Blog about pinball with entries from Indie Gamer Chick.
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The hook Recently LEGO®, known for the bricks that work like caltrips for feet, released a new set: the LEGO® Icons Arcade Pinball Machine, aka set 11374 (And that’s enough of typing it uppercase and with the ® symbol) As a life-long pinball fan and someone who played with Lego blocks in my youth, I … Continue reading "LEGO Arcade Pinball Machine"
FARFALLA RETRO Awww. Doesn’t it look sweet? So tranquil. So serene. Oh, it’s totally not. Farfalla Retro is a brutal, punishing table that also is one of the better tables in the Zaccaria Retro pack. Two open outlanes are guarded by slingshots angled right at the outlanes. If the ball catches the sling too low, … Continue reading "Farfalla Retro (Zaccaria Table Review)"
EARTH WIND FIRE RETRO A distant cousin to 70s hits like Centigrade or Sheriff, only without much in the way of dynamic scoring. Besides a pair of high-yielding bumpers, the targets are four roll-over targets that have to be hit twice in a single ball to score their maximum value. That’s nothing compared to the … Continue reading "Earth Wind Fire Retro (Zaccaria Table Review)"
DEVIL RIDERS RETRO Fun fact: This was Sasha the Kid’s first table with gobble holes. These days, Visual Pinball’s EM selection is her jam, but when she first played this on her AtGames Legend, she was not a happy camper. Now in the old days, gobble holes could be tied to specials and extra balls. … Continue reading "Devil Riders Retro (Zaccaria Retro Review)"
COMBAT RETRO Well, at least Combat Retro has one thing going for it: it joins tables such as Theatre of Magic and Zen Studios’ Knight Rider table in that a friendly debate in the Vice Household on its merits and flaws turned into a shouting match. This is one of the other retro tables we … Continue reading "Combat Retro (Zaccaria Pinball Table Review)"
CLOWN RETRO When you have a roll-over target, I find it really helps that the target be, you know, what you aim at! The highest scoring element in Clown Retro are five roll-over lights that score 1,000 points once all five are lit. One little problem: the actual targets are not one-to-one with the lights … Continue reading "Clown Retro (Zaccaria Pinball Table Review)"
CIRCUS RETRO Circus Retro and Blackbelt Retro are cousins, though Circus takes a hard stance against trapping. Say what you will about Blackbelt, but rebounding is possible on it. Because the corner flippers have bumpers right on them, there’s no potential for defense. The ball is a hot coal that you’re tossing back and forth … Continue reading "Circus Retro (Zaccaria Pinball Table Review)"
CINE STAR RETRO A NEW TABLE ADDED TO THE RETRO PACK IN 2025 The first of thirteen tables added to the infamous Retro pack in the year 2025 is, for all intents and purposes, shooting school. There’s no outlanes or slingshots, and besides a slightly enlarged drain, no antagonistic elements or angles. The only defensive … Continue reading "Cine Star Retro (Zaccaria Pinball Table Review)"
BLACKBELT RETRO When the most satisfying aspect of a table is getting on a lucky bounce parade that no amount of nudging is going to be all that helpful with, it’s probably a bad table. It’s only because there’s no slingshots to block a rebound against the wall that the BAD voters didn’t send Blackbelt … Continue reading "Black Belt Retro (Zaccaria Pinball Table Review)"
Because the full eight-person team is here, we’re using Olympic style scoring. The highest rating and lowest rating are not factored into the Final Rating. AEROBATICS RETRO We’ve already reviewed the AtGames Legend build of Aerobatics Retro. The updated Steam build benefits from having a variety of physics options (not to mention tables like this … Continue reading "Aerobatics Retro (Zaccaria Pinball Table Review)"
Grimm Tales First Released February 16, 2023 Main Platform: Pinball FX Switch Platform: NOT RELEASED ON SWITCH Designed by Zoltan ’Pazo’ Pataki Stand Alone Release ($4.99) Think of Grimm as being the unholy offspring of Medieval Madness and Tales of the Arabian Nights. The layout borrows heavily from Medieval Madness, maybe a little too closely. … Continue reading "Grimm Tales (Pinball FX Table Review)"
