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2000s were rough. I've updated pinbetween.com to show ranking by manufacturer/era. When showing 2000s the top pins are Lord of the Rings, Simpsons Pinball Party, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Those are all very different games, IMHO. Each is fun! The list here at pinbetween.com/rankings/2000s

Strange fact: lower ranked pins can frequently beat higher ranked. I’m calling these Boogymen on pinbetween.com/insights pinbetween is taking multi-dimensional data and making it one dimension. Things may occasionally get lost in that projection. TNA is a Boogyman at the moment.

My Batman 66 had the wrong apron! Previous owner put a plastic one on there to add insider connected. I got the official IC one, which is very nice. pinbetween.com/competitors/...

The Batman 66 turn table mech is really impressive. Here’s a pic from below the playfield. Plus some pinbetween insights about it too! pinbetween.com/competitors/...

Wow! White Water is #1 on pinbetween.com.

Stern Godzilla fans want to play South Park! I was looking at some pinbetween.com data related to Godzilla. Data shows: - Prefer Monster-ish themed pins more than the average player - Dislike the original Sega Godzilla more than the average player - want to play South Park! I like it too.

Amazing! Looks like mine. Your work is incredible.

Polarizing pins like DE Jurassic Park,Doctor Who, Galactic Tank Force are identified by pinbetween.com. People want to play as much as don’t . Perfect split occurred for JP, DW, GTF. I bet Avenger IQ is close with amazing playfield/less fun rules, IMHO. Thoughts? ​https://www.pinbetween.com/insights

I played Dune/Winchester at Pinball at the Beach & really enjoyed them. I thought it was cool when pinbetween.com highlighted BoF is the only manufacturer with their entire catalog in the top 50. Sure, they only have 3 games, but it's an amazing start.

Brackets are now available on pinbetween.com with Coin Drop. I deployed this last night. Players predict who advances each round. Every correctly-predicted matchup earns you points. Points double each round, so calling the Final right matters! Plus there's an upset bonus! Leaderboard!

Personalized insights, faster matches, and keyboard shortcuts are just released pinbetween.com features. Just create an account! More to come.

Stern Premium+LE pins generally rank 19 positions higher than Pros. New insights from pinbetween available. www.pinbetween.com/insights. Have fun!

New features + top 10 from pinbetween.com. Pin groups now supported (Premium and LEs are together). I’ve curated all the machines. Improved variation in matches. Internal improvements. Added American Pinball games and Chicago Gaming’s Pulp Fiction. I love pinbetweens.com unique top 10 view.

White Water is in demand to be played! I love White Water but wasn’t expecting pinbetween.com to surface it as the #3 game players want to play. This is from live data and may adjust by end of day. Thanks to all who are doing matches on pinbetween. It’s a fun project.

I’ve given a lot of thought into how to handle all the variants. Look for some updates in this area.

Day 3 pinbeteeen.com rankings. Interesting 1-on-1 results.

I built pinbetween.com as a fun project and launched it (beta) a few days ago. It's free. No advertisements. It shows you two machines at a time and asks which you'd rather play right now. It uses cool statistics and math to build up a new type of rankings. Hopefully it's fun too! Try it out?

Why not spent $10 and get a bunch of surprisingly high quality cake decorations for a Jersey Jack Toy Story Pinball?

Looking forward to playing Stern’s Fall of the Empire pinball, but …

My Twilight Zone Pinball had been “under the weather” for the past 11 months. I knew how to fix, but just focused on other things. With 4 hours or so, got TZ up and running this weekend. Just put another 10 games on it, you know, to test it’s working. Damn. I’d forgotten how great this pin is!

Got around to updating Uncanny X-Men to this weeks 0.93 release. It’s great!

Continuing my Capcom Pinball Magic restoration. Here's one of the leaf switches for the slingshots. Pretty clearly human mangled in a poor attempt to adjust it. I did my best to straighten it out, but may get a new one. Working fine now. #pinball www.aaarpinball.com/PinballMagic...

Replaced a nasty plunger rubber tip on my Pinball Magic. It's crazy I didn't replace this sooner. It's trivial to do! I'd focused on replacing rubbers that required removing half the playfield. Here's the bad one and the new one. Yeah, I prefer the white. BTW, Pinball Magic is awesome. #pinball

My beautiful Scared Stiff (Bally, 1996), which I spent a lot of time making perfect, has gone to a new home. Here's her last picture from the garage before loaded up and driven away. #pinball www.aaarpinball.com/ScaredStiff/...

Jersey Jack Toy Story 4 pinball’s Gabby Gabby had a dirty nose! Cleaned. #pinball

New bezels for tapper and Mario Bros arcade from Phoenix arcade. Just incredible stuff as always

Starting to stencil the black knight pinball. We are going with colors that are metallic and quite a bit more bold than the original, just because.

