There are at least a half a dozen games that are running out of credits in the practice area (mostly early ss Bally & Gottlieb). I went around maxing out the credits on them as much as I could yesterday. I'll be back at it again today, so if you see a machine with no credits that won't start a game, don't give up hope on getting to play it.

Search for Dead_Flip on Twitch. No game cams but there is commentary. I guess PAPA will stream later today.

Live streaming of the finals start at 5 pm.
Dead flip is streaming right now on twitch.

A finals will be broadcast at 5:30 apparently, but I thought there was going to be a live feed. I'm still looking

Yes, no game cams from Pinburgh till 5-530. What a shame.

Two people I know made A div...nice.

Hi Guys. Just wanted to chime in here and say we're happy with how things are going on the back end of things. While I would love to say we could have the attendance of PAX or MAGFest in our first year, everyone knows that's just not possible for a first year event. Our goal was to build something that would drive more people in the general community to notice pinball, and that kind of thing takes a lot of effort and a lot of time. The best advertising for year #2 is year #1, and we knew that going in. Time will tell whether our approach will be successful, but we're optimistic.

Regarding the photos, anyone can selectively show busy or not busy areas, but the truth is somewhere in the middle of what has been posted. There are slow periods and there are busy periods. That's just the nature of a first year convention. What I can say is that things on our end are successful enough two days in that we're already talking about plans for next year.

In the meantime, if you're in the area, we've got a lot of fun stuff to do, so stop on by if you have time. If you can't make it, drop us a line with some feedback. We're always looking to improve.

That picture was at like 12:30 am... Was meant to show the floor...

I agree. Congrats on an amazing year 1.

Does this mean I'm not getting a crazy 10 hour stream

Jack danger (dead_flip) is doing a stream on twitch now.

I know. I wanted to nerd out all day on twitch, but I guess no go. Maybe next year.

Thanks. Wish it showed better views of the game being played. Good enough though.

Yeah. Why don't they let jack do the commentary and start the PAPA stream. All those camera Riggs just sitting there.

I agree everything except that its the most advanced system. P3 is way more advanced then heighway.A huge screen playfeild that changes for different modes and way easier to work on and repair as eveything is plug and play or easily removable to move to a work bench. Plus modern redesigned mechs including flippers and slingshots.

There is definitely a lot more energy today with the tournament and other activities. Lots of cos-play characters too. There's no other show with so many games, especially now that there are a couple hundred more machines from the tournament area open. There are plenty of people here. It's just that it's huge with a ton of games. Lots of locals also into the vids.

Update the live standings. All divisions only show round 1 results except for B.

Anyone have the link for the stream of the finals?

http://www.twitch.tv/papatvpinball Try this.

It's also the same weekend as GenCon, and there's probably a little bit of overlap there (although gencon is a primarily tabletop/PnP RPG convention)

Also Saturday has a lot more people here than previous days, which makes sense since any locals only interested in doing 1 day will choose Saturday pretty much. We got stormtroopers n shit and Rule 63 Links running around now

Great environment around the "A" Finals, but we need SCOREBOARDS in pinball...

I was just thinking that. Have 1 monitor above a bank just showing the player names and point totals

I brought that up to the people running the Walter Day Replay World Championships as well, and they put one up starting on Friday.

Yep...Chessiv is spot on. I wanted to say hello to him a couple times, but he was busy. Waited until he had a second to breathe and introduced myself. Great guy. I wouldn't want to talk to him when he's competing (like he was last year in PAPA when I passed on saying hello).

But that's the general rule: If you see Lyman, Keith, Bowen, or any of them and you want to say hello and let them know you look up to them, admire their skills, etc., do it when they're NOT focused on competing. Then, if things don't go well, you know who not to look up to anymore.

If you approach them when they're trying to win a competition, though, it's you who's the douchebag.

I'm home now, but wanted to thank everybody involved for an awesome event. Between this show and Pintastic New England, I'm really pinball'ed out. Those two shows offered everything from both ends of the spectrum, and because I'm completely satisfied with shows for the year, I'm skipping Expo. (The only plus that Expo has over this show is more seminars and a bigger vendor assortment and area.)

So thanks to ReplayFX for saving me money in October! (Plus, I have a feeling I'm buying the one or two "big announcement" machines from Expo...so I'll wait to see them when they're in my house!)

Great to meet all the Pinsiders that I've been offending over the past two years. Thanks for kicking my ass in Pinburgh, although it saved me even more money on an extra night at the hotel.

Stream running late? Or have I messed up the time difference?

I'm sure "amazeballs" will be a term I hear used to describe this show by many. I will be back next year for sure.

Just did a periscope stream of the JJP session from @buffalopinball my phone. Going to try to do the Sharpes later at 9 pm. Here's the link: https://www.periscope.tv/w/aI02eDkyNDEwMjl8NTE4MDU1MDl_U8D-GPMu4wil3r7_ptdQfUUBDTnWNmx9SgeSaO_jCQ==

If that doesn't work for some reason it'll post to our Twitter account when we go live: http://www.twitter.com/buffalopinball

Stream is down Unless they're setting up for finals now instead of the "bonus footage"? Edit: Up again, horray.

