UKPINFEST 2025 MACHINE DONATION THREAD

[David_Vi]

I haven't played Blackwater since Play Expo in Blackpool a few years back. I'll definitely give it a go. I'm looking forward to drinking and playing pinball with friends again

 

[Jason Catrine]

Stallball...

I don't want to cause any issues (it seems even innocuous comments can open cans of worms these days, sadly), and the following is purely my observation/feedback having just got back from the EPC in Austria, so thought I'd share my thoughts on it.

They held a fun stallball type event there on Labyrinth by Barrels of Fun, called BarrelBall.

There was a code version used, which is specifically set up for stallball, and it worked really well.

Basically a bunch of shots were highlighted in white, with one shot lit red. If you hit the red shot, or drained, the video screen lit up red with "Eliminated", and if you hit a white shot, the screen went blue indicating a successful shot. It was therefore really clear when you were out, or when you'd been successful and rejoined the end of the queue.

I've nothing against Twilight Zone, which I understand is the proposed machine for the stallball comp, and certainly don't want to kick off any controversy, but thought I'd just post the above as a positive contribution in case people weren't aware of this option on Labyrinth. I don't even know if there will be a Labyrinth at Pinfest, and stallball is always a fun part of Pinfest, regardless of what machine it is played on.

Cheers,

Conrad.

P.S. The EPC was absolutely brilliant, held in a massive venue (normally an ice-rink) in the small town of Vocklabruck, with loads of competition, 70 or so free-play machines including many unusual ones, and new machines including 3 x King Kong, Dune, Alice in Wonderland etc, good catering/beers, and even in the competitions, a really friendly atmosphere. Stefan Riedler and his team did an awesome job organising and running it.

The call outs in Barrel Ball are excellent. Makes it an entertaining game.... even if you're just playing it on your own. I find myself turning on Labyrinth and switching to Barrel Ball just as a bit of a challenge to see what the longest streak is that I can get. Theres lots of callouts included from other games that the guy did voice overs for like Scared Stiff, Roadshow, NBA etc. Hopefully David can turn up the volume during the Barrel Ball comp at Pinfest so everyone can hear the call outs.

 

[Nick]

Popped over to see Marc Gatward briefly this evening (31C in his pin bar ) and we will definitely bring at least one game per person from Royston.

Me probably Dirty Harry or JackBot depending on what the other TBAs come in as. And Marc probably Flash. If he ends up traveling separately we may be able to bring up to 4 between us, but want to commit to at least 2.