{"id":697,"date":"2012-09-11T00:46:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2012-09-26T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T09:07:14","slug":"pinball-magazine-arrived-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Pinball Magazine arrived in North America (feedback updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being delivered in Europe last week, today the first copies of Pinball Magazine were also delivered to buyers in Canada and USA. If your copy did not come in yet, it most likely will arrive any day now. Below you can read some of the feedback that came in:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-449\" title=\"Pinball Magazine 1 final cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-105x148.png 105w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-22x31.png 22w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-27x38.png 27w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-152x215.png 152w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover.png 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Just received the magazine. Looks really great! Thanks for your passion for pinball<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Mark<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Great job on the magazine. Nice to see a professionally done magazine on pinball. Looking forward to the next one!!!\u00a0 Agh when will that be?????<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Vince<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Just got mine today!\u00a0Took it out of the envelope. First impressions:\u00a0Holy, ton of content. Probably will take many days to work my way through it.\u00a0Very impressive polished and glossy look. Just flipping through the pages, tons of art, photos, etc jumping out.\u00a0Nice to see ads from from all of the industry. Hopefully many more in the future.\u00a0I bought it immediately to support the new venture, but it is an impressive piece and I will definitely continue to buy future issues as they come out.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Frolic<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My copy of Pinball Magazine came in the mail today.\u00a0A beautiful looking magazine. The featured article is on the life and times of Roger Sharpe, the man who saved pinball in NYC.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Eric<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>All I can say is wow! What a publication. The magazine is top notch! High quality glossy thick stock pages loaded with great photos with a fantastic interveiw with Roger Sharpe. Great reading, very few adds (which are all pinball related) and overall a superb magazine. Im sold and will continue to order issues as they are released. The editor, Jonathan Joosten, has pm&#8217;ed me a few times through pinside since I started this thread (about the magazine not having arrived yet &#8211; ed.), to see if copies have arrived here in the U.S. Total class. I hope everyone enjoys their copy like I did. It&#8217;s great we now have two pinball publications to support this great hobby.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Gnatty<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I did indeed get my copy yesterday. It was waiting for me when I got home from work. I got halfway through it last night before I had to finally go to sleep; just couldn&#8217;t put it down. Very well done.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Scott<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got my copy, Saturday. Very nice!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Jan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>GOT OUR COPY TODAY, WOW!!!!!!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Timeline Arcade<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Just received your first issue. Superb quality and content. Well beyond the typical &#8220;throwaway&#8221; magazine. More like a quality pinball book that will share the shelf space with Shalhoub&#8217;s Compendiums and Rossignoli&#8217;s pin books when I&#8217;m finished. That is until I pick it back up again. Congrats and here&#8217;s to, at least, 2 to 3 issues of the Pinball Magazine a year.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Don<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got mine in FL yesterday. Haven&#8217;t had a chance to read yet, but flipped through it and it looks great<\/em>.&#8221; &#8211; Pinmaniac<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Wow what an amazing work of art will read more into it as days pass<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; JJ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Holy crap!!! Very amazing !!!\u00a0Out right now with it showing others in the weekly pinball tournament up at Zanzabar. I will start this week with promoting it. Seriously, you need to go buy yourself a drink for the hard work you did on this.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Jeremy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I got mine today and Wow! Roger, if I mail it to you would you sing it?<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Jeff<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got mine yesterday in Illinois.\u00a0WOW! This is like a book you would buy at the bookstore. It is beautiful! Amazing!!!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Chad<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got mine yesterday in New Hampshire, and it is lovely! Only a few pages in, but the Sharpe interview is really good reading so far.