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Todd Russell
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Humpday Wednesday Pinball #8: Blade Runner - Replicant Edition (Future Pinball FizX 3) | Class of 1812 (Gottlieb 1991) | TX-Sector (Gottlieb 1988) - all Virtual Pinball
Humpday Wednesday Pinball #8 - a tornado of virtual pinball action - at our PGM Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/todd_russell live streaming from 6am - 10am PST (GMT-8) and each week we feature multiple tables to…
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Pinside Virtual Pinball Club - Over 3k Posts
Created some 9+ years ago, here's one gigantic sinkhole of virtual pinball at Pinside: Pinside Virtual Pinball Club ( https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/virtual-pinball-club ) that includes pics of a TON of…
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Skee-ball Rage in NJ Arcade: Woman Hits Child With Wild Skee-ball Throw
Just when you think you've heard of every kind of ignorant thing to do at an arcade, comes a woman getting angry about something and throwing a skeeball and hitting a child. Wish I was joking, as this appears to be what…
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Are Review Copy Gaming Experiences Less Trustworthy Than Owner's Experiences?
Recently, the topic of review copy hardware and games struck a nerve and seriously had to ask myself: is the experience of somebody that buys the game or hardware themselves different than those who get to trial it…
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My Wife Wants WICKED TUNA!
No, really, seriously, my wife has told me several times now after playing Wicked Tuna, that she wants it. I'm a huge fishing games fan myself, and this seems like the type of bada$$ game to have in the home arcade. 65"…
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Netflix Starts Limited Testing Cloud Streaming Games In Canada and UK
Netflix is beginning to test cloud-based game streaming in Canada nd the UK. Limited testing, according to this article: https://www.axios.com/2023/08/14/netflix-games-tvs-computers Computer players can use a mouse and…
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Developer Admits NBA Jam Is Rigged Against The Bulls
Love me some NBA Jam. In the 90s a co-worker and I at a restaurant job in a mall would go down to the arcade and play through the game beating every single team with our save progress in tact. Alas, we learned quickly…
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Humpday Wednesday Pinball #7: Aliens Legacy (FP FizX3) | Super Mario Bros (Gottlieb 1992) | Theatre of Magic (Bally 1995)
Humpday Wednesday Pinball #7 - tsunami of virtAual pinball action - at our PGM Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/todd_russell live streaming from 6am - 10am PST (GMT-8) and each week we feature multiple tables to…
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Next Level Pinball Museum Hillsboro, Oregon has all 22 Stern Insider Connected Machines as of 8/10/2023
If you ever get down near Portland, Oregon area, or heck don't mind a three hour drive from Seattle, WA, then Next Level Pinball Museum ( https://www.nextlevelpinballmuseum.com/ ) should be on your "must see" list as a…
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Steam Sale on Arcade and Pinball Games Aug 17-21, 2023
UPDATE 8/14/2023 @4:30pm PST: Looks like they moved the date of this event to Aug 17-21 instead of starting today. Note the picture in this post plus the picture actually showing at the link now. Didn't see a message…
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Cobra Kai Board Game $25 at Walmart - Played It, Yet?
Cobra Kai, Netflix hit TV series, callback to The Karate Kid movie series, now has a board game called, you got it, Cobra Kai: Polygon dishes details: Players draw from a roster of nine students from the show, training…
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Stern Pro Circuit Saturdays - Watch The Wizards Play
Saturdays, the 2020 Stern Pro Circuit ( https://sternpinball.com/stern-pro-circuit/ ) pinball wizards are playing on YouTube. Watching is a great way to learn more about the intricate ruleset for this game and see some…
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My 70s, 80s, 90s, 200s TV Mode shared by PGM Member reallybaked
Ok, so this is pretty cool to throw up in the background while playing your game of choice: an era TV mode which time capsules and displays throughout the decade. Here's the 80s: https://my80stv.com/ (my personal…
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Steam Weekly Event 8/7-8/14/2023: Visual Novels - But Are Visual Novels Enjoyable Interactive Games?
This week, August 7-14, 2023, Steam is featuring Visual Novels. We all have gaming genres we're weak on, and this is one of mine. I love reading, love a good story and did enjoy the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA…
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Humpday Wednesday Pinball #6: Austin Powers (Stern 2001) | IT Pinball Madness | Terminator 3 (Stern 2003) - All VPX
It's Humpday Wednesday Pinball #6 - a megaswarm of virtual pinball action - at our PGM Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/todd_russell live streaming from 6am - 10am PST (GMT-8) and each week we feature multiple…
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"88 MILES PER HOUR?!!!!!" - Back To The Future VPX ... Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads
On our recent road trip, Montana speed limit goes up to 80 MPH. There must be something wrong with the speedometer, though! https://www.tumblr.com/playgamesmore/724396272115646464/88-miles-per-hour On last week's…
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Are Ticket-Based "Arcade" Games Really Just Casinos for Kids?
