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Replacement playfield for Dr Who

Here it is, no mylar or raised/dropped inserts. Some very slight insert wear and that’s being picky about it. It should clean up very nicely. I will use pretty much everything from the currently populated Dr Who playfield as it has all already been cleaned.

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2009 UK Pinball Show & EPC Report

Martin Ayub has been busying away at Pinball News HQ getting the 2009 UK Pinball Show & European Pinball Championship report written up. Sadly Martin wasn’t able to compete in the EPC during the show as he had to organise it! Quite how he finds the time to remember half of what goes on I [...]

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Cracked 6 Billion on WCS today!

Just finished a very long game than ended with me getting the newest HSTD, Just a touch over 6Billion which beat my previous high score of 4.5billion and you need 2.5bill+ to get your name in. I had several good games in a row but each game ended around 1 billion, on the score breaking [...]

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Pinball design – part 2: The distance from the start button

While designing features for a pinball machine you have to think of the big picture at all times. Two things you have to consider are: How hard is the feature you are creating while you are playing it? And: How hard is the feature to get to?
This is what I mean by “distance from [...]

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R.I.P. Pinball ?

On this very day, exactly 10 years ago, Williams abruptly terminated it’s pinball division. As it was the only remaining mayor player in the pinball business at the time, this move actually meant that over 90 percent of pinball market suddenly ceased to exist.
Many people declared this day as “The day that pinball died?”
Do I [...]

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Won two beers this morning =)

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2009 UK Pinball Show & EPC Report

Martin Ayub has been busying away at Pinball News HQ getting the 2009 UK Pinball Show & European Pinball Championship report written up. Sadly Martin wasn’t able to compete in the EPC during the show as he had to organise it! Quite how he finds the time to remember half of what goes on I [...]

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2009 UK Pinball Show & EPC Report

Martin Ayub has been busying away at Pinball News HQ getting the 2009 UK Pinball Show & European Pinball Championship report written up. Sadly Martin wasn’t able to compete in the EPC during the show as he had to organise it! Quite how he finds the time to remember half of what goes on I [...]

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2009 UK Pinball Show & EPC Report

Martin Ayub has been busying away at Pinball News HQ getting the 2009 UK Pinball Show & European Pinball Championship report written up. Sadly Martin wasn’t able to compete in the EPC during the show as he had to organise it! Quite how he finds the time to remember half of what goes on I [...]

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With a little help from my friends

It’s been a busy November. So busy, that I don’t think I played a single game of pinball in the previous month.
But finally, this weekend I found some time to get back to my White water. A couple a friends jumped in and together we finished the first part of cleaning. We cleaned bottom [...]

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