Welcome to livecat.ch. I’ve been playing pinball competitively since 2015. I’ll write a series of posts later about my origins in pinball, what led me to competitive play, and what keeps me playing. For now, though, I just wanted to throw up a quick post explaining why I created this site, and what I plan to talk about here.
The why is easy. Without getting on too much of a soapbox, I want a place to write about pinball and any other random thing where I own my words and access to them without the intermediary of a social network or platform. So let’s roll the clock back to 2005 and start a blog!
I’m going to talk about playing pinball – where I like to play in Boston, random trip reports from my travels, and how I’m doing in competition. I’m also going to talk about restoring and modifying pinball machines. It’s something I’m just starting to dip my toe in now that I have the space for it. Back in August, I bought (intentionally!) a non-working Firepower I need to get working. I was gifted a P-ROC I plan to install in my X-Men to start playing with custom software. I’ve got some crazy project ideas (what if you replaced the tilt bob with an accelerometer you could control in game rules? what if you put a bunch of small electromagnets under the playfield and simulated wind? what if you bought a Fish Tales and reskinned it to Moby Dick creating the Great American Pinball Machine?) Expect to see some posts about all of it.