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Eve<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I got my copy today. From what I have read so far it looks to be a top notch pinball magazine. I look forward to getting every new issue as they are released. Two thumbs up!!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Shawn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Nice issue Jonathan! We just got 4 copies here at the Pacific Pinball Museum! Great job!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Eric<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I have just finished reading the magazine cover to cover. I didn&#8217;t know much\u00a0about Roger Sharpe before I read this, but I sure do now. Very in depth\u00a0interview. At some points it got a little too far away from pinball, but not\u00a0very often. I enjoyed the side bar comments by other people about him. I thought\u00a0that every time I wanted to see a picture of something that was being talked\u00a0about, a picture was there, so very well done on that.\u00a0It was a very interesting magazine despite the fact that I had no real interest\u00a0in Mr. Sharpe. I learned lots of interesting things.\u00a0I will buy the next magazine when it comes out (a resounding endorsement) and\u00a0look forward to more.\u00a0A magazine PACKED with info and pics. I would like to see articles in the future\u00a0on the technical side of pinball, like manufacturing and design.<\/em>&#8221; Eric (UK)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I received mine yesterday also.\u00a0I didn&#8217;t get a chance to read it yet, but it&#8217;s above and beyond\u00a0what I expected after flipping through. I can&#8217;t wait to read it.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Walt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got mine in Illinois today. Thick magazine with nice glossy pages and photos like a paperback book. Starting reading the Roger Sharpe article today &#8211; so far it&#8217;s great! Well worth the money!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Hoov<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I got my copy earlier, WHAT A GORGEOUS MAG! Can&#8217;t wait for issue 2! Thanks for putting it out!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Eric J.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Spent all day looking over the Pacific Ocean while reading the entire Sharpe article( Yep&#8230; all 56 pages). Absolutely amazing work and made the pinball geek in me very happy, indeed.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Tony<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got mine on Wednesday was in perfect condition. Haven&#8217;t got through it all. There is so much history in that interview to absorb. Great work Jonathan.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Brian<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got my issue in the mail today. Only had time to look at it but I can say already that I love it!!!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Robert<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>YES! The Eagle Has landed! BUT&#8230;the top left corner is crushed! Grrrrr.\u00a0With just a quick look see, it looks great! High quality, nice layout. So far a GREAT read! VERY well done! Looking forward to Issue #2!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Ted<br \/>\nTwo days later: &#8220;<em>So far I&#8217;ve read half the mag. It is FANTASTIC! Great job,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pinside.com\/pinball\/forum\/topic\/has-anyone-received-their-new-pinball-magazine-yet\/page\/3#\" rel=\"260\">J!<\/a>\u00a0Postage refund for me? Please keep it!&#8230;Get to work on #2!<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; Ted<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I was thrilled to receive your magazine this week, and though I haven\u2019t gotten quite all the way through the fantastic Roger Sharpe piece yet, I\u2019m already completely blown away by the quality and the content of your magazine.\u00a0 Online previews led me to have high expectations, and the magazine I received significantly exceeded them.\u00a0The passion for the subject really comes through on every page.\u00a0 Reading the magazine brings back so much of the indescribable energy I felt during the unreal trips my son and I made this past year to the Chicago Pinball Expo and to PAPA.\u00a0 Pinball is chock full of great people, and your magazine features a great many of them very well indeed.\u00a0My son and I can\u2019t wait for issue 2.\u00a0 Congratulations!!!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Dan and Andrew<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I&#8217;m still working through the Roger Sharpe interview. \u00a0Great stuff! \u00a0The &#8220;magazine&#8221; is more like a softcover book though. \u00a0It&#8217;s heavy.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Bob<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I just received the first issue and it is fantastic.\u00a0 The attention to detail and professional formatting set it apart from\u00a0many\u00a0magazines sold in\u00a0the consumer space.\u00a0\u00a0This publication will have a special home in my collection right next to\u00a0Roger\u00a0Sharps books.\u00a0 I look forward to the next issue.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Keith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Superb and impressive magazine, quality\/glossy paper, in-depth article on Roger Sharpe. Great work!