Godly Warfare at Bar of the Gods
This week’s weekly is at the Bar of the Gods.
Bar of the Gods
4801 Se Hawthorne Blvd
Portland, OR, 97215
Medieval Madness
Monster Bash
Sopranos
World Cup Soccer
7pm sharp. $5. Winner makes bundles.
The Pinball Map is Multi-City
Great news, people! Please read this general pinball service announcement:
As most pinballers in Portland know, the Portland Pinball Map serves this city well as the go-to source for locating pins in town. The map has an army of pals, many of them unknown and unacknowledged (until now: thank you), keeping the data up to date. When you stop into a spot and notice a machine has been swapped out, it’s only a matter of moments until *click click BAM* the website is updated. Easy as that. And with the next version of the iPhone app coming at ya shortly, users will be able add/remove machines and stuff straight from their phone. Plus what’s more, the Android app is shaping up curvaceously, and will be available sooooooon!
So, as I’ve pointed out, the map works well here because we have 1) a ton of machines, 2) hot data, 3) a really user-friendly website, and 4) an active user base that helps keep everything up to date.
But there are some other cities around the country with a bunch of public machines, too. And they wanted a map like ours – So! the Portland Pinball Map has expanded to cover other cities. First up are British Columbia (aka Vancouver, BC), and Seattle, WA. Their maps are basically separate sites, all under one domain. And it’s easy to switch from one to the next. See:
The new link for the site is http://pinballmap.com (though http://portlandpinballmap.com still works, too).
If you already have the iPhone app, the next version will have these regions added to it. And any additional regions we add will be automatically added to the apps (no updating necessary).
We’re excited about these new regions. VRPA is managing the BC data, and they’re surely going to be on the ball with keeping things up to date. But for both regions we need to get the word out! If you live in either of these areas, please start using these maps! The cool thing about these is that you don’t have to send machine updates to someone, and then wait for the updates to be made live – you can do all the updates yourself. Cut out the middleman!
And we’re always adding more features to the maps. If you have suggestions, sock ’em to us.
CFF Meeting @ My Fathers Place
Lot’s of room lot’s of pin’s lot’s of booze lot’s of sin’s!
CFF Meeting @ Shanghai Tunnel
$40 to whoever takes down ROM’s 1.26bill on Getaway dead or alive!
Trackie!!!! Day recap
So, Trackie!!!!! Day happened about a month ago, but I know you’re all still on the edges of your respective seats to know how it went and/or relive it through my sparkling prose.
Trackie!!!! Day, the most beloved of holidays, where fashion meets Fathom, where velour meets Viking, where DDT’s bare chest meets your eyeballs, occured on Mothers’ Day weekend, so those of us who prefer pinball to parents met up at the lovely and quant Ship Ahoy tavern for some meat and cheese (there was, natch, no love for the vegans at this fest) and dollar games on WCS.
Fueling up on Visos before hitting the streets. (credit: Scoop)
Mystery checks out his pinball skillz (credit: Isaac Ruiz)
Invisorated, we headed onward in our van of sin and destruction, blowing smoke in the faces of our enemies (or, I guess, Opto’s car, which was following us). Next stop was Apex, a pretty new bar on 12th and Division that you should check out. First off, they have a TV dedicated soley to the type/name/brewery/ABV% of their tap list (word to the wise: beer/cider only, folks. Also, cash only! Act accordingly)! Also, a separate pinball alley that houses Theater of Magic, LOTR, IJ4, and Ripley’s! Thirdly, a bank of mirrors on the wall above the machines, serving both your rabid spectators and yourself, should you choose to look up.Â
See? (credit: ipdb.org, Heather, and my sweet MSPaint prowess)
So obviously we had to have a mini-tourney to test our mirror-pinball chops. It was on ToM. ROM won, possibly because his name is very similar to the name of the game. We also discovered that I am actually the girl on the Xenon backglass (see right). Next on the list was GK, because what kind of pincrawl (meh, I’m ambivalent about that word) doesn’t stop by the largest pinball destination in Portland? There, we did a one-handed mini-tourney on Demo Man (if I remember correctly, you had to use the handles, not the flipper buttons), which DDT won one-handily. (Ha!) We stayed there until the bar opened, so that those of us ammenable to the notion could slam a Pabst before we started off toward Slabtown. Slabtown’s challenge of choice was sit-down Party Zone. Scoop kicked ass with 30+ million.