There were a lot of people today. Fun seeing stormtroopers and all types of cosplay. Kevin and team deserve massive kudos for this show.

Now you're making me glad I left. The costume shit is where I draw the line. Waaaaaay too nerdy for me. Great show, though!

Man, you're just a crochety old dude, lol... Got the whole EM Crusade thing going on and complaining about cosplay now?

What EM crusade thing do I have going on? Besides that I think playing them feels like you're playing pinball underwater?

You really got to get down here to TPF where the EM games actually play right...

Well, if TPF is anywhere near Houston in the summertime, the games would actually BE underwater.

Don't forget about the Stern factory tour!

My son and I were at ReplayFX today and had a great time. I'm very impressed for it being the 1st year.
- Soooo many pins and vids to play!!!! Fair amount of EMs to play too.
- There were people at 9 out of 10 pins, but never had to wait more than 1 game to get on one. Only a handful were down
- There was a huge section with game consoles set up
- Got to play Full Throttle... pretty impressed
- Got to play TH... VERY impressed. Jack has another winner on his hands. I hope it gets on the line soon so #3 can be announced at Expo. Then I'll decide if I go with TH or #3
- Would liked to have seen more pin related vendors
- Lots of places to sit and eat/relax including some couches near the game consoles.

I did forget. Good catch!

Got to play AMH, FTH, Lexy and Hobbit. (No Lebowski there though, sadly)

They are all fun games in their own right, but IMO, Multimorphic is the only company who is really pushing things to a new level.

P3 has a chance to draw tons of non-pinheads into the hobby. Personally, I think it's a shame that some pinheads are poopooing or flat out ignoring P3.

The machine is a phenominal achievement, way to go Gerry!

Is there an official game count ?

Sorry for being a noob, but what are the full names of P3,MTH, and Lexy? I want to know so I can look for them tomorrow. I'm always late when it comes to the newest and hottest pins.

lexy is lexy lightspeed made by p3. FTH is full throttle by heighway

People like different things. I don't need more video game aspects in my pin personally. Lexy looks like a pin crossed with a PS2 game. I actually think it could bring in the location players, but it's not my thing. Nor do I buy $10k pins for that matter, no matter how cool they are. Nor do I believe the business model is actually functional for more indie games to be made for the platform after that initial investment. The math just isn't there. You need an install base in the thousands for it to make sense.

Hey, I wish Gerry nothing but luck with it. But it's not for me.

Wow....

Photos look phenomenal....so much space. I love it when there is space between the games - showcases each game. You can properly see the artwork and the whole playfield. And not bumping into people. Plus if you're playing a 2 player game, the other player can easily see whats going on on the pF.

And the lighting looks fantastic - was it darkish the whole time? Because at other events it looks like the lighting of the venue is either all on or all off. But playing pinball with the lights on sucks. The lighting at ReplayFX looks fantastic.

Huge amount of work gone into this....can only grow once word gets out.

I think a new platform like this is essential to getting younger players who have grown up on consoles into pinball. Looks like a blast to play - whether it is in reality - hopefully ill get a chance one day.

Watching the Kong off 4 is really cool too. I can't imagine even sitting for that long let alone keeping your mental game up to do max out points for each board
Makes you want to learn to play it, although Berzerk/Frenzy will always be my favourite

A quick review after I spent a couple days at the convention:

-Tons of pins and vids on free play. I was especially impressed with the quality of the pins. Anything that broke seemed to get fixed quickly. This was definitely the highlight of the show. I have personally never seen this many games available in one place before.

-Overall Pinburgh ran smoothly. Even with 650 players, results and banks were posted on time and the schedule was kept.

-It was nice to see the boutique pins. Out of AMH, Full Throttle, and P3, Full Throttle was my personal favorite. I did a joy them all. It was too bad that Big Lebowski was a no-show.

-I was disappointed with the amount of vendors present. There were none of the major parts vendors. I wanted to buy a manual, some flipper rebuild kits, and some pinballs and left empty handed.

-There wasn't much to do outside of the free play area. I already mentioned the lack of vendors. The other conventions I've attended (the National Card Collectors Convention, etc.) Offer numerous other activities to keep people entertained. If you wanted to take a break from playing there wasn't much to do.

-The bands were generic local cover bands. The Zelda string quartet was so far out of tune they hurt my ears. Any musician knows that step one is being in tune. The mixer with a DJ was about six girls dancing together. It was just kind of sad.

Hopefully this helps anyone that wasn't able to attend.

That's not my experience. I have a ton of young kids over here all the time (both my girls are Girl Scouts and we host a lot) and the kids love playing my pins. Even the EMs. Never once has one of them asked why they weren't more like video games.

I reject this notion that the younger generations can't handle something without a screen, I have no evidence that it's at all true.

Hopefully people bring their kids to shows like this!

Looks like Zach Sharpe just won Pinburg.