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I'm getting a better handle of the controls.  Here's a new score...
 

225,400

Ricky Pinball!  Ha ha ha ha! I love it.
I'll give you all the tip I gave Greeny that totally upped my score.  There's an easy way to get your @ss off that horrible bottom screen.  Just get the ball trapped on the left flipper and hit it like this.  After you hit it, raise the right flipper and BOOM, the ball will fly right back on to the top level.  And if you screw it up, you have a great chance of hitting the bonus hole.  And if the exit thing is open, it will go right in there.  Master this shot!  It's not hard because I can do it, you can do it. 
 

Congratulations Everyone!
 
Congratulations to everyone who joined in our Pinball Squad Challenge!! We played an incredibly challenging game with some interesting pinball mechanics like paddles that turn invisible at 100,000 points, and everyone showed up with scores to be proud of. I took the top spot in our Final Standings with a score of 736,650. @RickR came in 2nd Place with his outstanding score of 225,400. The incredible @Marco1019 taked 3rd Place on the podium, with a score of 137,260. Legendary Squad Member @Atari 5200 Guy was on his game, posting a score of 132,550 to take 4th Place in our Final Standings. "The Mayor" @greenween was hot on Atari 5200 Guy's tail, less than 200 points behind, taking 5th with 132,260 points. @Gianna came in with a strong effort to take 6rd Place with her score of 109,870. @TrekMD rounds things out for us in 7th Place with his score of 69,100. As I always encourage others to do, I'll be posting my new high score on the Scoreboard to make sure this Challenge continues on! Did you enjoy this NES Pinball Squad Challenge? It's one of the earliest "black box" NES games, and one that has always been my favorite, especially the Bonus Mini Game with Mario. I hope everybody had a great time! That's a wrap for Pizza Party Summer! We'll return next summer with more fun events and High Score Squad Challenges to keep the party going! See you next summer!
NOTE: Our next High Score Squad is for the Atari 5200 Super System. Be there!
 
 

 
 

 

First attempt: 28,235,360
 

My High Score: 158,432,040
 
 

The artist for both Space invaders and the Boston album are in face the same person Gary Norman. the signatures are exactly the same on his other artworks and the Invaders one.

Atari released its financial Results for the year ended March 31, 2022 today. The summary includes some interesting information on their pivot back to gaming and a few tidbits for VCS owners. 
- Revised VCS go-to-market and development of a complementary hardware strategy
- Atari completed the review of its go-to-market for Atari VCS, resulting in revised promotion, marketing and PR strategies to bolster demand. This resulted in an impairment on inventories and R&D for a total amount of €9.4M.
-Atari is actively developing new and complementary hardware that will expand and dramatically increase the core functionality of the VCS.
What new and complimentary hardware could be in the works? What new PR strategies could help the VCS? What would you want to see as a VCS owner?
Let's speculate!
 
 

229,880
First try, this ball drains easy - be careful out there. 
 

Alakazam!
403,240

Alakazam!
403,240

229,880
First try, this ball drains easy - be careful out there. 
 

Alakazam!
403,240

229,880
First try, this ball drains easy - be careful out there. 
 

96,730
 

Great job gang. I don’t every play this one that much so it was great to just sit with this one for a while. I’ve got to admit, I had about 5 games back to back that were really really bad, I got lucky on this round. 
 
let’s keep playing these pin tables - count me in 

96,730
 

96,730
 

Researching the history of release dates/ship dates seems to expose some potential deceit on Intellivision's part.
 

Let’s pack the controllers on top… with no bubble wrap… let’s pack them loose on the console… that should be perfect for the FedEx to destroy them on the first package throw. 
 
 

My score: +6

My score: +6

My score: +6

Let’s pack the controllers on top… with no bubble wrap… let’s pack them loose on the console… that should be perfect for the FedEx to destroy them on the first package throw. 
 
 

Let’s pack the controllers on top… with no bubble wrap… let’s pack them loose on the console… that should be perfect for the FedEx to destroy them on the first package throw.