Vancouver, BC
in your opinion, who is the best pinball player of all time?
(Topic ID: 56251)
Los Angeles, CA
I'm just saying, Rick is the ONLY dude i know that can do the Soulja Boy dance while kicking pinball ass!! 
Quoted from pinball_erie:Rick Stetta
You can argue about who is the best, but most everyone will agree that Rick did it with the most style. First (only?) pinball player ever to be featured in a Sports Illustrated article.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004502/
Quoted from buffaloatx:Best arcade player?
Neil Shatz is the best location player. He's been putting up GC scores around the bay area for decades. He has to be in consideration for the top 10 players of all time, yet he's rarely had games at his home. He enjoys playing on location regularly and keeps his skills razor sharp while doing so. Marc Conant is a close second. Only guy I know that rolled a location Spidey twice in one game just to see what the ones digit would do.
Worth noting that Zack Sharpe recently became only the fourth player to ever rank first overall in points. Zack is an awesome dude and an awesome player. Was real happy to see that.
http://www.ifpapinball.com/zach-sharpe-claims-world-no-1-rank
Quoted from centerflank:Joe Mama
didn't he play drums for spinal tap?
Brisbane
Quoted from Kneissl:What about Bowen?
I thought Bowen, but I don't follow the pinball champs that much and he is just the only really good pin player that I know of. Maybe that's the answer....whoever a novice can name first.
Quoted from bigballa81:in your opinion, who is the best pinball player of all time?
He was kicked out of college for night-putting...just putting at night...with the 13 year old daughter of the dean...you know who that was...my old roommate, Mitch Cumstein
the "Fonz" there is no other, thumbs up Joey Cartenga!
After that, the field can get pretty close:(no part. order)
LFS, KME, BEK, Sharpe, CaYle, Acciari, etc,...
RJS(Stetta) was the best back in the day, but has trouble keeping up nowadays.
There are alot of heavy hitters in today's scene.
Quoted from phishrace:Neil Shatz is the best location player. He's been putting up GC scores around the bay area for decades. He has to be in consideration for the top 10 players of all time, yet he's rarely had games at his home.
Quoted from phishrace:You can argue about who is the best, but most everyone will agree that Rick did it with the most style. First (only?) pinball player ever to be featured in a Sports Illustrated article.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004502/
T Mac
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1187809/
Quoted from phishrace:Neil Shatz is the best location player. He's been putting up GC scores around the bay area for decades. He has to be in consideration for the top 10 players of all time, yet he's rarely had games at his home. He enjoys playing on location regularly and keeps his skills razor sharp while doing so. Marc Conant is a close second. Only guy I know that rolled a location Spidey twice in one game just to see what the ones digit would do.
Worth noting that Zack Sharpe recently became only the fourth player to ever rank first overall in points. Zack is an awesome dude and an awesome player. Was real happy to see that.
http://www.ifpapinball.com/zach-sharpe-claims-world-no-1-rank
Speaking of style, I have always considered NES's game to be quite stylish. Sweet, sweet ball control.
Quoted from Newsom:T Mac
I knew I was missing somebody. T Mac did an awesome job. Hope he comes down for CAX this weekend. Always good to see him there.
Quoted from Newsom:Speaking of style, I have always considered NES's game to be quite stylish. Sweet, sweet ball control.
Hell yes.
Quoted from Matt_Rasmussen:» YouTube video
I'm just saying, Rick is the ONLY dude i know that can do the Soulja Boy dance while kicking pinball ass!!
I just want to know who the dude is playing to his right at about 1:35, that is one bad ass trench coat! 
Quoted from Matt_Rasmussen:I just want to know who the dude is playing to his right at about 1:35, that is one bad ass trench coat!
That is an epic trench coat. We have a couple of trench coat guys around here that hang out at arcades, so I checked the video. He wasn't one of ours. However, seeing as how the Cafe Den Trol is in Belgium and his initials are VDB, I'm gonna guess it's this guy...
Quoted from Newsom:phishrace said:
You can argue about who is the best, but most everyone will agree that Rick did it with the most style. First (only?) pinball player ever to be featured in a Sports Illustrated article.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004502/T Mac
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1187809/
Does #3 count?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/pete_mcentegart/04/10/ten.spot/index.html
Quoted from Matt_Rasmussen:I just want to know who the dude is playing to his right at about 1:35, that is one bad ass trench coat!
That would be Peter Van den Bergh from Belgium, cool guy.
He told stories about his "lucky" trench coat, wearing it at unbearably hot tourneys, having it stolen by his fellow countrymen to mess with him at tourneys, etc..
Those were his sponsors on the back, its like Joe's Garage and shit, but looks cool cuz it's all foreign.
Fun times partying with all those dudes back in the day.
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