New Pinball Dictionary: Straitjacket
The invisible force that can be felt by a player when pinball games are staged as close as possible. Especially when games are right next to each other, with active players on each side, and/or behind them.
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New Pinball Dictionary: Pocket Entry / One in the Pocket
Keeping a tournament qualifying entry either unfinished or purposefully not starting one you’ve purchased as the qualifying time moves onward throughout the day.
Pinball Pros(e) v0.4 | The State of the New Pinball Dictionary
(Warning, incoming stream of consciousness … I would appreciate your thoughts.)
Coast 2 Coast Pinball Episode 144
I helped to do a thing! Nate Shivers invited me onto the Coast 2 Coast Pinball Podcast and we talked about pinball. I had a great time, and the hour just flew by …
New Pinball Dictionary: Cliffy’d / Cliff-ied
Named for times when a Cliffy protector interferes in some way with your shot, or causes you to drain the ball.
New Pinball Dictionary: Ock Block
Occurs when you shoot the Doc Ock saucer cleanly, but instead of stopping in the saucer, the ball gets rejected and it comes right back at you.
New Pinball Dictionary: Snowman
During Multiball play when a ball is cradled on a flipper, and another ball happens to rest vertically on top of it.
New Pinball Dictionary: Driver vs. Drunk Driver
A driver who chooses games based seemingly more on luck to counteract the perceived difference in skill between him and his opponents.
New Pinball Dictionary: Heartbreaker / Maxwell Smart
Occurs when a player tries to make a comeback on the last ball and fails to pass the opponent’s score by less than 1%.
New Pinball Dictionary – Bubble Boy
The player who is currently the highest ranked player below the cut line in a pinball competition (for example: 17th place out of 16 qualifiers).
