Hi Everyone! I’ve cobbled together a basic listing of all of the banks for the announced games with links to informational sites that I am sharing with everyone ahead of Pinburgh. The idea is that you’re looking at it on your mobile phone while at the event, hence the small screen size.
PAPA YouTube, if a specific Tutorial/Gameplay/Competition video exists
Essentially, you could easily Google or go directly to those sites, but I wanted to compile everything together in a simple list for easy access for me during Pinburgh and I figure I would share with anyone who wants access.
If you end up using the site during prep for or during the event, I am currently restoring a broken Eight Ball Deluxe, so please consider throwing a few dollars towards “Corey’s Pinball Parts Fund” by finding me at Pinburgh or through you favorite money transfer service: pinballpartsfund@gmail.com.
Disclaimers: Information and links are provided as-is. Information about the machines (especially IPDB) was made by using best-guesses, and may point to a similarly-named machine. Some links may not work or may direct to the wrong game.
Feel free to report any errors that you might find. I know there are some recent updates to Pinball Videos and PinTips that I haven’t captured yet, and I’ll try to do one more “sweep” on Tuesday night to pick up any last minute additions.
This is amazing! The only addition I would add is the rule sheets at http://papa.org/learning-center/players-guide/?target=rule-sheets, which are usually my go-to resource when they exist. However those are most often linked to from IPDB anyways, so they’re not strictly necessary I suppose.
If someone adds new pintips for a machine that didn’t have them when this was created, will it update automatically or do you have to add them by hand?
First, I appreciate the positive praises that people have given!
I’ll also try to add in the links to the Players Guide over the weekend.
As for PinTips, right now I have a spreadsheet with a lot of VLOOKUPS against a previously extract from PinTips; I haven’t gotten it to be fancy enough to query any of the APIs for the sites.
From what I could tell on Wednesday (July 19) when I made the list, I think the following games didn’t have PinTips pages. If they’re up by Tuesday night (July 25), I’ll be able to add those IDs to the lookup and re-execute the SQL to add them to the list.
From the Pinburgh list:
Aces & Kings
Aerobatics
Andromeda
Attilla the Hun
Big Hurt
Blackwater 100
Butterfly
Casanova
City Slicker
Counterforce
Doodle Bug
Doozie
El Dorado
Freak Out (Pretty sure this was a custom game for PAPA, right? Isn’t this a re-skin of Doozie? If it is, I’ll just connect it to Doozie if there’s a page for that.)
Game Show
Grand Lizard
Hang Glider
Hi Lo Ace
Jungle Lord
KISS
Knockout
Liberty Bell
Magic City
Miss-O
Motor Show
NBA (Stern)
Night Rider
Nip-It
Pinball Lizard
Raven
Shaq Attack
Shrek
Soccer
Solar Fire
Sound Stage
Star Wars (Stern 17)
Strange Science
Strikes and Spares
Target Alpha
Time Zone
Torpedo Alley
I have a long [~40 pages] “EMcyclopedia” that’s basically a guide to playing EM machines and covers 64 games so far [more if you count playfield duplicates], most of which are in the Pinburgh banks. It’s kind of a work in progress, since there are other games I haven’t gotten around to including yet, but I figure a lot of folks might be interested in it. I’m wondering where to post it for maximum visibility, since I’m not on social media and given that it’s a long text document. It needs a little cleaning up, but I could post it by tomorrow morning. I’d have loved to have done instructional videos for all of these, but I don’t have access to the games to do it. Suggestions?
