Spring 2010 JPA season starts on September 8, 2010.

The JPA PinGolf Tournament is WPPR certified! All players who participate will receive

World Pinball Ranking Points depending on how well they finish. You can be ranked among the best pinball players in the world!

A new season of the JPA PinGolf Tournament will run in conjunction with the JPA League starting September 8th. Last season, I was able to give away $300.00 in prize money and, of course, I hope that the pool will be larger this season. For more information about the way the tournament runs, what games are used, and how you can sponsor the tournament, go to the JPA PinGolf Tournament page.

                          

The 24th Season of the Jersey Pinball Association is set to begin on Wednesday, September 8th at Eight on the Break in Dunellen, New Jersey. Twenty people have already signed up to play this season. I am excited to see that former PAPA president and current IFPA official, Steve Epstein is slated to compete. Our current champion is Jim Fordham from Springfield, NJ.

Here are the games that are currently at The Break:

1. Star Wars: Episode 1 (not operational)
2. FunHouse
3. The Addams Family
4. Big Brave
5. Monster Bash
6. Iron Man
7. Johnny Mnemonic
8. Lord of the Rings
9. Demolition Man

Seasoned league players know about a certain row of seldom used, dead games that took up a lot of space in the room which housed the pinball machines. Well I am glad to report that those cabinets are now gone. In fact, they have been gone since the Jersey Pinball Open. At least now we will all have a little more room to breathe in there.

                          

SPREAD GUN!!! SPREAD GUN!!!

2Up2DownLeftRightLeftRightBASTART!

Contra WITH LYRICS.

                          

Keeping a Pinball Wizard’s Dream Alive | Parade.com

                          

Commodore USA producing modern PCs in replica cases- Destructoid.

The Commodore PC64 will include an Intel Atom 535 processor with an NVIDIA Ion2 graphics card, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a terabyte hard disk and a DVD-ROM (with optional Blu-Ray). The system is expected to release in time for the holidays.

Via Destructoid

                          

Creature in the PAPA 13 World Pinball Championships, Final Game from Kevin Martin on Vimeo.

Do not miss Professional & Amateur Pinball Association President, Kevin Martin’s detailed commentary and analysis of the championship clinching game on Creature. In fact, it’s best that you open the video in another window while following along with the Tilt Warning blog.

By the way, Kevin, thanks for the shout out at the end of your post. ^_^

                          

Via TouchArcade

New Potato, who brought us the Jackpot Slots [App Store] game / accessory for the iPhone, has just released another such bundle for the iPhone and iPod touch — but this time around, the game in question is pinball.

Pinball Magic is a gaming accessory that is intended to transform your iPhone or iPod touch into a realistic pinball machine, albeit a rather diminutive one. The pinball table-shaped accessory sports flipper buttons, a ball-launching plunger, a credit / select button,an animated LED backbox display, and foldable legs for easy transport. The device mates with your device’s 30-pin dock connector and delivers a pinball experience by way of New Potato’s free Pinball Magic [link] app.

Game features, listed by the developer:

Multiple classic and unique playboard layout

Advanced multi-level and multiplayer competition

Four possible multi-ball modes

End-of-ball and replay bonuses

Tilt detection, tilt warning and activation

Ball saver

Pinball Magic is currently available from Best Buy, online and at certain retail locations at a price of $39.99. And don’t bother downloading the game app if you don’t have the accessory — it won’t play at all.

                          

Via Arcade Heroes

Last weekend the Profession & Amateur Pinball Association (i.e. PAPA) held their 13th annual World Pinball Championships and out of 406 players, seven stood victorious in their separate division. That includes the youngest Class B player in PAPA’s history, 12-year old Joshua Henderson from Plainfield, IL(pictured). Josh was ranked as the 51st top player in the world after an IFPA tournament in May and now he can add this win (along with a $3,500 cash prize) to his list of accomplishments. They have all of the scoring tables and winners listed on the PAPA website but so far media from the event is fairly sparse. The cash prizes they had available were quite good – the 1st place winner from the A division, Keith Elwin walked away with the title World Pinball Champion and $10,000 in cash. I know that there is a lot of focus on competitive video gaming around the world these days but pinball certainly can’t be ignored as it’s taken just as seriously.

UPDATE: Josh has put his winnings to good use already – by purchasing a NIB Spiderman pinball machine.

Via Arcade Heroes

Spider-man. An excellent choice! Welcome to the A-division, Joshua! As far as the sparse media is concerned, I’m sure the journalism would pick up if the prize money increased magically. Not that I’m complaining in any way, of course. I’m just saying this is one reason why I need to hit the Mega Millions or Powerball lottery. Unfortunately, it may be “all about the money” to the general public, even if we Pinheads(tm) know otherwise. Hey, I even saw a $100,000 darts tournament on ESPN. ONE-HUNDRED-AND-EEEEIIIIIIGHTYYYYYY!!!

Speaking of which, pinball needs a catchphrase. Darts has that one-hundred-and-eighty thing that gets screamed by the fans. What kind of catchphrases could pinball have?

                          

“New” definitions added, that should have been there a long time ago:

                          

This remix is based off of the music I thought I was hearing during the multiball round. One day, I was finally able to install PinMAME successfully, and I heard what the music actually sounded like without the extraneous arcade sounds. I was pretty happy with what I had produced when I compared it to the actual music created by the talented Jon Hey. Of course, since it’s a remix, there are some embellishments that help to differentiate my track from the original. Anyway, here it is. Feel free to download it, if you like, by using the down arrow on the right side of the track.

Jack*Bot Pinball | Super Jack*Bot Winner by FunWithBonus

                          

Nick! from Arcade Hunters and ColdGuy from That Guy With the Glasses visits Richie Knucklez in Flemington, New Jersey. Richie displays some of the over 80 games in the place, including some extremely rare games from his prized collection. He also talks about some of his record setting performances.

Post-investigation analysis: