Episode 75 Part 2_Golden State Pinball Festival Recap (1)

“We flew this year instead of drove... They have a total system. Like, so it's where the first couple of years, I remember working load in and it felt like it was just a complete, you know, scrum of just activity and people running everywhere. Now it's like they move them, they put them into position, then guys come in behind them and start setting them up...”

“Nobody quite caught my high score... if they do buy one, make sure to tell Multimorphic that you saw it at Golden State Pinball Festival. Not only will you save a pile of money, but they'll give me some money, which would be cool. But I didn't do it for the money. I just did it so that, you know, the show would have a new release, right?”

“All I did was sit on my butt and talk about pinball... We really have to give the props to a friend of the show, Rick Demo and Elk Grove Pinball on Twitch. He's the one who brought this set up out. He's the one who set it up. He's the one who really makes the magic happen.”

“Congratulations to Dustin who took first... Jack rolled in qualifying, like he never lost. So I thought he was going to be unstoppable. And yet somehow Dustin Goldberg just found a way.”

“Kong... is definitely, for anyone who's wondering, that is Stern's next killer. Like that game is awesome. It's incredible... I worry about the pro, you know, because you don't have the moving toy and the tilting train... but if you're playing the pro and enjoying the shot matrix and the flow and the action, you're not going to feel slighted.”

“It reminded me of like Godzilla Pro where it's like you miss the stuff, but there's still enough there and it looks full enough that like you don't really feel like you're missing out.”

“Yeah, the gong, I thought, like, it's almost like with Godzilla, like, hey, the building being missing is like a huge deal and it really changes the game, but like, to me, the bigger change was always the Mechagodzilla thing is missing... missing the big animated King Kong toy and the physical ball lock sucks. But that, that gong being missing really changes the game.”

“I had a young lady and her, uh, boyfriend, husband, I'd imagine I talked to a couple times and she was wearing, uh, the cake is a lie T-shirt... And she was just ecstatic that it was there... And then they ended up buying one and becoming more pinball people too.”

“It got just hammered. Like that game got played and played and played and people were waiting in line 10 and 20 deep... bringing Portal to the show was a lot of work... moving a P3 is always a fun experience.”

“There's a very aggressive form of pinball. There's a lot of trash talk, a lot of yelling, a lot of knocking each other out, but it was super, super fun to play with Alex and Juan and Jack was absolutely super fun. I got a knockout and getting a knockout just makes you extremely stoked.”