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Zax Amusements Is Now At A Bigger & Better Location

January 9, 2023 By ausretrogamer


Looks like 2023 is the start of new beginnings!

Our friends at Zax Amusements have relocated from their Port Melbourne location to a much bigger warehouse, service centre and showroom at 1661 Centre Road, Springvale, a south-eastern Melbourne suburb.

We will miss the old Port Melbourne location as it was convenient for us, however, the bigger showroom is a drawcard for us to visit Zax Amusements in Springvale to check out the latest arcade and pinball machines.

image source: Zax Amusements




Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball Tagged With: Amusement, Arcade, Geek, Melbourne, pinball, pinball service, showroom, Springvale, Video Games, warehouse, Zax, Zax Amusements

Ho, Ho, Ho, Happy Holidays!

December 22, 2022 By ausretrogamer

As 2022 draws to a close, we wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas / Happy Festive Season and all the very best for 2023!

It’s been another tough year for everyone around the world, so we hope you can all take some time for yourself to recharge and spend it with those that mean the most to you.

We have recently moved our subscription service to Substack, so if you haven’t already subscribed, go here now and never miss any of our posts. Thanks again for supporting and engaging with us at Ausretrogamer.com and on our social channels.

We will be taking a break and be back in the new year with more awesome content! Stay safe and hope Santa brings you lots of presents!

See you in 2023!

 




Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Arcade, Christmas, darth vader, Festive Season, gamers, Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas 2022, pinball, Retrogamer, retrogaming, substack, Xmas

The Flipside Barcade: Adelaide’s Cool New Pinball Bar

December 19, 2022 By ausretrogamer

If you are visiting Adelaide (or live in the great state of South Australia), then checking out The Flipside Barcade in Daw Park (about 7km south of the Adelaide CBD) should be at the top of your “must check out” list!

Infused with an American-style menu, craft beers to quench your hard-earned thirst and nostalgia inducing arcade and pinball machines, The Flipside Barcade is the hottest destination in the Festival State! The mix of food, drinks and amusement action is exactly what the doctor ordered. Oh yeah, if you are feeling competitive, then Flipside has plenty of pinball and arcade gaming tournaments on offer!

The important details:

  • Venue: The Flipside Barcade
  • Address: 538 Goodwood Road, Daw Park South Australia 5041

image source: The Flipside Barcade




Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball Tagged With: Adelaide, American-style, Arcade Amusement, barcade, Beer, Craft Beer, Flipside Adelaide, pinball, Retro, Retro Gamer, South Australia, The Flipside Arcade, where to play pinball in Adelaide

Scooby-Doo Pinball Is Revealed

December 8, 2022 By ausretrogamer

 

The Best Pinball Company in Benton, Wisconsin – Spooky Pinball has dropped the official reveal trailer of their latest pinball machine, Scooby-Doo!

There will be three models available, with the Collector’s Edition being the most expensive (US$9,769) and limited to 1969 machines, followed by the Blood Sucker Edition (US$8,769) and finally, the Standard Edition (US$7,769).

Sales for all three editions will open on December 9, at 10:00am Central Standard Time (CST) – so set your alarms in Australia, as that makes it very early morning on Saturday!


source: Spooky Pinball via YouTube

The reveal trailer only shows the Collector’s Edition, which looks great and captures the campy theme perfectly. Of course we will reserve judgement on the game play, but we are excited about this title! The upper playfield in the top left seems to take up a lot of real estate, but the left hockey stick flipper looks cool to whack the silverball around. From the below photo, it seems that the Blood Sucker and Standard Editions look a bit lackluster in the art package, but again, you don’t play the art package, it’s all about what is under the glass!

According to Spooky Pinball,

This will be a widebody game based around solving original series mysteries, collecting Scooby snacks, and having the ultimate Scooby Pinball Experience!! Featuring the iconic Voice Actors Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Kate Micucci, and Grey Griffin. Let’s hop in the Mystery Machine and find some clues!

With tons of general and gameplay features (see below), including talented voice-overs, these machines will no doubt sell quickly!

