Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 11: 2021 Year In Review
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 11: 2021 Year In Review Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie 2021 brought a bunch of new games and new innovations. There were a few big hires as...
Highlights
- IFPA stopped sanctioning tournaments in March 2020 immediately after Nationals/Pinmasters, lasting approximately 15 months until August 2021
- Led Zeppelin's playfield design received significant criticism but code quality from Tim Sexton and Raymond Davidson elevated the overall game quality
- Mandalorian LE machines sold for $16,000+ secondary market prices when new, significantly above MSRP
- Mandalorian tournament play exposed mid-playfield bias toward center shot play, particularly after Expo tournament exposure
- Godzilla is anticipated to sweep Twippy awards across multiple categories (Game of Year, Shots/Layout, Code, potentially Art)
Notable quotes
“It means awesomeness Joel. It means tons of Whoppers. The Whoppers are very... means the Whoppers are back.”
“I am not the tournament player you guys probably... this is probably you guys were itching you guys were ready so... tell me what that means to you”
“The code really, the code makes that a lot of fun. The code's a star.”
“I actually teared up at the end of it just because I heard the music. And I watched Star Wars so much with my dad as a kid... my dad, he passed away a little over a decade ago.”
“I think Godzilla is the type of release that just pretty much has skunked everything. And it's almost like that in itself is almost going to make the Twippies an afterthought.”
Entities
- Expo· event
- Nationals· event
- Pinmasters· event
- Twippy Awards· event
- Godzilla· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Halloween· game
- Led Zeppelin· game
- Mandalorian· game
- Metallica· game
- Buffalo Pinball· organization
- Fox Cities Pinball· organization
- IFPA· organization
- Dwight· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Joel· person
- Keith· person
- Neil· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Tim Sexton· person
- Tom Graph· person
- Travis· person
- Zach Minney· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
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