Resigned Discord or Hopeful Energy
...in which a Panel (BCF, HIP) talk location pinball in NYC. This week...Ball 1: Local competition results since last season and this coming week's schedule including Pinball NYC's Left Flipper...
Highlights
- Dante Oliva won three major tournaments within one week (state championship, Oops All Mats, Barcade FiDi monthly)
- As of February 13, 2026, there are 357 pinball machines in NYC at 76 public locations
- Bells and Chimes NYC season had 44 players total participate
- Winchester Mystery House is Barrels of Fun's first design effort by Carl D'Angelo
- Benjamin Furiga states he has over-indexed pinball in his life and needs to rebalance priorities
Notable quotes
“I don't need 3D nipples inside a pinball back glass”
“One person in five rounds of pinball. He played 15 other people. One of them beat him. He beat the other 14.”
“I don't want to be the only voice around here. And I also might need to be less of a voice sometime soon.”
“The whole goal of the game is not to score more points. It's to get the fog machine to go off.”
“I've been asking myself, what is this thing I'm doing when I go out and play pinball in particular?”
“The goal was to gather all of the pinball mats in the city in a special format”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Scrapple Land· event|venue
- Bells and Chimes NYC· organization
- Pinball NYC· organization
- Scrapple League· organization
- Ali Bissett· person
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Dante Oliva· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- George Underwood· person
- Greg Pavarelli· person
- Jose Garcia· person
- Matt Grady· person
- Miriam Nadler· person
- Rachel Grimm· person
- Sean Grant· person
- Winchester Mystery House· product|game
- Barcade Brooklyn· venue
- Buttermilk Bar· venue
- Gebhardt's· venue
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