Skill Shot

this year you can Learn about fixing your own machine or how some of the new pins are created

On Friday afternoon Tik Tok’s Richard Godwin will host two different seminars about regular issues that vex new pinball owners: trouble shooting electrical problems and how to properly solder.  Saturday is all about game design and planning with Jack Danger & Tanio Klyce discussing the new Foo Fighters game and Mark Ritchie & Butch Peel talking about the new Pulp Fiction pin. Sound designer David Thiel will discuss the work he did on Pulp Fiction and the elusive Queen pinball machines. If you like video games, Warren Davis who created Q*bert! will be there too!

For the complete speakers and seminars schedule visit the NWPAS site: https://www.nwpinballshow.com/speakers

Join Chase Nunes and friends as Geekgamer.tv host a seminar based around pinball skills at the nwpas

This Friday, June 2nd at the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show, join this fun event on the GeekGamer.TV Stage at 7pm. Learn a few new skills and possibly win some prizes – if you are selected you could also be a part of the live stream on Twitch!

Chase will also be streaming most of the day on both Friday and Saturday at: https://www.twitch.tv/geekgamertv

Our post about taking the bus to tacoma from seattle has been updated

I checked the current schedules for taking the bus to this weekend’s NW Pinball & Arcade Show and updated the post. Not much has changed this year so if you’ve done it before you should be good. Youth under 18 now ride for free on Sound Transit and the last bus leaves from Tacoma to downtown Seattle at 10:20pm. Get the full details here: https://www.skill-shot.com/the-bus-to-tacoma-2017/

this two-volume vinyl collection contains some of the most classic sounds in pinball from the 80s & 90s

Jackpot Records has announced the upcoming release of a two-record set: Jackpot Plays PINBALL, Vol. 1 & 2. The records contain pinball music and sounds from games such as Black Knight 2000, Medieval Madness, Attack From Mars and many more – the first time on vinyl. While the records are available individually there’s free shipping if you order both. Check out the Jackpot Records site for more info: https://jackpotrecords.com/pages/jackpot-plays-pinball

Monday Night Pinball and the Northend Street League Pinball both held their finals recently and have new champions

Monday Night Pinball’s A Division champions this season are Down To Pinball (DTP) based out of Jupiter, and the B Division champs are the Seacorns, who are now based at Georgetown Pizza & Arcade. Meanwhile up north the Northend Street League Pinball finished their Spring 2023 season with T.E.A.M. White Buffalo based at the White Buffalo taking the trophy. Congratulations!

An online record store pop-up happens at the 8-Bit weekly tournament on tuesday May 23rd

ONMS is a local record seller that will be at the 8-Bit this week selling a selection of vinyl before and during the weekly tournament. Shopping for records in between rounds of pinball is a neat idea. Does it need to be mentioned that you don’t have to play in the tournament in order to shop? https://www.facebook.com/onmsrecords

The Satellite Series heads to the Waterland Arcade in Des Moines on Wednesday May 24th for your next to last chance to win passes to the NWPAS

Tonight’s format is Match Play, MMP Final – this means the qualifying rounds will be a regular match play tournament with the top players moving into groups of four for the semi-finals/finals. Since the tournament begins at 7 you will want to head over there early in case traffic is bogged down. As always Waterland Arcade is an all ages venue. More info will be found on the NW Pinball & Arcade Show site: http://nwpas.wapinball.net/satellite.html

The Weekly tournament is not happening this week as they prepare their games for the NWPAS

Tik tok owner Richard Godwin announced on Facebook that unfortunately due to preparations for the Pinball Show next weekend I will NOT be holding the weekly matchplay tournament at Tik Toks this week. I suggest you guys go to Poulsbo and participate in the Slippery Pig  weekly tournament. Same sign up and start times as Tik Toks.