Humpday Wednesday #47 – new FX Tournament + playing games 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 the week and have as much fun as we can in the process.
- New FX Tournament launch + recap of last week’s leaderboard high scores + play in tournaments created by others
- New visit to Summer 2024 Pinball PlayGamesMore Event: Visit Multiple Insider Connected Locations: Greater Tacoma Convention Center Attending Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show June 7-9, 2024? We are!
- NW Pinball & Arcade Show 3-day Show Detailed Recap
- Friday –
- First tour of the show floor and machines available to play – size comparison between 2023 & 2024
- Slowest day to visit, best time(?)
- Necklaces and non-gaming related booths?
- Jaws Pro – registered score
- John Wick (Stern PREMIUM 2024) – first time play thoughts
- A.I ?
- Car bash
- Premium vs. Pro
- Current code vs. future code
- Overall Thoughts
- Saturday –
- Busiest of the three days (too busy!) – we were there in the afternoon and then later in the evening for a brief time
- Bought programmable DMD nametag
- Sunday –
- Last chance prices on machines, good overall day with limited traffic (busier than Friday, but not nearly as busy as Saturday)
- Creator of Q-Bert shows grandchildren magic card tricks at booth!
- Randy Martinez — official website: https://www.randymartinez.art/ (artist for John Wick, Star Wars and Mandalorian) Art Booth – spoke with him for a good 10-15+ minutes about what it was like working with Stern. Bought a book on how to draw monsters he authored including this sizzling tidbit in light of the launch gungate drama: early prototype artwork had John Wick with multiple guns!
- Martinez was selling the following book: Creature Features at his booth for $30 and he even signed one for our grandson, Axel.
- Friday –
- Modern pinball games not played yet in order from most want to play to least + what I’m looking most forward to playing with each one. Except for Labyrinth and Funhouse Remake, no representation of other pins.
- Labyrinth – at show 1 machine only, lines constantly
- Funhouse Remake – a couple machines – some lines at times, but did not play
- Queen – not at show
- ABBA – not at show, but giant advertising for it at the entrance
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre – not at show
- Looney Tunes – not at show
- P3 modules – no P3 at show – 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, views and pinball happenings
- New virtual pinball release: Pinball M – Texas Chainsaw Massacre ($5.49) – will buy, play and provide live first thoughts and reactions. Game is available on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2987650/Pinball_M__Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_Pinball/
- Stern Pinball releases Jaws accessories including a $1,000 topper and $149 barrel shooter rod, see video: JAWS Pinball Accessories Trailer – YouTube
- Early prototype of John Wick had upper playfield, says artist Randy Martinez, also another voice actor for callouts (Lance Reddick) was planned, but when he passed away, they went with Ian McShane. Sadly, IMO, there are not enough callouts in the current code.
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 #30: Jaws
available in this Steam/PC pack:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2351795/Pinball_FX__Universal_Classics_Pinball/
Password: Open/no password
Search ID#: F1VW
3 minutes timed / 7 attempts
Note: this tournament table will be launched live during the Twitch stream Wednesday 6/12/2024 and the tournament will end Wednesday 6/19/2024 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
#43 – FX #26: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#44 – FX #27: Knight Rider – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#45 – FX #28: Xena – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#46 – FX #29: Super League Football – 3 minutes, 7 plays max
#47 – FX #30: Jaws – 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!
Bob