Then, we were hungry, so we went to Opto’s Parlor of Pins, a private venue also know as the Davii household. We ate pizza and drank beer. DDT and Dropshot both GCed Centaur on the same game (DDT exceeded the original GC as Player 1, Dropshit went above and beyond to re-GC it:
yowza! (credit: do i have to credit myself?)
We also met the youngest tracksuit! His name is Vinnie and, according to him, he’s “four and a half. But I’m still shy!!!!” Those were the only two sentences he said to me before grabbing the juice I poured him and running away. I’d hate him if he hadn’t inherited his dad’s dashing good looks:
- the PatC legacy. (credit: PatC; also I still rule at MSPaint)
Isaac took some cool pictures in Noah’s garage, but it took me like half an hour to make that Pat and Vinnie thing happen so I’m gonna cool off on the nÃœ media for a while (also, oh my Lord, I hate PCs). I’m just gonna cut to the chase instead, because this is already a month late and I think my boss may fire me if I don’t start doing my actual job instead of writing in my pinball journal. After Noah’s we went to the Standard. Mini-tourney: straight-up highest score on Black Rose. Prize: a super cute piece of Shell Bell’s homemade jewelry. Kickback won, and his lovely ladyfriend got some pinball-related bling.
We finished it off, 12 hours later, across the street from whence we started. At C-Bar, there was a battle between the winners of the four mini-tourneys (to refresh your memories, I know I’m long-winded and parenthetical: ROM, DDT, Scoop, Kickback) on Indiana Jones. ROM was victorious and got some sort of lightsaber thing that you’ll see in the final picture if I ever post this. Emma was also spotted with a pinball lamp of some kind, I don’t remember why. The whole PatC family got some schwag for being a family of trackies!!!! And Sauce won worst tracksuit.
Okay, that was Trackie!!!! Day. We’ll do it again next year. Stay tuned for ROM’s much more timely Portland Pinball Map announcement. Here, have a picture:
TRACKIE!!!! DAY! (credit: Scoop)
Billy Ray’s Tournament
June 22, 2010
Billy Ray’s Neighborhood Dive
2216 NE MLK Blvd Portland, OR 97212
Phone: (503) 287.7254
Single game double elimination format. $5 entry, starts at 7:00pm.
Current line-up:
Attack From Mars
Medieval Madness
Soprano’s
Batman: Dark Knight
Monster Bash
C-Bar C-Balls
Tuesday, June 15, 2010.
C-Bar
2880 SE Gladstone St. Portland, OR 97202
Phone: (503) 230.8808
Single game double elimination format. $5 entry, starts at 7:00pm.
Current line-up:
Family Guy
Monster Bash
Indiana Jones
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
Batman: Dark Knight
Clinton St Tournamation
Tuesday, June 8, 2010.
Clinton Street Pub
2516 SE Clinton St. Portland, OR 97202
Phone: (503) 236.7137
Single game double elimination format. $5 entry, starts at 7:00pm.
Current line-up:
Congo
Medieval Madness
Indianapolis 500
NBA Fastbreak
Jurassic Park
The Vern
Vern (aka Hanigan’s)
2622 SE Belmont St Portland, OR 97214
Phone: (503) 233.7851
Single game double elimination format. $5 entry, starts at 7:00pm.
New current line-up:
Flinstones
Monster Bash
Scared Stiff
Terminator 2
