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Pinside Outage, Loads of Code, Aliens are Coming, Interviews with Dave Brennan and Nick Baldridge, Billy Madison Pin, Stolen Metallica – TWIP 4/12/21

The Scoop

— QUICK HITS —

Pinside Suffers Major Outage

The largest pinball website in the world was offline for much of last week. A huge thank you to Robin and the Pinside team for all their work getting the site back up as quickly as possible!

We posted a few updates on TWIP’s social media channels to keep people updated:

After Pinside was back up, Robin posted some more information on what happened and what is being done on this Pinside thread:

Did you miss Pinside while it was offline?? Resources like Pinside are kept alive with YOUR support!!

PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION TO PINSIDE TO HELP SUPPORT THE SITE AND KEEP IT GOING!!!

Loads of Code

Last week new code was released for many different machines from several different manufacturers:

Alien Pinball Shipping

Last week Pinball Brothers shared a post on Facebook showing an Alien standard version box! Check it out:

Melissa from CoinTaker shared in the comments that Aliens are slowly shipping and that larger quantities should be shipping in a few weeks. She also shared a little insight into the XV version showing on the box, as Pinball Brothers are offering just the standard version and limited version:

Interviews

Last week there were two notable interviews on different podcasts:

Installing Expression Light System on Led Zeppelin Pro Pinball

How to Remove a Playfield From a Spike 2 Stern Pinball Machine

PinClash AIQ Qualifying

Reminder – PinClash on Avengers: Infinity Quest is going on now and ends April 30th!

TMNT Limited Box (with Pinball Artwork)

Congrats to Marco Pinball on 50 Episodes of PinTech LIVE!

Silverball Swag logo
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— Cool and Crazy Stuff —

Billy Madison Custom Pinball

Meet the Ladies of Marco Pinball

New Hobbit Mod from The Art of Pinball

Stolen Metallica – Let’s Find This Thing

Other Quick Hits:

  • Led Zeppelin

  • Star Wars Comic Edition Pin

  • Avengers Infinity Quest

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

  • Heavy Metal (contract game)

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Jersey Jack Pinball
  • Guns N’ Roses

  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

  • Pirates of the Caribbean

  • Dialed In!

  • Hobbit

  • Wizard of Oz

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Chicago Gaming Company
  • Monster Bash Remake

  • Attack From Mars Remake

  • Medieval Madness Remake

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Spooky Pinball
  • Rick and Morty

  • Alice Cooper’s Nightmare Castle

  • Total Nuclear Annihilation

  • Jetsons (contract game)

  • Dominos (contract game)

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American Pinball
  • Hot Wheels

  • Oktoberfest

  • Houdini

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  • Ranger in the Ruins (uses Cosmic Cart Racing module)

  • Heist (P3 Game Kit)

  • Cosmic Cart Racing (P3 Game Kit)

  • Lexy Lightspeed (P3 Game Kit)

  • Cannon Lagoon (P3 Game Kit)

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  • Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland

  • Fire & Brimstone

  • Food Truck

  • Merlin’s Arcade

  • The Who

  • Gladiator

  • Yukon Yeti

  • Machine Age

  • Barry Oursler Black Hole Revision

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Haggis Pinball
  • Celts

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  • Alien

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