The Android-powered OUYA console found its way to some lucky players, ourselves included. With the tiny device ready to entertain, we fired up and captured footage of Star Trek: The Next Generation for The Pinball Arcade. Have to admit that it's quite impressive, with music from the TV series, along with iconic images of characters and familiar-looking ships. Watch the video and let us know if you think it's better than Star Wars Pinball. Via http://www.gametrailers.com/mobile-apps/53955/the-pinball-arcade-star-trek-the-next-generation-ouya-gameplay
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Flippers flip, bright lights flash, bells ring as bumpers bang and ultimately, always, that silver ball descends into the gutter.
Game over. Press “Start.” Play again. It’s all free. After outgrowing its five-year home in Seattle, the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show has arrived at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center, and its here through Sunday. Collectors, enthusiasts, vendors, passionate pinball wizards both amateur and professional, plus just plain fans of the pinball and arcade game industry are gathered in Tacoma this weekend to celebrate their sport and share their games with novices and old-timers alike. “Anyone who loves to play games, loves nostalgia, fun, should come,” said Mike Lorrain, a member of the board of directors that sponsors the show. “For me, when I was a kid, I spent all of my quarters at the arcade,” he said. “It gave me other worlds to escape to. We’re really about passing this on to future generations.” That’s exactly what drove Roderic Sisk down from Sequim. He stood watching his son Killian, 7, play pinball. “I played when I was a kid and I was sorry to see it die,” Sisk said. If pinball died, it has arisen anew. “A lot of parents my age, we try to get our kids to play,” Sisk said. “It’s something that’s mechanical, not something that’s digital and happens automatically. At home, all of his friends come over to play.” Masha Hass came to the opening Friday with her fiancé Russell Dare, and they will stay through Sunday and then fly home to San Jose. She’s playing a new game called Metallica, which will celebrate its launch party at the Tacoma gathering. “We’re in a league in the Bay Area,” she said. “We just like pinball. We go to shows in California, and we’re going to Chicago. We’re branching out,” said Russell. At home, they play their nine machines. Brian Cady has 19. “I had one, then three, and then the next time I thought about it, I had 10. Now, at home, I’m down to 19,” he said. The Microsoft employee has been collecting for 10 years. “I find it relaxing to work on the pinballs and arcade games,” he said. “Other collectors, they’re friendly and helpful. We really want to encourage people to become a part of the hobby.” A used machine might go for as little as several hundred dollars or as much as $4,000, or more, depending on age, rarity and condition. Medieval Madness, one of the rarest pinballs at the show, could sell for upwards of $10,000. Cady’s wife, he said, holds the world record on the Gottlieb-produced Sky-Line machine. “People are buying pins as investments,” Cady said. “For me, it’s just a great way to unwind and relax. And it’s a lot of fun.” More than 400 machines, both pinball games and arcade games, are on display and available for free play at the show. There’s Frogger, from 1981, and the iconic Winner, just like Pong, the tennis-styled game where a white dot is hit from side to side. There’s Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Add X-Men, Star Wars, Family Guy and also The Simpsons, wherein the voice of Bart Simpson will remark on a bad shot, “Hey, man, we’re both underachievers.” Here’s Hercules, the world’s largest pinball machine, and Mazuma, one of the oldest machines in the hall, art deco-influenced, from 1937. And Ballerina, with graphics best suited for a burlesque house. The artwork painted on the glass speaks to an earlier, more buxom-fixated world view. From its beginnings, where a ball simply bounced about and rolled while scoring points, pinballs have evolved to include LCD graphics fit for the 21st century. Dorothy appears as if by magic within the smoke of a crystal ball in the playing area of Wizard of Oz. It’s actual footage of Judy Garland, and there’s Toto, and here comes the Wicked Witch. Across the way, there’s a 1979 game that immortalizes the supersonic transport (SST) aircraft, and it works — even though none of the actual SSTs still do. And for those who may once have visited Tacoma’s Fun Circus, here’s something called Big Buck Hunter II, complete with attached rifle, reminiscent of a machine popular more than 50 years ago. From 1983, there’s Atari’s Star Wars. And there’s Ms. Pac-Man, and Tron, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The show continues through Sunday, when the board of directors will award $9,000 in college scholarships to students who might one day benefit the industry. Cowabunga, dude. Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/06/07/2629921/northwest-pinball-and-arcade-show.html#storylink=cpy Rarely (ok, never) do we get to see 80s synth pop, pinball and B-movie cannibalism championed in the same music video. Then again, maybe its something we should just learn to expect from Hott MT, the loveable bunch of LA/OC weirdos who stormed Wayne Coynes house to give him a present and wound up making a song and a video with him. Now, they've taken the echo-laden dreaminess of their song "YKWYR" up a few notches with a new video, premiering today on Heard Mentality.
