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Northwest Pinball And Arcade Show
The Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show is an annual pinball and arcade game festival held in Tacoma, Washington, United States. The Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show draws around 3,000 collectors and fans each June to the Seattle area. The festival began as a small annual event held by Washington pinball collectors, but in 2008 became a full-fledged regional convention featuring 125 pinball machines, arcade games, electro-mechanical games, with speakers, vendors and tournaments. In 2013 the show expanded in size, prompting a move from the Seattle Center to the Greater Tacoma Convention Center. 2025 The 18th annual Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show took place at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center from June 6–8, 2025. There were over 400-500 playable machines. 2024 The 17th annual Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show took place at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center from June 7–9, 2024. There were over 400 playable machines. 2023 The 16th annual Northwest Pinball and Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Tacoma Convention Center
The Greater Tacoma Convention Center, is a convention center in downtown Tacoma, in the U.S. state of Washington. It opened in November 2004 and has been described as the "second largest meeting and event facility in Western Washington". It was designed by MulvannyG2 Architecture, of Bellevue, Washington. Located at 1500 Commerce, the center has over of meeting and usable prefunction space which includes a , column-free exhibition hall, a ballroom, and eleven breakout rooms in varying sizes. There are 400 parking spaces on-site. The convention center is also served by Tacoma Link at the Convention Center/S. 15th Street station. Buses operated by Pierce Transit also serve the convention center, with stops on nearby Pacific Avenue, as well as on Market Street and on 13th Street. In September 2010, the Greater Tacoma Convention Center added Commerce Room, a meeting space adding over to the center. The Commerce Room can be used by convention groups as an additional breakout room ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Force (pinball)
Police Force is a 1989 Williams pinball machine. The pinball machine was initially supposed to be released as Batman pinball, the police car was to be the Batmobile and the Jail was to be the Bat Cave. The machine features anthropomorphic jungle animals in the roles of police and robbers. The game features scoring by hitting each of the targets of the animals. As the targets of each animal are struck, a light of each lights up showing them in jail. The game also features scoring on a center ramp with unlimited shots of one million each after a series of shots, and a multi-ball. On the third ball of the game, players can shoot the right ramp twice, and add the highest current score to their own. Rules The game features anthropomorphic jungle animals in the roles of cops and robbers, and stars a lion and leopard as the two main police officers the player assumes the role of when playing the game. The object of the game is to arrest the four main criminals and then score the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Galaxies
Twin Galaxies is a social media platform and video game database. Twin Galaxies is the official supplier of video game records to ''Guinness World Records''. History In mid-1981, Walter Day, founder of Twin Galaxies, Inc., visited more than 100 video game arcades over four months, recording the high scores that he found on each game. On November 10, 1981, Day opened his arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, naming it Twin Galaxies. On February 9, 1982, Day's database of records was released publicly as the Twin Galaxies National Scoreboard. Twin Galaxies' first event formed state teams from the top players in North Carolina and California, facing them off in a "California Challenges North Carolina All-Star Playoff." The teams played in 17 different games in Lakewood, California, and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. California defeated North Carolina 10–7 over the weekend of August 27–30, 1982. In September, 1982, the book "Defending the Galaxy" is released—and declaring Twin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Day
Walter Aldro Day Jr. (born May 14, 1949) is an American businessman and the founder of Twin Galaxies, an organization that tracks world records for video games and conducts a program of electronic-gaming promotions. Biography Walter Aldro Day Jr. was born in Oakland, California, on May 14, 1949. After moving to the town of Fairfield, Iowa, Day sold commemorative newspapers for a living. In 1980, Day went to Houston, Texas to become an oil futures trader. He soon moved back to Fairfield and became a landlord, purchasing the Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa in 1981. That same year, he appeared on the cover of ''Time'' in an edition featuring video games, and he established an online platform to establish rules and compile records for competitive video game playing. Twin Galaxies soon became known as the trusted database for high score records. Beginning in 1983, Guinness World Records recognized video games as a new category. Twin Galaxies became the official supplier of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fistful Of Quarters
''The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters'' is a 2007 American documentary film about competitive arcade gaming directed by Seth Gordon. It follows Steve Wiebe in his attempts to take the high score record for the 1981 arcade game ''Donkey Kong'' from Billy Mitchell. The film premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival and was released in U.S. theaters in August 2007. It received positive reviews. Summary Walter Day is the founder of Twin Galaxies, an organization dedicated to tracking high scores in arcade games, especially those from the golden age of arcade games of the early 1980s. Restaurateur Billy Mitchell holds the high score for several arcade games, including the original 1981 release of ''Donkey Kong''. In Redmond, Washington, out-of-work engineer Steve Wiebe has purchased a ''Donkey Kong'' cabinet in hopes of achieving the world record. Using his mathematical knowledge to identify exploitable patterns in the game, Wiebe sets a new record of 947,200 points in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bride Of Pin*Bot
