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#70 Holiday Hot Mess- The Classic Pinball Podcast
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago50 min listenBy George
Merry Christmas one and all. This episode focuses on a list of items accumulated over the last month and some interesting stories focusing on people contacting Dave to purchase their pins. Show and...
Highlights
- Godzilla was the best game George played at Pintastic out of nine new games tried
- Pinnovators has made a deal with Stern to put their pin pack audio/volume control device in all newer Stern games as an option
- Only six Williams Rat Race machines were ever made
- The Mandalorian game has an 'impossible mode' where the ball automatically drops from the flipper after 1.5 seconds, preventing trap shots and speeding up tournament play
- The Loser Kid Podcast is approaching 100,000 listens
- Sweden is the fourth largest country for Classic Pinball Podcast listeners, ahead of England despite English being only Sweden's second language
- Pintastic is becoming one of the major shows on the East Coast because attendees can play both vintage games and the latest new releases
- Data East used a 'popcorn pupper board' (PPB board) that gets so hot from resistors it could theoretically pop popcorn
Notable quotes
“Godzilla Hands Down was the best game I played out of all nine.”
“I believe I talked about in the last show all the new games that I played at Pentastic. Now I'm going to say this to the audience. This is the praise to Gabe and company. I played nine new games... this is going to become one of the major shows of the East Coast.”
“It keeps the game moving. It's the only game I know that has it. But we're getting there, Dave. Should be on every game.”
“You making everybody's Christmas special right now. You made a lot of kids really happy right now.”
“run run don't walk run run”
“The kids are running the asylum.”
Entities
- Pinnovators· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Modern Marvels· content
- The Loser Kid Podcast· content
- Vasalore· content
- Windows 11· content
- Pintastic· event
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Data East Star Wars· game
- Dukes of Hazzard· game
- Elvira· game
- Godzilla· game
- Halloween· game
- Hot Wheels· game
- Legends of Valhalla· game
- Lord of the Rings· game
- Mandalorian· game
- Ninja Turtles· game
- Paragon· game
- Road Race· game
- Bruce· person
- Dave· person
- George· person
- Electric Bat Arcade· venue
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