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#124 Captain Fantastic - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 19 min listenBy George
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Elton John’s 1976 Bally Captain Fantastic. Listener letters and news. Captain Fantastic review and play. Dave’s stories from the field. Bonus feature: If you want it, you can have it.

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Highlights

  • Captain Fantastic was produced in over 16,000 units
  • Designer Majak used the bottom playfield design from Captain Fantastic and repurposed it for Harlem Globetrotters
  • Residual magnetism in EM coils can cause balls to stick together in modern machines with magnets
  • Steve Young at Pinball Resource has been serving customers for 20+ years with hard-to-find parts
  • Karl's Sausage Kitchen in Chicago closed and was sold for the property
  • Dave Golden has spent a couple thousand dollars at Pinball Resource since 2018 and volunteers at the Electromagnetic Pinball Museum
  • Playfield slope should be between 6-7% for ramp games and around 5% for classic Bally-Stern machines
  • 8 Ball Deluxe is Bally's best solid-state game according to Dave's assessment

Notable quotes

“residual magnetism. You got something for me? Yes. It'll bite you in the ass because you'll think it's, especially on an EM, the... Are you going to define what residual magnetism is? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So it's on a coil stop on a lot of these EMs, they'll become magnetized and so what you'll think is like a sticky mechanism”
George and Dave
“I almost always call in my orders and talk to Steve. Very, very, very good and bold. It's always informative and interesting.”
Dave Golden (quoted in article)
“He's got the stuff, the knowledge and the personality. And he said, I also get my stuff overnight since it's so close.”
Levi Levy (quoted in article)
“Fathom plays way more often than Skateball. If I had to narrow it down to two for your next acquisition out of your list I'd go for Quicksilver and 8 Ball Deluxe.”
Dave
“8 Ball Deluxe, I just think it's a better overall game because it can be punished. It's a good game too... 8 Ball Deluxe, you might have a couple bad games, bad balls, but sooner rather than later you're going to get into a groove, it's enjoyable, still challenging”
Dave

Entities

  • Pinball Resource· company
  • Poshmark· company
  • 8 Ball Deluxe· game
  • Captain Fantastic· game
  • Fathom· game
  • Flash Gordon· game
  • Gottlieb System 1 Hulk· game
  • Harlem Globetrotters· game
  • Mata Hari· game
  • Quicksilver· game
  • Skateball· game
  • Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Electromagnetic Pinball Museum· organization
  • Pinside· organization
  • Anthony· person
  • Dave· person
  • Dave Christensen· person
  • Dave Golden· person
  • George· person
  • Grant· person
  • Levi Levy· person
  • Majak· person
  • Mike Engel· person
  • Scott· person
  • Steve Young· person

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