Skills & Tutorials

Local Pinball

  • OLPH: Curated selection of high-end pins, SIP League host, monthly tourneys
  • RecBar 502: Best big collection around, with a full time tech to keep them going. Tourneys every Sunday at 6pm.
  • Milewide Brewery: About a dozen great games, nice mix, well kept
  • Zanzabar: Another good collection, with occasional tourneys
  • Rubbin’ Butts: Modern Sterns only, but nice games, with tourneys a couple times a month
  • Small-But-Cool: Merriweather, West Sixth

Quick Trips

  • Comics2Games: Comic shop in Florence, KY, with a fantastic selection of about 20 games
  • Pin Lodge: Indianapolis private collection that opens up once monthly

Big Events

  • Pincinatti: Fantastic pinball show & tourney in Cinci the first weekend of December
  • Arcade Expo: Louisville’s own, it’s a bit of everything arcade and gaming related

Websites

  • Pinside: Central hub for all things pinball
  • Kineticist: Great long-form articles and the current home of This Week In Pinball news
  • Knapp Arcade: Pinball news and rumors

REpairs & Restoration

  • Home Pinball Repair.com – Excellent writeups from the very basics through very advanced troubleshooting and repairs
  • Pinrepair.com – Guides to working on specific systems, including Zaccaria
  • Vid’s Guides – Man, Myth, Legend: this hero has written up some of the best, thorough DIY walk throughs anywhere on everything from full playfield restore to just replacing the beer seal