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Episode 404 - Brackets found
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 6 min listen
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:Ball 1: Competition Results incluing Pinball NYCBall 2: Location updates including Marine...
Highlights
- As of March 14, 2025, there are 274 pinball machines in New York City at 83 public locations
- South Slope Pinball League Season 1 Finals have been set with 8 players in A division and 8 in B division
- Max Adventures Kid Birthday Party Place at 2378 Flatbush Avenue in Marine Park, Brooklyn has a 1976 Gottlieb New York machine, bookable for parties starting around $1,000 for two hours
- Pabst Can Crusher was made by Stern as a contract game on a layout based on Continental Cafe, with artwork by Dirty Donnie
- Metallica is the #1 seed in the flat screen/DMD era of the NYCPPA bracket, with Addams Family at #8
- Black Knight 2000 is the first pinball machine Eric Sweetland remembers playing
- Jeff Anderson won the Jersey City Flippers Winter 2025 tournament on March 8 with two strikes
- George Underwood won No Bro Presents Slaptism 3-9 on March 9 in pin golf format with 18 games, best 9 counted
- NYCPPA bracket deadline is Friday, March 21, 2025 at 5 p.m. for predictions to be eligible
- Red Hook Pinball Museum held open days at Seaborne Bar with plans to reopen April 6, 2025
Notable quotes
“I got a big trophy with a guy doing a karate kick on top of it. And it is now the largest trophy sitting on my small little trophy shelf.”
“I want to be the NYC pinball Illuminati. I don't know if that... Yeah. I would like for that to refer to me.”
“Pabst Can Crusher... it plays like an EM. It's got some fantastic rules. Maybe it's a little beyond what had been done in the EM era. And it's a little faster with snappy stern parts.”
“Doodlebug is just... Fun and chaotic. Yeah, yeah. It has a ball under. It is entirely electromechanical, but one of the things that you do is to create a condition such that a ball under the playfield bounces back and forth between two targets.”
“You fill out the bracket, you're trying to predict which one we will advance. That's right. You leaning on what you might know about or think about hosts preferences here would probably be smart knowledge to leverage.”
“Black Knight 2000 specifically is my sentimental choice. It is the first pinball machine that I know I played.”
“Spanish Eyes is a no-brainer to me it's beautiful and it's everywhere every great competition I feel like I see a Spanish Eyes pop up somewhere as someone is pissed off about that pop bumper center drain.”
“I wanted one of the high-speed series to be in these brackets, which is why high-speed was on my list.”
Entities
- IFPA· organization
- New York City Flipper Sport Association· organization
- No Bro Presents· organization
- NYC PinPod· organization
- Pinball Map· organization
- Alex Kelly· person
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Chris Landry· person
- Connor Calista· person
- Dirty Donnie· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- George Underwood· person
- Glenn Gillyard· person
- Jeff Anderson· person
- Joe Shirovino· person
- Kate Martin· person
- Madeline· person
- Matthew Grady· person
- Pat Lawler· person
- Rob Wong· person
- Steve Kirk· person
- Suzanne Chiani· person
- Zen Zokniak· person
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