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episode 23. Gspf and other cool stuff.

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we talk about the Golden state pinball festival and other cool stuff.

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Highlights

  • Golden State Pinball Festival had 335 machines on display, up from last year
  • The women's tournament was won by Leslie from the Bay Area, with Marianne Rusty taking fourth place
  • Lonnie from Seattle took first place in the A division with over a billion points on Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Stephen topped out on Funhouse at 25 million points, earning top qualifier and seventh place in A division
  • Mike Vinicore from Stern worked at Bally Williams and discussed Attack from Mars mold casting issues with plastic materials breaking during the original development
  • Chris Poon (the pinball pirate) received the Steve Charon Spirit Award at GSPF
  • Josh won a Fishtail machine in the Saturday raffle; this was his second game and first Williams game (he also owns a Rob Zombie)
  • The pump-and-dump tournament format charged $10 for 10 plays, with option to buy up to 30 additional plays; volunteers received extra games

Notable quotes

“335 machines, which I think was up from last year. Big thanks to Marco and all the people who brought their machines at this show.”
Big Dan
“That second room, as soon as you cross the threshold from the first room to the second room, all you hear is just roar. You don't hear anything except the roaring of the games.”
Rusty (Marianne)
“It sounds convoluted... But when you're actually playing in it, and with the level of technology that these guys brought to it, it made a lot of sense when you were playing in it, and it actually ended up being really fun.”
Kendra
“He is just a good, good pinball dude who shares his knowledge and expertise with everyone and promotes pinball in a really positive way.”
Spencer
“And so at league night the other night, she walked up. She's like, okay, we need to talk about Demolition Man. What does this do? What does that do? Why does this work? And how does this work?”
Spencer
“When Andre Massinkoff didn't do well, like, he took a walk... but he came back, you know, and, you know, shook hands and, you know, super personal.”
Spencer
“You know, when it's qualifying, it's your chance to, you know, see what you can do on it. Big Game, a game that I touched maybe once before in my life, was my best qualifying game.”
Brian Kass
“It's always been fun since we first started it. God knows how many years now... I remember the first one. Then we started letting people like these guys in.”
Spencer

Entities

  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Golden State Pinball Festival· event
  • Pacific Pinball Museum· organization
  • Worlds of Wonder Science Museum· organization
  • Adam Fessler· person
  • Andre Massinkoff· person
  • Big Dan· person
  • Brian Kass· person
  • Chris Poon· person
  • Jim· person
  • Josh· person
  • Kendra· person
  • Leslie· person
  • Lonnie· person
  • Marianne Rusty· person
  • Mark Scott· person
  • Mike Vinicore· person
  • Practical Steve· person
  • Roxy· person
  • Sharky· person
  • Spencer Klingin· person
  • Stephen· person
  • Tanya Kyles· person
  • Wilder Neff· person

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