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Five Alive Beyond 2025
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 34 min listen
New year, new us! 2025 is now 2026.Season five episode five takes you everywhere you would expect and everywhere you want to go.
Highlights
- Poor mod installations using alligator clips and electrical tape are common and dangerous, risking shorts and loose connections.
- Rotation 8 never leaves the Cincinnati owner's house anymore because it doesn't fit through normal doors.
- Cincinnati Pinball Show (Pinsonati) had heavy crowds, especially on Harry Potter and Merlin's Arcade machines.
- The Twippies awards were significantly simplified from previous years, reducing categories from ~5-6 pages to approximately 7 game-focused categories.
- Medieval Madness Anniversary Edition features custom playfield, plastics, and backglass art by Brian Allen with personal Easter eggs including owner's wife as princess.
Notable quotes
“Like, really, guys? This is really how we're installing these mods? Like, as a car guy who, like, you know, like, heat shrinks and solders everything together. No, no, no.”
“If it's going to be there any type of long-term, just do it right. Do it right. It's going to work its way off. You're running the risk of it coming loose and shorting out.”
“I spent three weeks dialing this in because I knew this has to play. If it looks this good, it has to play that good. And it fucking 100% did.”
“it's in a room and it's like, yeah, because it's a panty ass move it doesn't fit through normal doors it's the room with just he's got whiskey, he's got his whiskey glasses he's got his music in there, comfortable chairs, coasters little zen room with his rotation 8”
“I had this game, and I knew if it looked good... he was like, no. He's like, I spent three weeks dialing this in because I knew this has to play.”
Entities
- Mad Pinball· company
- Tilt Amusements· company
- Cincinnati Pinball Show· event
- Twippies Awards· event
- Halloween CE· game
- Harry Potter Arcade· game
- Medieval Madness Anniversary Edition· game
- Merlin's Arcade· game
- Rotation 8· game
- Fresh Pinball Podcast· organization
- Alec· person
- Brian Allen· person
- Colin· person
- Corbin Angeli· person
- Grizz· person
- Jeff· person
- Kyle· person
- Robin· person
- Steve Bowden· person
- Troy· person
- Zach Angeli· person
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