Septem9th Annual Ann Arbor Russian Festival: St.Cheers to my very first review ever.Septem“Critter House Open Hours”: Leslie Science & Nature Center 12:00 pm.SeptemYpsi Fall River Day: Ypsilanti Parks & Recreation Commission & Huron River Watershed Council 12:00 pm.SeptemU-M Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater 11:30 am.Septem“Investigate Labs”: U-M Museum of Natural History 11:00 am.Modern Times.”: Jewel Heart Buddhist Center Sunday Talks 11:00 am SeptemU-M Museum of Natural History Discovery Demos 11:00 am.SeptemCountry Fair: Wiard’s Orchards 11:00 am.Septem“Weekend Walks for Birds”: Washtenaw Audubon Society 9:00 am.SeptemVolunteer Stewardship Workday: Ann Arbor Natural Area Preservation Division 9:00 am.SeptemJust Between Friends Sale 9:00 am.This month, the tournament will be held on September 10 and 24. The Michigan Flippers pinball tournament at Pinball Pete’s is held every other Sunday at 5 p.m. Emerging onto South University in the warm evening air, my head still vibrated with bright flashing colors, shining silver balls, spinning figurines, the clack of flippers, the bleeps and blorps of points being scored. “You’ve got a knack for this!” one man said after I defeated the Demogorgon in the gorgeous Stranger Things game. When I managed to win a challenge on the Wizard of Oz machine (I saved Toto), I got spontaneous applause.
While everyone I met was an adult, the tournament is family-friendly, and I was told that a recent tournament featured a state-ranked player who had just celebrated his twelfth birthday.ĭespite my lack of ability, I was touched by how encouraging and open the other players were. Others were there mainly for the joy and camaraderie of the hobby, which made me feel much better on the multiple occasions when I somehow managed to have a ball go straight into the trough without even touching the flippers. The pinball scene in southeast Michigan is quite competitive, and a number of the players, particularly the women, were highly ranked in their divisions. Pete’s has about thirty-five machines on the floor, with twenty-one machines in play that night. Pretty much any popular entertainment franchise you could imagine has been immortalized into sleek, flashy pinball form: Game of Thrones, the Walking Dead, the Mandalorian (especially popular). Turns out, the format never went anywhere. I had assumed that pinball as a concept was frozen in time, with the same Addams Family and the Simpsons machines I remember playing on as a nine-year-old. Also, don’t physically abuse the machines. The competitor with the highest point total at the end of eight rounds wins.
In each round, two to three competitors trade off turns on a given machine, with everyone’s per-round score tallied at the end into a ranking, managed by IFPA’s cell phone app. Ryan Jurado, the genial organizer of the International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA) event and a highly ranked player himself, was happy to explain the rules. Capcom 2 would have to wait I was here for the pinball tournament.
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The space was full of gamers young and old shooting zombies, playing air hockey, and collecting tickets to exchange for prizes. I had expected Pete’s to be significantly dingier than the hazy, neon-glowing recollections of my misspent youth instead, the arcade shone brighter than I remembered it, with an impressive array of well-maintained contemporary and classic arcade games. Pinball Pete’s was doing a brisk bit of business on a warm, sunny Sunday evening, having seemingly made a full recovery from its pandemic closures. Players of all ages and skill levels are invited to play eight games of pinball for International Flipper Association points and other prizes at Pinball Pete’s Pinball Tournament, Sept.
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