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Jaws just came out too and I've had fun checking Pinball map every day to see it spread out from Chicago (Stern's HQ) and populate more and more of the country.

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It could be fun to use this data to build a visualization of new games rolling out to locations across the world.

I am super curious about getting data from Stern since they have added Stern Insider. They record all your scores and give you little icons for achievements etc. I don't know what other data they store, but it would be pretty rad to do some stats on it and look at the time of day when balls get drained, and multiball run times against a population. So curious to see if any outside factors influence gameplay. Outside of proper leveling, operation etc.

They collect a lot of information, but make very little of it available. What is available isn't exposed in a particularly friendly way. Some of the extra data they gathered makes it into the Year in Review stats they make available at the start of the year. https://social.bdash.net.nz/@mrowe/111779120066480793 shows an example of this.

I'd love to be able to see a moving average of my score on a particular game so I can see how I'm improving (or not) over time. Beyond that, I'm not sure what data would be useful other than as a curiosity.

Would be cool to see some other data like that for sure. I'll drop it in the suggestion box haahha

Yeah my local barcade paid for it, just waiting for it to show up! Have you played it yet? The premium looks rad, but ready to play any of them.

Labyrinth is a turd.

I just saw Chad the Bird showing it off at Logan Arcade on YouTube

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