Just for the laughs idea. A gumball machine, but it was filled with all the junk balls the arcade produces. Imagine if a Twilight Zone power ball popped out of it!
Can you identify the others in this tub?
#Pinball
🎮 Random Retro Game:
Title: Pinball: Revenge of the Gator
Released: 2013-10-17
Platforms: Game Boy
Also released on: Nintendo 3DS
#Pinball:RevengeoftheGator #GameBoy #Retrogames
Replacing all the 13 balls from Apollo 13 pinball machine.
Apollo 13 (Sega, 1995) is a curious beast. With 13 balls, it has the most balls in any serially produced pinball machines ever.
The 13 ball multiball is bit of a gimmick, but everyone seems to love watching it start. Then there's the maintenance aspect of things, as it naturally needs 13 new balls when it's time to replace them, instead the typical 3 to 6.
Here's the full procedure of replacing Apollo's balls, which includes getting the extra 8 out of the upper lock mechanism manually and then starting a new game so the game reloads them up there.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@alpenglow/115878818451009344
boosting for the Monday morning crowd - I fixed up the power supply board on my Pin-Bot pinball machine yesterday. So satisfying to start and finish a project in one day and have everything work! #pinball
People seeing a pin being opened during our operating hours is always such a crowd pleaser. So fun to see heads explode when people learn just how much stuff there is under the playfield.
Another thing I often get is people being amazed that you can open a pinball machine. I don't know what they expected, it being once put together at the factory and then sealed up? 😂
Michigan has a new state Seniors-Division #pinball champion and that person is ... not me. Not by far. While I made it into the playoffs, I bombed out of playoffs as fast as it was possible. But the important things are that I was (a) there and (b) old.
Some pinball power board repair about to go down! Pin-Bot is getting new capacitors, and its -100V supply is getting fixed. It’s prob the resistor, but also may swap out a transistor for good measure. #pinball #pinballrepair
I was wondering why the ethernet connection to my PC wasn't working this morning.
I assume that big datacenters don't allow pet rabbits in...
Edit: this has gone kinda #FediViral so #follow if you want to see more bunny posts, and posts about #SelfHosting #Webdev #Pinball and other nerdy stuff like that.
Wenn es draußen kalt ist, braucht man das heißeste Gerät! 🔥 Spaß am #c64 in nerdig-gemütlicher Atmosphäre! 🤩🕹️ Heute ab 15 Uhr im Retronom! 💚💜
Bockenfelder Str 273, #Dortmund
https://www.arcade-bar.de
#retronomarcade #commodore64 #8bit #gaming #retrogaming #retro #arcade #pinball #80s #Castrop #bochum #Essen
My poor Playboy pin had its sole drop target broken!
Typically drop targets are in a bank and await to be dropped to score points. Some games however use them in untypical ways, such as gates or just obstacles to be defeated before getting access to other playfield parts.
Playboy (Stern, 2002) is one such game. It has a single drop target in the middle of the playfield and its main objective is to block the main ramp that would be otherwise repeatable to ad nauseam.
As you'd probably guess by now, this means the poor drop target is going to get the shit kicked out of it by abnormally high amount of hits. Either the flat part falls off, or the bottom breaks and no longer limits how far up the target can go, so it jumps out of its mechanism and gets stuck. This is very easy to diagnose visually.
The target also has a decal, which usually has purple back. I've had some issues sourcing it, so I just scanned it and nowdays print one with a label printer. The printed one lasts longer than the original.
❗ACHTUNG❗
Am heutigen Samstag findet im Retronom eine geschlossene Gesellschaft statt.
Wir sehen uns morgen! 💚💜
https://www.arcade-bar.de
#retronomarcade #bestegäste #RETROGAMING #dortmund #bochum #castroprauxel #Castrop #arcade #pinball #c64 #wochenende #gaming #bar #events #livemusik
DIY Pinball Arcade Diary 32 - John Coppercoil #indiegame #gamedev #pinball #pixelart
Oh, I see the Japanese vending machine park has gotten two new pins. For a long time there used to be only one.
So, ihr tapferen TopScore-Recken! 💪😁 Die 20 besten unter euch sind ab heute in unserem *Flur of eternal glory* zu lesen! 💥
Gratulation nochmal an alle! 😎💚💜
https://www.arcade-bar.de
#retronomarcade #bestegäste #dortmund #arcade #pinball #topscore
https://codeberg.org/HackerTrain/groups/issues/4# #fosdem #pinball museum visit if any interest, also check:
https://rzr.github.io/rzr-presentations/docs/pinball
First day we're open this year 🎉! It took late into night on Tuesday to sort out the lounge area, but now it's somewhat presentable.
So here's Hopeakuula Arcade, our retro pinball arcade project in #kouvola, #Finland.
Those who are not familiar with us, running this place and keeping pinball alive for the next generations is a hobby of ours. We aim to have clean and well playing for our guests. We're open to the public every Wednesday from 18:00 to 23:00 and once a month on Saturdays from 14:00 to 23:00. Everything is on free play, the playing fee is 12€ on Wednesdays and 20€ on Saturdays.
At present we have 34 games in the lineup, from 70s EM games to 2020s modern games and everything between. I post a lot of repair and maintenance stuff, and this is where it's all from.
If you find yourself in Finland, come check us out - https://pelitaivas.fi/eng/
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