Nudge Magazine

06/11/2026

How many flippers is best number of flippers?

06/09/2026

If Eric Stone has a million fans, then I am one of them.
If Eric Stone has only one fan, then that is me.
If Eric Stone has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth.
If the world is against Eric Stone, then I am against the world.

06/05/2026

More Than Meets the Eye? Well joke's on you, my eyesight is terrible!

06/05/2026

I gotta stop checking Kanada facebook posts thirty seconds after my second iced coffee. Going super saiyin rn in the comments.

05/21/2026

Our fave Stern of the moment is a giant IP made by a pinball OG designer and yet still no one cares? You jerks!!! Also LOL at the pic that autoloaded out of substack. Enjoi the JD Power and Associates energy.

Code rules. Code is king.

05/15/2026

Good ep alert! We had on Rich Sommer from Mad Men/Wet Hot American Summer/Devil Wears Prada/The Office/Million other things to talk about pinball and games and which of his projects would make the best pinball machine -- and because I'm nerdy as hell, we also picked manufacturers.

OK, cue me in a fedora and clapping my feet to the Mad Men theme. Link to ep in comments!

04/23/2026

Games don’t ship with the code they end up with. And it takes even longer to learn what that code means for gameplay. We are the only community that learns its rules this way. And honestly, it’s kinda cool. Find the whole story at nudgepinball.com

04/23/2026

The way we learn rulesets is so strange and completely unique to pinball. We need some social scientists to give it a deep dive.

The way pinballers learn rulesets is different from everyone else. That's good.

04/17/2026

Thought story would be good to go, but instead enjoy this b-roll from our Vegas Vacation where I got kicked out of the pinball hall of fame. For the reason why (and the photo) stay tuned next week. It’s a doozy.

04/17/2026

"What was supposed to be a one or two night repair marathon quickly stretched into a multiweek affair. I had pinball parts all over my dining room table for a month. It was sort of a cool conversation starter, but other than that, it sucked ass. "

Link in da bio