular Medieval Madness Pinball Machine at around $8000 each.  Medieval Madness is often considered by collectors as the ‘holy grail’ pinball game to own, and prices within the last year for nice examples commanded $14000 or more.

When the question of whether or not any pinball game is worth north of ten grand comes up, inevitably the responses include a “Yes!  It’s that good” as a refute to the possibility there may be a bit of irrational exuberance, and it’s ugly brother ‘speculation’, behind the game’s recent skyrocketing price trend.  Many claim they don’t care what the price does.  “I don’t care how high or low the price goes.  I’ll never sell it.  It’s a keeper for sure!”

With the proposition of buying a brand new Medieval Madness for $8000, will collectors insist on an original William’s-built Medieval Madness, and the associated maintenance and wear of a game that is over fifteen years-old?  Or will they opt for the New-in-box experience with a warranty, all new everything, zero cabinet fade and possibly some improvements?  And if the market prefers the latter, what will happen to the value of the original games?

User PinMeister on Pinside.com does not seem optimistic:

“I just sent the following to my distributor:

Clearly a case of Medieval Sadness for Mr. PinMeister.

And yet, I think after the run is sold, and assuming they don’t continue to produce the game thereafter, the continued increase in pinball’s popularity will slowly pull this title back into five-figure territory within a couple years.

Live long…and wppr.

Tonight’s the night!  See you there!

https://pinballbayarea.com/pinball-tournament/

The kickstarted-funded PAPA TV site is now live with a fresh new look for the venerable host of Pinburgh and the PAPA World Championships.  Watch game tutorials, competition footage and check your Circuit Standings.

Check it out!

http://papa.org/

It Never Drains in Southern California is an annual tournament run by Jim Belsito in sunny So Cal.  Start planning your trip down to San Dimas for the next event which is coming up January 17th – 19th, 2014.  Check out http://www.neverdrains.com/ for more info.

Take a look back at the 2012 Finals.  It’s a Nor Cal vs So Cal showdown as Josh Lehan and Neil Shatz battle Karl DeAngelo and Keith Elwin in the A Division Finals. Johnny Modica and Karl DeAngelo provide the commentary.

STERN’s newest game STAR TREK has arrived. Play it at Hi Life pizza at the corner of 14th and Franklin Streets in Downtown Oakland, only a short walk from 12th Street BART. And it’s the only pizza place in the bay area where you can order a slice of pizza with Reggiano and duck bacon.

The next meeting for the new Belles and Chimes Women’s Pinball League is October 14.

It’s not too late to join up!  Check out the Belles and Chimes website for more details:

http://bellesandchimespinball.com/

A possible distant cousin to Josh Sharpe…