The world is celebrating the resurgence of retro gaming, and it’s time to get to know it a little better

In addition to regular visitors and collectors, the biggest fans of arcade games are probably pinball competitors. In recent months, both the Austrian and Slovenian national championships have been won by Hungarian pinball players, and the 4-day Hungarian championship held at the end of November had an outstanding number of foreign and domestic participants. Building on the experience of competitors and technological and servicing knowledge, the Budapest Pinball Museum will launch educational lectures called the Pinball Academy next spring in Budapest, at the Game Galaxy event center on Ráday Street. The primary goal of the Pinball Academy is to introduce the participants of the lectures and those interested in pinball to the possibilities and tricks that may have been less common so far, in order to provide an even more enjoyable gaming experience. The emergence of new missions and the most modern technology has brought changes to the game over the past decades. The technical tricks related to the gameplay will be presented to the participants by internationally renowned, award-winning Hungarian pinball competitors, Gábor Solymosi and Erik Pálfi.

At the same time, since the number of people buying and collecting machines is also increasing, the Flipper Academy will also provide them with technological information. The lectures will also discuss, for example, the technical structure of pinball machines. Anyone who has ever bought a pinball machine for their home has usually quickly encountered the problem that the machine, manufactured decades ago and often having passed through several owners, suddenly breaks down. The maintenance of pinball machines requires extremely complex and unique expertise, and the service experts of the Flipper Museum will therefore introduce applicants to the Flipper Academy to the basics of the operation of coils, processors and moving parts.