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Remember the polls! 1 week left to vote!

Shaggy December 24, 2009 0

This is just a friendly reminder to vote in our Game of the Year and Decade polls for your pick of the arcade titles that left the best impression upon you. The polls this

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Lord of the Rings Limited Edition Pinball pictures

Shaggy December 16, 2009 0

While looking around the rec.games.pinball forums on Google, I caught a link to a photobucket account of some pictures showing off the new Lord of the Rings Limited Edition pinball machine. It’s been a

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Panel discussion with ex-Atari alumni at California Extreme 09

Shaggy December 8, 2009 1

One thing I don’t think that I will ever tire of is getting into the history of the game industry, particularly that involving the arcade side of things. On one side I think it’s

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Changes come to Stern Pinball as a new investor develops a new plan for the company

Shaggy December 3, 2009 7

We all know that Stern Pinball is the only manufacturer of new pinball games on the market but a question for everyone for sometime now is where is the company headed? To be honest,

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The Arcade Heroes Pinball Game of the Year 2009 poll

Shaggy December 2, 2009 1

In conjunction with our coin-op video arcade GOTY poll, we also like to see how people are feeling about pinball games. Obviously the number of games is far lower than the coin-op poll but

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Pics from IAAPA 2009 (Part 1)

Pics from IAAPA 2009 (Part 1)

Shaggy November 20, 2009 5

Well I’m back from IAAPA 2009 and it was an excellent show, as expected. I had always heard how large it was but you have to see it (and walk it) to believe it.

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Pinwall by Urban Screen

Shaggy November 4, 2009 1

(Thanks to Seven Out for the tip) How do you take a normal building face and turn it into something interesting? With Pinwall, of course! This project was designed by Urban Screen who have

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Metallica – the pinball machine

Shaggy October 28, 2009 1

We’re always excited to hear news about new games coming out in the pinball world, even if they are extremely limited editions (i.e. only 1) of the game. In the case of this particular

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New interview with Gary Stern about pinball; possible Big Buck Hunter pinball sighting?

Shaggy October 15, 2009 3

Here are a couple of new interviews with Gary Stern of Stern Pinball by Kathy Vegh of The Home Entertainer. In these two interviews they cover what makes a pinball machine cost what it

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"If Jimi were a pinball machine" T-Shirt

Shaggy September 25, 2009 0

While we come across arcade-related T-shirts every now and then that are worth talking about, it’s pretty rare that we see a cool pinball t-shirt. This one comes from TeeFury.com and apparently this is

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New documentary on pinball debuting next week – 'Special When Lit'

Shaggy September 22, 2009 1

A couple of years ago I had the opportunity of reviewing a documentary film about pinball called “Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball”. I enjoyed it, in part because at the time I knew

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Stern prepping a Lord of the Rings Limited Edition pin?

Shaggy September 18, 2009 3

From the looks of it, I would say that this is quite likely. While we all are waiting to see how Big Buck Hunter pinball will turn out, I have heard that they also

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