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Eclectic Gamers Podcast

Episode 242 - Texas Pinball Festival 2025 Recap

PodcastBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski

Eclectic Gamers Podcast

1 hr 21 min

Summary

TPF 2025: Portal and Evil Dead excel; Avatar disappoints; Merlin's Arcade layout clashes with rules.

Dennis and Tony from Eclectic Gamers Podcast recap their Texas Pinball Festival 2025 experience, discussing hands-on gameplay of new releases including Stern's Dungeons & Dragons, Jersey Jack's Avatar, Spooky's Evil Dead, Turner Pinball's Merlin's Arcade, and Multimorphic's Portal. They praise Evil Dead and Portal as standout games while finding Avatar middling and Merlin's Arcade mechanically awkward despite good rule design.

From the creator

Pinball: We summarize the new games we played at TPF 2025 and discuss some other aspects related to the show. Video Games: We cover Ubisoft's new subsidiary, Warner Brothers cancelling an expansion to Hogwarts Legacy, and information out of the latest Nintendo Direct.

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