Local television station KUSA reports on the RMPS with an in-studio pinball demonstration.
Video on their site here http://www.9news.com/story/life/events/2014/04/11/pinball-convention-bounces/7589339/

KUSA - If you're on the ball, the Rocky Mountain pinball expo is finally here.

This event is perfect for all pinball wizards, arcade gamers and video game aficionados but it's also great for people who just want to have some pinball fun.

The three-day event features a selection of over 125 free pinball and arcade games to play. Don't worry, you won't need any quarters.

While you're there you can also check out various tournaments and seminars, plus they'll be tons of buying and selling exhibits. In all, for a meager ticket price of $25 you can't go wrong.

The event takes place in Greenwood Village. Find out more information onhttp://bit.ly/1kLNn4r.

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On the heels of the recent Jersey Jack Pinball update, comes another in rapid-fire succession. First off is an update on Jack's visit to the Michigan Pinball Expo as well as new statistics on WOZ earnings on location. Jack and the team have been hard at work in developing The Hobbit pinball and have some videos to show us.

New Wizard of Oz machines are being delivered and check out the uber-cool new jukebox functionality from Pinnovators as well.

Read the update below and let us know what you think about it in the comments section.

BUMPERS GO BOO: It isn't too much of a stretch to connect the love of pinball with an affection for Halloween. Pinball arcades are typically low-lit, the better to show off all of those glowing colors and lights and blinking bulb and Halloween? It's our annual low-lit holiday. Also, both the destination and the occasion encourage friend gatherings and both are built on strong elements of fantasy. Nope, you're probably never going to play a pinball machine that's themed to a legal firm or a dentist's office -- though someone should make that, because that would kind of rule -- but you will play a machine that depicts scary creatures of the deep or Dracula or outlandish supernatural scenarios. Thus, we like to see the two natural partners dovetail, and if there is a heaping helping of laffs thrown in? Bonus points, ding ding ding ding. (Aside: Is "ding ding ding ding" more slot machine or pinball arcade? We'll lean toward the latter.) If you like Halloween, comedy, and pinball, and you're an adult, not a tot, then make for Alameda and the Pacific Pinball Museum on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 26.

WHY? Because the museum is hosting "Scared Stiff," a costume-up bash that'll feature a gaggle of funny people telling joke and a whole bunch of pinballists playing a lot of their favorite game. Tickets are twenty bucks, you should be 18 or older, and you can arrive early, before the party, and "play pinball all day -- no extra charge." Seriously, is that music to the fan's ears? We've all dug around various pockets for just one more quarter, only to find a handful of lint. Just remember that if you do arrive early for mega-pinball-marathoning, take care not to sweat *too* hard inside your costume. Really, does any game make a person glisten more? There's a cliffhanger every time a ball lands in a kickout hole. Which way will it roll?

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No matter if you're a fan, game maker, or game distributor, every pinhead marks the annual Chicago Pinball Expo on their calendar. The annual event is filled with seminars, tours, parts, game sales, and booths showing off the latest toys.

This year's expo, the 29th annual, wrapped up over the weekend. Ars was there to check out the main attraction on the show floor, a section devoted to custom games built using the P-ROC controller board. Some of these games are one-offs that will live on only as cool projects, while others are readying for commercial production. The following gallery has a selection of the custom games plus some other fun elements found on the show floor.


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Big news this afternoon at the Chicago Pinball Expo as Planetary pinball Supply in cooperation with WMS gaming have announced the new production run of the hugely popular Medieval Madness pinball machine.

Update: Due to very high demand as sales smashed through 1,000 games within 24 hours, PPS has decided to announce an additional model of "Standard" Medival Madness pinball machines in addition to the Limited Edition games. The new games will apparently be unlimited in production quantity so if you missed out on an LE model you still have a chance to get your new in box MM!

Read more after the break

As Pinball Expo gets underway in Chicago there is much excitement as the unveiling of new custom machines based off of the Multimorphic P-Rock system are unveiled, the Color DMD presentation as well as the rumors of remakes of classic Williams games like Medieval Madness and Attack From Mars also fill the air. 

With new games from Stern and JJP also shipping it's a new heyday for pinball.

If you had a chance to make it this year or simply care to speculate on what may be coming feel free to tell us what you think in the comments section below.

You can find more info about Pinball Expo here www.pinballexpo.net

Get ready for another great year of gaming at the White Rose Gameroom Show in York Pennsilvania.
With games, raffles, tournaments and vendors this show has it all.

You can read the story behind the inception of the show here with details below.

The annual White Rose Gameroom Show features unlimited gaming on a vast collection of pinball machines and other games indoors as well as a free, outdoor flea market. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in Horticultural Hall at the York Expo Center, 334 Carlisle Ave. Daily admission: $15 for adults, $5 for children ages 6-12, free for children 5 and under. Information: (717) 848-2596 or www.theyorkshow.com

TACOMA -- Andy Sampson is a die-hard arcader and at the 5th Annual Northwest Pinball Arcade show he's in good company.

Hundreds of gamers will flock to Tacoma this weekend to slay some dragons and rescue a princess. 

It's all part of the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show - which happens to be the the largest arcade set up in the Northwest. 

This is a place that has self proclaimed pinball nerds flipping over those little plastic bats. 

A moment to live out their childhoods for a new generation. 

"I have a young son on the way so for me this is a chance to be able to enjoy what I had when I was little and be able to show my son in the future some of the fun things I grew up with," Sampson said. 

For most people here these 400 pinball and arcade games are a hobby. 

Most have collected these since video games sent the arcade industry into a tailspin in the 1990s. 

"It's kind of like our Disneyland. we get all the games out the public gets to come out and enjoy them," Halligan of the Northwest Pinball Arcade Show. 

In this magical kingdom, the pinball wizard reigns. 

"It gets your adrenaline going," said Yvonne Harvey Shea, who will be 75 years old next month. 

This is her first time enchanting others with her pinball prowess. 

She's only been playing three months. 

In that time she's gone from owning one machine to five. 

"If I would have started earlier I would probably have 100 like some of our friends have," she said. 

A lot of the machines' mechanics are 30 years old. 

They require a lot of upkeep. 

Whether or not the industry survives, Sampson said his son will play. 

"If I have to fly him to Japan I will, I don't care," Sampson said. "I will find a way to have him play these games."

The pinball and arcade show continues thorough Sunday. It costs just $20 for unlimited play.

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.


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