The Social's Happy Hour
4-6pm and 10pm until closing + all day Sunday

Red Sangria Pitcher | $12
White Sangria Pitcher | $12
Wine Bottle | $15| $5 Glass

Beer
Coors Light Pitcher | $13
Blue Moon Pitcher | $15
Rainer | $2.50
Miller Highlife | $2.50

FOOD
$5
Fried Garlic Rice Balls
Fries
Sweet Potato Fries
Fried Oysters
Starter Salad
Billionaire Bacon
Cauliflower “Wings”
Smoked Oysters*

$7
Grilled Romaine Heart
Chicken Donburi Bowl
Fried Calamari
Sautéed Mushrooms
Seaweed Salad
Ahi Wontons
Seasonal Vegetables
Bourbon Wings
Social Wings

$12
Fresh Half Shell Oysters*
Rockfish Tacos
Mahi Tacos
La Cantina Tacos
Butternut Tacos
Shanghai Steak Bites
Ahi Tuna Poke Bowl*
Steamed Clams
Sautéed Prawns

NWPAS is one week away! These are the machines planned for the two banks of machines in the pinball tournament area! 16 of the listed modern machines will be in the modern bank, three of them will be backup on the show floor. 10 of the 14 listed classic machines will be in the classic bank, the other 4 are backup and will be on show floor. Backup machines can be brought in at any time, and tournament officials reserve the right to also bring in additional machines as needed that aren't on the list.

Modern Bank:
Iron Maiden
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Walking Dead
Tron
Wizard of Oz
No Fear
Raven
Black Rose
Star Wars Data East
Dr Who
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Centaur
Flash Gordon
Stern Kiss
Godzilla
World Cup Soccer
Funhouse
Lord of the Rings
Metallica

Classic Bank:
Countdown
Fast Draw
Seawitch
Meteor
4-Aces
Space Mission
Eight Ball
Six Million Dollar Man
Blackout
Spring Break
Devil's Dare
Supersonic
Monte Carlo
Bally Star Trek

I spent today working one of my Rush the Rock driving arcade games that stopped working during last year's show. The monitor has always been dim since I've owned it, but I had an extra neck board in my parts and swapped it in and boom, I suddenly had full bright colors and contrast. Score! The gas pedal totally died last year, so I swapped in a new potentiometer and got it dialed in. Finally, since I bought it it's had a problem with random forced feedback blasts. Which totally sucks if you are playing against other people, it gives you a disadvantage. I tried replacing both opa541 amp transistors since those are usually at the root of most of the forced feedback problems on Rushes. No luck. Got advice to replace all the 100uf caps before them but had none... so I posted to our local arcade and pinball forums and HighVoltage hooked me up with some. Boom, it solved my problems.

I bought this game as "works great, but it's in pieces and just needs to be put back together" a few years ago and it's finally dialed in for real today. Thanks for everyone that helped out! I've got the networking set up, another Rush the Rock, someone else is bringing 2 more to the show, so we will have 4 networked Rush the Rock Alcatraz editions games at the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show next weekend for you to race friends and strangers on. Game on!

I think 4 are coming... that's decent odds that one will be for sale.

I had 1200 hung around Seattle, Capitol Hill gets the most because of the foot traffic. I'm actually amazed it held up so well for being ripped down!

A collector dropped off a Game of Thrones that's been rethemed as Mass Effect 2 this weekend to get picked up with my games. I'm super interested to see how it turned out! Also got a sneak peak at HighVoltage's Duel Firepower when I borrowed some parts from him. There are going to be some cool unique games at this year's show!

Short answer, your games aren't going to be be used in the tournament.

The tournament games aren't listed in the main gamelist, Dave usually gets those all volunteered by league players, as they do a lot of extra testing and set up on them. They have extra backup games on the tournament list, those will be on the floor near the tournament area, they are unique titles, rather than another copy of the same game.

Yes!

This year's NWPAS Satellite Pinball Tournament series concluded last night with a PinGolf event at 8-Bit that attracted 67 players! There were 9 more winners of Tourney Prize Packages, for a total of 81 packages awarded this season to 68 different players (13 players earned a second guest/+1 package), including 18 Amateur-Rookie eligible players. An additional 9 weekend passes were awarded as part of the Win Guarantee, for players competing in 7 or more satellite tournaments without winning a tourney prize package.

Congratulations to David Johnston for having the best score and winning the Memorial Day Masters. He receives a plaque, but since he already won two packages, he did not get another package, but rather that was passed down to the next winner. Second Place just one stroke away, was Maureen Hendrix, who coincidentally also had already won two packages thus not eligible for a package but still decided to play. The next seven players won packages, Lonnie Langford, Cayle George, Germain Mariolle, John Garnett, Sean Irby, Tim McCool, Matt Anderson. The two guarantee packages to Rookie/Amateur eligible players went to Matt Lauro and Ryan Tupper.

Next stop … it’s SHOW-TIME! See you at the show this coming weekend, it's gonna be a blast!!!

It's almost go time! All around the Northwest collectors are breaking down games, packing and wrapping and getting ready! How ready are you? I just finished up with my games and they are ready for pickup. But I've got 200 buttons to make, press passes/lanyards to do, pick up 3 more games to stage at my house and a zillion small things to make happen. But I'm feelin' close and not panicking... yet!

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I think for big collections where there is only one stop, yes. That may actually be faster than a truck doing a pick up in Seattle with 3 or 4 stops and much less accessible places. You've been to my place, the truck has to park on the street and we roll each game to it 100 feet.

Nice work making that happen!

For the $1 raffle games, you have to be there during the drawing to win. Those games are a Pinbot and a Golden Tee golf, I think they are drawn at 10pm each night Friday and Saturday. For the $20 grand prize raffle Munsters Premium game, it's drawn during the closing ceremony on Sunday (I think by Eddie Munster too!), you don't need to be there to win, but you would need to pick it up by 11pm Sunday night if you do win. Victoria who won the Houdini last year wasn't there, we called her and she came down and picked it up after the show ended. I think the same thing happened the year before, the guy that won was most of the way back to Spokane with his family, but turned around and came back for his new pin

Show sponsor Nitro Pinball is bringin' it this year, check out their booth at the show. This lineup is killer:

Attack from Mars SE
Monster Bash SE
PIrates LE
Dialed In SE
Houdini
Oktoberfest
Alice Cooper
Primus
Beatles Gold
Munsters Prem
Deadpool Prem
Black Knight Pro

Masterman vending is going to bring a huge brand new Halo: Fireteam Raven combat simulator arcade game, check this out:

Here's a somewhat complete list of the new pin titles that will be on freeplay at this weekend's NW Pinball & Arcade Show:

9 Black Knight Pros
2 Black Knight Premiums
5 Munsters Premiums
3 Deadpool Premiums
Willy Wonka
Oktoberfest
Alice Cooper
Primus
Beatles Gold
Attack from Mars SE
Monster Bash SE
PIrates LE
Dialed In SE
Houdini
Batman 66
Iron Maiden Premium
Star Wars Premium
Deadpool Pro
Medieval Madness (remake)

Ha ha ha! It's pretty crazy that someone would convert such a new game, but from it's wrapped up state, I'm not sure if the playfield artwork was converted.

Hey, look at what just arrived at the Tacoma Convention Center...

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