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PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday1 hr 17 min listen
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, MXL) talk location pinball in NYC. This week:Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYCBall 2: Location updates with HIP courtesy of Pinball MapBall 3: The...
Highlights
- As of November 15, 2024, there are 283 pinball machines in New York City at 84 public locations.
- The Stern Insider survey asking about dream pinball themes shows over 30 entries on the theme list debuted in the 1980s, the highest concentration of any decade.
- New York City Flipper Sport Association is 9-0 and Lionpersons are 8-1 heading into the final regular season week of Monday Night Pinball NYC league.
- Stern regularly launches machines at software version 0.x rather than 1.0, as part of their business model.
- Matthew Grady won Arcade Brooklyn Pinball League's fifth season A-Finals on November 13, 2024.
- The Stern Insider survey first question was an open write-in asking what theme players want to see.
- Harvest tournament at Gebhard's Beer Culture started Thursday, November 14, with Dante Oliva holding commanding leads in both main and classics divisions by end of Thursday night.
- The Stern theme survey suggests the target demographic for Stern pinball machines is 'old white men,' based on the clustering of IPs from older decades and eras.
- Danger Danger is 8-1 in the Tuesday Night Pinball NYC League and will almost certainly have a bye in the playoffs.
- Barcade Brooklyn will have no league play for the remainder of 2024 as of November 15.
Notable quotes
“This week in Balls of Steel, we had the opportunity to host the Colliders at Midway. They are the bestest, most fun team to play, and we had a great time.”
“We had oppo research and we had optimistic nihilism the Tuesday after an election. We are truly in a mindset at present.”
“The highest number of entries on the list, over 30 entries on the list, debuted in 1980s. And that sort of reinforces our previous discussion about who the target demographic might be the target ideal customer. Me. That is what the market is telling us at least, is old white men.”
“I don't care if it says NFL or NCAA. If you give me a football pinball machine, it is completely irrelevant to me, to Benjamin Furiga. That said, maybe the NFL thing works because there are... the NFL is it. It's the top five rated TV shows on broadcast television every week during football season.”
“They regularly release machines at software version zero point and look there's probably a good reason for it you can't test it at the kind of scale that you're going to find the bugs.”
“That's the first time I've ever won an individual event. Nice. Nice job Taylor.”
“I'm attached to playing... if the playoff started today this one would be clear we know exactly who in and it has I don't think it has changed a lot in that vein I think it is a closer league it is you know top to bottom it just it a lot a lot more evenly matched seemingly”
“Kenny Rogers is a little too old for me. Kenny Rogers is a little too white for me.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Harvest· event
- Uncanny X-Men· game
- Arcade Brooklyn Pinball League· organization
- Balls of Steel· organization
- Lionpersons· organization
- New York City Flipper Sport Association· organization
- Alberto Santana· person
- Alex Kelly· person
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Casey Johnson· person
- Dante Oliva· person
- Jess Warren· person
- Madeline Lin· person
- Matt Falzone· person
- Matthew Grady· person
- Sean Grant· person
- Taylor Connolly· person
- Zen Zokniak· person
- Buttermilk Bar· venue
- Gebhardt's Beer Culture· venue
- Jack Bar· venue
- Sunshine Laundromat· venue
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