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Ep 54: The Three Amigos

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 28 min listenBy Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins
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NEW! Final Round Pinball Podcast Episode 54 – The Three Amigos Ryan C joins us. No TWIPY votes = no show notes. You’re lucky you even get a show. direct feed to Final Round Pinball Podcast:...

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Highlights

  • Weird Al game had great feedback with good flipper feel and fitting theme integration (Weird Al making fun of players double-flipping through animations).
  • Jersey Jack has sold approximately 5,000 Guns N' Roses LE machines, compared to ~4,000 Wizard of Oz units.
  • Jersey Jack is experiencing supply chain issues so severe they have completed machines but lack cardboard boxes to ship them.
  • Merco's seminar on Forgotten Tales (Tales of the Arabian Nights upgrade) was cut short because attendees kept questioning the developer about playfield quality issues.
  • New England Pinball League voted 4-3 to leave IFPA affiliation because the majority of their players don't care about WPPR points.
  • Jeff placed 26th in the main tournament (top 24 advance) and struggled with games he owns (Rush, Stranger Things) due to machine-specific variations.
  • TPF 2024 felt larger and more complete than Expo coming out of the pandemic, with 40,000 square feet of activity and stronger vendor presence.
  • Haggis Pinball (implied: Marty's company) is in 'full fathom mode' and decided not to attend TPF to prioritize shipping completed machines.

Notable quotes

“When you're at TPF, none of the online stuff really matters... it's like a summer camp for pinball enthusiasts.”
Ryan C
“Pinside is everything. Pinside is the greatest place for pinball, and it's the worst place for pinball. It just depends on how much you want to read and which thread you go into.”
Jeff Teolis
“Finally, a good layout [for Friday the 13th homebrew based on Godzilla virtual pin].”
Jeff Teolis
“I hate to say that because my Jersey Jack pinball play field isn't great. But he didn't sell it to them, so he can't do anything if he's the third-party vendor.”
Marty Robbins
“If you've invested a lot of money in a pinball machine and it comes out of the box after a few plays and there's something seriously wrong... you go to the distributor, you go to the manufacturer, and hopefully they'll look after it.”
Jeff Teolis
“Stern still made the product... everyone who had this legitimate issue and they sent a video got a machine back.”
Jeff Teolis
“I played like shit, especially in the Classics... I was 26, so I just missed under the cut [for top 24].”
Jeff Teolis
“The neat thing about it was you had to play 12 different machines to count on your card. And three of them had to be EMs, three of them had to be solid states, and three had to be modern games.”
Jeff Teolis

Entities

  • Haggis Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack· company
  • Lordofthegameroom.com· company
  • Merco· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
  • Forgotten Tales· game
  • Friday the 13th (Virtual Pin)· game
  • Funhaus 2.0· game
  • Guns N' Roses· game
  • LED Zeppelin· game
  • Rick and Morty· game
  • Rush· game
  • Stranger Things· game
  • Weird Al· game
  • Wizard of Oz· game
  • IFPA· organization
  • New England Pinball League· organization
  • Texas Pinball League· organization
  • Chuck Webster· person
  • Jeff Parsons· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person
  • Marty Robbins· person
  • Ryan C· person
  • Steve Ritchie· person

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