Hey everyone. First, I wanted to make sure to thank YouTube channels MN Retro Gamer, Carl Hardy, and the Dutch Pinball Museum for their great day 1 footage.

Having been to another recent pinball show, I was surprised that they rarely seem to put out useful maps of all the games they have to play as that's the reason why we go. The Chicago show seems to be no different. Just a static pdf floor plan. So I went through the video footage to make this map: https://rincs1979.github.io/chicago-pinball-expo-2026.

Sadly I'm on the other side of the country and can't attend. But I kind of wanted to do this just to make a wishlist of VPX tables to find later. Hopefully anyone attending this weekend will find it useful.

Candidly I know I'm missing some stuff on the map. Feel free to post any corrections. And also hopefully I got all these homebrew creators correct as in many ways they seem to be the star of the show this year. To anyone attending, have fun and feel free to share your experience of the show. I might just have to go next year.

I am planning on playing pinball on Saturday and am stuck on going to either LITT, Northstar pinball collective, or Julie's. What would be the best to do? I want to go to LITT for the LE machines but it costs per game. Julies doesn't have any LE connected games but has some older games that I want to play. NPC has more pro IC games but most of them I can play around me, however they are on free play at NPC.

Hope this OK (and please feel free to remove u/mods) but I've been supporting a solo developer who's built a two-player pinball game and it's launching later this month. Would love your support if you're interested at all!
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/pvp-pinball-is-such-a-good-idea-i-cant-believe-i-havent-played-it-before/

I have made the billion point shot once and have been pondering a The Machine themed tattoo. While I give her a few spins everywhere I find her, let's be honest, I may never make the billion point shot again ☺️ and I will be far too excited to take a picture.

Does anyone happen to have a photo of this heart lit up?

Bought a NIB JP Premium this year and it's such a fun and punishingly difficult game. You can have multiple games with quick drains then go on a run.

Sometimes when I want to mix things up, i'll play a 4 person cooperative mode by myself to see if i can get to the Visitors Center. Captured the Spinosaurus, got the King of the Island Multiball for the first time ever. Then got to the Raptor paddock capturing one of them (you gotta do the capture TWICE??? ARGGGG)

This is where it's hard to understand when I see used pinballs for sale with 200 or 300 plays, I think we are easily up to well over 600 plays since June between me and my kids.

Please save the snarkiness and reductive responses for the people in your life that like that about you.

I want to get my hands on these super awesome machines that cost a mint, and I want to know how, as someone who doesn't have $40,000 liquid at my disposal.

Do an exercise with me: you are tasked with acquiring Fallout LE, Winchester Mansion and the AC/DC Remaster in 1 year or less. You have $3,000, that's it. If you succeed,you get $1,000,000 cash and any 10 machines you want. Use this to motivate you to actually think about how you would do this.

My only path i can see is to buy 3 machines for under $ 1,000 each, put sweat equity into them and rely on the kindness of others to assist me in trading up to the machines I want. Sounds like a lot of work, but sounds easier than trying to squirrel away $10k-$20k for an amusement.

Help me get top tier pinball machines without spending the money, help yourself too.

New video is up for the How to Restore an EM Pinball Machine! This time its on everything you need to know about restoring stepper units! Lots of good tips and techniques to help you demystify repairing your EM pinball machine. Let me know what you think.

1973 Williams Triple Action Restoration

https://youtu.be/us74eluXYsU

Well?? We're waiting!

I am looking for info on this tabletop pinball. I got it for Christmas as a kid (Late 70's maybe). My research has uncovered another version that is white and has the Galoob branding. But nowhere can I find even a photo of a red one. Anyone ever seen one of these?

I bought this machine over a year ago and I still love it!

Considering trading a rush premium with exp lights and an amp with new speakers for an original twd prem plus cash. Do you guys think its worth while? Neither theme do anything for me im looking for just gameplay wise. My only complaint with rush is the game is kind of easy and plays forever. This is even after opening up the outlane posts. Does twd still hold up or should i hold out for a cash sale.

It wasn’t in my radar but I’m glad to find one in such great shape. Previous owner delivered it ask the way from Ottawa!

The other day I got a pinball videogame on steam, after only having played Space Cadet back in the day, and got thoroughly hooked. Since then, I've been delving into the history of pinball and learning the lingo and techniques, so that I can be as knowledgeable as possible.

I'm having a blast.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to the real thing where I live. Such places are few and far between, and traveling to the closest one would mean quite the journey.

My question is threefold:

First, how realistically can a videogame portray the physical machine? (I'm playing Pinball FX, on the "realistic" setting).

Second, for those of you who either have access to, or have acquired your own physical machines, do you also play the digital version of the thing, or does playing the real thing take away from the digital?

Third, is there anyone out there who actually prefers the digital?

I guess that's three questions.

Whether physical or digital, I think I found a new hobby.

Comet "sunlight white" bulbs for most of the inserts plus blacklight bulbs around the main concentration of glow in the dark rubbers on the slings/flippers. All bulbs behind the "hologram" and then any inserts that suffer heavily from strobing (like the missile circles) are incandescent.

Title says it all. Admittedly, ive played the hell out of dnd and im kinda meh on it now after beating it 10+ times. My only thing holding me back is seemingly every pulp fiction ive ever played seemingly has had some issues.

Trade is his pulp SE for my d&d pro with Tiny Tavern and Kyro mimic mod.

Would you?

First time in Costco without the kids so I played the display/floor model. Fun game but probably won’t bring one home.

My son and I love the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. I would love to hear what people think of the pinball table on P3 Multimorphic.

[EDIT] Must be a me issue. Thank you all!

Anyone else having issues today with the SternIC app not opening on IPhone? Mine keeps just blackscreening at launch and just won’t load. Got it going once by restarting my phone, and then it broke again. I’ve now reinstalled the app and am having the same issue. Maybe it’s my phone, just curious if anyone else has seen the same.

Ive watched videos and most say to do it with 2 people, last time i needed to lift up the playfield it rolled right off the track, luckily didnt break anything but im terrified itll happen again. I really wanted to get the art blades for my jaws pro

The ball on the ball save sometimes hits both sides followed by the pop bumper then drains. Anyway to adjust this?