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#127 Steve Ritchie - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago2 hr 21 min listenBy George
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Pintastic review. Steve Ritchie interview. Reby Hardy interview. [email protected]

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Highlights

  • The premium pass at Tentastic allows entry to the free play hall one hour earlier (10 a.m. vs 11 a.m.) with minimal lines, enabling players to try games multiple times
  • The Hangover pinball machine experienced a hardware issue where a flipper button lock screw fell out, shorting the select switch and forcing the game into Spanish language mode
  • Battle Stations is a head-to-head pinball game that may become commercially available
  • Mitchell Lighting produces LED bulbs with real glass appearance that direct light left and right rather than up, as an alternative to Comet bulbs
  • The Tycoon Room at Tentastic had unique games including Portal (not releasing until summer) with restricted 40-minute play windows on Saturday afternoon
  • An Ozzy Osbourne cover band performed at Tentastic on Friday night with a guitarist who is particularly skilled
  • Steve Ritchie was present at Tentastic and sat at the bar with George, though conversation details remained private
  • Brian Soares designed and was present at Tentastic with The Hangover machine

Notable quotes

“Buy the premium package from Gabe so you can get into the free play hall at 10 a.m., one hour earlier than everyone else. Very few lines, got to play a lot of stuff multiple times.”
George
“That ship sailed a while ago. No, I don't think so. So it's a good conversation with him.”
George
“Hardware became the software problem.”
George
“I'm putting them in because of the direction. They do what I want.”
Dave
“I don't like when people do that. Yeah, but I should know him because I know him from JR's from like 20 years ago.”
George and Dave
“It's like an oddity, kind of like Stern Orbiter 1. It's an oddity. It's kind of cool for a couple games, but I don't know if you'd play a whole bunch on it.”
George
“There's already too much delay of game in all the new models. That's the one thing I don't like.”
George
“You can't be torquing them in. You've got to be careful putting them in, taking them out.”
Dave
“It's like the Star Wars cantina.”
George
“So basically wound up buying a whole bunch of box of bulbs from him, you know, and he gave me a nice little show deal on them.”
Dave

Entities

  • Mitchell Lighting· company
  • Myth Pinball· company
  • Tentastic· event
  • Battle Stations· game
  • Portal· game
  • The Hangover· game
  • Uncanny X-Men· game
  • Pinside· organization
  • Brian Soares· person
  • Bruce· person
  • Dave· person
  • Dave Golden· person
  • Gabe· person
  • George· person
  • Jim Swain· person
  • Joshua· person
  • Lynn· person
  • Maureen· person
  • Paul· person
  • Robert Gemp· person
  • Ryan McQuaid· person
  • Scott Morash· person
  • Steve Ritchie· person
  • Tony Zizek· person
  • Victor· person

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