Ottawa Pinball Expo Part IV

Ottawa Pinball Expo was more than several months ago and has almost become a distant memory. Good thing that I have a good memory... and lots of pictures. I'm not quite done sharing all the great stuff I saw at Ottawa Pinball Expo so let's keep it going...

Quick recap! During Part 1, we looked at some System-11 tables like Atlantis...

Part 2 looked at a couple of the licensed tables, like Doctor Who...

Part 3 was all about going back in time to the days of alpha-numeric displays with a look at Swords of Fury and Time Machine.

Let's start where we left of on Part 3. I gave a sneak peek of Williams' Time Warp!

Notice anything strange about this psychedelic trip of a table? It has some odd looking flippers, doesn't it?

In the late 70's, Williams was experimenting with new ways to refresh the pinball game and so they developed banana flippers. Due to the curvature of the flippers, it's harder to aim shots and so adds a bit more random element into flipping. It wasn't the most successful of Williams' new experiments and only one other table bore the banana flippers, that being Disco Fever. Nonetheless, Time Warp is a real trip to play and the flippers add a lot of fun and frustration to the table.

St. Catherines Pinball Journey 2013!

Back in 2011, my brother Shane discovered a page on Kijiji that listed a bunch of locations of pinball tables throughout the St. Catherines area. There were some pretty awesome tables to be found in St. Catherines so we put together a map and went on a pinball journey!

Here's just a small sample of what we saw...

Data East's Star Wars at Colonial Cleaners in Port Colbourne.

Premier's Super Mario Bros. at Entertainment Overload in Welland.

Bally's Theatre of Magic at Harborfront Inn in Port Colbourne.

Data East's WWF Royal Rumble at Doubletree Inn in Niagara Falls.

Fast forward to the near future... THE YEAR IS 2013. SHANE AND I HIT THE ROAD ONCE AGAIN ON A PINBALL JOURNEY THROUGH ST. CATHERINES. HERE IS OUR TALE...

We set out on another journey to play old, familiar tables from our past adventure as well as discover some new tables that have popped up on our radar.

DROKK IT! JUDGE DREDD PINBALL!

YO! This movie is out.

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That's pretty cool. You know what else is cool?

JUDGE DREDD PINBALL! DROKK IT!