Timely, albeit predictably, Stern Insider Connected quests for the end of October – Halloween – through the 13th of November it’s Elvira time. Stern last had us visiting Elvira House of Horrors in January 2024.
The leaderboard for the entire month is Elvira here: https://insider.sternpinball.com/insider/events/12622/leaderboards/XyL-PbVvZ-JVc?game=EHH
“During late October and early November, any Insider Connected Elvira machine, home owned, or venue operated, will be eligible for the “Films of Frights” a macabre movie quest. Players must have a Insider Connected account in order to participate in the quest.” – Elvira’s House of Horrors November 2024 Insider Connected quest: https://insider.sternpinball.com/insider/events/12387/leaderboards
There are 11 total Elvira quests to complete as follows:
- Start Wild Women of Wonga multiball
- Start Night of the Living Dead
- Start Manos: Hands of Fate
- Start The Werewolf of Washington
+ 7 more:
- Start The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- Start The Manster
- Start Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
- Start The Giant Gila Monster
- Start Add-A-Zombie multiball
- Start The Satanic Rites of Dracula
- Start EEGAH
Part of me is curious why during October more quests for Stranger Things and The Munsters weren’t featured besides this one (BOO-TIFUL SCORE):
This Elvira makes one sense. Wonder what’s going to follow … as there aren’t really any Thanksgiving-themed Spike 2 Stern pins.
A year ago? Godzilla Day on 11/3/2023. Does not appear, at least yet, that this badge can be re-earned yet. Stern has been somewhat randomly dropping quests throughout the month, not just at the beginning, so wouldn’t be surprised — in fact, expect — they drop more, especially since these Elvira quests end 11/13/2024. Stay tuned IC quest hunters!
Prior Stern Insider Connected quests history by month (since they started doing monthly quests):
Since October 2023, Stern has offered quests to earn virtual badges on a monthly frequency. Here’s a historical record of our coverage. NOTE: prior to October 2023, there were other quests in 2023, like a Foo Fighters quest that spanned multiple months for a tour, but there weren’t month-specific quests. There were also some months where there were global tournaments only.
- (#13) October 2024 – October 2024 Stern Insider Connected Quests + New This Week Game Releases (NTWIG) 9/30 – 10/6/2024
- (#12) September 2024 – OPINION: Stern Insider Connected is Positive for the Future of Pinball + September 2024 Insider Connected Seasonal Quests
- (#11) August 2024 – August 2024 Insider Connected Quests + Deadpool Quests
- (#10) July 2024 – More Jaws July 2024 Insider Connected Quests + Seasonal Quests + John Wick Contract Quests Introduced – PlayGamesMore
- (#9) June 2024 – What’s Coming in IC Future? (UNOFFICIAL) + June 2024 Stern Pinball Insider Connected Quests
- (#8) May 2024 – Humpday Wednesday #41 Jaws (Stern 2024) Live Play + 50 Day Streak + FX Tournament + May 2024 Insider Connected Quests
- (#7) April 2024 – April 2024 Insider Connected Events 6 Quests+ Avengers Infinity Quest Tournament + Constructive Criticism for March Machine Mania – PlayGamesMore
- (#6) March 2024 – UPDATED Stern Pinball Insider Connected March Machine Mania Has Arrived – 007 Tourney + Increased Logout Time + Surprise Quests?
- (#5) February 2024 – Stern Pinball spreads togetherness in eight February 2024 Insider Connected Quests
- (#4) January 2024 – January 2024 Stern Insider Connected Quests: Elvira House of Horrors Featured
- (#3) December 2023 – Stern Insider Connected December 2023 Quests for Virtual Badges Details, Game on!
- (#2) November 2023 –TIME-SENSITIVE – November 2023 Stern Pinball Insider Connected Quests: Godzilla Day, George Gomez Spotlight and The Heroes Quest
- (#1) October 2023 –Stern Pinball Insider Connected Quest October 2 – 31, 2023: Jurassic Park Dino DNA
HUMPDAY WEDNESDAY #67
It’s a Pinball FX + M rank-a-thon #2 on the stream. Going to see how many of Zen Pinball FX I can rate/rank on today’s Humpday stream with a special focus on spooky/horror/Halloween-themed virtual pinball games. We’ll also review and rank all the Pinball M games, including the newest one released this last week: Camp Bloodbrook (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3229800/Pinball_M__Camp_Bloodbrook/)
Humpday Wednesday Show #67 – 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 + more ranking and review of FX pins
- Rank-a-thon #2 features all Pinball M games ranked/reviewed:
- Camp Bloodbrook (new!)
- Chucky’s Killer Pinball
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- System Shock Pinball
- Duke Nukem
- Dead By Daylight
- Wrath of the Elder God: Director’s Cut
- Plus, as many of these FX pins as time permits will be ranked/reviewed:
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Crypt of the Necromancer
- Curse of the Mummy
- Godzilla
- Godzilla vs. Kong
- Grimm Tales
- Kong
- Jaws (already rated)
- Jurassic Park
- Jurassic Park: Pinball Mayhem
- Jurassic Park: World
- Marvel: Fear Itself
- Marvel: Ghost Rider
- Monster Bash
- Sorceror’s Lair
- Twilight Zone
- Verne’s Mysterious Island
- World War Z (already rated)
- Time permitting – 13 Halloween-themed Horror VPX pins featured on the PGM iScored + Blood Machines
- America’s Most Haunted
- Blood Machines
- Bubba The Redneck Werewolf
- Chucky
- Creepshow
- Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- Frankenstein
- Friday the 13th
- Halloween
- Horrorburg
- Killers Hall of Fame
- Night of the Living Dead
- Scooby Doo
- Tales from the Crypt
- Update on my Stern Iron Maiden Pinball Facebook group, you can join here: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/EdRaFjuhotAgKK64/ – if you like Iron Maiden and are on Facebook, come on in
- Pinball-related news, views and pinball happenings
- ???
Virtual Pinball
PGM Weekly FX Tournament #47: Creature from the Black Lagoon
Available in this Steam/PC DLC:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2351799/Pinball_FX__Williams_Pinball_Universal_Monsters_Pack/
Password: Open/no password
Search ID#: J758
3 minutes timed / 7 attempts
Note: this tournament table will be launched live during the Twitch stream Wednesday 10/30/2024 and the tournament will end Wednesday 11/6/2024 during the Humpday Wednesday Twitch stream around 8am PST.
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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!
Bob