Month: August 2021

TILT Arcade Bar, London, Ontario

Pinball Shenanigans tours TILT Arcade Bar which has expanded into another location in London, Ontario in addition to their already existing location in Toronto.

Description by Pinball Shenanigans:

Owner and operator Evan Oswald runs Tilt and Z80 Arcades in Toronto and has expanded into London. This is a video tour / sneak peak of the action just before the grand opening! London’s first arcade in decades!

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Sonic Spinball by Ryan McQuaid [The Tutorial]

Let’s get the emeralds!

This game is packed with features, layering, and strategies. I caught myself smiling a good number of times while watching this. I did not want the video to end.

Video description by Backhand Pinball:
“After restoring his grail machine, Twilight Zone, Ryan decided to move onto his dream project of designing and building his own pinball machine. A year and six months into development we filmed this tutorial and explanation video as the next step in the Sonic Spinball timeline.”

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Pinball on ESPN [THE OCHO]

This Friday, August 6th, 2021 at 2:30 pm Eastern, there will be a pinball competition broadcast on ESPN [The Ocho], The Stern Heads-Up Pinball Invitational.

Pinball tournament fanatics, and especially enthusiastic competitors already know the result of this competition. But, give it a repeat watch or a stream anyway to add to whatever watch numbers are relevant here, and to help support the players and organizers who put on the event.

I am interested to see how the gameplay gets edited down into the half-hour time frame, along with any profiles that may be added to give flavor to the broadcast.

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Evil Grogu [Hurry Up Challenge]

So in the Mandalorian Season 3, Grogu is going to team up with the newly resurrected Paul Bearer.

They will negotiate ways to split up the empires of World Wrestling Entertainment and Star Wars so that they rule over both with an iron fist.

Their first move will be to perfect the sneaky hex on pinball players to demonstrate their power to hex anything else that they want. Scout and Beck have already been recruited as apprentices.

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