Submission + - 700 Player, $100,000 Pinball Tournament Sells Out In Ten Hours
An anonymous reader writes: The Pinburgh Match-Play Championship, a pinball tournament held at the ReplayFX Arcade & Gaming Festival July 30 — August 2, 2015 just sold out all 700 tournament openings in fewer than 10 hours. Players will travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA from all over the world to compete in what will be, by far, the largest gathering of competitive pinball players in history. The overall event is advertising over 700 arcade and pinball machines and thousands of console games.
With more pinball manufacturers in business now than at any time in the previous twenty years, more competitive arcade and pinball players training by watching a growing collection of classic game-related youtube videos, and bigger and bigger arcade events like ReplayFX cropping up, is the world of retro gaming, and pinball in particular, experiencing a revival? Have competitive pinball events and classic arcade conventions become a modern-day replacement for the 1980's arcade experience?
With more pinball manufacturers in business now than at any time in the previous twenty years, more competitive arcade and pinball players training by watching a growing collection of classic game-related youtube videos, and bigger and bigger arcade events like ReplayFX cropping up, is the world of retro gaming, and pinball in particular, experiencing a revival? Have competitive pinball events and classic arcade conventions become a modern-day replacement for the 1980's arcade experience?