Our pick would be the Collector’s Edition – it’s gorgeous!

image source: Spooky Pinball (various social media)




Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball Tagged With: pinball, pinball fun, pinball machine, pinball news, pinballpress, Scooby Pinball, Scooby Pinball Experience, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo Blood Sucker Edition, Scooby-Doo Collector's Edition, Scooby-Doo pinball, Scooby-Doo Standard, Shaggy, Spooky Pinball, The Mystery Machine

Get the Stern Experience at the Pinball Hall Of Fame

December 7, 2022 By ausretrogamer

Vegas Baby! If you ever needed another reason to visit Las Vegas, then Stern Pinball Inc. has you covered!

The new Stern Experience at the famous Pinball Hall Of Fame (we visited the old Pinball Hall Of Fame in 2015) will showcase all the hottest and latest Stern pinball machines featuring the award-winning Insider Connected platform! The Stern Experience will offer players brand new high score leaderboards to compete on, the ability to earn exclusive achievement badges, and participate in exclusive Stern events and tournaments only available in this one-of-a-kind interactive exhibit.

Don’t forget, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!


source: Stern Pinball




Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball Tagged With: exhibit, gamer, Insider Connected, Las Vegas, PHOF, pinball, Pinball Hall Of Fame, pinballer, pinballpress, Silverball, Stern Experience, Stern Experience at Pinball Hall of Fame, Stern Pinball Experience at Pinball Hall of Fame, The Strip

Modding Our Arcade1Up Pinball With IntecGaming’s Nintendo Switch Panel

November 24, 2022 By ausretrogamer

There were a couple of things we were looking forward to this year, Stern Pinball’s Insider Connected Kit for our Star Wars pinball machine, and IntecGaming’s Nintendo Switch Panel for our Arcade1Up (virtual) pinball machine.

Well, it was almost 2 for 2 in 2022, however, our Stern Pinball Insider Connected kit was delivered incomplete – which means we will have to wait for the next boat to arrive down under.

On the flip side, the IntecGaming panel for our A1Up pinball machine arrived and we can’t wait to get it installed! Just in case you have no idea what this thing is or does, check out our previous post here.

We will write about our exploits of getting this mod installed, so stay tuned (and wish us luck)!




Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Arcade, Arcade1Up, Attack From Mars, gamer, hacking, IntecGaming, IntecGaming Fighting Stick, IntecGaming Fighting Stick for Arcade1Up Pinball, IntecGaming Switch Pinball DIY Kit for Arcade1Up Pinball Cabinet, joystick, let's play, Modding, Nintendo Switch, pinball, Retrogamer

Lego Ideas: The Pinball Frame

November 15, 2022 By ausretrogamer

With the cost of living going through the roof, owning a pinball machine doesn’t have to cost you an arm, a leg and one of your kidneys.

To ensure you can keep your arm, leg and kidney, make sure you vote for this cool and fun Lego Ideas Pinball Frame submitted by Pandis Pandus.

The Pinball Frame is a creation consisting of a frame and an interchangeable playfield. The frame itself features a lot of components to make the pinball experience as fun and customizable as possible: Adjustable legs, foldable flippers, a ball box, and a spinning plunger. This pinball contains a total of 554 pieces, of which 134 are unique and 2 are printed.

Go on, let’s make this happen, vote here now!

image source: Lego Ideas




Filed Under: Pinball, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Geek, Lego, Lego creator, lego for adults, LEGO Ideas, Lego Ideas Pinball, Lego Ideas The Pinball Frame, LEGO Pinball, Pandis Pandus, pinball, pinball frame, The Pinball Frame

Nintendo Switch Arcade and Pinball DIY Kit for your Arcade1Up Pinball Machine

October 28, 2022 By ausretrogamer

Take your Arcade1Up Pinball Machine to another level!

Almost a year ago we were gushing over IntecGaming’s Nintendo Switch Arcade Control Panel for the Arcade1Up pinball machines. It was promised to be released in 2022, and it now looks like IntecGaming has kept that promise!

