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Episode 87_Golden State Pinball Festival Recap 2026
PodcastAnalysis updated 4d ago2 hr 29 min listen
Spencer, Dan, and Mark give a detailed review of the 2026 Golden state pinball festival. All the sights and sounds of what fans have begun to call the burning man of pinball.
Highlights
- Golden State Pinball Festival 2026 registered 353 games on the show floor and in the tournament room
- Approximately 50 additional games were set up across the campground beyond the main show floor
- Juan's TNA tent with lasers, smoke effects, and 220 watts of sound was the highlight of the campground
- Shannon Miles ran the Golden State tournament for the first time this year in place of Mike from CCPL
- Rick from Elk Grove Pinball streamed 21-24 hours of unedited tournament content and added a 3D camera for close-ups of LCD scores
- The tournament format consisted of two 64-player qualifying sessions with top 16 advancing to a 32-player final
- Don from We Are Pinball attended the Golden State Festival for the first time and was impressed by both the show and campground experience
- The Reno camp brought Fly High, a rare 1980s Geiger game based on Never Ending Story theme with Super Sonic mechanics
Notable quotes
“Come for the pinball, stay for the Lodi.”
“The after hours entertainment might even be better than the show if you can stay up that late, which I cannot.”
“Man, bro, you weren't kidding.”
“You're supposed to bring it home to the spinner is lit, man. What happened?”
“That's Pinball.”
“It was an all-you-could-eat pinball buffet.”
“His entire motorhome was all soundproof, so you couldn't hear anything... it was like totally silent.”
“Gold star, sir. Gold star.”
Entities
- Golden State Pinball Festival· event
- Champion Pub· game
- Fly High· game
- Indy 500· game
- TNA· game
- CCPL (Sacramento)· organization
- Lynn's Arcade· organization
- Reno camp· organization
- Dan· person
- Don· person
- George Gonzalez· person
- Jack Jarrett· person
- Jason· person
- Juan· person
- Mark· person
- Mark Coward· person
- Mike Garcia· person
- Rick· person
- Rick (Velcro of Pinball)· person
- Scott Busey· person
- Shannon Miles· person
- Spencer· person
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