A Lifelong Love
A spotlight on John Reuter, an ambassador of pinball and Master of Ceremonies of Pin-Maine-ia, the New England Pinball Championship.
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Month: August 2012
New Pinball Dictionary: Defense
A strategy used during tournament qualification rounds wherein a player specifically looks at the games and scores of someone immediately below them in the rankings who is looking to challenge them.
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This would be the ultimate barcade.
Check out this office that was converted into a giant pinball machine. The first thing I though was, “I’d like to go to a barcade that looks like this”.
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New Pinball Dictionary: Ace/Aced/Aced Out
To be defeated on the last ball by less than 1% of your score, especially if it takes bonus count to do it. You can tell if someone got “Aced” when players and bystanders start groaning about how close the game was and then they start taking pictures of the final score.
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New Pinball Dictionary: Cradle Robber
During Multiball, when a moving ball hits a ball that is cradled and causes both balls to be out of the player’s control.
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New Pinball Dictionary: Eddie Murphy
To start a 4-player game and play all 4 games by yourself. Sometimes you will see this happen at pinball conventions where games are on Free Play mode.
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The Ultimate Pinball Infographic
Sean Lind offers a pinball treasure, The Ultimate Pinball Infographic. If you are interested in pinball in any way, which I guess you would be if you are here, then you need to read ALL of this.
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New Pinball Dictionary: Bounce Back
An event where the ball goes down the middle, but it hits the area below the flippers in a way where it is able to return back through the flippers again and back into play. See also: Lazarus
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Quarter On A Ledge – Eight On The Break
My local arcade, getting some pub. We need to promote pinball more here so that a video like this might be made about the pinball side of the arcade.
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New Pinball Dictionary: Chemical Warfare
To distract an opponent during play by passing gas in the immediate vicinity of the action. Usually, chemical warfare is done surreptitiously via a silent but deadly fart.
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