Skills & Tutorials
- Abe Flips – Great technique videos
- IPDB Skills – quick writeups on basic through advanced techniques
- PAPA flipper skills – great short videos
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