Pinball Map

Pinball Map app updank approved (v5.4.27) - Adds events to the location details screen. - User location works on de-Googled Android phones. - Plus more.

Sorry, pinball map was down/really broken for a couple hours there. It's ok now. It was caused by a failed server update, and then some compounding issues.

Nice little quality of life update today (web and app): we made the location/geographic/machine search autocomplete a lot more forgiving. Such as, if you type some of the words of a business name in the wrong order, you'll still get results. Will continue evaluating and tweaking it.

If any Pinball Map users have a de-googled Android phone (no Google Play Services installed) and want to help us beta test an app update, please get in touch.

The annual Pinball Expo is going on right now. Just a reminder that we once gave a presentation at it! You can watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3oz...

Pinball Map has eclipsed 100,000 edits in 2026. You people are on track to make more edits than you did in 2025 (in like 2 weeks, actually). Thank you for helping keep the map up to date. Stats can be found here pinballmap.com/stats

New Pinball Map app update out, v5.4.26 Main diff in this one is that the app will remember if you were previously viewing a location or machine before the app closed, and it will reopen to that screen (within a 3 hour window). It will help users who are closing/reopening to add scores and such.

A few months ago we hid scores from other users in most places, and in today's app update (v5.4.25) we add them back on the machine details screen. It looks like this. You can see your own (top 10), and all scores (also top 10).

Now we have six months of Pokemon pinball data, so we've updated this chart. Here's how many copies of different machines were added to locations on Pinball Map during the first 6 months of their release. Pokemon doing very well. #pinball

Here's what we were also working on while first developing Pinball Map 18 years ago. youtube.com/watch?v=I0WE...

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Pinball Map app quick tip for finding which locations have the newest machine. video has audio. And if you don't already know that, for ex, Fallout is the newest, you can sort the machine select screen by Year.

A nice Kotaku write up of our latest creation: kotaku.com/following-po...

If you want to track via RSS the new Fallout machine being added to locations, here is the link: pinballmap.com/location_mac... Warning: May include people adding "coming soon" machines (which we monitor and delete)

Trailer and other vid for Stern's new Fallout pinball machine. Looks fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Squ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZzS...

OPDB has added a "machines that are missing photos" list. If you have very nice backglass imagery of any of these machines, please contribute. app.matchplay.events/opdb/missing...

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"Pinball Map has a better view of this than I do. It spent years handing out free, open API access to anyone who asked" No one had to ask! Anyway, good insights into things here. Hope you love high score and rules apps.

New app update. This one: - Support for All Ages and Free Play location-level fields. - When filtering locations, include a (i) button that summarizes the applied filters. - Greatly expanded universal/deep link support, so that urls with params will be respected. - MORE Vid demo

Barrels of Fun announce new pinball machine: Bon Jovi www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_FS...

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New Multimorphic P3 trailers: Ender's Game www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkOB... Dungeon Crawler Carl youtu.be/95SKuPLagXo?... We're tracking only 23 P3 machines on location in the world, so it's likely that most of us will never get a chance to play these games.

Another reminder. We'll enable this on Monday, Aug 3 (instead of the end of this week, because we realized that might be mean).

Added a thing on the website that reminds you what you're looking for, in case you forgot. Might need some work.

www.fastcompany.com/91561640/whe...

Reminder. Also, in case this isn't clear, this is only relevant to third-party developers using the Pinball Map API for their tools.

New blog post blog.pinballmap.com/2026/07/16/a... All API calls will require an API token param, starting in two weeks.