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#56 Anniversary show - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday45 min listenBy George
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The guys celebrate their second anniversary by talking about the past, present, and future of the podcast. Dave explains a World Cup soccer flipper replacement. Bonus feature: Fireball home model.

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Highlights

  • FAST is a pinball board platform alternative to Multimorphic's P3 system, used for new Fathom 2.0
  • Multimorphic P3 platform is used by Spooky and allows playfield swaps
  • Pinball Basement makes replacement boards for System 11 Williams machines (1989-1995 era)
  • Dave successfully upgraded one flipper on a Williams game from rebuilt original to WPC mech despite tight playfield constraints
  • 1976 Fireball (Home Model) home model was produced in quantities of 10,000
  • The 1976 Fireball (Home Model) sold for $645 originally, equivalent to approximately $1,800 in current value
  • Fireball home model preceded commercial solid-state arcade games
  • Double Bull Taphouse is a new barcade on North Shore Mall featuring modern games including LED Zeppelin, Avengers, Turtles, Stranger Things, Aerosmith, Star Wars, Batman, Iron Man, and The Addams Family
  • Joe Lemur bought an Avengers machine to use for a Pin Clash tournament online and sold it shortly after
  • Phoenix, Arizona has over 40 different barcades according to listener Bruce

Notable quotes

“If you were to ask me what my favorite moment is with doing this podcast, it's the next podcast. I always look forward to us recording and doing something different”
George
“I think you were paying attention, Gary”
George
“The sound of the WPC was like whack, whack, whack, like solid, bang, bang, bang. The other one is like, you know, kind of a, you know, sort of like a wet clap.”
Dave
“I showed the guy. It's like, this is going to be really tough to do... I'm going to leave the other one stock since that one's actually working because I can't get two in there. They just won't fit.”
Dave
“This game, it looks like it came out of a Sears catalog from 76 right out of the showroom.”
Dave
“So the home model solid state preceded the arcade versions of these games... They did. tell the audience and i haven't looked at them folks we haven't gone down into the workshop yet tell the audience the similarities”
“Everything was on that thing. And the hardcore things like the flippers and the pop-embers, they were mounted to the playfield, but this thing, the actual switches and stuff, and all the things that would actuate, they were mounted to this PCP board.”
Dave
“You stay at home with Susie and you can go play... The only arcades I played in as a kid were down at the Jersey Shore.”
George
“We need to figure out a way to end our shows... I want to live your life and take chances, folks”
“It's kind of a hallmark of our podcast, now that I look back in retrospect, at how many games I've never played in our podcast. There's a lot.”
George

Entities

  • FAST Pinball· company
  • Haggis Pinball· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Pinball Basement· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Allentown Show· event
  • Pin Clash· event
  • Captain Fantastic· game
  • Elton John· game
  • Evel Knievel (EM)· game
  • Fireball (Home Model)· game
  • Galaxy Ranger· game
  • Hokus Pokus· game
  • Terminator 2· game
  • World Cup· game
  • District 82· organization
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Bruce· person
  • Dave· person
  • Gary Stern· person
  • George· person
  • Joe Lemur· person
  • Tom Graff· person
  • Double Bull Taphouse· venue
  • Pinball Asylum· venue

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