While tickets are still available, I wanted to give everyone in the pinball community a heads up on the upcoming craft beer/pinball festival called “One-Eyed Betty’s FestivALE” on Saturday, November 23rd. The event is a holiday celebration highlighting the release of special Christmas Beers, with Michigan brewery representation. There will be food stations with a cold-weather Comfort theme such as, Roast Beasts (your choice of Whole Roast Pig, Lamb, or Goat), a giant Tartiflette and long Apple Strudel. The event features some of the area's best Folk & Americana bands.

Inside One-Eyed Betty’s, Short’s Brewing Company is taking over all of the taps as they transform the space into a pinball hall with over 30 pinball machines on FREE PLAY. The event will feature games from from the 2000s all the way back to 1937, which will include three woodrail games. There will be a concentration on 1980s-1990s Williams/Bally classics including games such as Whitewater, Addams Family, Terminator 2, Scared Stiff, Getaway HSII, No Good Gofers, Whirlwind, Space Shuttle, Earthshaker!-to name a few. A full game list will be coming shortly.

The event will take place inside and in the parking lot to the west of One-Eyed Betty’s and in Troy Street. The parking lot portion of the space will be tented & heated and will house the stage with beer-garden style seating and ample standing room. The street will be lined with bonfires, heaters and circus performers.

Doors will open (rain or shine) at Noon on November 23rd, 2013. The ticket price is $20 for advance purchase or $25 at the door. The ticket includes entrance to the festival and a 16 Oz. commemorative cup that will serve as your drinking cup during the party (there will be rinsing stations throughout).

You can order your tickets at http://ferndalefestivale.com/ or at One-Eyed Betty’s directly at 175 W. Troy, Ferndale, Michigan.

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I wanted to give everyone an update and photos from the event One Eyed Betty’s hosted back in November. “FestivALE” highlighted the release of special Christmas Beers and during the event the bar itself cleared all the furniture and had 30 pinball machines. The event included modern pinball machines and even some very early woodrails. Though the weather’s cold temperatures that day didn’t entirely work with us, the event was a huge success in attendance and people really enjoyed playing the games. We even made the event almost an exhibit feel since we displayed and discussed the history of pinball and give interesting facts about the game as you walked through the building. Below is the game list the event had:

1. Bad Cats
2. Bumper
3. Cue Ball Wizard
4. Cyclone
5. Diner
6. Dreamy
7. Earthshaker
8. Fire!
9. Fish Tales
10. Flight 2000
11. Funhouse
12. Machine - Bride of Pinbot
13. Mousin' Around
14. No Good Gofers
15. Pool Sharks
16. Red & Teds Roadshow
17. Revenge from Mars
18. Ripley’s Believe It or Not
19. Scared Stiff
20. Slugfest
21. Space Shuttle
22. Sunshine
23. Taxi
24. Terminator 2
25. The Addams Family
26. The Getaway High Speed II
27. Twilight Zone
28. Whirlwind
29. Whitewater
30. World Cup Soccer '94
31. Ms. Pac Man arcade
32. Ice Cold Beer arcade

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