- Texas Pinball Festival 2025 part 1: Northbound and down
- Texas Pinball Festival 2025 part 2: The first six rounds
- Texas Pinball Festival 2025 part 3: Finishing up the tournament
- Texas Pinball Festival 2025 part 4: On the show floor
- Texas Pinball Festival 2025 part 5: What do you mean, he’s not done playing pinball for the weekend?
- Texas Pinball Festival 2025 part 6: Closing thoughts and a look at the future
Despite spending what seemed like almost the whole weekend in the tournament room, I did have some time to check out games on the show floor.
It’s hard to pick out highlights from these, as in a lot of cases I don’t know what constitutes a really good score. To be honest, a lot of the time on show floor games I’m not really going for high score. Yet I do manage to really run up a few anyway:
- Golden Arrow, 112k+
- Swords of Fury, 4.3M+
- Pin-Bot, 2.5M+
- High Speed, 1.9M+
- Airway (pre-war non-flipper game), 3000
- Devil King, 2.5M+
- Future Spa, 129k+
- Labyrinth, 34.4M+
By no means is that a complete list, just the ones that appear to be particularly high scores. As always, these are all the highest scores of the weekend on those particular titles. I played many, many more games of pinball on the show floor than those shown here.
Of particular note here, some of the scores from Sunday were two-player games. The second player was a new acquaintance I happened to meet on the trip, Matt Lemoine from New Hampshire. In addition to being a great guy to hang out with, Matt was one of the top finishers in the tournament this year. (He played in the late group, so this is why you do not see his name anywhere in the tournament recaps.)