{"id":27041,"date":"2022-11-18T17:08:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=27041"},"modified":"2022-11-20T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:49:01","slug":"dutch-pinball-open-expo-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2022\/11\/18\/dutch-pinball-open-expo-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"DUTCH PINBALL OPEN EXPO 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For its first post-pandemic show, the Dutch Pinball Open Expo set up home at the Dutch Pinball Museum in the Delfshaven region of Rotterdam. Delfshaven is built around the Nieuwe Maas river as a port to supply the pottery industry of the city of Delft, famed for its blue-and-white painted Delftware.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aelbrechtskolk waterway outside the Dutch Pinball Museum in Delfshaven <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Museum building faces an adjacent waterway in an attractive location, while the windows have been decorated to resemble the mansion on the playfield of The Addams Family.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The home of the Dutch Pinball Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We arrived at the Museum on the evening of Thursday 10th November to get a look at the setting up ahead of the public opening on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The entrance to the Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Museum was hosting a private gathering of their founders and sponsors on Thursday evening, which gave us the opportunity to meet a number of familiar faces as well as enjoying the numerous games and exhibits.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Museum was closed for a private event this evening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Before we move onto the DPO Expo itself, let’s take a look around the Museum to see some of the machines and exhibits.<\/p>\n\n\n

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No space in the entrance for a full game, so…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Unlike some collections which call themselves a ‘museum’, the Dutch Pinball Museum really is an immersive educational experience, showing how pinball evolved from flipperless table games to the multimedia extravaganzas we play today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The entry desk, selling souvenirs and snacks as well as Museum entry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Some of the playfields forming the ceiling of the ground floor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Some of the souvenirs available to purchase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Behind the entry desk is the main ground-floor room. You may have spotted an image of The Dude, Donny and Walter from The Big Lebowski<\/em> on the wall in the picture above. With Dutch Pinball manufacturing the pinball machine based on that movie, it’s a theme you’ll be seeing a few times in this report, starting with a The Big Lebowski<\/em> ‘shrine’ you encounter as soon as you enter the first room of exhibits.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A 3D printed Dude model dominated the exhibit’s glass case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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In the main ground floor room you could play the very newest titles…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Led Zeppelin, The Walking Dead, Star Wars, The Mandalorian and Aerosmith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Above the games is a history of pinball timeline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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…and some of the oldest and most historically significant such as Humpy Dumpty and Balls-A-Poppin’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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There aren’t many places where you can play these titles:
Big Ben, Humpty Dumpty, Balls-A-Poppin’ and Double Action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Some older, wall-mounted exhibits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There was this rather beautiful spinning top game from 1853 known variously as “Table \u00e0 Toupie<\/em>” (Table with a Top) or “Jeu de Roi<\/em>” (Game of Kings) or even “Devil Among the Tailors<\/em>“.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The spinning top game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The aim is to pull a string wound around a top to spin it and sent it down the playfield, knocking over the pins as it went.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pulling the string to spin the top and send it onto the playfield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It was such a fun game, we made this video showing how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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