Episode 404: Sweeper City Pinball
Had to check out another great pinball location in Ohio. This time it was Canton, Ohio for the Sweeper City Pinball Championships put on by Galvin Morgan and others. Fun times had by all, and you can...
Highlights
- Mad Pinball focuses on selling first-time games to new players and emphasizes theme appeal as the primary driver for attracting new audiences
- The pinball prom at Super Electric raised over $500 for Project Pinball through $10 event fees, with donations from Kid Force Pinball ($100) and Super Electric matching all donations
- Stephen Peruso has spent four years developing playfield restoration techniques, including transferring mechanical components between playfields and hand-wiring entire playfields based on schematics
- Laser Wills has tournaments scheduled for August including Buffalo Beast, Chicago (Interim SSS3), Wisconsin District 82, and planned West Coast travel to Portland and Seattle for Northwest Pinball Championship
- Nolan Lim traveled to Rotterdam (Dutch Pinball Museum) for a Taylor Swift concert and views the pinball museum visit as a secondary component of the trip
Notable quotes
“Sweeper city so this is the home of hoover all of the famous vacuum cleaners... well yes and we're proud of it quite literally”
“we sell a ton of first games to people... they're always looking for theme... something that they can connect to, something they can resonate with”
“don't tell steven he can't do it because he'll prove you wrong and make great pinball machines”
“It was basically a tribute, something out of a movie. It was basically a movie script.”
“Living the dream. That's why he's one of the best players in the world and best streamers in the world”
Entities
- Freddy's Pinball Paradise· company
- Mad Pinball· company
- Portal Pinball Venue· company
- Super Electric· company
- Turner Pinball· company
- Cleapin· event
- Sweeper City Pinball Championships· event
- Pinball Profile· media
- Dutch Pinball Museum· organization
- Project Pinball· organization
- Dalton Ely· person
- Jeff Cernova· person
- Krista· person
- Laser Wills· person
- Laser Wills· person
- Mike Bear· person
- Nick Shako· person
- Nolan Lim· person
- Rob Burke· person
- Scott Kuthais· person
- Stephen Peruso· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
- Kid Force Pinball· person/organization
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