Episode 13: The Classic Pinball Podcast - WARNING! NO PINBALL IN THIS PODCAST

THIS EPISODE contains NO PINBALL! So we fibbed and broke the rule.....what are you going to do about it. You are going to listen to see what this is all about. That’s my guess. Eric Stone starts with...

Highlights

• Eric Stone is ranked number 13 in the world in pinball
• Coin pusher machines (Circus game) are from the 1980s and used to have real quarters in Jersey
• Eric was previously thrown off arcade machines for winning too much as a kid
• Eric won a 28-inch Samsung flat-screen TV for 58,000 tickets from Frogger the previous year
• A Frogger win at Hampton Beach pays out 1,000 tickets
• Eric has a photographic memory and used it to win skill games like Skill-o-Bingo by memorizing card patterns
• Frogger at this arcade pays 500 tickets for a win and costs one token to play
• Eric needs to time his button presses precisely in Frogger: everything has to line up just right

Notable quotes

Entities

• Bingo Reno· game
• Circus· game
• Frogger· game
• Skill-o-Bingo· game
• Slamma winner· game
• The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
• The Tubes· organization
• Dave· person
• Eric Stone· person
• George· person
• Maureen· person
• Fun Spot· venue
• Hampton Beach· venue
• Seaside Heights· venue