It starts out normal enough, as the band crowds around a blinking pinball machine somehow possessed by the floating purple aura of vocalist Ashleigh Allard. A minute or so into the video, the band are inexplicably glass jars of pickles and weird looking preserves. That's kinda where it starts getting gross. We won't spoil the entire thing for you, let's just say that if you're somehow of fan of both Holy Mountain and Redneck Zombies, then the ending of this video is exactly what you wanted to see right before lunch today. This month, in addition to the recent release of their debut album I Made This, the band is also hosting a Monday night residency at the Echo. Maybe stand a few feet back from the stage just in case they decide to do a live reenactment of this video. Check out the video on the ocweekly webpage here blogs.ocweekly.com By Alex Hudson
Canadian music fans hoping to hear some of their favourite artists in an intimate studio setting will soon get a treat with the launch of Pinball Sessions. This web series (and its accompanying website) will premiere on Friday (May 31) and feature a steady stream of artists performing live in the studio. First up are the Magic, whose session will hit the web tomorrow at 6 p.m. EDT. Among the other artists who have already completed three-to-four-song sessions are John K. Samson, Julie Doiron, Daniel Romano, Shotgun Jimmie, By Divine Right, the Highest Order, Legato Vipers and Gangstagrass. Watch a trailer for the sessions below, plus check out a streaming player with songs from upcoming sessions by the Magic, Baskery and Smokekiller. A press release explains that the series aims to capture artists in a low-pressure environment where they have an opportunity to record songs and try new things. Pinball Sessions are so named because the studio houses a pinball club, and the artists can relax by playing a few rounds. The project was founded by Daniel Cooper, Dan Beeson and Shawna Cooper, and it will host 104 sessions over the next year. Over the weekend, Pinball Sessions will host launch parties in Guelph, Winnipeg, Calgary, Halifax and Toronto. See the details down below. Launch parties: 5/31 Guelph, ON - Van Gogh's Ear (Flash Lightnin', Gregory Pepper, Scott Haynes) 5/31 Winnipeg, MB - The Folk Exchange (JD Edwards Band, The F-Holes, TJ Blair) 6/1 Calgary, AB - Palomino (Smokekiller, Castle River, Jeff Stuart & the Hearts) 6/1 Halifax, NS - Gus' Pub (Bad Vibrations, Graboids, Tv Freaks, Sleight, Odd Socks) 6/1 Toronto, ON - 3030 (Zebrassieres, Ketamines, Start Something, DJ Sarah Ford) Check out the video here exclaim.ca Our friend Jeremy Wilson shows off his latest pinball product 'Airfield' to the folks at Technabob.com and demonstrates how the system is used to create beautiful pinball art come to life. Check out the video and this cool new product that will have you wanting to light up all of your playfield wall art. Thanks to videogames, pinball has been relegated to a niche. But it still has its fans, some so addicted to the machines that they hang entire pinball playfields on their walls as decoration. Jeremy Williams and his friend invented Airfield, an LED kit that makes mounted or hung playfields come alive.
Read more and check out the video interview via technabob.com As controversial as the movie Special When Lit was for so many pinball collectors, those who either haven't seen it or those that want to experience it again can do so on Netflix. Before contemporary consoles destroyed the arcade, there wasn't a greater feeling than visiting one with a huge sack of quarters and enjoying that human-on-human contact of competitive gaming. Those fond memories of playing Street Fighter and Outrun cabinets were pretty magical but in a traditional sense, drawing people to some of the first coin-operated arcades came through pinball machines. Giving pinball a historical context starting from its beginning as an improvement on the European invented spring launcher to the video game boom's destruction of the craze, Special When Lit: A Pinball Documentary is great for any gamer or documentary connoisseur. Famed Australian video and theatrical director Brett Sullivan looks at every aspect of the pinball craze that literally changed pop-culture.
Special When Lit: A Pinball Documentary sheds some interesting light on how the United States government attributed the delinquency of school-aged children to pinball and how lawmakers thought the machines were mob run. Oh how historyrepeats itself. Original pinball machines lacked flippers until 1947 and therefore were seen as more of a game of chance though there wasn't a reward for winning. States including New York and Chicago banned pinball until the mid/early 1970s and even held prohibition style raids. The documentary also mentions Hollywood's distain of the pinball craze then like it does video games today. The reason? Mainly because before the ban, pinball actually made more money than the film industry between the 1950s through the 1970s. Though there were statewide bans on pinball, many domestic machine creators exported to other countries and still made tons of money from states unaffected. This is why in many cases, Hollywood used pinball as a symbol of rebellion for better or worst. Read more via gamenguide.com The all new 7th generation Corvette to get some major media exposure in the upcoming Captain America movie. All American car for an all American superhero. What more perfect car for Captain America could there be than the new C7 Corvette Stingray?
Looks like we’ll see this pairing in the upcoming Captain America 2 movie, as a black C7 has been spotted on the set of the movie. Check out the VIDEOS. Via corvette7.com / superherohype.com Despite the ongoing court proceedings regarding the DLC for The Pinball Arcade, it seemed like game developer's FarSight Studios were still fairly confident that future DLC for the XBLA title was still going to be making it's way to the Xbox 360. Although it's not been announced with a solid story or press release, the newly released trailer does state that the DLC will ineed be making its way to consoles. "Table Pack 14" will showcase Centaur and Pinbot, as the Half Man Half Motorcycle looks to make pinballing even more memorable and entertaining for the fans. Check out the newly released trailer to see the upcoming table in action: "Table Pack 14" will be "coming soon" to the XBLA. A price is also yet to be confirmed.
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