Northstar Pinball Collective · Savage, MN · 64 games · first seen Mar 3, 2024 · last seen Oct 24, 2025
Bad Penny Pinball Arcade · 27 games · first seen Feb 23, 2024 · last seen May 10, 2024
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Big Game pinball machine has 91 recorded tournament games in Savage, MN. A game runs about 17m, the median of 90 timed games, so budget for that in a round with a clock on it. The better-ranked player loses here 51.2% of the time, which puts it at 33/100 for difficulty. That is a low-variance machine: scores hold up and the stronger player usually wins, so it rewards the favorite.
Complete BIG at top lanes to light spinner to the right of BIGGAME Lane spinner.
Hit far left spinner repeatedly. Try to complete lanes at top. A weird type of post pass is doable to get ball to right flipper.
Switch hits like pop bumpers and center star rollover move the lit bingo card. The X bingo card lights the far left spinner for 1000 a shot.
shoot left spinner with the bottom right flipper. Top right flipper is harder and doesn't hit the spinner as hard.
2X bonus - light 1 full card or make 1 line on each card 3X bonus - light 2 full cards or make 2 lines on each card Bonus holds ball to ball
Safer to backhand drops then hit them straight on.