Pinball Magic has a clear captive ball. Mine was old & ugly, had a strange slot -- maybe this isn't an original but rather something another owner repurposed? Ordered a new acrylic one for about $5 and it looks great. See the old + new below plus installed and lighted up! Looks Great! #pinball

My Pinball Magic (Capcom, 1995) needed its apron refreshed. Here's the installation of a new decal and the results. #pinball

Capcom Pinball parts can be hard to find. When Pinball Magic’s captive ball post broke, I got something close but it didn’t accept a screw cap to hold the post rubber in place. I designed and 3D printed a sleeve + cap. Very happy with results. Pics: broken, replacement no cap, with my 3d print

Toy Story 4 (JJP, 2022) Duke Caboom shot is my current favorite among pinball! Feels amazing. I either feel like cheering (or cheer) each time I make it. When maple leaf is lite, ramp pops up. Shoot between the two posts & ball flies up & over much of back playfield, rolling into Star Adventurer.

Really enjoying Jersey Jack Pinball's Toy Story 4 (2022, Lawlor). Focusing just on looks, it's amazing. Some pics for you to see.

Going to try out Jersey Jack Pinball's Toy Story 4 (2022, Pat Lawlor). Really well done, fun, great production values, callouts from Tim Allen, Annie Potts and Hank's bother! It's the anti-Stern pin in many ways -- it just feels very different. It's just chill. But it's not even setup yet!

Cool, but it's no Roy Clark: the entertainer

I've got enough content on my Capcom Pinball Magic page that I figured I'd share. www.aaarpinball.com/PinballMagic... Includes details about mechanisms, repairs, ColorDMD, lamp matrix challenges, lots of pictures. If you want some "below the covers" insights, take a look. No ads, just hobby site!

Tech Babble. Spent days on Pinball Magic, why some lamps didn't turn on (& other weird behavior)? Found manually grounding row made lamps come on! Assumed bad row transistor/MOSFET. Today found it wasn't. 2 arms of a bulb touching, shorting. Bent back, all good! Glad to find before replacing MOSFET!

Capcom's Pinball Magic (1995) has a levitating pinball trick! If the trick isn't active, the game will kick the pinball out into the audience area. If active, the ball levitates upward and rolls out the stage's top right (our view). Awesome! Pinball Magic is a great pin.

Change your pinball leg levelers, friends! Yuck. Who knows what this thing as seen, experienced.

Pinball Magic continued. Pics from the playfield. It’s in pretty solid shape.

Just picked up a non restored but nice Capcom Pinball Magic (1995). Game has great toys that perform “magic” on the pinball. Needs some repairs. More to come as I dig into this pinball machine.

I like Judge Dredd Pinball (Bally, 1993), especially the playfield artwork. It has wire ramps on top of wire ramps. Also has a LARGE spinning globe, Deadworld, used for a ball lock (functionality reduced at least minute for fear of balls getting stuck, but can be added back). Plus a nice topper.

Piece by piece, I've been restoring my junky Nintendo Mario Bros arcade game. Glad I recently had a tetanus shot

Jersey Jack Pinball's Dialed In! (JJP '17) is IMHO excellent & deserves more love. Pat Lawlor (Addams Family, Twilight Zone) designed, it's loaded. Reality Theater uses "Peppers Ghost" so images hover over ball! Drones, magnets, moving target, diverters, trap door, physical ball lock, and more!

While traveling I dropped by Pinky's Revenge near Greenville, SC. Had a great time! Really good mix of Pinball Machines from modern Jersey Jack (JJP) and Stern (IC connected) to older games. Lots of classic arcade games too! www.pinkysrevenge.com

Doctor Who pinball (Bally, 1992) has a Time Expander toy that raises/lowers from the playfield. Story goes the mechanism generated so much torque there was concern it could break a technician's finger! They added a switch to detect when the glass is removed, which disabled the Time Expander.

Fun story! Had a Bally Theatre of Magic pinball for sale. A guy I'd never met, and a few hours away, asked to trade for a Bally Scared Stiff. Sure! We ended up driving and meeting at a Buc-ee's about 1/2 way, set each game up in the parking lot, checked them out, swapped, and drove home. LOL!

I played a "totally ok" game of Stern's Uncanny X-Men (premium v0.90) and recorded it! It includes Wolverine mode, "Rescue the Innocent" mode, Fastball Special, Sentinel Multiball, To Me My X-Men, The Future, Extra Ball, Nimrod mode, youtu.be/2UxS7zt7VFQ

Yay Me! Getting better. Stern Uncanny X-Men pinball grand champion. 428,389,200