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

Capcom's Pinball Magic (1995) has a Magic Wand that allows the ball to float underneath. The Magic Wand can rotate and case the ball to be delivered to another location!

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

Going back to 2018 -- this was a nice setup. Pinball and arcade games. That's a Tempest cocktail.

Poor Red. Mouth does not work, eyes broken. This is a sad Road Show pinball machine I found on location. Pins can take lots of work to maintain, which is why they almost died in the 90s. Thanks to the great operators that maintain them! What's the worst shape pinball machine you've come across?

Looking pretty sharp. Pinballs Machines.

My goal is only to post about Pinball. But this drove by.

More about the Sentinel in Stern's Uncanny X-Men pinball. Sentinel's head raises and lowers from the playfield and his hand knocks down a ramp (in addition to flicking the pinball), disrupting the pinball's movement More very cool stuff. Premium edition. www.aaarpinball.com/UncannyXMen/...

Stern's Uncanny X-Men pinball has a Sentinel that interacts with the pinball (in the premium version). The Sentinel uses its finger to block the ball's progress and "flicks" the back backwards. It's very cool. www.aaarpinball.com/UncannyXMen/...

Always restoring Addams Family pinball aprons. Working on the next run of 6, and almost done.

A few years ago I was able to go to Hungary's Budapest Pinball Museum. Great place! Large number of pinball machines, great variety. Some random pictures.

Many years ago, I came home from work and found a new-in-box pinball machine in my driveway. Birthday present from my wife. I had NO IDEA it was coming. My wife is the best.

Added Stern Uncanny X-Men pinball page to my site. Mostly pictures now, but it's where many things I do will be recorded. Check it out if you'd like to see some pretty pictures of the game, what it looked like before setup, and under the playfield. www.aaarpinball.com/UncannyXMen/...

Just a couple pics of Stern Uncanny X-Men pinball, that's all.

Stern Uncanny X-Men premium followed me home! PINBALL!

Long ago, I got White Water pinball, but Big Foot had no hair! It was a big deal when I found a new-old-stock (NOS) head with hair as unique pinball parts were scarce in 2005. Big Foot turns his head and laughs at you, and also uses a log to divert the pinball. www.aaarpinball.com/WhiteWater/W...

I certainly don't need any more games, but in case this deal works out, I may have a cinematronics space ace

Pinball at the Beach surprise. I really enjoyed playing Jersey Jack Toy Story 4. That Duke Caboom ramp is great! Cheered each time I made it. Somehow I had not played it before.

Spooky’s Evil Dead is fun! Enjoyed it. Played at Pinball at the Beach. Will play more today.

Lucky first game! Stern Dungeons and Dragons LE pinball