Virtual Pinball Buyers Guide 2024 - Facts You Should Know! 

A very effective and informative marketing tool. Your video was well produced, succinct, and very informative. Thanks for the valuable information.

Excellent well done video guys! Hopefully more people share your content and get it out more.

Excellent and information-packed overview. It reminds me of the dozens of hours of research that I did personally before deciding on investing in an Ultra VP. Still the best in the biz.

Brilliant Man. See you soon for my new pin.

Awesome video on what to look for to give you the best experience.

Excellent video. Woulda saved me a ton of time last year about now when i started shopping. In the end I consider myself fortunate that I ended up with a machine I love and is comparable in play and sounds to my real pinball table also. It wasn't cheap, but well worth the expense!!

Very well put together video. Worth the money if you love pinball.

From that “objective” review of do’s and Don’ts lol looks Like the VP Ultra is the cream of the crop. 😜 I wish i could afford one ROLAND… I wish there was a way I could earn one….. keep up the fantastic work, my guy.. well done.

Very detailed video, one of the best about virtual pinball👍. I built PC powered virtual pinball machine (my cost around 1k) and pre-order Legends Pinball 4K for about the same about 1,100. Legends Pinball 4K is actually a good deal and has the ability to connect a PC which is great.

This is an excellent, comprehensive video. Anyone in the market for a vpin should definitely heed your advice. Since you really seem to know your stuff, I'm curious what your assessment is on where actual emulation is headed. Is it at a dead end? Will we ever see tables from the mid 2010s onward be emulated or will they all have to be painstakingly coded manually (e.g. Legacy of the Beast, Deadpool, etc.).

One day this will be in my budget!

Love this comprehensive video. Great job. I cannot afford the Cadillac of vpin. But, this advice is golden. Reason: to keep a perspective on quality, pricing, service, and what you get for a price. With less options there SHOULD be a lower price. Thankfully your advice paid off for me. I found a small custom made one. The owner was honest and open about the build. And I researched enough to know what was a rip off or not. I undersrand my tiny machine isn't number one or the best. But it's the best it can be for the price. Slowly, I can add more features. This video is an incredible breakdown of what the best can be....wow! For now I have a Volkswagen Rabbit. But it's a good Volkswagen for the "correct* price.

Very impressive video. My question is how difficult is it to add or UPDATE a vpx table for instance when a new table or update to that table comes out?

Would the VP7 ultra be configured to 240 volt supply ( Australia ) and do you have any outlets in Australia or South Pacific area.

Soon. Very, very soon.

really hoping to see some virtual pinball manufacturers displaying and demoing their machines at the upcoming Pintastic Expo in Marlborough, Massachusetts this April

seems all the comments are positive, nothing negative. Any reason why? have comments been removed?

Absolutely the best video I ever saw on this topic. You are a Pinball Messiah!

Excellent guide. However... who can afford to stick to all the nuances of a mechanical reproduction? Constraints in space, budgets, access to vendors or parts if you are building your own or even buying one apply to every scenario. This guide to most people might be useful as a benchmark but can be frustratring or even prohibitive if you want to start in the hobby. Thanks for assembling this informative work.

Building your own is a lot of work, But! I can build the most realistic Vpin and a gorgeous work of art! That's why I love to build these machines! Realism has to be there in all areas even hi res at its best as looking down looks incredibly real. Nudging, sounds that you can feel and the correct wood and graphics.

So my big question is, and maybe I should not be asking is, do this pinball machine come preloaded with all the top pinball games like, Fish Tales, Pinbot, The Addams Family, etc. etc. or is that something I need to figure out how to do on my own and add them myself?

is it possible to buy from europe in particular italy? do you have a wharehouse in europe?

What digital pinball do u have?

I think the slanting of the monitor is a bad decision long term as graphics cards with ray tracing are going to be able to be much more consistent with the proper shadowing and lighting effects available as table devs start using the capabilities in Unity and Unreal Engine. Using a slant actually creates larger and larger off angle viewing angles which will create slight colour distortion, contrast issues and dimmer images the higher up the playfield. In trying to mimic how a table lies in a cabinet, you are actually hurting the axis angle with a monitor. All modern lcds are always much more accurate the closer you are to a perfect axis angle to the screen (Oled is better but still can have small issues). Again as more modern ray tracing gpus come into use the graphics will be much better at providing that 3d effect than physically angling the monitor.

Interesting video, but isn't the bottom line that all vpins except for the advertized one aren't fun?

I'm sure that for 9.000 dollars. You get as close as you can get to a real pinball machine experience. The only downside for me is. I imagine that the entire reason why somebody plays virtual pinball. Is because he does not have the money to buy a real pinball machine. And for 9.000 euro's. You do actually have a brand new pinball machine. And you can get a real pinball machine for a lot less second hand. I do actually own a real pinball machine Cyclone. A old game. It is not as cool as a Medieval madness. but it's a real machine and it cost 2.200. And yes. It is real and old and it might break down bla bla bla. but fixing it and all that kind of stuff. is still never going to set you back 9.000 dollars. In the end you pay a fortune to get as close as you can get to the real thing. Just difficult for me to understand why you would then pay 9.000 for getting close to the real thing. When in fact you can actually buy the real thing for that money. And yes you have multiple tables and I understand the advantages and all of that. But that is why I also play both Visual pinball on my computer. And the real thing. And perhaps this is a stupid reason to buy a real pinball machine instead of a virtual one. But for me when I have friends over. And they see a real pinball. One that is crappy and just ost 2200. They go holy fuck it's a real pinball machine. When I would pay 9.000 dollars for a virtual one. They would go like. Wow that is a pretty oversized computer you have just to play pinball video games. That being said. This is my opinion. This is not me recommending you what you should do. This is a good video. It gives good and solid advice. if you are in the market to buy a virtual pinball.

😂just buy a real pinball machine, Godzilla premium used is the same price

Please don't use plywood for your cab, use actual solid wood, plywood doesn't give you that real cabinet sound and feel. I know its a cost cutting measure, but if you're spending thousands on your cab, insist on solid wood builds.