A bride is a woman who is about to be married or who is a newlywed. When marrying, if the bride's future spouse is a man, he is usually referred to as the ''bridegroom'' or just ''groom''. In Western culture, a bride may be attended by a maid, bridesman and one or more bridesmaids. The word "bride" has its roots in the Old English word ''bryd'', which is shared with other Germanic languages. In Western countries, brides typically wear white wedding dresses, a tradition started by Queen Victoria. The white dress was once considered a symbol of luxury due to the difficulties in laundering delicate white clothing. Today, Western brides may wear white, cream, or ivory dresses, regardless of their number of marriages. In non-Western countries, brides often wear national dress, with white wedding dresses being uncommon in Asian cultures as it symbolizes mourning and death. Red, on the other hand, represents vibrancy and health and is commonly worn by brides in many Asian cultures. Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Madness
''Medieval Madness'' is a Williams pinball machine released in June 1997. Designed by Brian Eddy and programmed by Lyman Sheats, it had a production run of 4,016 units. As of December 7, 2024, the Pinside pinball community lists it as the 2nd highest-ranked pinball machine (behind the 2021 Godzilla machine by Stern); many adherents consider it the greatest of all time.https://pinside.com/pinball/top-100 Pinside.com's Top 100 List Various remake versions were released from 2015 onwards by Chicago Gaming under license from Planetary Pinball. Two earlier medieval themed tables by Williams are '' Black Knight'', and '' Black Knight 2000''. Playfield The centerpiece of the playfield is an animated castle with a solenoid-controlled portcullis and motorized drawbridge. The mechanical design for the castle was finished the night before the deadline for the design of the game; although George Gomez was not part of the design team, he volunteered some of his time and assisted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red & Ted's Road Show
''Red & Ted's Road Show'' (also known as ''Road Show'') is a 1994 widebody pinball game designed by Pat Lawlor and released by Williams. It is part of WMS' '' SuperPin'' line of widebody games. Country singer Carlene Carter provided the voice of Red, and her song " Every Little Thing" is featured in the game. The game is considered an unofficial successor of ''FunHouse'', as both were designed by Pat Lawlor and feature animated talking head(s) along with some similar playfield layout ideas. It is equipped with a shaker motor to make the machine vibrate and has two manual plungers, one on each side of the cabinet. It was the first pinball machine to feature an additional daily high score list. Gameplay The primary goal is to help Red and Ted, a pair of road construction workers, travel through the United States from east to west. Two ventriloquist-dummy heads representing them are mounted on the playfield, with eyes and mouths that move in time with their speech. The player ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whirlwind (pinball)
''Whirlwind'' is a pinball machine produced by Williams in 1990 and was one of the last Williams System 11B games. The game is set in Kansas, and involves storm-chasing. It was designed by Pat Lawlor, whose previous game was also a natural disaster-themed table, ''Earthshaker!''. Design The game features three counter-rotating rotating discs. As a cost consideration these are all driven off a single motor, developed by John Krutsch. Ron Baum showed the design team the rubber mat material to cover them with which imparts spin on the ball. It also is the first pinball machine to have a fan topper that blows wind on the player when the discs spin. Because of this, the marketing slogan was "Feel the power of the wind!". The Sega machine ''Twister'' used a similar fan in 1996. There were two versions of the translite. Early versions were produced with a "C" on the cap of the child with the video camera. This was because the designer and artist were both fans of Chicago Cubs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight Zone (pinball)
''Twilight Zone'' is a widebody pinball machine, designed by Pat Lawlor and based on the TV series of the same name. It was first released in 1993 by Midway (under the Bally label). This game is part of WMS' '' SuperPin'' line of widebody games alongside '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and '' Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure''. Description Following the huge success of '' The Addams Family'' pinball game, Midway gave Lawlor full creative control over the design of his next game, and the result is an unusually complex machine. Among its special features are the following: * A working gumball machine holds three balls and can dispense them or receive others during play. * A working, 12-hour analog clock can display the current time and function as a timer during certain rounds. * The Powerball is a white ceramic ball lighter than the other steel balls in the machine and unaffected by magnets. It can enter play by being served to the plunger, ejected from the Lock, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funhouse
A funhouse or fun house is an attraction found in amusement parks and funfair midways, equipped with various devices designed to surprise, challenge, or amuse visitors. Unlike thrill rides or dark rides, fun houses are participatory attractions where visitors enter and move around at their own pace. Incorporating aspects of an obstacle course, they seek to distort conventional perceptions and startle people with unpredictable physical circumstances. Common features Originally starting in Coney Island in the early 1900s, the funhouse was initially a house or large building containing a number of amusement devices (e.g. motorized versions of what can be found on a children's playground). The most common amusements were: *Slides - Some up to two stories high. Most were made of polished hardwood, and riders sat on burlap mats to protect themselves from friction burns and to prevent rubber-soled shoes from slowing the slider down. *Spinning disks - While the disk was statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Addams Family (pinball)
''The Addams Family'' is a pinball machine released in March 1992. It was designed by Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar and released by Midway (under the '' Bally'' label). It was based on the 1991 film of the same name, and features custom speech (mostly derived from the motion picture) by the stars of the film, Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia. It is the best-selling solid state pinball machine of all time with 20,270 units sold. Overview The machine's game card describes the game objective as being to "Explore the strange world of the Addams Family". With that in mind there is no single player goal, though there are two central objectives: * Tour the Mansion: The Addams Family mansion is located in the center of the playfield and has 12 rooms, each of which offers a different award. Once every award is collected, a "wizard mode" called Tour the Mansion becomes available (see below). * Vault Multiball: In the top-right section of the playfield is a blue bookcase, representing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
