TWIP TUESDAY: October 8th, 2019

— What Else is Happening in Pinball —

Elvira Limited Editions are Shipping

Stern Pinball shared the following video on their Facebook page showing the first Elvira LE going in the box!

Spooky Pinball: Fang Club

Our friends at Spooky Pinball teased their upcoming Fang Club on their most recent podcast! It is NOT LIVE yet and Spooky customers will be getting an email blast when it is ready. Here are a few teasers though from their most recent podcast:

Special When Lit: Interesting Details on TNA

Our friends at the Special When Lit Pinball Podcast had another great episode last week. It included Dr. John – their Spooky Pinball correspondent – who talked to Scott Danesi, and Scott gave some interesting tidbits about Total Nuclear Annihilation that you may not know:

On the display on TNA: “What a lot of people don’t actually know is the display – the LCD display on the machine itself – is the computer screen on Scarlet’s wrist.  So that is what she is seeing.  So she sees what reactor she needs to target.”

On the storyline for TNA: “The storyline is a little bit sad in TNA because Scarlet doesn’t make it out alive ever, no matter what…it is really sad.  [But] it was better than the game was originally going to be.  The game was going to be real bad, like tongue-in-cheek, we’re destroying a civilization for no reason.  It was going to be awful.  Because I was just screwing around with a homebrew.  So I re-wrote the story to make it more fun and interesting.”

Listen to the full episode here!!

American Pinball Celebrates the Opening of their New Facility

American Pinball announced AimtronFest 2019 last week, and as part of the announcement they shared it was to celebrate the opening of their new facility! For those not familiar, Aimtron is the parent corporation, and American Pinball is a subsidiary of Aimtron. American Pinball has not fully moved into the new facility yet, but hopefully soon!

Dialed In New Code

Version 1.73 – check it out!

PINQUEST App Now Available

PINQUEST is now available as an application for your mobile device! In celebration of that, PINQUEST is launching a mini-contest – check out the details below:

“To kick off the official “app” launch, we’re going to do a mini contest! The contest will run Monday 10/7 through 10/13 at midnight. Three people will win a PINQUEST prize pack. To qualify for the contest people must earn a chance drawing ticket by scoring 600,000,000 on GOTG. They can play anywhere be it at home or on location. One of the challenges we all know will exist with online pinball is someone taking the glass off. I hope people honor the contest and don’t do so, but it is what it is. The winners will be selected the following day. Three randomly drawn who qualified for an entry. The contest will be limited to the US.“

“To earn an entry a user must click on the “national contests” section of the PINQUEST app. The link will appear at 12:01 AM on 10/7.”

PINQUEST also announced the following contest that will be happening at Expo!

“We will also be set up at Chicago Expo and giving away 50 limited edition Christopher Franchi coaster sets. People will have to complete a series of target scores (Quests) to win one!“

Click here to download the Android app.

Click here to download the IOS app.

SDTM: Jurassic Park Review

Our friends at Straight Down the Middle had some guest reviewers join them for a Jurassic Park review – check it out!

— Cool and Crazy Stuff —

American Girl Pinball Machine – The Flip Side

You can now buy a pinball machine for your doll…it is tiny and the ruleset is not very deep, but it is still pinball!! Sort of!

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Pinball Homebrew Update

This machine may give you the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life.

Slam Tilt Podcast: Twilight Zone

Our friends at the Slam Tilt Podcast shared and interesting tidbit about Twilight Zone, when Bruce shared the following:

“You can also – say someone is calling you on the phone, you can actually put your flipper up, hit the start and I think the buy-in button at the same time, and it will hold the flipper up.  You can actually walk and get a soda, answer your phone and come back.”

Is this true??

Reddit: Seriously, Where Can I get the Full One?

3D Space Cadet

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• Happy birthday Colin MacAlpine, Zach Sharpe, Lauren Gray, and Alek Kaczmarczyk!!

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