Episode 358: Road trips & events
Busy March for pinball. Made it to Bang Back Pinball Lounge in Columbia SC, then Game Terminal in Nashville TN, before a return to the Louisville Arcade Expo. Next up, watching the Women's World...
Highlights
- Scooby-Doo will have an 18-month build time, which Spooky expects to beat like all previous games
- Scooby-Doo is Spooky's first time bringing the machine to a show before Texas Pinball Festival
- Spooky is expanding by creating a separate building for assembly operations
- Spooky has had success keeping license announcements secret without leaks
- Louisville Arcade Expo's three-strikes tournament had approximately 75-78 participants
- Rec Bar Louisville has 70 pinball machines across two locations
- Jeremy Smith recently became a distributor for American Pinball in early February
- Women's World Championship offers $11,000 in prizes with winner receiving new Stern game plus cash
Notable quotes
“I don't think on one of our titles we've ever had this overwhelming of a positive response just at a show like people are seeing their cross room eyes lighting up running over you know what i mean they're just they're excited”
“The first 100, it's way harder than the first 100. You've got to really want it on the first 100.”
“When everyone does well, when you can support all the different places, that's a good thing for pinball.”
“It's been played the entire weekend. It's never been empty.”
“We could fill easily another double the size of this with all the stuff that people want to bring”
“I was on Star Wars and Turtles and Mandalorian and some of the good Stern games”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Marco Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Louisville Arcade Expo· event
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
- Women's World Championship· event
- James Bond 60th LE· game
- Scooby-Doo (Spooky)· game
- Bang Back Pinball Lounge· location
- Rec Bar· location
- Bug (Charlie Emery)· person
- Corey Stoop· person
- Emoto· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Jeremy Smith· person
- Nicole Menning· person
- Spooky Luke· person
- Tony Thomas· person
- Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game· product
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