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The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 66 Summer Break
PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday1 hr 28 min listen
Spencer and dan talk summer pinball fun while Mark is still living it up before he heads back to work. madcap fun at its best.
Highlights
- Dan attended California Extreme last weekend and did not touch pinball machines except for a 4x4 by Atari with a ball jam
- California Extreme is a significant arcade and pinball show held every July in Northern California
- Warlords is a four-player Pong-style arcade game that originated on Atari 2600 with paddle controllers before becoming an arcade cabinet
- Dan installed a pin2DMD color display upgrade on Transformers, noting it is cheaper than Color DMD but has less refined software
- Spencer's son Mickey spent the summer working as Spudly the Potato mascot for the Casper Spuds baseball team and lost 45 pounds over the summer
- Aerosmith is canceling their final tour due to the band's age and Steven Tyler's health issues
- Spencer and Dan plan to visit pinball arcades in the Denver area and Powell/Cody area before summer ends
- There is only one drive-in theater in Wyoming, located in Powell, which still uses old speaker box technology
- California Extreme features prototype arcade games and rare Atari titles that don't appear elsewhere in quantity
- Dan took first place in a recent pinball league night and is top five mid-season
Notable quotes
“Well, you know, it's that community, you know, that you have with pinball and arcade game collection and even home games. You know, people, some of the shows do home games. And that's again, I think one of the most amazing thing about about Warlords is Warlords is fun and it's perfectly fun, you know, to sit down there and play with three people you don't know. But if you get five or six people that you do know and you're swapping in and out as you lose and you're throwing dollars on it and you're talking smack like it's it's an amazing game.”
“Part of me wants a Warlord's cocktail incredibly badly because that experience is so fun. But then the other part of me is like, I don't know if we removed the Warlord's cocktail from the environment that is California extreme, if it would be that fun. Like, how often am I going to have four people over here to play it, let alone strangers rotating in and out?”
“I did not touch one pinball machine. Seriously? Well, okay, I did play a 4x4 by Atari because it had a big lineup of Ataris. But for the most part...”
“Mark is a teacher. And for him, it's prime time. It's back to school. It's go time.”
“It's basically a more complicated way of doing Tiltalica. But yeah, it's fun because it takes pinball, which is typically a solitary endeavor, right? I mean, yeah, you can play pinball against people, but you're taking turns. It puts it into the realm of head-to-head competition.”
“There's a prototype Tommy there, which basically just straight rips off Whirlwind's layout.”
“Because to me, I think Aerosmith is cool and I actually really like Aerosmith for a time as a teenager. I was very, very into the newer Aerosmith stuff, you know, get a grip, pump, permanent vacation. But I never played the pinball machine and was like, you know, I'd rather have this than a Guardians of the Galaxy or a Metallica.”
Entities
- California Extreme· event
- 4x4· game
- Aerosmith Pro· game
- Donkey Kong· game
- Transformers· game
- Warlords· game
- Casper Spuds· organization
- CCPL· organization
- The Spinner Is Lit Pinball Podcast· organization
- Dan· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Malcolm· person
- Mark· person
- Mickey· person
- Seth· person
- Spencer· person
- pin2DMD· product
- Cody· venue
- Denver· venue
- Powell· venue
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