\u00a0<\/em><em>I bought my copy from John Greatwich (www.greatpinball.com) who was in Ottawa\u00a0<\/em><em>last week-end attending the Ottawa Pinball &amp; Gameroom Show.\u00a0<\/em><em>Now I need to set aside some spare time to read it !<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Sylvain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>What a great magazine! I didn\u2019t knew what to expect when i ordered it, but what a positive surprise, you did a wonderful job! Thanks a lot!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; David<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The logotype in the front of the publication states: &#8220;Pinball Magazine is a non-periodical, glossy magazine publication, largely focusing on people who play or played an important role in the development of pinball, their work, the promotion of of pinball, and\/or other forms of support for pinball&#8221;.\u00a0I think that spells it out clearly. Only you can decide if the cost is worth it. I am a cheapskate when it comes to a lot of things and I don&#8217;t like someone telling me how to spend my money. I&#8217;m letting you know this, if you are still on the fence. If you typically buy books to read and then resell, donate, pass on to others or discard, Pinball Magazine may not be a wise purchase. If you do buy Pinball related books, this would be a good or better purchase.\u00a0I chose to purchase Pinball Magazine and am very happy I did. It will go on a bookshelf with my Rossignoli, Shalhoub, Bueschel, McKeowin and Sharpe pinball books.\u00a0My Pin Game Journals, being true magazines, are filed with other coin-op related periodicals in another place.<\/em>&#8221; \u00a0&#8211; MrBally<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got mine&#8230;nice job,good read.I think any pinhead will enjoy this quality publication.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Jackofdiamonds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Mine came in yesterday! Great magazine! The pinball hobby was needing this to help keep pinball alive.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>En riktigt glassig sak d\u00f6k ner i brevl\u00e5dan&#8230;\u00a0112 sidor med flipperl\u00e4sning i fantastiskt fin kvalitet.<\/em>&#8221; (translation: &#8220;<em>A really classy thing appeared in the mailbox &#8230;\u00a0112 pages with pinball reading in fantastic fine quality.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Martin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Love the magazine! How about allowing us to donate our refund to Pinside?<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; JJW<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Received mine last week in Australia. I have to say it is mighty impressive and will take a lot to stay with the superb quality and content. Full marks to the publisher.\u00a0Well worth buying IMO &#8211; I&#8217;m sure every pinhead will get something from it.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Mike<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Read a good chunk of it yesterday. I enjoyed Roger&#8217;s thoughts about making money in pinball. I&#8217;d like to see more of that in the future if possible. I&#8217;m not an operator, but the more in the wild the better for everyone, and as someone who runs their own business I like to read about others&#8217; businesses.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Chris<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Got mine last week and its AWESOME. very well done, thank you for all your effort!<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Drmrpants<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I&#8217;m still reading my copy that i bought at the UK pinball party in August. It&#8217;s a whole lot of magazine and a good read. Recommended<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Daniel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I just received my copy Friday. Excellent read.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Colin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Just finished reading the last bit of issue #1. Excellent work my friend. I read every word in there&#8230;which is a-typical of me. I always skip around.\u00a0I found the magazine to be well laid out, and I think you did a great job in the Q and A. Good questions, and good organization. Kept my interest &#8211; the answers didn&#8217;t seem too long or boring. At least not to me.\u00a0Now where the h$ll is issue #2! Just kidding.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Aaron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dutch feedback to the first issue of Pinball Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?p=645\">Click here for feedback that came in earlier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being delivered in Europe last week, today the first copies of Pinball Magazine were also delivered to buyers in Canada and USA. If your copy did not come in yet, it most likely will arrive any day now. Below you can read some of the feedback that came in: &nbsp; &#8220;Just received the magazine. Looks really great! Thanks for your passion for pinball&#8221; &#8211; Mark &nbsp; &#8220;Great job on the magazine. Nice to see a professionally done magazine on pinball. Looking forward to the next one!!!\u00a0 Agh when will that be?????&#8221; &#8211; Vince &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Just got mine today!\u00a0Took it out of the envelope. First impressions:\u00a0Holy, ton of content. 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