What tech are we most excited for in 2022?
Welllll, for us, it is the IntecGaming Nintendo Switch Arcade Control Panel for our Arcade1up Pinball machine!#pinball #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/UDaKgqKrzN

— ausretrogamer (@ausretrogamer) May 20, 2022

If you have an Arcade1Up Pinball machine (even if you have modded with the additional Zen Pinball games), this new DIY Kit will take your A1Up Pinball machine to another level! We don’t have firm specs yet, but from the few bits and pieces we have found in our research, this kit will let you play your Switch games on the vertical screen, complete with an arcade joystick and buttons control panel for that authentic arcade feel. Of course you will still be able to use the flipper buttons on the side of the cabinet for your pinball gaming fix! For the Switch games that aren’t vertical (TATE), they can still be played, albeit in a letterboxed view on the vertical screen. The DIY kit will require tinkering to get setup, but we reckon it will be totally worth it.

We are just excited to play all of our vertical games using this kit, especially our library of shoot’em ups and pinball games (hello The Pinball Arcade, Pinball FX 3 and Stern Pinball Arcade!). This will breath a new life into our Arcade1Up Pinball machine.

The pre-order period begins on Halloween (Oct 31st U.S. time), with a special price of US$119.99! Who is in? We most certainly are.

PS: If you want to see this kit in action, check out ToyKade’s review video now!

image source: IntecGaming




Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball Tagged With: A1Up, Arcade, Arcade1Up, arcade1up mod, Arcade1Up Pinball, diy, gamer, Geek, halloween, IntecGaming, IntecGaming Nintendo Switch Arcade Control Panel, IntecGaming Pinball Kit, Modding, Nintendo Switch, NintendoSwitch, pinball, pinball machine, Switch Pinball DIY Kit

Pinball Expo 2022 – The Homebrew Pinball Machines

October 24, 2022 By ausretrogamer

If you are into pinball and were in Chicago this past weekend, you would’ve no doubt attended Pinball Expo!

Being one of the larger pinball events in the world, among the many things to see, do and play is the homebrew section. The homebrew machines are so good these days that it could lead to a pinball designer gig at one of the many pinball manufacturers in North America – just ask Ryan McQuaid (Sonic Spinball) and Mark Seiden (Metroid Pinball), both are now pinball designers at American Pinball and Jersey Jack Pinball respectively!

For Pinball Expo 2022 there were quite a few eye popping and amazing homebrew pinball machines designed and built by enthusiasts that we just had to share with you all. Licensing notwithstanding, do you see any you would like being mass produced? We love the look of Elf, Pokemon and League of Legends!

image source: Pinball Expo via Facebook




Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball Tagged With: American Pinball, Chicago, diy, Homebrew Pinball, homemade pinball machines, Jersey Jack Pinball, League of Legends pinball, Metroid pinball, pinball, Pinball Expo, pinball expo homebrew, sonic spinball, Spooky Pinball, Stern Pinball

Flippin the Script on Autism – Fundraiser Auction!

October 21, 2022 By ausretrogamer

This is something close to our heart, so we thought we’d share the below press release with you all 🙂


PinShades is a proud sponsor of Flippin the Script on Autism

We are excited to announce LoserKids and TPN teaming up to help children with Autism! Flippin the Script will be a 12 hour charity stream. So mark your calendars for October 20th (Thursday – US time) at Pinball Expo in Chicago. The stream is directly going towards Learning Solutions. An Utah based organization that helps with early intervention Autism therapy for kids that are as young as 2 all the way to late teenage years. The organization helps kids with Autism by giving them a one on one teachers to help develop skills like: Speech, social, and positive reinforcement to name a few.

Stern, JJP, American, Multimorphic, CGC, Haggis, Lit Frames, Flip N Out, The Pinball Company, PinShades, and others are donating products that will be auctioned off during the stream. LoserKids, TPN, Poormen, and others with be hosting the stream and interviewing some of your favourite people from the pinball industry including Keith Elwin and Eric Meunier to name a few.

We hope you join or stream us on October 20th at Pinball Expo!




Filed Under: Announcements, Pinball Tagged With: ASD, autism, fundraiser, gamers, IFPA, loserkid, on the spectrum, pinball, Pinball Expo, pinshades, podcast, tpn

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