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#125 david@pintasticne - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 55 min listenBy George
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Dave and George welcome David Marston, Executive of Pintastic New England. George has a bunch of stuff including a flipper upgrade. Dave tells another wild repair story about a home edition Star...

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Highlights

  • Pintastic 10 is scheduled for April 10–13, 2025
  • Mark Seiden and Leah Fraske (Avatar designer and artist from Jersey Jack Pinball) are confirmed seminar speakers
  • Pintastic is introducing a People's Choice Award system with separate categories for homebrew and factory games
  • Fun Spot (Weir's Beach, Laconia, NH) has expanded its pinball operation significantly in the past 1.5 years
  • Turner Pinball's Ninja Eclipse and John Manuelian's Luau will be on the show floor
  • Pintastic will debut a pinball trivia night for the first time
  • Eric Selak's Critical Mass game was a Gottlieb prototype from the Haunted House / Black Hole era that was rejected for production
  • Pintastic's homebrew room will feature John Manuelian with five games, Aaron Small's Warhammer 40K progress, and the Borderlands game
  • Mark Seiden and Ryan McQuaid were initially discovered/promoted through Pintastic's homebrew program and later hired by major manufacturers
  • Atari Pinball in the 1970s was perceived as a competitive threat by other manufacturers and influenced wide-body game designs

Notable quotes

“This is our 10th anniversary show, and we are continuing several of the things that we've become famous for. But in the realm of new, we have a pinball trivia night the first time.”
David Marston
“So we have a really good program of past events, and we'll be looking at what more we can offer in that subject area, plus the usual new technologies, including things you can do at home, up to and including homebrew games.”
David Marston
“Gottlieb was willing to take designs from the outside so instead of just having a Krinsky rearrange things on the play field they were in a burst of thinking that they needed more variety of ideas and Critical Mass was a game that was prototyped for Gottlieb specifically.”
David Marston
“They have really turned around their pinball operation. I was just up there last week. They have put out several more older games, including back into the electromechanical era.”
David Marston
“The 70s were so massive for pinball that there were actually entrepreneurs in the United States that thought they should import games made in Spain or Italy to have more variety of pinballs offered in the United States.”
David Marston
“I expect one for homebrew and one for everything else. So homebrew and factory, two different ones. Because it so unfair to try to compare a homebrew to a factory game.”
David Marston
“And you just have to be there. But what we're already showing on the webpage gives a full schedule for the people who like to come to a show to just play tournaments and not do anything else.”
David Marston
“We consider ourselves a major show in the sense that we have many different things, like a Texas Pinball Festival, Pinball Expo, Northwest Pinball Show. We are in that league.”
David Marston

Entities

  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Pinball Brothers· company
  • Stern· company
  • Turner Pinball· company
  • Pintastic New England (Pintastic 10)· event
  • Avatar· game
  • Critical Mass· game
  • New England Pinball League· organization
  • Aaron Small· person
  • Brian Hawkins· person
  • Brian McCauley· person
  • Dave· person
  • David Marston· person
  • Eric Selak· person
  • Eric Stone· person
  • George· person
  • John Manuelian· person
  • Leah Fraske· person
  • Mark Seiden· person
  • Rob Burke· person
  • Ryan McQuaid· person
  • Steve Ritchie· person
  • Tony Zizek· person
  • Fun Spot· venue

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