Not a Minimum Number of Beers
...in which a panel (BCF, HIP) talks location pinball in NYC. This week:Ball 1: Local competitive pinball results including Pinball NYC's Left Flipper Round 1.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP thanks to...
Highlights
- 63 players attended the Valentine's Day tournament at Barcade FiDi on Saturday, February 14th
- The Valentine's Day tournament raised over $6,400 for the Ali Forney Center and the Transgender Law Center through a Translights for Trans Rights silent auction
- As of February 20th, 2026, there are 356 pinball machines in New York City at 76 public locations
- Space Team (1988 TechnoPlay) was added to Barcade FiDi on Friday, February 13th and removed on Monday, February 16th
- Only three Space Team machines still exist in the world
- Miriam Nadler had a perfect qualifying score at the Valentine's Day tournament but still made it through three groups of finals
- Metallica broke during the South Slope Selfie League tournament on Sunday and was out of service Monday
- The Walking Dead at Midway has no working auto-launch feature
Notable quotes
“Dante, it turns out, is invincible.”
“Sorry, Dante. I'll tell you what. Qualify better next time, state champion. And he won.”
“You stole my beer, man.”
“I'm not talking about like you see me in a jacket and some jeans... but I'm talking about a suit.”
“Check it off the fucking list. But I wish that I had had Frontier called for me instead of Strange Science.”
“Unless this word is like flammable and inflammable, Dante, it turns out, is invincible.”
“What a weird thing that was.”
“It's hard to get up there when most of your machines are up and down Fifth Avenue and Park Slope or somewhere pretty close to there.”
Entities
- Space Team· game
- Walking Dead· game
- Alex Kelly· person
- Ali Bissett· person
- Amelia Connolly· person
- Anna Wolk· person
- Benjamin Fiorga· person
- Caitlin Reese· person
- CJ Smith· person
- Dante Oliva· person
- Dante Oliva· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Gabe Chazanov· person
- Glenn Gilear· person
- Greg Pavarelli· person
- Jeff Anderson· person
- Jess Warren· person
- Kate Martin· person
- Matt Grady· person
- Miriam Nadler· person
- Rob Wong· person
- Zen Zokniak· person
- Barcade FiDi· venue
- Buttermilk Bar· venue
- Scrapple Land· venue
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