Many of the old electromechanicalpinball classics can now can be played on Virtual Pinball Machines with the help of pinball emulators and Software such as VisualPinball or FuturePinball. Today, a new machine can cost more than 5.000,- Euro, simple used ones start at about 1.500,- Euro. Even the technical “smell” of the cabinet was great. The clacking sounds and lighting effects when the ball shot across the pitch and hit the targets kept us up long nights. As a young boy, I was allowed to play regularly on a mechanical pinball at a friends home. The beer is real, of cause.Įlectromechanical pinball machines have always fascinated me. With the software set up, you can play as many different tables as you want. you could even have a coin door – just for optics. Project completed: Front view of my Mid Size virtual pinball cabinet (32″ Playfield screen, 19″ backbox), Tron movie themeĮxcept that everything is played on a huge screen mounted in a wooden cabinet. Not to forget stunning light effects by addressable RGB LEDs You have fancy sound and a lot of flashing.

VPins sort of are the pinball machines of the future – they have everything, the old electromechanical pinballs had like “real” clacking of pinball fingers, solenoids, bumpers and toys, real pinball buttons to play, a working manual ball trigger ( analogue plunger), even the steel ball moves, when you push the cabinet (nudging and tiling). In the meantime please feel free to switch to “German” to see all posts and use the translator plugin (the result is crappy – but it will get you an idea…) Till I will translate all of them in the next couple of weeks. These english tutorials are a translation of the existing german posts.

Hopefully this will become a good resource for your own pinball cabinet project. In this blog, I will be documenting the build of my “Virtual Pinball Cabinet” – a virtual pinball machine (VPIN).

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