A genre-crossing milestone in pinball has been reached: The first ever speedrun of an arcade pinball game on the main stage!
Ryan McQuaid (McSquid) went to Game Done Quick in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and absolutely CRUSHED the speedrun of Total Nuclear Annihilation (TNA)!
LIVE, in front of an auditorium audience and with 35,000 livestream viewers watching, he posted a time of 18:45 for destroying all nine reactors.
UPDATE:
Registration (Round Zero) begins on July 11 at 11am. There will be 100 open spots to grab. Good Luck.
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It was thought that the 24-Hour Final Battle was over when the announcement hit that there would be no event this year at The Sanctum.
“Not so fast, my friend!” —Lee Corso
The Players who have competed in all 10 years of The 24-Hours at The Sanctum, the New England Pinball League, and Funspot Arcade have announced a continuation of the spirit of the Final Battle, now called THE FINAL STAND! The setting will now be at the legendary Funspot Arcade in Laconia New Hampshire.
Stern Media Day is in Optimus Prime’s rear view mirror. Here is what Players though of it:
Featuring: Grownup Adjacent, Retro Ralph, COOLTOY, Andrew Retro Gamer, Vic VP, “Chad the Bird!”, Dirty Pool Pinball, James Fremont, Lead Game Designer, Elliot Eisman, Lead Software Developer, Elizabeth Gieske, Software Developer, Mike Kyzivat, Game Designer, Jack Danger (Pokémon, Uncanny X-Men, Foo Fighters)
Real, physical pinball will make it’s first appearance ON THE MAIN STAGE at the next Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ)!
The full schedule is set to be released on or about May 15th. However we have the confirmation now that pinball, with its real-life level of “RNG”, will get the full spotlight at this year’s charity event.
“My first game” is an experiment where I try to avoid as many spoilers or marketing material as I can, when a manufacturer releases a new pinball game, before I get to play it myself.
Ryan McQuaid and Bre Reynolds join the Games Done Quick livestream, Sonic and the Sega All Stars!
Brianna Reynolds and Ryan McQuaid will be livestreaming speedruns of Sonic Spinball on the Games Done Quick Twitch channel …
Whatever you do, try to play as normal and as comfortable a game as you usually do, and NEVER think, “all I have to do is get (insert score here)”.
Here is the over 1.5-hour tutorial session of Stern Pinball Uncanny X-Men at Pintastic New England, streamed by Backhand Pinball. Includes two billionaire games and Save the City Multiball.
Stephen Keeler takes a tour of Pintastic New England 2025, which includes the vendors, the main hall, the seminar area, the club rooms, and the Silverball Rumble tournament room.
I’ll be at Pintastic New England this weekend, competing in the Pintastic Silverball Rumble Stern Pro Circuit Event and more …
Carpool Pinball produced a livestream including extended gameplay of Turner Pinball’s Merlin’s Arcade.
