Episode 323: Koi Morris
This pinball legend from New York discusses the early PAPA Championships in NYC, seeing the newest games at Broadway Arcade and more. We shared a chat at Expo and talked about the evolution of...
Highlights
- Koy Morris first played pinball at age 12 on Eight Ball Deluxe
- Eight Ball Deluxe is the best one-ball classic pinball machine
- Broadway Arcade was a test location for Williams and other manufacturers' new games
- Early PAPA tournaments in the early 1990s used manual pen-and-paper scoring
- PAPA 3 was Koy Morris's first PAPA championship
- Twilight Zone's Powerball magnet was a new innovation not previously seen in pinball
- Modern pinball games take significantly longer to learn than games from the 70s, 80s, and 90s due to increased complexity
- Test locations could have prevented some code exploits found in tournament play
Notable quotes
“I would say quite a bit longer than it used to because they're quite a bit more complex now. A lot of the games, a lot of cool stuff in it.”
“I think, in my opinion, it's the best one-ball classic. I would have difficulty naming 10 others.”
“All the new games that came out of the factory, that's Williams and all the other manufacturers at the time, they had Steve Epstein test the game to see how it would do on location.”
“I said, okay, I've got to be able to do that sometime. I said that basically that sound effect made me really want to play the game, and then I fell in love with it.”
“you have to be consistent across your entire ticket. If you have like three or four bad games, that's not going to get you anywhere.”
“It was the first time I've actually ever been in a movie.”
“things like that. But what you're talking about, that ticket format. I've played a lot of pinball, not as much as you. That is the hardest one to make the playoffs because you have to be good on every game.”
Entities
- Broadway Arcade· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Addams Family· game
- Attack from Mars· game
- C-Ray· game
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Eight Ball Deluxe· game
- Godzilla· game
- Kiss· game
- Star Wars Trilogy· game
- Theater of Magic· game
- Twilight Zone· game
- Xenon· game
- PAPA· organization
- Pinball Profile· organization
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Jeff Tillis· person
- Koy Morris· person
- Steve Epstein· person
- Special Unlit· product
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