Had a good little discussion in the PGM Discord yesterday about ticket redemption games that overwhelm most "arcades" seen in 2023. It started with a picture shared by PGM member Gamer_Nix (pictured right) and morphed…
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Relive Gaming Past in 80s Style AirBnB with over 100 Arcade Games, Including Some Rarities
If you live near/in North Carolina and are a fan of the 80s, culture and arcade gaming, then this AirBnB should be of interest . Yes, for $275/night, you can play over 100 arcade games and stay in an 80s brick house…
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Linux Beats MacOS for Steam Gamers as 2nd Most Popular OS in July 2023
This is what the Steam Deck has done for the Linux OS: made it #2. Yes, a distant #2 behind Windows, but it has bested MacOS, via Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers : In July's survey, Windows was still reported…
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PGM Member MikeyJ Shares Gameplay of Raiden
Can you tell from the screenshot below what game this is(?) Ok, the title of this post gives it away, but as anticlimactic as that might be, Raiden is still a good game. In fact, one of the former iiRcadians show…
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Humpday Wednesday Pinball #5: Simpson's Pinball Party (Stern 2003) | Starship Troopers (Sega 1997) | Back To The Future (Data East 1990) - All VPX Versions
It's Humpday Wednesday Pinball #5 - a buffet of virtual pinball action - at our PGM Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/todd_russell live streaming from 6am - 10am PST (GMT-8) and each week we feature multiple tables…
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Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart Not Selling Very Well On Steam/PC So Far
Is Sony over-reaching with its strategy to bring PlayStation 5 titles to PC a couple years after exclusitivity on their famed console? Am not sure it's that much so much as the number of people that have already played…
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Goodbye Jam.GG, AKA Piepacker Shared by PGM Member Meatball Saucey
A gaming service with potential has fallen, something we're never happy to report on. This past week, perhaps the worst named gaming service ever, Piepacker, which changed their name to the almost as bad Jam.gg,…
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Helping Out Local Businesses By Promoting Stern Insider Connectivity - Flip Off, CaskCades
As mentioned here at PGM last week (see: Stern Insider Connected - Turn it on, Owners! ), it seems odd paying $7-10,000 for a pinball machine (or leasing from a vendor for hundreds of $$$ a month + profit split),…
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Flip Off Arcade - Puyallup, Washington - Customer Review
Intended to leave this mezmerizing review on Pinside , but you have to be a verified member there to leave any reviews. Looking into that process, it seems it's a paid deal, most likely to keep riff raff like me out, so…
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For the Low Price of $3,250 You Can Read This Report On the Future Of Pinball 2023-2031 - OR ... Use Common Sense And Guess Along With Us
Relax, tongue firmly in cheek. Will admit being curious about the future of pinball and this OrbisResearch findings, but then made the mistake of clicking through to see how much it would cost to buy this report. Before…
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Thumbs Down For This Sega Game Monetization Patent
Not sure any gamer is going to like the proposed (?) Sega patent described in this MSN article: Sega Patent Could Spell Bad News for Gamers A Sega patent could spell bad news for gamers, as the patent hints at plans to…
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Aerosmith (Stern Pro Tribute 2017)| Lord of the Rings Valinor Edition | The X-Files [Humpday Wednesday Pinball #4]
Time for Humpday Wednesday Pinball #4 - of the virtual pinball variety today - at our PGM Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/todd_russell live streaming from 6am - 10am PST (GMT-8) and each week we feature multiple…
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Dungeons & Dragons Animated TV Series Finale Episode Fan-Made is ... WOW - shared by Hollywood Polo
A good friend of mine, fellow PGM member, and co-host of Tuesday's High Noon with Hollywood Polo show (Noon PST, GMT-8) sends me all kinds of stuff all the time to check out. Most of it is game-related. The following is…
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Venom Can Do Something No Other Pinball Has Done Before - Saves Your Progress Toward Wizard Mode
Sure, let's talk Venom. Last week we covered Stern Insider Connected here: https://www.playgamesmore.com/2023/07/stern-insider-connected-machines-turn.html -- it's a really neat feature that, unfortunately, is not…
