As Birthday as Apple Pie
In which a Panel (BCF, HIP, MXL) talk location pinball in New York City and nearby surrounding areas. This week:Ball 1: Competition results including Pinball NYC's second week.Ball 2: Review of...
Highlights
- As of September 20th, 2024, there are 279 pinball machines in New York City at 84 public locations
- Rob Wong has not been beaten at the Rob Wong Invitational for five consecutive months
- Quarter Club is located at 312 Grand Street, Brooklyn in Williamsburg, near Jack Bar and Midway
- Demolition Man at Quarter Club is exceptionally clean and well-maintained
- The pinball industry faces a challenging business model trying to satisfy both location players (who play for quarters) and home collectors (who buy $15,000+ machines)
- Shrek is the closest pinball machine to an exclusively younger-person IP released before 2000
- Quarter Club features bowling alley tables as seating and rotating bowling pins as decoration
- Gina Koleckio of NYC won the Catskill Classic tournament
- Sean Astorm Grant won the Barcade Brooklyn Pinball League A division finals on September 25th
- Neon Genesis Evangelion would be a viable pinball theme because it bridges older and newer audiences like Marvel does with comics and MCU films
Notable quotes
“Big ups Gina.”
“this is the cleanest demo man I've ever seen”
“It would be a great bar to call home.”
“You don't see the modern arcade in the same way you see the 80s and 90s arcade with the stand-up video cabinels because that business model is no longer sustainable.”
“There should be a Neon Genesis Evangelion pinball table. And that's because that's a very popular... the only franchise in Japan like Star Wars and Marvel equivalent is old enough that older people would know it but it's 95 so newer people, newer, in quotes would know it too.”
“you gotta change your strategy soon or you gotta make space for your new markets”
“I'm really glad that my first league I joined was Bell's because everyone's first of all really nice and a lot of people are also relatively new.”
“There's no Justin Bieber Pinball Table... You're not going to want to do something outside your comfort zone, unless you're me who's kind of crazy in general.”
Entities
- Stern Army Rob Wong Invitational· event
- Demolition Man· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Hot Wheels· game
- Barcade Brooklyn Pinball League· organization
- Colliders· organization
- Deluxe Horses· organization
- Pinball Map· organization
- PinballNYC Left Flipper Division· organization
- South Slope Pinball League· organization
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Dante Oliva· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Gina Koleckio· person
- Madeline Lynn· person
- Rob Wong· person
- Sean Astorm Grant· person
- Barcade Brooklyn· venue
- Buttermilk Bar· venue
- Jack Bar· venue
- Midway· venue
- Quarter Club· venue
- Rollo's· venue
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