Episode 310: Danielle & David Peck
A couple of New Zealand's finest. Hear about Dani's pinball & school adventures, plus David's great tournaments with every System 11 machine you can imagine, a Fish Tales event like no other, and...
Highlights
- New Zealand had a strict one-month nationwide lockdown in February/March with only supermarkets and gas stations open
- David Peck has a collection of approximately 100-119 pinball machines, including all System 11 games
- David Peck has been doing pinball for 30 years and can fix 9 out of 10 problems himself
- David Peck rethemed a 1976 Bally Freedom machine as a LED Zeppelin pinball using era-appropriate design
- Stern announced LED Zeppelin pinball after David's custom retheme project was mentioned on Head to Head Podcast
- Danielle Peck is 19 years old and in her final year at University of Auckland studying psychology and statistics
- Danielle won the Indisc Women's Championship in 2018
Notable quotes
“When you get to a certain age where you figure out that your motor racing costs so much money you can just buy more pinball machines instead”
“When you've got 100 pinball machines, it is a full-time job and I'm lucky enough to be sort of semi-retired... I worked 360 out of 365 days restoring this old house”
“The whole idea wasn't to make a Led Zeppelin pinball. It was to make a 1976 Bally Led Zeppelin pinball”
“Rob Halford walked out on stage and I started crying. Like, it was like seeing Metal Jesus.”
“Unfortunately, the people who buy pinballs who splash out 10 grand for an alley, they're all old guys. So old guys aren't going to be buying any hip hop or Miley Cyrus.”
Entities
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Fishtails Symphony· event
- InDisc· event
- New Zealand COVID Response· event
- Southern Hemisphere Pinball Championship· event
- World System 11 Championships· event
- Alice Cooper Heat· game
- LED Zeppelin Pinball (Custom)· game
- Rick and Morty Pinball· game
- Head to Head Pinball Podcast· media
- University of Auckland· organization
- Brad Albright· person
- Charlie Emery· person
- Danielle Peck· person
- David Peck· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Simon Hexston· person
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