No Texas Pinball Festival for 2006

Last years Texas Pinball Festival was in October. This year, no word has been posted on when this event would take place. Well, after emailing them, I have found out the following. Quote:

Hi tijir,

Thanks for your interest in the Texas Pinball Festival. Yes! There will be another one however we are right now in the works for looking for a new location to host our show. Tentatively we are planning it for Spring 2007. Please stay tuned to our web site: www.texaspinball.com as we'll be updating it shortly with all the information on our next event.

Regards,
Craig Hassell
Co-Organizer Texas Pinball Festival

So, it looks as if there will be no Texas Pinball Festival 2006, they are skipping to Texas Pinball Festival 2007. This is all I have found out, when I find out more information, I will post it. I am disappointed, I was looking forward to a weekend of pinball this October or November. I will have to do some digging around on the Internet to find a place having a pinball event during that time. If you know of an event coming up, leave a comment and let me know about it.

Pirates of the Caribbean Pinball Review Part 2 of 4

The second part the the Pirates of the Caribbean pinball review has been published. This part covers a lot of stuff including game play, music, rules, and much more. Plenty of photos and a lot of walk-through information. Check it out: Pinball News - Pirates of the Caribbean Review Part 2 of 4

PAPA 9 World Pinball Championships August 17-20

The next Professional Amateurs Pinball Association World Pinball Championships, PAPA 9, will be held August the 17-20, 2006 in Scott Township, Pennsylvania at the PAPA Headquarters. PAPA 9 is the only major pinball event in the USA dedicated to competitive tournament play. This year prizes are valued at $33,250 total, first prize in division A is $10,000. The reigning World Pinball Champion, winner of the PAPA 8 A Division, is Bowen Kerins. Players of all skill levels are welcome and are eligible to win. To read more about it, check it out here: PAPA 9 World Pinball Championships
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend. I wish all the competitors luck. If you end up as one of the winners, remember where you heard about it!

Pirates of the Caribbean Pinball Review Part 1 of 4

Pinball News has a great four part review of Stern's new Pirates of the Caribbean pinball table. The review has been broken up into four parts, probably because of all the awesome things this table has to offer. This review is very in depth and goes into the pros and cons of parts that were used on Stern's latest release. In this first part they talk about the display, lighting, the playfield features, and much more. A ton of pictures of both the playfield and inside the cabinet are included with the article. A very interesting read and definitely worth a read. I will blog the links to all four parts of the review as they become available. Check out part one here: Pinball News - Pirates of the Caribbean

Dream Pinball 3D servers back up!

$10,000 contest still going! For some reason the official Dream Pinball 3D Website moved. The link in my earlier article is no longer valid. I apologize for my broken link and I am glad to have found a good one that leads to the download. So, go download that table and get started, you only have till August 31st to beat, 23,978,197,830. That is one large score to beat! The website url is http://www.dream-pinball.com/en/index.html

**EDIT**
The broken link in the earlier article was my fault I believe. I apologize for being a little fast at running off to play pinball and not double checking my links. Both this and the last blog post are probably wrong, I just butchered the link.

Dream Pinball 3D servers down.

The Dream Pinball 3D website is down, more than likely due to more people trying to download the program than their servers can handle. Here's hoping they fix it soon, last I checked, the top score was near 20 billion. Oh well, at least I got it in time to play, so back to my chance at $10,000 I go. Happy pinballin'!

$10,000 3D Video Pinball Competition!

As reported over at Pinball News - First and Free, the German game publisher Zuxxez is offering ten thousand doallars for first prize in their promotion of the up and coming game release "Dream Pinball 3D". Amongst the prizes of the competition, the first place winner, most points in a single game, gets $10,000 and will be crowned Cyber Pinball World Cup 2006 wizard. Second and third places also win "cool prizes". The table for the competition can be downloaded at the Official Dream Pinball 3D Website. If nothing else, it is a download of an awesome 3D video pinball table. Screen shot and article courtesy of Pinball News - First and Free. Competition ends August 31, 2006 so don't wait to long to get started, it usually takes me a couple of days t get the feel of a table down and another couple of weeks to begin to master it. Of course, this is video pinball, so getting a feel for the table could be a problem. The current high score is around 20 billion, it is attainable...
Check out these screen shots!




Excerpt from the web order page: "Are you having fun playing in the Cyber Pinball World Cup 2006 and want more - no problem. "Dream Pinball 3D", the ultimate pinball simulation, will be released this summer for 24, 99 Euro and will include 5 new amazing tables on top of more pinball challenges. So if you want to add 4 more degrees of difficultly to the existing demo and hours of pinball ecstasy - please fill out the form below for your pre-order of Dream Pinball 3D!
Get 10% off when you pre-order, "Dream Pinball 3D" (offer expires upon retail release)"

Speaking of Pinball News articles, check out this story, Shipping Out about how several buyers of Pinball Manufacturing Inc's remake of Big Bang Bar got a shock message recently. Their games had been built, shipped and were ready for collection. Surprising since I believe I read somewhere "Big Bang Bar" never made it into production originally...