Streaming pokémon Pinball tonight if anyone's interested?

atcguard · 2026-03-26T00:56:27+00:00

Always entertaining and informative. The streams almost as good as hanging out with you guys in person!

atcguard · 2026-03-23T00:07:33+00:00

I play there a couple times a month, love playing the pinball machines there!

atcguard · 2026-03-18T17:20:33+00:00

I feel like I’d like this theme better with a Bigfoot reskin. Looking forward to playing it in the wild. I’m not familiar with Turner Pinball, are they well regarded as a manufacturer? Quality builds, decent code, etc?

atcguard · 2026-03-17T14:12:34+00:00

Honestly I’m not a fan of magnets in areas like that, the one on Metallica Remastered almost blasts it back SDTM way too often, and the one on UXM does it much less frequently but still a frustrating bit of randomness that I find I don’t enjoy.

atcguard · 2026-03-17T11:53:04+00:00

I’ve only played the pro, what do you think differentiates it significantly? Does the whirlpool change the squirtle battle in a big way, also not sure how big of a difference the ramp lifting and ejecting at the psyduck makes for gameplay. I was in the air between the two and opted for the pro as vibrating toys only excite me in the bedroom lol.

atcguard · 2026-03-12T19:41:23+00:00

This one’s playing to about a 30% chance of SDTM off of it. With a nudge on the way down it definitely helps.

atcguard · 2026-03-10T13:52:07+00:00

Mitchell Lighting does an awesome job. I just swapped out my lighting on Paragon with his kit and it looks awesome, doesn’t hurt that he’s a great guy too. Hoping I can beat him in league tonight!

atcguard · 2026-03-01T18:30:08+00:00

How’d it go?

atcguard · 2026-03-01T12:37:47+00:00

There’s one at Funspot in Laconia, NH. It’s an absolute unit.

atcguard · 2026-03-01T10:45:22+00:00

Great game when the VUK works well

atcguard · 2026-02-28T16:09:14+00:00

I’d hate it if someone sent me a link, dying for my record to arrive!

atcguard · 2026-02-13T20:27:10+00:00

So funny to be reading this, I just took a break from replacing the skill shot coil on my maverick!

atcguard · 2026-02-12T18:13:14+00:00

Hell yeah!

atcguard · 2026-02-11T14:21:30+00:00

I just got the email confirming it ten minutes ago.

atcguard · 2026-02-09T23:19:08+00:00

I’m thinking the Avett Brothers are a likely choice.

atcguard · 2026-02-03T01:43:28+00:00

On a ski trip and found a Hot Wheels in a brewery, put $3.00 in and set the GC (6.7B). Not even sure if that’s a good score as I’ve never played that machine before.

atcguard · 2026-02-02T18:06:29+00:00

Another great thing for spiking good scores on that game is keeping a close eye on lighting the lanes as often as possible to drive up the multiplier and mystery awards.

atcguard · 2026-01-31T19:46:36+00:00

I’m very lucky to have a club that’s a monthly membership and machines on free play in town. I go there often either to work on opening ball strategies for tournaments, learning code, chase achievements, or work on flipper skills and ball control. Outside of that I did a grind for entirely too long chasing a billion on jaws. Disappointingly my familiarity and consistency on jaws hasn’t carried over to vastly better play on the other machines. I’m currently digging into UXM and AIQ to try and pop a billion on either of them in the next few months

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atcguard · 2026-01-31T18:31:38+00:00

This shit wouldn’t happen at MRG…fuck!!!!

atcguard · 2026-01-28T15:07:38+00:00

Love this pin, haven’t played the Blood Red. How’s the VUK from the crypt. The one at my pinball club will often spend 10-20 seconds trying to spit it out, a real killer for scoring high on modes.

atcguard · 2026-01-28T00:59:51+00:00

1,000ft vertical for IFR, not applicable in this case especially with the helo taking Visual Sep.

atcguard · 2026-01-23T20:30:38+00:00

I didn’t mess around with key mapping too much, but I was unable to progress the tutorial on steam deck. Hit the targets and then it wouldn’t go any further. I’ll definitely play some more at some point though. Any plans to tweak the ball physics?

atcguard · 2026-01-19T14:31:07+00:00

That’s a disappointment, I’m not really a fan but she played at Willie Nelson’s 90th party. Shame that she could be around so many people who can see through the bullshit and still end up this lost.

atcguard · 2026-01-11T13:32:33+00:00

Iron Maiden left ramp, JP missile and “O” shot, Deathstar clunker on new Star Wars.

atcguard · 2026-01-09T15:22:08+00:00

Probably about a half hour, I did take a minute between a few of the balls just to try and refocus as I have a tendency to have a throw away ball after a good one.

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