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FREE  HAND STAMP for admission to the Pacific Pinball Museum
Show runs through July 20, 2012
For more information, please contact K Gallery Director d’Arci Bruno at415-608-4857.

P3 pinball  introduced a design concept using an interactive LCD as part of the playfield and got a very enthusiastic response.  They’ve decided to take the concept to the next stage and manufacture games based on the idea.

At the same time, a UK player and Operator Andrew Heighway has also been working behind the scenes on a new game and he and his team are gearing up for the next step.  Pinballnews has all the info:

P3 pinball: http://www.pinballnews.com/games/p3/index.html

Circe’s Animal House by Heighway Pinball: http://www.pinballnews.com/games/circe/index2.html

The East Bay Pinball League, based out of Phoenix Games in Concord, is starting their next season on Thursday 7/19.  Players of all skill levels are encouraged to attend.

For more info: http://www.eastbaypinball.org/

A design concept watch inspired by pinball.

More info: http://gallery.thecreatorsproject.com/gallery/RINGEN-WATCH-CONCEPT/2929277

Pacific Pinball Museum participated in the 4th of July parade in Alameda.  Below is their mobile pinball museum the Little Ju Ju.

The Little Ju Ju will be at the Jack London Waterfront this Friday July 7 for some free pinball fun.  PPM will also be at Rock Paper Scissors, 2278 Telegraph Ave in Oakland, for a new art show opening.  Both events are free.

Photo by Gem Gruber

Tournament at 7pm at Vitus, 201 Broadway in Oakland.

Format is double elim.  $5 entry + coin drop.  Raffle prizes.  Cash to top 8  See you there!

Creepy. Kooky. Mysterious. Spooky!  

A German pinball enthusiast modifies The Addams Family into a widebody machine as well as customizing just about every area of the playfield with one of a kind modifications.  

More pictures and other projects here: http://www.specialpinball.de/html/showroom1.html

“We knew they were going to give us a check but we didn’t know how much,” said Jennie Bauman who is the organization’s Treasurer.

Full Article: http://dixon.patch.com/articles/teen-center-nets-10-400-from-pinball-fundraiser

The tournament raised $425 this year.  Thanks to sponsors STERN Pinball, Playland not at the Beach, Pacific Pinball Museum and Pinball Video, and volunteers from local pinball leagues CCPL, EBPL and BAPA!

Here’s a few games currently under the restoration knife at the Pacific Pinball Museum.

Bally’s Glamour (1940) was made before flippers were invented in 1947.  You could plunge and nudge, that’s it.  Games of this era were commonly used for gambling.

Williams Control Tower (1951) .  By 1951, the majority of games had flippers but not quite like today, and much smaller.  Note the location  and how they’re facing outward.

Gottlieb Silver – 1957.  Flippers are where we expect them, and the direction we’re all used to.  They wouldn’t be the full size we know until about a decade later.

Gottlieb’s Majorettes (1964) is a well-known game, but did you know Williams also made a game called Majorettes in 1952?

PPM’s TRON recently got a nice head-phone jack mod in the coin-door.  TRON is one of the best-sounding games of all time with a soundtrack by Daft Punk.  Bring your headphones and check it out.