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Episode 309 - Snood
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in which a panel (BCF, HIP, MXL, GC) talks location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYCBall 2: review of Gebhard's Beer...
Highlights
- Gabriel Chazanov won the Rock Fantasy Fall Open on October 19th in Middletown, New York, winning on Metallica in a timed match play finals with approximately two minutes remaining on the clock
- As of October 25th, 2024, there are 277 pinball machines in New York City at 86 public locations
- New York City Flipper Sport Association is undefeated at 7-0 in Pinball NYC left flipper division and mathematically locked into a playoff spot and upper division slot
- Gebhardt's Beer Culture is a relatively new venue located at 228 West 72nd Street in Manhattan with multiple distinct areas including a solarium, back bar, and dedicated pinball floor upstairs
- Gebhardt's features an overhead video camera system rooted to a vertical screen mounted above the six-game bank on the upstairs pinball floor for competition viewing
- Hunter Hayden won a five-round match play tournament at Gebhardt's on October 23rd, with Gabe Chazanoff acknowledging the subsequent playoffs were 'completely illegitimate'
- Hunter is launching a tournament series with an explicit mission to bring in players with little-to-no pinball experience who might be intimidated by competitive scenes
- Baywatch at Barcade Brooklyn has recurring machine failures where balls get stuck, and the bonus can be manually calculated if needed based on letters, missions, and lifeguards
- Spider-Man at Commonwealth has multiple reported issues including random locks while ball is in play, consuming credits on start button, and sticking top right flipper
- Gebhardt's pinball lineup includes Deadpool, Godzilla (solarium), Spectrum, Star Trek TNG, Indianapolis 500, Whirlwind, Pulp Fiction, Congo, The Shadow, and The Who's Tommy
Notable quotes
“Might have been one of my luckiest wins ever”
“The victory is theirs alone. But it was a blast.”
“if we want the scene to grow, you need to bring more people in. Not that we're some kind of cult. It's just that it's very fun, and as many people should know about it as possible.”
“Absolutely pinball heaven. Absolutely.”
“Get swept, sweep them back. Tied at the end, ball apiece. Pinball Union wins!”
“I mean, there's something special for pinball in the decor, which is the giant screen above the pinball machines upstairs”
“It feels curated and also classic... in terms of staging similar to what we discussed last week the newest tables other than the pulp fiction are down in the solarium”
“why will nobody fix this machine? It's such a good game. How are you going to let it sit in this condition and take people's money, please fix this stat.”
“I immediately recognized it it was a drum fill... I said it's bay watch that's the that's what happens when you press the start button on bay watch”
“I think it's great. I mean, there's a lot of just stone-cold classics, but also, like, you know, you'll call them like a Williams B-list, but some of my favorite Williams games are quote-unquote the B-titles.”
Entities
- Rock Fantasy Fall Open· event
- The Harvest· event
- New York City Flipper Sport Association· organization
- No Quarters for Laundry· organization
- Pinball NYC· organization
- Adam Kane· person
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Ed Zeltman· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Gabe Chazanoff· person
- Greg Fortella· person
- Hunter Hayden· person
- Jerry Bernard· person
- Jess Warren· person
- Jose Garcia· person
- Madeline Lin· person
- Matt Falzone· person
- Robert Gano· person
- Robert Wong· person
- Zen Zachniak· person
- Barcade Brooklyn· venue
- Gebhardt's Beer Culture· venue
- Rulo's· venue
- Scrapple Land· venue
- Sunshine Laundromat· venue
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