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Episode 402 - Eclectic Vending Machine
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in which a panel (BCF, HIP, MXL) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC's week 1Ball 2: Review Sunshine...
Highlights
- Sunshine Laundromat used to have approximately 30 pinball machines before the pandemic, with games in an enclosed solarium area that is now an open patio.
- Sunshine Laundromat's eclectic vending machine sells Plan B contraception for significantly less than the CVS across the street.
- A new NYC Match Play Pinball League (replacement for Sunshine Wednesday Night League) is expected to launch at a new location operated by Peter Rose on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, pending venue opening.
- Scrapple Land (the new venue) currently has 15 pinball machines in the back, down from Sunshine's former 30.
- Sports gambling regulations were significantly relaxed in 2018, and approximately 49 states now freely allow sports gambling.
- Pinball machines were used historically for gambling and were subject to Mayor LaGuardia's sledgehammer campaign against them in New York City.
- Pinball was at some point (estimated late 2017-2018) included in sports betting offerings.
- South Slope Pinball League had a four-way tie for first place after meeting 4 of 6, with Rob Wong as current top seed.
Notable quotes
“It is a great location. It is a great pinball bar... it used to have the weekly individual competition event, the thing in the city that every week all the great players wanted to be there on Wednesday nights for the Sunshine Wednesday Night League.”
“I have a special place in my own heart for Sunshine Laundromat because that was where my first tournament finals was ever... I remember the double-stacked doors. I remember the eclectic vending machine.”
“I say it's Peter's art installation... if the prada store outside of marfa was actually a prada store and not just an art installation.”
“it felt like seeing an old friend touching those games... As soon as I went too far on my first ball of bad cats, I reminded myself where I was and what I needed to do. They play great. They're awesome. Always.”
“we have young people who, in the 2010s, were gambling for Counter-Strike skins, are now just literally gambling... you have a child who is opening FanDuel during third period science to do some parlay bet.”
“There is a pinball flipper that you can use to flush the toilet... You got to drain to drain.”
Entities
- FanDuel· company
- Bells NYC Winter Max Match Play· event
- NYC Pin Pod Awesomeness Archive· event
- Stern Army's February Rob Wong Invitational· event
- Thursday Night Strikes· event
- Colliders· organization
- Pinball NYC· organization
- Scrapple Squad· organization
- South Slope Pinball League· organization
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Madeline Lynn· person
- Mayor LaGuardia· person
- Peter Rose· person
- Rob Wong· person
- Zen Zokniak· person
- Buttermilk Bar· venue
- Jack Bar· venue
- Rulo's· venue
- Scrapple Land· venue
- Sunshine Laundromat· venue
- The Wallace· venue
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