Episode 401: Abe Flips
Abraham Siedler has given us so many great tutorials, videos, and Twitch streams on Abe Flips. We talk with Abe about pinball in Austria, learning at a quick pace, and sharing videos for our...
Highlights
- Abe Seidler discovered pinball in 2019 when his grandfather gave him an old Williams Fire machine from his cellar
- The Kickstarter campaign for 'Mastering Pinball' reached its $8,000 goal on day one and $16,000 with stretch goals by day three
- Keith Elwin's 'Pinball 101' instructional material is approximately 20-30 years old, released on Betamax
- The 'Mastering Pinball' video is approximately two-thirds completed as of the interview date
- IFPA 20 (20th IFPA World Pinball Championship) will be held in Austria around June 2025
Notable quotes
“I always wanted to dig deeper and know tiny things, which are very important, I know now... I felt there's a need for deeper tutorials”
“on day one we got the goal of eight thousand dollars and on day day three we reached sixteen thousand dollars with all the stretch goals included so it was a roller coaster for me”
“I think it will be a state-of-the-art techniques video. And Pinball 101 is a little bit old right now... I think a new tutorial is good and it will be very deep”
“somehow they weren't able to explain stuff. So like you said, they just play and know what to do. So it wasn't me to find all the explanation for that”
“why it's important for virtual pinball is really the physics of the ball... when you play new tables, some are programmed very well. So it's very hard to distinguish between a real machine”
Entities
- RS Pinball· company
- IFPA 20· event
- Twippy Awards· event
- Future Spa· game
- Ghostbusters Pro· game
- Williams Fire· game
- Pinball Profile· media
- Abe Flips· organization
- Abe Seidler· person
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Johannes Ostermeyer· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Scott Denise· person
- Stefan Riedler· person
- Kickstarter· platform
- Pinside· platform
- Mastering Pinball: In-Depth Skills and Strategies· product
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