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Lego Spotting
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in which a panel (HIP, JGN, MXL) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:Ball 1: Pinball competition results from NYC including Pinball NYCBall 2: Venue review of...
Highlights
- As of March 7, 2025, there are 275 pinball machines in New York City at 83 public locations
- Courtney Wetzel won Cameron Silver Ball Sunday tournament with 5.41 WPPR points; Eric Sweetland came second with 2.62 WPPR
- Jason Zoller from New Jersey won the IFPA North American Pinball Championship in Rochester with 96.26 WPPR, with Zach Sharpe McCarthy, Luke Nahorniak, and Donovan Stepp placing second through fourth
- The Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 is a biopic about Roger Sharpe and the 1976 NYC city council hearing where he played pinball to prove it was a game of skill
- Single Cut Beersmith's added a Godzilla 70th Anniversary Edition on February 28, 2025
- The Big Lebowski Pinball was removed and then added back to Sunshine Laundromat around March 6, 2025
- Single Cut Beersmith's has 14 machines including Bram Stoker's Dracula, Deadpool, Godzilla 70th Anniversary, Avatar, Johnny Pinball, Bride of Pinball, NBA Fast Break, and others
- Stars pinball is unique as a solid state machine with electronic scoring but retains bells for sound, representing the transition period from EM to solid state
Notable quotes
“I thought I was playing some good pinball, and then I wasn't. And it was kind of like bookended.”
“The stream setup was set up on the rickiest table. So every time you would sit down on it, it would creak. And everything that was on top of it would jiggle. I was scared the bench was going to collapse under us.”
“I'm just watching TV and then I turn into the meme with Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the TV holding a can, being like, oh. And I'm like, oh wait, wait, which table is that? Hold on, rewind, rewind 10 seconds.”
“There's a Facebook group called Pin Spotting where people post a screenshot when they find one, and boy, it's fun when you find a new one and you get to put it in there.”
“Stars is a really unique machine in that sense in that it is a solid state pinball machine with electronic scoring but it still has bells. It is right from that period when they were transitioning from em to solid state.”
“Roger Sharpe played a game of pinball at a city council in New York, in New York City to try to prove that it was not a gambling game but it was a game of skill.”
“It's such a great machine even if it's brutal.”
Entities
- Single Cut Beersmith's· company
- Godzilla 70th Anniversary Edition· game
- The Mystery Pinball Theater 3000· game
- IFPA· organization
- NYC Pin Pod· organization
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Caravan Palace· person
- Courtney Wetzel· person
- Donovan Stepp· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Jason Zoller· person
- Jose Garcia· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Kate Steven Martin· person
- Luke Nahorniak· person
- Madeline Lin· person
- Matthew Carlson· person
- Matthew Grady· person
- Michael McNeal· person
- Robert Wong· person
- Roger Sharpe· person
- Scott Ian Leone· person
- Tommy Ortega· person
- Zach Sharpe McCarthy· person
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