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#105 Black Hole. Make mine Day - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago3 hr 19 min listenBy George
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Dave and George welcome John Day to the show. If you like stories and pinballs with a twist you will love this podcast. John invited us to his home to talk about his collection. This is no normal...

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Highlights

  • Steve Young at Pinball Resource is the single most important figure in saving pinball through parts reproduction.
  • Adonis Williams flipper mechanisms are superior to the Linear flipper system used in early 1980s Bally games.
  • John Day spent approximately one year calling Jeff Wager at Pinball Warehouse every Saturday morning looking for The Addams Family.
  • Twilight Zone machines now command $10,000+ for nice examples, up significantly from the ~$2,500 John paid in 1998.
  • John paid approximately $2,500 for a mint Twilight Zone in 1998 at Pinball Warehouse.

Notable quotes

“He has done more for Pinball than I can think of anyone else in saving it. And making all these parts, making all these Gottlieb parts. He actually recreated the parts and no one else was doing that.”
George or John
“Everything was broken on this 8-Eight Ball Deluxe. Like the, you know, everything was broken. The coils were burned. The end-of-stroke switches were all burned up. Everything was horrible on the game. So you had to take it all out of there and put something in it.”
John Day
“The game is so precise. It's like surgery when you hit those flippers because there's no slop. And they're so powerful.”
John Day
“I did. I said, how much cash do you need? You want it done. You're going to buy it as is?”
John Day
“Every week. Because that's how much I really wanted Adam's family.”
John Day

Entities

  • Count-Down· game
  • Eight Ball Deluxe· game
  • Flash Gordon· game
  • Genie· game
  • Kingpin· game
  • Paragon· game
  • The Addams Family· game
  • Twilight Zone· game
  • Pinball Life· organization
  • Pinball Resource· organization
  • Pinball Warehouse· organization
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Dr. Dave· person
  • Fast Eddie· person
  • George· person
  • Jeff Wager· person
  • Jimmy's· person
  • Joel de Guzman· person
  • John Day· person
  • Lou Isbitz· person
  • Shea Esthag· person
  • Steve Young· person
  • Mount Washington Hotel· venue

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