Anybody following the World Pinball Championships

[Bravo Zulu]

Steve Walker, of St. Louis, practices for the 10th annual World Pinball Championships being held at the Professional-Amateur Pinball Association World Headquarters in Scott. More than 400 players are competing for prize money in excess of $36,000.
http://www.papa.org/index.php

[KamaAina]

1. I hear that deaf, dumb and blind kid is the heavy favorite

:-)

[Archae]

2. Pinball still exists?

Outside of home videogame discs, pinball is practically gone.

[Burma Jones]

3. It exists in my basement..........

Maintenance is a pain though........

[hfojvt]

4. is that Joker Poker? No way!

Can I come over sometime?

I remember that as a pretty cool game, but that may just be because I had a great session against it. I played for about an hour and had to leave with a few credits on it because I had to go see about a job.

The only pinball I have now is on my computer. Kinda fun at first, but I got bored with it. It's now almost impossible for me to get a high score and without some kind of goal, like "free game", it is just not as fun. If they could change the program to a) include an extra ball at various point levels like 2 million, 5 million, 10 million, b) make the bonus points add up slower, and c) bring back the "match". Since all games are free, a "match" would mean you got another 3 balls on the same game.

[Burma Jones]

5. The second from the bottom is Hi-Low Ace, the botom one is Lady Luck

I really like the feel of playing the older machines