#51 - The Pinball Asylum - The Classic Pinball Podcast

“The Pinball Asylum is a nonprofit. We're a 501c3. We started in 2011, and we started with a very small space. And over the years, we expanded to our current space, which is about 5,000 square feet. We have about 120 something machines.”

“So what we're doing on Sunday is we're bringing about 18 machines downstairs... We're going to have a pin golf, actually 10-hole pin golf. Each person gets to drop their worst hole, so it's really a nine-hole.”

“You definitely there's tons of money in line you should definitely show up to one of these pop-up events... you can win 10 grand 20 grand you're definitely a contender”

“And I wound up emailing him. And, you know, after a couple interviews, I wound up up here and I started playing in tournaments.”

“I come in second. Classics two, over 215 people... and then you know the world championship i wound up winning that with 320 or so people... boosted me from I think 11th to 3rd and then eventually 2nd in the world.”

“I think when COVID hit, I didn't get slow at work or anything, but I started going out a lot less, so I had the time after work, so I just, I knuckled up, and I ended up on a WPC cabinet, and I decided on my theme, and I just went for it, and I got it completed in about three months, start to finish.”

“I went complete ground up. It's a it's a fully designed game by me. It's not a retheme... I had to decide what the rules were before I even laid it out. So I kind of designed it backwards.”

“The longer the IFPA discontinues the points, the point tournaments, the better chance I'm going to have to be number one, if that makes sense... the longer in time other people's points will drop off quicker than mine.”

“Every other year the world championship moves from somewhere in europe to somewhere in north america so every two years i believe it's in canada and every four years you know kind of like the olympics it goes every two every four so every odd number year uh it was in europe and then every even number year it was either in canada or the u.s and it would kind of flip-flop”

“We just don't let you can't walk in off the street and come to the asylum. You have to email us first. You know, we'll talk to you on the phone more than likely. You have to sign a waiver saying that, you know, if you get hurt here, if you break your finger playing pinball, you're not going to sue us.”