Humpday Wednesday #42 – new FX Tournament + playing Stern Pinball Jaws Premium (week #8 of ??) at our PGM Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/playgamesmoredotcom LIVE streaming from 6am – 11am PST (GMT-8). We get you over the hump!
Of course geeks, freaks and fans of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy know the number 42 as the be-all/end-all! Randomly totally non-pinball but potentially fun: 42 Clever Quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – TCK Publishing
Hola! Got to flip the following barbecue slathered, need wet naps after eating/playing, firsthand:
- Live JAWS Premium Pinball play – beat the best streamed score ever
- New FX Tournament launched + recap of last week’s leaderboard high scores + play in tournaments created by others
- Finally got to play Barry O’s Barbecue pinball last Friday 5/3/2024 at Next Level and will share my firsthand flip thoughts. Spoiler: was severely underwhelmed!
- Looking over the IFPA top pinball players list: https://www.ifpapinball.com/rankings/overall.php including Zach Sharpe (#63) son of Roger Sharpe (see: Bought, Watched Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game + 8 Roger Sharpe Designed Pinball Machines and 6 VPIN Recreations)
- Modern pinball games not played yet in order from most want to play to least:
- John Wick (Stern 2024)
- Labyrinth
- Queen
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Looney Tunes
- P3 modules: Princess Bride (The Princess Bride Sets New Pricing High for P3 Module Pricing: $1,500 Deposit, $5,000 for LE, $3,750 for Standard) & Final Resistance (Scott Danesi)
- Pinball-related news:
- Something pinball-related that is *BIG* that is pretty cool to share. If you arrive late to the show, you might have to ask in the Twitch chat about what this means. It’s a surprise intended to be shared first during the live stream!
- John Wick is the second 2024 cornerstone pinball from Stern – let’s see how this one stacks up, based on what we know about this so far based entirely on what others are saying and showing, including Stern themselves: features, functionality, artwork, assets and more — and yes, we’ll talk about the no guns brand mandate
- John Wick PGM article released before John Wick details were released/known and will be live updated during the stream: John Wick (Stern 2024) Wishlist vs. Reality + plan to update after playing soon (hopefully!)
- John Wick playfield picture close-up with detail: Stern Pinball reveals John Wick pinball machines – Retro Refurbs
- Hands-on with the new John Wick pinball | Ars Technica
- Vic_VP discusses his experience in detail playing John Wick before the game is even announced in this video (try to ignore his incessant use of “intelligent lighting” versus expression lighting)
- John Wick in a Bruce Lee pose? (see below “Anonymous participant”) – this is odd, but kind of funny
This is odd, but definitely the author definitely loses points for being “anonymous.” Is this somebody with an axe to grind against Stern, a cowardly troll or just somebody that worries about personal backlash by signing a name to a point of view? I didn’t know “Anonymous Participant” was even a thing on FB/Meta/whatever the heck they are calling themselves these days.
Virtual Pinball
Virtual pinball players: we’re going to focus all month long on Star Wars-related pinball. Hope you will join in on the fun.
PGM Weekly FX Tournament #25: The Mandalorian
play guide: https://pinballfx.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Mandalorian
Password: Open/no password
Search ID#: YA28
3 minutes timed / 7 attempts
Note: this tournament table will be launched live during the Twitch stream Wednesday 5/1/2024 and the tournament will end Wednesday 5/8/2024 during the Humpday Wednesday Twitch stream around 7:30am PST.
FX Tournament History – classic rules, unlimited plays, unless otherwise noted
Humpday Wednesday #18 – FX Tournament #1: Twilight Zone
#19 – FX #2: Monster Bash
#20 – FX #3: Star Trek The Next Generation
#21 – FX #4: Attack From Mars
#22 – FX #5: Jurassic Park
#23 – FX #6: Charlie Brown’s Christmas
#24 – FX #7: Jaws
#25 – FX #8: Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
#26 – FX #9: No Good Gofers
#27 – FX #10: Exploding Kittens
#28 – FX #11: Godzilla vs. Kong
#29 – FX #12: The Getaway
#30 – FX #13: Medieval Madness
#31 – FX #14: White Water
#32 – FX #15: Son of Zeus – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#33 – FX #16: Castle Storm – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#34 – FX #17: Adventure Land – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#35 – FX #18: Pasha – 3 minutes, unlimited attempts
#36 – FX #19: Wild West Rampage – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#37 – FX #20: Monster Bash – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#38 – FX #21: Hurricane – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#39 – FX #22: Ghost Rider – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#40 – Pinball FX3 #23: (this week) Fallout – 5 minutes, 5 plays max
#41 – (STAR WARS MONTH) – Pinball FX #24: Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#42 – FX #25: The Mandalorian – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
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You can search for “Humpday” here at PGM and find details on all 24 episodes of Season 1 Pinball (virtual) + play and enter scores for any/all of the virtual pinball games we played on stream (and several not featured)
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In addition to what’s mentioned above, YOU can play, too. Some of our virtual pinball require Visual Pinball and Future Pinball software as well as the table files which are all free to download.
There is a spreadsheet where we share where to acquire the necessary pinball table files linked on every page at this blog and also here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iRcwa4znh8FL-0DdME5XNcQCM-CTjeTdPnfNcTrh9-E/edit?usp=sharing. Be sure to use default settings for all tables, unless otherwise noted and make sure you’re playing the version listed in the yellow highlight at the top of our iScored leaderboard page. Then, simply, play the game and try and beat your personal best. Once you’ve done so, share the score.
You can share on our PGM iScored here: https://www.iscored.info/?mode=public&user=Playgamesmore. Once we see some scores and activity one of our PGM members will add you to our semi-private Discord (if we don’t, then contact us and ask) where we score chase all kinds of different games: arcade games, modern Steam games, we stream games, play co-op and more. As of this writing we’re also score chasing arcade games and recapping them on Saturday mornings.
We are a friendly group, open to all adult gamers at least 18 years of age and look forward to seeing your scores! Game on, everybody!