More Pinball in Oslo

Last night I went to a very hidden pinball club. It isn't on pinball map, by design I was told.  I only found out about the location while I was playing at Illegal about a week ago. 

Kristiania Flipperselskap is located about 20 minutes outside of city center. It's an easy subway ride. They are on Facebook so if you are in the area you can contact them that way. 

The doors opened at 5 and the tournament started at 6. I arrived just after 5 and the instructions I was given led me right to the unmarked door. 

The door was unlocked so I walked in with confidence and soon saw signs of pinball. 

I entered and was greeted by a familiar face. I began playing while the rest of the members arrived. 

They had a nice lineup of modern Sterns which do not show up on Insider Connect. 

They also had some great classics and mids. 

F-14 signed by Steve Ritchie, the designer. 

I got to play Quick Silver for the first time and it was a beautiful copy. 

The Bow and Arrow was beautiful too. 

Their Hardbody played great too and I skillfully used the Flex Save. The inlanes turn to outlanes once you use them and if you don't relight them, you have to use a separate flex button that turns them back into inlanes for a short period of time. It takes good timing and is really fun. 

One of my opponents flexing their saves. 

I also got to play Stern's WWF Wrestle Mania. I don't see this one very often. 

It was a really fun tournament. I played pretty well but didn't make the finals. My proudest moment was rolling Viking in Norway (sorry, no photo proof).  

The subway wasn't very crowded on the way back. 

I thought it fitting to see The Continental. It's a prominent feature in the John Wick pinball machine which they have. 

Now we are on a train to Stockholm. Soon our adventures will continue but in Sweden instead of Norway. 

Bergen Pinball Club

Today we got to visit The Bergen Pinball Club, a private pinball club a short walk from the city center. 

I contacted them in advance and they said to let them know when we were in town and they would work out a time. We agreed on Saturday at 3pm. There was talk of a donation but not how much so I visited the website and looked at the membership tiers. I came up with a price that I thought would be fair and generous was going to go with that when I got there. 

We arrived at the address and messaged them via Whatsapp and they came out to meet us and led us in via a side entrance. 

It's a shoes off place so don't wear holey socks. 

The layout of the club was explained to us. It's laid out roughly, by era. 

There is a nice map showing the rooms and their eras. 

Pinball Map shows them having 130 machines, but they weren't all available for play. There were still a good number of games that I had never played before, so that was great. 

We got a really nice tour of the facility and then I bought a T-shirt and we made our donation of 300 NOK each, or about $60. The donation ended up being above what I had worked out in my mind, but we were there and the money was going to pinball machine upkeep. 

Lots of work was happening because about 20 people were coming later in the day. 

Sadly, Alarm wasn't operating, but what an amazing looking machine!

Robot wasn't working either but they turned it in for me so I could get a good photo. 

Kjell is very passionate about the machines here. This was a very rare Mythology. It had an issue and couldn't be played, but Kjell cleaned the glass so I could get a good photo. 

Enough with the broken machines, here are the machines that played great. 

The back glass for Laser War was wacky and the game was fun. 

Look at those near vertical side flippers!  

The Firey 30s had a crazy outlane gate. 

The gate closed off the inlane!

But there were switches around that closed the gate which opened the inlane and closed off the outlane. 

This might be the only publicly available Walkyria in the world. 

A Solid State version of Joker Poker

It was a really great afternoon of pinball. It was one of the most unique pinball experiences we have had yet. 

After pinball we walked back to city center and waited in line for a delicious hot dog. The hot dogs here are out of this world.