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Pinball
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My wild and wacky pinball dream!
Today, we're going to learn more about the next Keith Elwin Stern Pinball game: King Kong. In the meantime, a week ago, I had a dream about pinball. They provided a pretty much worthless teaser video I'm embedding…
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Play and Solve Jigsaw Puzzle Portal (Multimorphic P3 2025) Extended Edition (49 pieces)
Recently, we attended the Texas Pinball Festival and my personal favorite new game played there was P3 Portal. Yes, I liked playing that more than Evil Dead, I know that's a hot take, but it's true. There are some…
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Evil Dead (Spooky 2025) Detailed First Thoughts after Flipping on Location
At TPF ( Unpacking random thoughts after attending first Texas Pinball Festival 2025 with pics + Humpday Wednesday 3/26 ) got my first chance to play Evil Dead. That game, you know, with the killer looking topper. Oh…
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Play and Solve Evil Dead (Spooky 2025) playfield (36 pieces)
Spooky Pinball announced this game, Evil Dead, in November 2024 and it sold out by TPF in March 2025. It is one of the most gorgeous theme tie-in I've ever seen on any pinball machine and tomorrow will be sharing my…
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Multimorphic P3 Has Connected Pinball Feature
Regularly here at PGM, we talk about the importance of connected pinball, which Stern is prominently at the forefront of the pinball companies with their Insider Connected service, see: OPINION: Stern Pinball has…
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What it means when Pinball folks say their game is "Bolted to the floor"
I get a kick out of some of the talk in gaming circles. A somewhat common thing you'll hear about pinball is a game is "bolted to the floor." Typically bolting a pinball machine literally to the floor doesn't sound like…
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SingersRoom Rates "Pinball Wizard" as Pete Townshend's Third Best Song Ever
The Who have a bunch of great rock songs and their iconic guitarist, Pete Townshend has penned many. The website Singersroom rated the top 10 Townshend songs, rating "Pinball Wizard" as #3. With its infectious melody,…
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Vacation Heading from WA state to Texas + Stuff to do near TPF + Humpday Wednesday + More
By the time this is published, 4/5th of our fam this morning will be boarding a plane headed to Texas to see the biggest casino in the world: the Winstar ( https://www.winstar.com/ ) and later this week, the Texas…
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Here's what the first year of modern pinball machine ownership is like - Jaws Stern 2024 Premium
Tomorrow, 3/14/2025 will be one year since my son received his Stern Pinball Jaws premium that was ordered literally the day it was announced in January 2024. This year Stern's cornerstone launched at CES 2025 was…
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D&D gets 0.86 Update + TPF a week away + Zaccaria Pinball gets another game + Humpday Wednesday 3/12
Here we are at that wonderful juncture in the week called Hump Day or rather we condense to humpday just to be different, where we talk and hopefully can play all things pinball: real pinball, virtual pinball, games…
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PGM Interview #2: Elizabeth Gieske Stern Pinball programmer for Jaws & Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye - Behind the Code (Video + Full Transcript)
On Monday March 3, 2025, a short week ago, PGM sat down virtually with Stern Pinball programmer Elizabeth Gieske for an hour and learned what it's really like working on the code of modern pinball games: Jaws (Stern…
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OPINION: Does Game Machine Size Matter? Yes, for a business, anyway
Please forgive the playful undertone of the title question, because of course size matters ... when it comes to pinball machines and arcades everything is just getting bigger and bigger. And look at the picture, which…
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Elizabeth Gieske on Working at Stern Pinball + Selling Atgames Stuff on FB + Humpday Wednesday 3/5
If you missed our enlightening PGM Interview #2 live with Stern Pinball programmer Elizabeth Gieske during our (No) Blue Monday special on 3/3/2025, we'll be sharing a transcript of that in a future article here,…
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Avengers: Infinity Quest Novice Strategies
One of my most want to play more, underplayed Stern Spike 2 pins to date, Keith Elwin designed Stern pins is Avengers: Infinity Quest . From my limited personal gameplay, watching gameplay and reading comments from…
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Here's how to tumble and re-use pinballs -- does it make sense?
