Ep 37: Graphic

“It's kind of a new thing. It started roughly about three years ago. And the funny thing is when Eric started it he came to me and said you know Tom I'm thinking about doing this what do you think I'm gonna run a league on Tuesday nights how many people do you think I can get and... I basically said to him I said Eric you know you're gonna be lucky to get 20-25 people on a Tuesday night to come well little did I know that I think when he opened up, he probably had about 40 people, and that turned into 60, that turned into 80, and it just kept growing from there.”

“I started out with three webcams and a very long USB repeater that was about 50 feet long... And that evolved into doing camcorders. And then finally, you know, looking online and finding all of Carl D'Angelo's wonderful stuff and just basically going through what he did.”

“To me, it reminds me of a mini Papa. I mean, I never went to the Papa facility, but I'm speaking of when I would go to Pinburg and, you know, just the magnitude and different games. It just reminds me of that.”

“The only ones I can think of are probably the Pinball Museum in Banning, Pinball Hall of Fame. There's that place in Indiana that recently had a tournament, Pinball Wizard, I think it's called. The one in New Jersey, there's the Pacific Pinball Museum as well.”

“I miss the people more than the tournaments. And I don't know whether that's from doing years of pinball profile and getting to know so many different people in this community and liking the entire majority of them.”

“The best 20 tournaments that you've done in the last three years go on your card. But what happens is, after one year of that tournament, you only get 75% of the points. After two years, you only get 50% of those points. And after three, it's expired.”

“So for Victoria, which is the state we're in, so that's where Melbourne is, we have an eradication policy. So if there is a hint, if one person or two people get COVID, they get shot. We shut down the state effectively.”

“I love the pinball format. I really do. You've heard me bitch about it. I think it is a unique thing. The thing I bitch about it, and I will continue to bitch about it, is it's not well laid out for timing.”

“He really tears them apart and, you know, does things to them that I don't normally do when I break down a game. I mean, he reinforces the posts and things like that. I mean, it's just amazing how the games play.”

“It's just a lot of fun just talking to your buddies about pinball and putting it out there... we're not getting paid to do it.”