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Instant Arcade<p>My Fish Tales <a href="https://leds.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> machine has a sticky flipper.</p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>Sup? <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/startrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startrek</span></a></p>
🖖 Olaf Zelesnik<p>Kleine Nachlese zur German Pinball Open in Hannover.</p><p><a href="https://www.flipperverein.de/2025-gpo-the-day-after/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flipperverein.de/2025-gpo-the-</span><span class="invisible">day-after/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://cyber4edu.org//pads/s/I0fhQfcOG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cyber4edu.org//pads/s/I0fhQfcO</span><span class="invisible">G</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/flipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flipper</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/GPO25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPO25</span></a></p>
Out of Print Archive (meppi64)<p>Advertisement for Dragon's Fury on Mega Drive.<br>Taken from Sega Power 36 - November 1992 (UK)</p><p>This issue can be downloaded here:<br><a href="https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/SegaPower.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">outofprintarchive.com/catalogu</span><span class="invisible">e/SegaPower.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <br><a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Sega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sega</span></a> <br><a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/MegaDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MegaDrive</span></a> <br><a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pinball</span></a></p>
KC-DOZ<p>If you really must know, I'm like the David Copperfield of getting the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> stuck where it was never meant to go...</p><p>I guess I also found a reason why not every table should have blade lights installed. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>In case you're wondering what prompted this, I've always been wondering why they went with a design this complex originally. I don't know about Funhouse, but Road Show has a software bug, which in very rare corner cases forgets to turn off these little coils. After seeing a lot of Road Show games, I see it's just mine that has fried coils in them, so I came up with a complete clean slate design with servos. In a lot of cases the fried coils destroy the control arms and linkage of the original parts, so there's not much to salvage. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinrepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinrepair</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>Road Show's (and Funhouse's) original head mechanism is an interesting beast. Here's a fully intact spare unit I have.</p><p>The eyelids have 3 positions; I call them "surprised", "bored" and "closed".</p><p>The game starts with closed state. To get the eyes open, the eyelid raise solenoid pulls. The eyelids stay in the surprised position for as long as the coil is energized, then drop onto a latch that keeps them in bored state. Subsequent eyelid raise solenoid pulls toggles between surprised and bored state.</p><p>Eyelid close solenoid trips the latch and the eyelids are pulled to closed state by a spring.</p><p>This design enables the game to be in the most usual states (bored &amp; closed) without frying the coils.</p><p>The eyes only move sideways and are centered by a spring. 2 solenoids pull them either side and they just move to their maximum sideways state with a loud snap.</p><p>The servo mod you might have seen me building uses the original control signals, but move the eyes and eyelids a bit more graciously.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinrepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinrepair</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>Have you ever seen pins on a cruise ship? For as long as I remember, the huge cruise ships in the Nordic area used to have really good arcades onboard. Always the latest vids and pins and naturally a full selection of gambling machines.</p><p>A lot of people go, "wait, isn't it impossible to play with the ship rocking and stuff?" and the answer is no, the ships are so big and well stabilised the sea is really not an issue, but the games were still bolted onto the deck!</p><p>But with often rowdy audience, the games had some noticeable mods done to them. The coin door had a beefy steel plate with more reinforcements inside. </p><p>They also had a credit board they used on simpler games to set the game price. I guess they just had those in every game.</p><p>The playfield usually plastic upper trim was now stainless steel and the bottom speaker had a protector on it too.</p><p>They had a keyed power switch so they could be turned off if the ship docked somewhere the operator couldn't legally do business in.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/cruise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruise</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>Here's the first test run of both servos at the same time, with the eyelid servo emulating the 3 positions the original mechanism can do. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinrepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinrepair</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/mods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mods</span></a></p>
Our Lost Arcade - The History<p>At MGC, we had the opportunity to play a really interesting early <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> table: Genco's Spit Fire.</p><p>It's very fast and open for a mechanical game. At the time, it was advertised for its lack of pins! In that way, it's a lot closer to modern pinball.</p>
SecretAntelope 🌈☕<p>Another fun table - Jokerz 🃏 </p><p><a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/vpin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vpin</span></a> <a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/virtualpinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtualpinball</span></a></p>
🖖 Olaf Zelesnik<p>Nur noch eine Woche, dann ist Flippermeisterschaft in Hannover:<br><a href="https://www.flipperverein.de/2025-gpo/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">flipperverein.de/2025-gpo/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Über 100 Flipper zum freien Spiel! :mastodance: </p><p><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/GPO25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPO25</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/Flipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flipper</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/Hannover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hannover</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>So what's different about this modded L-6? It's no longer linear! Instead of having to play the same modes over and over again in east-to-west order, there's now a setting to make them completely random. There's also a setting of how many modes have to be completed to reach the wizard mode.</p><p>For those wondering, this is the Soren ROM from Pinside. I made a note of it back in the days but now that I wanted to try it out, all traces of it had disappeared from the net, save some broken links. Fortunately I found someone who had it and could make me this ROM dump.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/roadshow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roadshow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinballmods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinballmods</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>This is what's been missing from your life. <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/bluetooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bluetooth</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>I think Baywatch has one of the better looking Pin2DMD colorization out there. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pin2dmd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pin2dmd</span></a></p>
cpi<p>10 more Play Meter issues are available, 1986-1990<br><a href="https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/03/scans-10-more-play-meter-issues.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pinballnovice.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/scans-10-more-play-meter-issues.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retroarcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroarcade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/playmeter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>playmeter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/videogame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>videogame</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>Okay, how did this happen?!</p><p>Centaur's captive ball escaped its captivity. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/stuckball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stuckball</span></a></p>
cpi<p>Pacific Coin Machine Review 7 issues from 1934, 1935<br><a href="https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/03/scans-pacific-coin-machine-review-7.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pinballnovice.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/scans-pacific-coin-machine-review-7.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retroarcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroarcade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jukebox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jukebox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a></p>
Judeau (EatTheRich)<p>I just watched a great video covering <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a> up through the year 2000.</p><p>While not covering EVERY game the video does a great job of hitting the highlights of both good and bad releases.</p><p>Only briefly touching on Epic pinball there was no mention of the related Silverball which I loved dearly back in the day.</p><p>Its by no means a must play but it holds a special place in my heart.</p><p>What are some of your favorite video pinball games?</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a><br><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdR9XOLBnc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdR9XOL</span><span class="invisible">Bnc</span></a></p>
KC-DOZ<p>If you really must know, I'm like the Shohei Ohtani of getting the pinball stuck where I was never meant to go...</p><p>This is not a re-up. I stuck this pinball in the exact same spot on the exact same machine a month after the last one.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a></p>
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