The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 49 Summer Vacation
Spencer, Dan, And Mark talk about summer. pinball fun. Dan has to leave early, everything is fine. Spencer goes off the rails on recycled toys story 4. and Mark is left being the reasonable...
Highlights
- The Pinball Museum in Paris is currently uncertain about its future due to owner Rafael's kidney surgery
- Humpty Dumpty (Gottlieb 1947) is the first pinball machine with flippers; designer Wayne Niles is still alive at 103
- Tuesday Pinball tournament in Reno had 27 players the day after July 4th, 2022
- The new Attack From Mars at Press Start arcade has wider outlanes to shorten play time for tournaments
- Mike Huntsman visited Spencer in Wyoming and fixed the Surf Champ spinner in about 5 minutes
- Spencer purchased a Whitewater pinball machine to replace his Star Trek Pro
- Whitewater topper uses 161 bulbs, not triple fives, which Spencer learned when he burned out bulbs
- The Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, California has Humpty Dumpty and other historic machines
- Mark took a European cruise visiting Greece and later Paris, seeing Santorini and Zakynthos
- Godzilla and Avengers are owned by Ted and were the final games in Reno Tuesday Pinball tournament
Notable quotes
“I was thinking, okay, hopefully I get a shot at this. A couple of minutes later, he opened the door, and he let me in and said, hey, are you okay paying 20 euros? I'm like, totally fine.”
“The museum is in the balance right now based on Rafael's condition. If he's not around anymore, which would be horrible, they don't know what the future is of the museum.”
“This is the very first game ever to have flippers. Before that, there were no flippers.”
“All these new shows aren't happening without the pinball museum. That pinball museum was the luvre of pinball.”
“And it probably took me a good 10 years to come around before I was finally just like, wow, you know, Whitewater is a pretty neat game.”
“He came over, you know, had some beers. You know, he took me out and met up with Stacy and her mom. We all had pizza at a local pizza joint. Nice conversation.”
“You know, because I don't think you... Mark, have you ever been to the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, California?”
“It was close on Godzilla, but unfortunately I just couldn't pull it off by getting a good multiball and stacking it with Gigan, which I should have.”
Entities
- Gottlieb· company
- Tuesday Pinball· event
- Attack From Mars· game
- Avengers· game
- Black Hole· game
- Godzilla· game
- Humpty Dumpty· game
- Star Trek Pro· game
- Surf Champ· game
- Whitewater· game
- Andrew· person
- Brian· person
- Dan· person
- Kendra· person
- Mark· person
- Mike Huntsman· person
- Rafael· person
- Spencer· person
- Stacy· person
- Ted· person
- Wayne Niles· person
- Special When Lit· product
- Pacific Pinball Museum· venue
- Pinball Museum in Paris· venue
- Press Start· venue
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