Thanks @sundogak - somehow didnt run across this post during my google search quest.
You are right, way easier! I had it up and running within 5 minutes. One question, I noticed the provided txt file list of games was a collection of 70. It appears the full collection of Arcade Pinball is 100 tables. I remember reading somewhere that not all tables were able to be opened directly via script such as this. Do you know if thats the case for the remaining 30 that I have that are not included in your txt file zip? I attempted to make additional txt files to point to for the other 30 games but they would not launch via the same step process. Didn't know if these were left out intentionally or if maybe those were the additional tables added since you made the post.
Any insight into getting the other 30 tables working or if its even possible? Also, I'm adding Arcade Pinball on my main horizontal cab as well as on my vertical pinball cab. The orientation for my vertical pinball cab is horizontal, is there a way that you know of to flip the table orientation itself once launched (and not flip the acutal windows screen orientation)?