Music of the Spheres
in which a panel (BCF & HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC. This week:Ball 1: Local competition results from the past week including Pinball NYCBall 2: Location updates courtesy of pinballmap.com...
Highlights
- As of September 19th, 2025, there are 344 pinball machines in New York City at 81 public locations
- Red Hook Pinball Museum relocated from pop-up location to a new permanent space next to record store and Red Hook Public Library on Sunday, September 14th
- The Pythagorean triple date (September 16, 2025: 3-4-5 squares) occurs only twice per century
- Barcade Brooklyn Pinball League Season 7 meets every other Monday with top four finishers advancing to finals in week seven
- King Kong at Rulo's is the 'lowest end model' missing Island Gong and Subway Car features
Notable quotes
“I didn't... Oh, I got the... I played Whiffle, the 1931 Flipperless.”
“I spent the entire last season trying to beat Dante's Nets score. And then very shortly after I did it... Dante went and put up 431 fucking points as the Nets and won two goddamn MVPs”
“when I was having my revenge game after that, when I had 101 points, I had scored exactly 101 points when I passed the ball to the number one player in the paint, and he got blocked. 101, one got blocked.”
“It's the time of the season for [and then in Eric's voice very aggressively], come on! Fuck you!”
“I will always choose dante and the nets as long as he's up here with this 431”
“the Aristocrats went from champions to 0-2, but their opponents were class acts”
“I imagine that everything they've got left is playing Old Dominion and Butler in football after this”
“Right Flipper Division... I just want to point out there are five 2-0 teams and five 0-2 teams. The middle four are 1-1.”
Entities
- NYC Triborough Series· event
- Scrapple League· event
- South Slope Strikes· event
- SSPL· event
- Barcade Brooklyn· location
- Barcade Fidei· location
- Buttermilk Bar· location
- Jack Bar· location
- Rulo's· location
- Scrapple Land· location
- The Wallace· location
- Pinball NYC· organization
- Red Hook Pinball Museum· organization
- AJ Gould· person
- Benjamin Furica· person
- Bernie Herman· person
- Billy West· person
- Eda Kreutzer· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Greg Pavarelli· person
- Matt Carlson· person
- Mike Pantino· person
- Paul McHugh· person
- Robert Wong· person
- Sam Hall· person
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