New Pinball Dictionary: Tech Pass / TD Pass
When a ball is shot from one flipper, the ball gets stuck and is moved to the other flipper or the shooter lane by a tech or tournament director…
Category: Features
New Pinball Dictionary: Biological Warfare
Participating in an event or tournament without using deodorant or other odor-prevention.
New Pinball Dictionary: Vanilla Ice Cream / Dry Multiball / Naked Multiball
Starting a multiball (intentionally or unintentionally) without stacking a desired mode or feature first.
New Pinball Dictionary: Walk of Shame
In a pingolf competition where all other players have passed the target score and the remaining player has to walk up to plunge everyone else’s balls to get back to their turn
New Pinball Dictionary: Cradle Consolidation
The opposite of a Cradle Separation, this move is used during multiball to bring two balls together on the same flipper.
New Pinball Dictionary: Turn Back The Clock (Night)
To find a route pinball game with older code than the current version, and then adjust your play to match the outdated version of the game.
New Pinball Dictionary: Hammer
When a tournament competitor (especially in a best game format) plays the same game repeatedly until they get a “good enough” game and stop, or until they knock down another competitor in the standings.
New Pinball Dictionary: Round Zero
A “Round Zero” happens because the number of people who want to compete far outnumbers the number of spots, so they are available for only a short time, possibly only a few seconds.
Name that Move! Smash Pass? | Nudge Pass? | No-Flipper Pass?
Pinballer: Joshua Francis
Location: Washington State Pinball Championship at The Ice Box (Seattle, WA)
New Pinball Dictionary: Chairror
Making a gameplay mistake involving the Electric Chair from The Addams Family game, especially if it causes the player to lose the ball.
New Pinball Dictionary: Tri-Again Ball
When you fail to get a jackpot during a Tri-Ball on a Data East game, and you restart it successfully when the game gives you the opportunity
New Pinball Dictionary: Reversal of Fortune
When a ball travels up a ramp only part of the way but doesn’t pass the apex and heads back toward the player.
New Pinball Dictionary: Scorekeeper Teeter-Totter / Scorekeeper See-Saw
When all the scorekeepers congregate to one side of the qualifying area only to have multiple players from the other side raising their hand to get the scorekeeper’s attention …
New Pinball Dictionary: Slingshort
When the ball hits a slingshot hard enough that it should fire, but it doesn’t, and the ball heads down the middle.
New Pinball Dictionary: Slingtown / Slingtown Express
When the ball enters the slingshot area and volleys back and forth between them. While this is happening, The Player can: …
My Current Favorite Top 5 Pinball Games
Kineticist invited me to be a part of a fun collaboration with many other pinball content creators …
The Museum of Pinball Auction: A Firsthand Account
Jake Danzig gives an analysis of what happened at the recent Museum of Pinball Auction, which resulted in some very impressive hammer prices for games.
He provides reasons why the prices for games may have been magnified over their expected values for this particular event.
Via: ‘Southwest Arcade and Pinball Collectors, Arizona & Beyond!’
PINBALL EXCUSE #011 – This machine failed to act as I thought it should
“Larry Playfair missed several games that year as the result of an unusual accident suffered off the ice between contests in Chicago.
“How do I become a world ranked pinball player?”
Triangle Pinball promotes competitive pinball play in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill (North Carolina) area.
With IFPA ranked competitive play returning imminently, Ovid Dillard described what that means to you if you are an aspiring tournament or league player.
Via Triangle Pinball on facebook: (more…)
New Pinball Dictionary: Kill Shot
A dangerous shot that often leads to a drain if missed, but is often important to make in order do well in the game.
