Geek Gamer Weekly – Pinball Spotlight

Geek Gamer Weekly – Pinball Spotlight

Chase Nunes, and Joseph Falbey of GeekGamer.TV host a powerful interview of three top pinball professionals: Kyle Seller, Bowen Kerins and Eden Stamm. Interesting , funny stories and good conversation abound! Includes my attempt at a timeline of the show.

New Pinball Dictionary: Spider-man Shimmy

New Pinball Dictionary: Spider-man Shimmy

The action of rapidly shaking the machine when the ball is on it’s way down the right inlane so that the ball can be caught and held on the right flipper, especially while playing the game Spider-man by STERN.

New Pinball Dictionary: Spinnage

New Pinball Dictionary: Spinnage

The amount of spinner rotations on a well-placed shot. A shot has more or less spinnage based on how much or how little the spinner spins after the player makes a clean shot through it.

New Pinball Dictionary: Big Four / Fast Four

New Pinball Dictionary: Big Four / Fast Four

The game Attack from Mars has a feature where four shots have hurry-ups when you shoot each of them three times. Immediately after you collect the third shot on any one of them, a hurry-up countdown starts… (cont.)

New Pinball Dictionary: Bail Out / Safety Valve

New Pinball Dictionary: Bail Out / Safety Valve

When you are flailing and unable to get control of the ball, this is a shot that moves the ball far away from the flippers for a short while. It helps you regain control of the game and can also give you time to think about your next move.

New Pinball Dictionary: Stack

New Pinball Dictionary: Stack

Activating a combination of two or more modes, features or multiballs simultaneously. When making a shot, the player is rewarded with the points from all of the stacked features active on that shot, even though only one scoring notification is seen on the display.

New Pinball Dictionary: Succubus

New Pinball Dictionary: Succubus

An outlane that seems to draw the pinball towards it, constantly. All of the balls seem to go down this one particular outlane all of the time.