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Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

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Re: Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

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Related: Pindigo is a great tool for tracking high scores and has global and friend leaderboards. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pindigo-social-pinball-scores/... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ascrewaske...

I'm Pindigo's dev. Thanks for the plug!

Our locations are sourced from Pinball Map; scores can be tagged with locations which allows us to maintain leaderboards for specific machines (in addition to global/social/event leaderboards).

Re: Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

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Pinball map is brilliant, I use it everytime I travel. So many new pinball machines coming out. The latest one I've been searching for is Labyrinth. Only in LA at the moment, but looks super fun.

Once you create an account you can make a note if the machines aren't working well and the owners will usually get someone in quick to fix too.

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What amazed me on my trip to Seattle was just how many pinball machines are available to play there. And not only that but just how insanely well maintained 50 year old machines are. These are machines getting played on a daily basis. Where are they finding parts for these machines? It's just crazy to think about.

Seattle is great for pinball, most of the bars with 8+ machines host a team or two that play in the Monday night league. Ton of parts available at https://www.marcospecialties.com

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Related: Pindigo is a great tool for tracking high scores and has global and friend leaderboards. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pindigo-social-pinball-scores/... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ascrewaske...

Pindigo is my favorite social media app.

Re: Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

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I really like pinballmap. I try to add gigs and machines all the time. But another app that has way more pinballs is Pin my balls (at least in France).

Regarding pinballs I recently built a self-hosted app to track scores between friends.

https://demo.pinball-friends.com/

Re: Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

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I really like pinballmap. I try to add gigs and machines all the time. But another app that has way more pinballs is Pin my balls (at least in France). Regarding pinballs I recently built a self-hosted app to track scores between friends. https://demo.pinball-friends.com/

Link to Pin my balls: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinmyballs

Re: Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

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If you're ever in Vegas, I highly recommend a trip to the Pinball Hall of Fame museum south of the Strip across from the Mandalay Bay convention center. My family put it on the list as just some rando thing to do between the "real" Vegas events, but our expectations were very much exceeded!

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Pinball Hall of Fame is the only place in Vegas I've found The Addams Family, and it is the only place on this site with that game. The problem with the Pinball Hall of Fame is not only do they have the rear studs at max height, they put blocks of wood under the back feet. It just isn't fun.

Re: Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

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Oh man, we have a place nearby that has easily 40 machines, and some serious classics (they had the Elton John machine with the recalled artwork). They've been around for a few years -- simple setup: $20 gets you a wrist band and you can play for 4 hours[0]. And I think that's the crux of it: I am unwilling to pay a buck a play for pinball only to -- often -- find out that it has multiple mechanical imperfections (like a side bumper being dead) that make it nearly impossible to play.

There is a bowling alley nearby that bills itself as a Pinball Museum (with 20 or so machines) but they're all quarter driven. I went once, dropped $15, got annoyed and never returned. My kids and I go to the other place every other month or so.

[0] Except for one machine -- they have this giant thing that uses a pool cue as a ball -- it's a Sega game ... Mammoth or something, and apparently very rare

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