Since our family purchased three new pinball machines in 2024 and we've played literally thousands of games on them so far, we're starting to amass a collection of used pinballs. Next thoughts were: what to do with all…
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Play Crossword Puzzle #3 - Iron Maiden Pinball Edition
No downloads, play and solve an Iron Maiden music crossword puzzle below on your PC desktop, tablet or mobile phone. Built by PlayGamesMore with the online cross word maker from Amuse Labs How fast can you completely…
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye (0.85 code) Stern Pinball Pro 2025 Detailed First Thoughts After Flipping on Location
I've been excited to flip the new Stern Dungeons & Dragons pinball more than any other theme in years. Seriously, we need to go back to Godzilla since I was last this excited for a theme. Certainly more than anything…
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Through the Looking Glass of Humpday Wednesday Pinball 2/19/2025
It's that midweek get over the hump and chat all things pinball. What have you heard the last week? Yesterday, I was asked about a Kickstarter $1,000 real pinball machine called Alice Goes To Wonderland (…
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We will be at Texas Pinball Festival on Saturday March 22, 2025, Are you Attending?
We are going on vacation next month and will be visiting the world's largest casino: Windstar Casino. To end the week that we are there, we'll be attending the Texas Pinball Festival ( https://texaspinball.com/tpf/ ) on…
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Humpday Wednesday 2/12/2025: Stern Insider Connected 2024 Stats Now Available, George Gomez Interview + More Daily Zaccaria Pinball
It's time for another Humpday Wednesday, to catch up on the world of pinball and get us over the hump of the week! First up, Stern jumped into their Stern Insider Connected database and compiled the 2024 stats. You can…
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Ninja Eclipse (Turner Pinball 2024) Detailed First Thoughts after Flipping on Location
On Saturday February 1, 2025 we got our first chance to flip the rare Turner Pinball original theme game Ninja Eclipse about 30 minute south of Tacoma, WA at an arcade called Insert Coin. How rare? Turner are only…
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9+ years ago Magic Pixel ran Indiegogo for Zaccaria Pinball development, now they're flirting with AI artwork
Recently, Zaccaria Pinball received an update. It's a bit controversial for some, because they are using AI generated art for some of the new and remakes of Zaccaria pins. Due to Steam rules for developers they had to…
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Skullbox686 Daily Zaccaria Score Chasing Recap #1 + Humpday Wednesday 2/5/2025
PGM Member Skullbox686 has been running a Zaccaria Pinball (Steam/PC https://store.steampowered.com/app/444930/Zaccaria_Pinball/ ) daily score challenge in our Discord that I decided to recap each week on Wednesday…
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It's Humpday Wednesday 1/29/25, Where is Pinball headed in 2025?
On the drive home from field work today, I started to ponder where pinball is headed in 2025? It was a long car drive and I was tired after a long work day. It feels like a topic I'll eventually ponder on a live stream,…
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Sunday April 20, 2025: Goal to set personal livestream record of 17+ Hours Playing Pinball while standing
Set your schedules and follow https://www.twitch.tv/playgamesmoredotcom , because on Sunday April 20, 2025 , I hope to break our PlayGamesMore longest Twitch live stream record of just over 16 hours, by playing 17+…
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Should Every Hobby like Pinball have equal participation and representation with men and women?
Don't fall off the earth on this one, but I think most reasonable people would agree that not every hobby requires equal participation between both sexes and certainly some specific sports are heavy and/or completely…
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Trump Custom Pinball Machine is Reskinned Roller Coaster Tycoon + Humpday Wednesday 1/22/2025
It's another Humpday Wednesday and we're here to get you over the hump. It's hard not commenting on the inauguration this week because turn on the TV and it's everywhere, but we don't do politics or religion here, we do…
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What games will actually need a 50-series GPU and still be fun to play? + Happy Humpday Wednesday 1/8/2025 + D&D play by others at CES
It's Humpday Wednesday 1/8/2025 and CES 2025 week underway and we're bound to see and hear plenty of what is coming out later this year and beyond -- including some early Stern Pinball Dungeons & Dragons Pinball. But…
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The Dragon in the room that is Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye from Stern Pinball
For those not living under a pinball rock, yesterday, Friday 1/3/2025 Stern Pinball shared more of the details on their first cornerstone of 2025: Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye (…
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Happy New Year's 2025 + Humpday Wednesday #68 - Break a billion goal + Stern announces Dungeons & Dragons as first cornerstone of the year
The last live Humpday Wednesday stream was on October 30, 2024 and the next week, November 6 would have been the 68th show. That show didn't happen, neither did the following week, and the week after that we announced…
