A Part of the Greater Shitload
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC. This week:Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYCBall 2: Venue updates and our weekly pinball bullet journals.Ball 3:...
Highlights
- As of October 24th, 2025, there are 349 pinball machines in New York City at 80 public locations
- Matthew Carlson won RWI (Rob Wong Invitational) at Rulo's with 24 players competing, earning 8.27 whoppers
- New York City Flipper Sport Association leads Pinball NYC left flipper division at 6-1 record with 82 points
- Ball Drainers lead right flipper division at 6-1 with 75 points, with Danger Danger at 6-1 with 73 points
- Greg Pavarelli won Scrapple League Season 4 A division finals, with Adam Kane second and Sean 'the Storm' Grant third
- King Kong at Gebhardt's Beer Culture has a ball routing issue where balls get stuck by the spider
- Elton John machine at Scrapple Land is out of service with boot-up issues
- A 1975 Gottlieb Abracadabra was restored and added to Red Hook Pinball Museum on Friday
Notable quotes
“There's a lot of pinball left to be played, and they face each other in round 10. So one of these teams is getting a win that week if they don't get one before.”
“The top four spots separated by only five points.”
“I set a personal best on Cactus Canyon while I was doing my playthrough of the games. And that's good because the Cactus Canyon just got pulled.”
“I played Hand of the King, had a mediocre version of it. I think I got a super jackpot somewhere up in there. And I ended the game 30 million points shy of the grand champion score.”
“I will say because this segment is very much supposed to be not about the competition part of this that my discussion with Matthew Carlson about how he was fairly certain that his skills as a pinball player would transcend to drifting in a car was a good conversation.”
Entities
- Elton John· game
- Game of Thrones· game
- King Kong· game
- Twilight Zone· game
- Balls of Steel· organization
- New York City Flipper Sport Association· organization
- Pinball NYC Left Flipper Division· organization
- Pinball NYC Right Flipper Division· organization
- Scrapple League· organization
- South Slope Pinball League· organization
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Greg Pavarelli· person
- Matthew Carlson· person
- Barcade Brooklyn· venue
- Buttermilk Bar· venue
- Jack Bar· venue
- Red Hook Pinball Museum· venue
- Rulo's· venue
- Scrapple Land· venue
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