Topic: Digital Pinball Competitions

@Lroy Move went swell thanks! Tiring, but do what we gotta do! Just tired from it. Purchasing tables in a moment(finally some time). Will set up and post here and in discord when done.

New tournament is up. Hurricane table. It's under my user name "CW13" password is "pikmin" goodluck to all!

@CW13 Nice one buddy!

So you heard it folks, come join the new tourney!

Table: HURRICANE | Classic-Arcade | 3 Balls | 10 Days

User Host: CW13

Password to join: pikmin

Today is the last day to post score updates for May’s non-PBFX3 tables SPOOKY (remake), AC/DC Premium and TEE’D OFF.

Hopefully, this link works as I am having some issues with it on other forums:

https://www.iscored.info/?mode=public&user=Corneel

(Note: scroll along to find the pinball rankings).

@corneel you changed any settings as this link isn’t working properly over on PinballInfo forum. Says ‘user doesn’t allow public viewing of their games room’ or something?!!!

Just a heads-up that currently in North America, the other Stern table pack is available 50% off. This dlc can be purchased at the sale price within TPA or SPA.

Pack includes:
MUSTANG | GHOSTBUSTERS | HIGH ROLLER CASINO | HARLEY DAVIDSON | PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | LAST ACTION HERO

Results of the May Pinball tournament. Thanks to all for participating!
Also the link should be fine now. Maybe it was just a temporary issue on the site, but it seems to work fine now.

AC/DC
1st - 234,914,700 - @DAVE950LAM
2nd - 224,699,870 - @YELLOWREGGAE
3rd - 129,183,830 - @MARTYWOLFMAN
4th - 107,835,900 - @JOYRIDER3774
5th - 89,022,580 - @LROY
6th - 44,286,070 - @CORNEEL

TEE'D OFF
1st - 4,574,668,620 - @DAVE950LAM
2nd - 3,678,213,270 - @MARTYWOLFMAN
3rd - 1,753,806,700 - @JOYRIDER3774
4th - 1,106,373,720 - @LROY
5th - 101,471,200 - @CORNEEL

SPOOKY (modern)
1st - 84,936,280 - @MARTYWOLFMAN
2nd - 82,479,510 - @DAVE950LAM
3rd - 55,092,800 - @JOYRIDER3774
4th - 42,159,570 - @SUMMERWIND
5th - 33,923,890 - @CORNEEL
6th - 33,431,710 - @LROY

The new selection of tables for June are:

CLASS OF 1812
Frightful fun for all ages! This supernatural themed table was designed by Ray Tanzer and Joe Kaminkow. Players are challenged with collecting five unique characters by lighting all of the Bonus Level Lamps. The Playfield features a severed hand and an animated mechanical beating heart and chattering teeth, synchronized to the games music and speech. 1,668 units of the table were produced.

MUSTANG
Mustang celebrates 50 years of one of the most iconic muscle cars ever made, the Ford Mustang. Players are challenged to race a variety of Mustangs against an array of colorful characters in eight different racing scenarios including drag racing, drifting and road racing. This is a fast playing table with clear shot goals and excellent multi-ball modes. The gorgeous playfield features twin stacked ramps, full spectrum color LEDs, a show car on a turntable and artwork by famed Ford GT car artist and designer Camilo Pardo. Actual Mustang engine sounds, narration by professional race car driver and TV host, Tanner Foust and an awesome soundtrack featuring eight generational cruising tunes makes this table a fitting tribute to an American classic!

SPACE SHUTTLE (2016)
A remake of the 1980 pinball machine produced by Zaccaria.

High scores will be place on the leaderboards as always: https://www.iscored.info/?mode=public&user=Corneel

@Corneel Nice selection 😉 can’t wait to get stuck in 👍

Have any Zaccaria tables/packs ever been on sale on Switch? That's the one pinball game out of the big three that I haven't bought any tables in, though I've played a bunch in the free mode.

When I very first installed the game on Switch and played it for the first time, I was given the opportunity to purchase some 'Retro' tables for about £1. These are in fact 'de-makes' in that they are real Zaccaria tables altered to play as old Electro Mechanical machines. I've barely touched them. I also got the 'Story' and 'Campaign' modes for a couple of quid. Again, not played them much but they seem a pleasant distraction. I did buy a Solid State Table Pack - think it was like £8. I also bought a 'Remake' table pack - these are 'modernised' versions of real Zaccaria tables with added ramps and Dot Matrix Displays. This pack was expensive £13.50 but gives you about 9 tables and these 'remake' tables are the ones I have played most.

I don't recall individual tables or table packs being discounted on Switch but who knows as discounted DLC seems to be so poorly advertised you'd find such an offer only by regularly checking yourself.

My advice would be to either go ahead and buy a Solid State Table pack or pony up for one of the Remake packs but only if you have enjoyed the 'free trial' versions enough to think you'd enjoy them.

I quite like ZACCARIA PINBALL and intend to buy more table packs but looking at my activity log it is the Switch pinball game - from the big 4 - that I have invested the least amount of time with. That said, I do like playing the chosen Zaccaria table each month for these monthly challenges.

Just a heads-up that FarSight have announced on their FB page that as of June 30th they will be removing AC/DC from THE PINBALL ARCADE and STERN PINBALL ARCADE. It is currently on sale, if you want it, buy it and quick.

HURRICANE Tournament Results incoming!

Note: JoyRider’s score is void as he kindly and very honestly reported he had encountered a perpetual scoring bug when achieving it.

Huge thanks to all who participated, a great turn-out for this one: including some new peeps.

Round of applause for our worthy winner Tute_Primus!

Now it is over to @Alanar to select the next table and create the new tourney. We await the password to join.

The next PBFX3 Tournament is up and running!

Created by: Alanar
Table: WHITE WATER
Classic-Arcade-3 Ball
7 Days
Password to join: pikmin

Everyone welcome, so come have a go and post a score. Good luck!

Looks like my work Wifi has the Pinball FX server blocked as doesn't connect

@Bunkerneath Sometimes I find connecting to Zen’s servers patchy. ‘Try later...’ and all that: most bothersome when it does this after you manage to beat your previous best score and won’t upload. Argghhh!

WHITE WATER Results!

Thanks to @Alanar on this occasion for hosting and congrats to our winner Tarek. Well done to all who participated and thank you for playing digital pinball alongside one another.

The next table and tourney is for @MonkeySpasm to decide. Please share the details of how to join in this thread when you can. Cheers.

Woohoo 7th, not bad. Thank god don’t have to hear “Howdy Partner” for a while.
Good table though, took a while to figure out
Looking forward to the next one

@Bunkerneath Yeah. Very well played mate. Great debut in these competitions 👍

I really hated this table, especially the wheel of fortune, always nothing!

Hoping we hear from @monkeyspasm soon and he picks RED & TED’S ROAD SHOW. That’s the only Williams/Bally table we’ve yet to run a community tourney for.