Hokus Pokus – last (whomp whomp) Jack*Bot – third (very close game! I was one multiball jackpot away from winning) Eight Ball Deluxe – third This was a tough round, but there’s 21 more hours of pinball so it’s way too early to get attached to it.
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Round 1
Robocop – 3rd Bally Harley Davidson – 3rd Bobby Orr Powerball – 3rd (A Bobby Orr Powerplay with the steel ball replaced with a ceramic Powerball from Twilight Zone.) Well, I was certainly consistent. (All games out of four, which means at least I didn’t take a zero for the round.)
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The 24 Hour Final Battle!
Today is one of my favorite pinball tournaments- 24 hours of match play at The Sanctum (affectionately also known as The Murder Warehouse, which you’ll understand when I post some pictures). I’ll be updating the blog with my games as I go through the day. We get started in just over an hour!
Let's clean!
So my Firepower’s playfield is, to use a technical term, fucking nasty. In addition to general dirt and grime there were these small white circles of what I assume are some kind of mold. Most people’s go-to cleaner for everyday polishing and removing fine or heavy scratches is Novus. But for just getting rid of […]
Thwarted!
Today’s plan was to put the legs on Firepower and start cleaning it in earnest. The previous owner had stripped the threads on the front leg brackets. They were total garbage, and had to be removed. I tried to be fancy and replace them with some more solid brackets in a newer style. Some folks […]
I just started reading The Inner Game of…
I just started reading The Inner Game of Tennis (https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314) this morning. Even like five pages in, I can already see how it might help my pinball game. I tend to talk to myself a lot while I play, and the talk is usually along the lines of “stupid! you fucking moron, why did you […]
Much like web dev the first question you…
Much like web dev, the first question you have to answer when writing custom pinball software is “Which platform are you going to use?” The Mission Pinball Framework seems like it’s had the most work, but it also runs at a pretty high level of abstraction. This all means it’s probably the fastest way to […]
Let’s do this
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 […]