Backglass will be shattered!
Martians will be shot!
Tournaments will be tournamented!
Donuts will be eaten!
Backglass will be shattered!
Martians will be shot!
Tournaments will be tournamented!
Donuts will be eaten!
To set up a game for tournament play with all options set to ‘extra hard’ and tilts not only set tight, but polished with brasso, so there’s no chance of a hit without a warning or a tilt.
Game One of the 2012 Canadian Pinball Open on Avatar. I think I am going to avoid using the Flip cam right after playing in a tournament. I need all the image stabilization I can get.
It’s time for me to get all bloggy-ranty now, so here I go. Hey this is a blog after all. Some time ago I visited my sort-of local arcade to practice up on some pinball games…
A period of invincibility earned by spelling the word T-I-M-E while playing the game Time Fantasy. During this period, if you drain the ball, you get the ball back immediately in the shooter lane.
Think of your average reality show. Really. Think of the dreck passing for produced television that has actual humans watching it. This show would be better than at least half of them.
The act of needing only one ball to win a pinball game from any deficit. Even though pinball games give you three or five balls to work with, the rules of some games are set up in such a way that any one ball could secure a victory
Take the Pinball Number Count song from Sesame Street, throw it in a blender, sprinkle some crack over it, add some break-beats, and what do you get? Well, this thing, I guess.
A sarcastic description of a player who loses a ball and resorts to cursing, slam tilting, rage tilting, etc. to release their frustration.
This remix of Pinball Wizard doesn’t suck. I’d rather hear something like this as the music bed whenever some news station decides to do a special interest piece on pinball. If they are going to break out Pinball Wizard for the hundredth time, at least make it not that same song again.
This is the second time that I’ve seen the show use a pinball background. There seemed to be no real reason to use it. Rachel didn’t relate “tilting” to any part of the segment intro. It was just up there for no reason, which makes it even better.
I asked the newly minted 2012 Canadian Pinball Champion, Sanjay Shah to play a game of STERN’s X-Men Magneto Limited Edition so that I could get a video of it. Zeus Manolis, the 2012 Toronto AC/DC STERN Launch Party Champion, also allowed me to tape a qualification attempt on the game.