Here is the fall 2025 issue of Quarter Up, a free online magazine about pinball and retro arcade gaming.

In this issue, AT Gonzalez gives a preview of this month's Houston Arcade Expo. Everyone is excited to play Stern's new pinball game Star Wars: Fall of the Empire.

Houston's own Barrels of Fun is showing off their new pinball game Winchester Mystery House. The art for Winchester is by Brad Albright, who did the cover for our fourth issue back in 2023.

Also in this issue:

• An interview with tourney organizer Luke "Launch" Tran, a fixture of Houston's fighting-game community.
• Battle of the Cabinets: Andres Alcoser covers the history of the Taito Vewlix and Namco Noir cabinets
• Views from the Road
• Reader questions
• Lee Tursi discusses Namco's ill-fated ShiftLook, their attempt to revive some of their more obscure titles.

Enjoy!

The Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas is a unique destination where visitors can immerse themselves in the nostalgia of over 364 different pinball games. With a collection of approximately 700 machines (including arcades), the venue offers a rare opportunity to explore a wide variety of vintage and modern pinball games. Supported by the Las Vegas Pinball Collectors Club, the Pinball Hall of Fame operates as a non-profit organization and gladly accepts donations to help preserve these iconic machines. Tim Arnold is the manger of the place, and we asked him a few questions about this place.

I suppose that this is probably obvious to some, but I certainly overlooked it.

There are a number of things that I like about Pinball FX, like support for over 60 FPS.

However, the tables also display a number of animations. One has to stop play and wait for them to be performed, sometimes they obstruct one's view, and they just generally kill my enjoyment of the game.

I just learned that it's possible to...actually turn those animations off, at least for Williams tables, thanks to a Steam thread. As users in the thread had suggested, I'd looked in the graphics settings, hadn't seen anything and had given up; the setting is not very obvious.

On Williams tables, there's a dedicated button --- on controllers, "B" --- which will toggle "Visual Mode". What that actually does isn't very clear, and I'd skipped over it in the controls section. It toggles all of the obnoxious animations.

Suddenly, the Pinball FX implementions of Medieval Madness, Tales of the Arabian Nights, and The Addams Family are fun for me again!

Just a heads-up to anyone in the same boat.

I'm new to Lemmy so I thought I'd share my arcade.

The place is called 7s Pinballorama in Charlottetown PEI. We opened almost 3 years ago. It started as pinball only but we had to expand to video and other games to appeal to more people.

This is the new space we moved into in November 2024.

Here's the summer 2024 issue of Quarter Up, a free online magazine about pinball and retro arcade gaming.

In this issue, the late Buffalo provides commentary on rules, regulations, and meditation, and how they all matter in pinball. Here's a direct link: https://nantucketebooks.com/ebooks/quarterup/quarterup_2024_q2/#Rules%2C_Regs%2C_and_Meditation_of_Pinball

We also have events calendars for Reno Pinball in Nevada, the Long Beach Pinball League, and Colorado's Mile High Pinball League.

Also in this issue:

• The Sonic Speed Cafe in Katy, Texas by AT Gonzalez
• The history of Taito's Wyvern F-0 by Leland Tursi
• Two claw-machine/UFO machine arcades by AT Gonzalez

Enjoy!

Have you played it yet? How do you like it compared to Stern's other recent releases?

Hi @pinball,

Here's our Spring issue for 2024. I'm sad to report that Buffalo, our resident color-commentator, has passed away. He loved pinball, owning two machines at his store in Cope, Colorado. I begin this issue with a brief tribute to him. This issue, and a few future issues, will contain his commentary.

In this issue, he asks, "Is Pinball a Sport?"

I also have a classified section in this issue, with a 1978 Chicago Coin "Jukebox" pinball machine for sale.

Pinball league event calendars for Long Beach Pinball League, Mile High Pinball League, and Reno Pinball. If your league is interested in being listed in the newsletter, let me know.

Cover art by Chris Bordenca

This is an interview with Jim Austin. After a stroke paralyzed his right arm, Austin developed the Adaptive Flipper Controller, allowing him to test pinball machines one-handed.

Hey @pinball,

I'm very excited to share our last issue of 2023. I have some excellent pinball articles in this issue:

• Coverage of Houston Arcade Expo 2023 by AT Gonzalez
• Reviews of the hottest pinball games of 2023, including Foo Fighters, Venom, Final Resistance, Labyrinth, and Godfather (reviews by AT)
• Color commentary from Buffalo about pinball. Buffalo also has a special offer for readers: come by his store in Cope, Colorado (you can't miss it) for a free game of pinball.

If you have any questions or comments for our writers, please let me know and I'll pass them along.

Cover art by Anna "Pencilforge" Frohling.

Some pinball material in this fourth issue:

• An interview with Steve Mitchell, pinball repairman in Colorado Springs, and owner of Classic Amusements
• A promo for next month's Houston Arcade Expo
• The universal power of pinball and blues music

I couldn't attend this year, so what's the news from the expo? New Pin manufacturers? New Tables?

Hello, everyone. The pinball content in this issue includes:

• Recommendations for a pinball repairman in the Denver metro
• An Elvira's House of Horrors spotted at a bar in the high Rockies
• Memories of pinball at the Chicken Diner in Modesto, California during the '50s and '60s.

https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2023/03/this-oregon-arcade-has-been-named-worlds-best-place-for-pinball.html

Is there any way to access the new mode that comes w the topper.... without the topper?

Can't wait, they said Q3, so could be in arcades as early as July!