Radio Bar, on 13th Street at Broadway in beautiful downtown Oakland, has hosted a pinball machine for the majority of its six years as a hip downtown watering hole. Realizing the benefits to the players that could be achieved through collective bargaining, the bar's regular players have formed a union to advance the interests of the game-playing classes.

Past acheivements include: improved machine service, increased staff attention to machine, improved multi-player turn-taking, successful lobbying to choose replacement pinball machine.

We demand slightly longer flippers!

Past Grand Champions of the RPU are as follows:

DOW : 2005 - 2005 (Attack From Mars)
AKM : 2005 - 2005
MCJ : 2005 - 2006
DMG: 2006 - 2006
MCJ: 2006 - 2006
RPU : 2006 - 2006 (Medieval Madness)
AKM: 2006 - 2006
RPU: 2006 - 2006
MCJ : 2006 - 2006
JOL: 2006 - 2006 (Pirates of the Carribbean 2)
BEN: 2006 - 2006
EKA: 2006 - 2006
AKM: 2006 - 2006
DOW: 2006 - 2006
HAL: 2006 - 2007
AKM: 2007 - 2007
MCJ: 2007 - 2007
RPU: 2007 - 2007
RPU: 2007 - 2007 (The Family Guy)
DMG: 2007 - 2007
MCJ: 2007 - 2007
AKM: 2007 - 2007
NEL: 2007 - 2007
MCJ: 2007 - 2007
AKM: 2007 - 2007
MCJ: 2007 - 2007
CES: 2007 - 2007 (Spiderman)
MCJ: 2007 - 2007

Current bottom-of-the-board standings: 1. CES 2. AKM 3. POO 4. RPU

The RPU's turn-taking rules are as follows: if there are more than four players wishing to play the game, turns rotate in and out, favoring two groups: players who did not play the last game, and the highest-scoring players of the last game.

Other resources for pinball players are the Internet Pinball Database, the Flickr Pinball! group, and Radio Bar's MySpace page.