Modern Firepower at the Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo

Sometimes it was hard to get play time on the pins, the turnout was fantastic

Atlanta's first ever Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo has come and gone, though based upon the great turnout, I'm confident this will become an annual tradition.  We had a blast attending the event, and it was a joy to reveal Modern Firepower to an unsuspecting public.

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Atlanta's Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo is This Weekend - and Modern Firepower will be There!

The first ever Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo is being held in Atlanta, GA this weekend at the Marriott Century Center.

There will be over 100 arcade and pinball machines at the show, and your admission allows you freeplay on all machines.  Please come out and support this gathering, I promise you will have fun.

Being unveiled to the public for the first time, Modern Firepower will be on the show floor available for everyone to play.

I've been told that Modern Firepower will be staged in the Custom Pinball section, so if you can make the show, be sure to look for this one of a kind, fully custom hand-built machine.

The show runs Friday, June 20th through Sunday the 22nd.  We will be there every day, so be sure to say hi to the protective parent watching guard over his machine.

The Modern Firepower Pinball Project - Overdue Update

Modern Firepower - Build Complete!

Completely unintentional, I see now it has been just over a year since my last post.  You would be forgiven for thinking that Modern Firepower was just another project that was abandoned and didn't pan out.  Fortunately, the exact opposite is true.

It was a year ago that most of the pieces came together, and the machine became playable.  Ironically, this is the most difficult stage in any project.  It became much more fun to play than to continue the build, much less post about it.

At the same time, new challenges cropped up, primarily software related.  Before the machine was in a playable state, my software tests were very promising, but with Modern Firepower now playable, small behavioral ticks emerged.  I also had to learn the hard way how to properly multi-thread a very complex application using thread-safe techniques.

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