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#112 Spirit of 76 Grand Prix - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago2 hr 26 min listenBy George
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We have a double feature. Dave takes us through his latest restoration with Gottlieb Spirit of 76. But before we get there we have a variety of pinball topics to discuss. Grants Christmas present...

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Highlights

  • Grant completed a brand-new playfield restoration on a Xenon machine in under two weeks while working 13-hour shifts
  • Disney's Steamboat Willie is now in the public domain
  • Andrew's combo boards for Williams games support System 3 through System 7, while Rotten Dog boards only support System 3 through System 6
  • George ordered 10 combo boards from Andrew for a multiple-thousand-dollar bulk order
  • John Jolly's oyster farm is located in Dennisport and requires driving through water and sand to access depending on tides
  • John Jolly trades in his vehicles every two years because salt water and sand damage ruins transmissions and brakes
  • The World Cup Soccer machine George was going to support had magnetic ball issues that persisted even with non-magnetized balls
  • George confused Nick Baldridge (who works with Multimorphic on games like Ranger in the Ruins and Silver Falls) with the curator of the Roanoke Pinball Museum in the previous episode

Notable quotes

“He says, well, I don't sleep much. He works all these long, what, 13-hour shifts, and then come home, can't sleep, so he just works on the game.”
George
“I have it. and for $10 I can replace everything on it. You can try. I've tried in the past. I've got nothing to lose, and I don't mind doing it.”
George
“Your time's valuable. I got all the time in the world.”
Dave
“I feel like I'm at an airport with a bunch of airplanes ready to take off, and they can't take off yet because of bad weather, but they're all backing up on the tarmac.”
George
“Now it's done. Where the frick are you?”
George
“I'm down here, I put a board in, boom, the game fired up without me doing anything else to the game. It started, he goes, wow, okay, I guess I'm keeping this game now.”
George
“He's driving through all this stuff, and he said the reason why he turns these cars in so quick because doing what he does wrecks the transmissions, wrecks these cars.”
George
“That's like buying a Hurricane Sandy or, you know, a hurricane water vehicle. You got to go fast.”
Dave

Entities

  • Multimorphic· company
  • Rotten Dog Amusements· company
  • Addams Family (Malden)· game
  • Firepower· game
  • Spirit of 76· game
  • Steamboat Willie· game
  • World Cup Soccer· game
  • Xenon· game
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Andrew· person
  • Dave· person
  • Dave Matrando· person
  • George· person
  • Grant· person
  • John Jolly· person
  • Maureen· person
  • Nick Baldridge· person
  • Nick Schnell· person
  • Tony· person
  • Weebly Barack· person

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