Mike Miller, a pinball enthusiast in the Bay Area, created a fun short pinball movie. “Flipped” shows us the sad days of yore when pinball lovers had to blindly venture around looking for a lone machine trapped in the rear of a convenience store. But those days are behind us! The movie then transitions into the glorious present, where there are plentiful quantities of leagues and places to play lots of pinball. And, there are cool maps to help you find nearby machines!

Feature update: We added a button to the top of the home page that says, “Find Your Closest Map.” When clicked, you’ll be prompted to share your location (basically using this logic). If you share it, the browser will automatically take you to your closest regional map.

Gather around children, for I have a story to tell. Great! Nice job. So, this is the story of an app. This app’s name was Pinball Map, and it lived in the realm of Android, within the land of Pinballia. When this story begins it was 2.1.2 versions old, and was well-liked in the realm. Whenever folks were visiting a new town, or looking for some fun in their own town, Pinball Map of Android was there to help out. You see, Pinball Map had a special gift: it helped people find pinball machines to play. And each time it did so, the citizens of Android rewarded Pinball Map by updating its data and giving it stars. And while stars are cool and all, Pinball Map was especially grateful for these updates. Because if locations weren’t updated, then the data would be stale and smelly, and Pinball Map would be less valuable to people.

A few days ago we got a note from Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen, a Bay Area-based pinball player and software developer (creator of the tournament software, Match Play), about a new site he made: PinTips! PinTips is a crowd-sourced site with short and sweet playing tips on hundreds of pinball machines. Users can upvote/downvote tips, so the best rise to the top. It has a clean, simple interface, and is really fun to explore.

We created a privacy policy! http://pinballmap.com/privacy