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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 49: TPF Prep 2024!

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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 49: TPF Prep 2024! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie Texas Pinball Festival is here and we break down all the things we are looking forward to...

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Highlights

  • Jaws LE mini playfield can cause ball-eating issues during multiball, potentially problematic for tournament play on location machines
  • Jaws LE features speaker lights with RGB capability that syncs to playfield lighting, designed by Dan at Penwoofer and coming to MuselMods in a few weeks
  • Pulp Fiction audio design by David Thiel has minimal sound clip repetition across extensive gameplay, maintaining audio engagement without annoyance
  • Modern pinball players increasingly skip or minimize LCD screen engagement, preferring continuous flipper action over story sequences
  • Jaws premium and LE run the same code, meaning speaker light functionality technically could be added to premium but hosts hope it remains LE exclusive
  • Keith Elwin's Jaws lookout tower shot (upper playfield ramp sequence) is highlighted as one of the most kinetically satisfying shots in recent pinball design
  • Games like Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness, Foo Fighters, and Elton John appeal to casual players due to accessible shot layouts and immediate kinetic feedback
  • Pulp Fiction was designed to function without LCD screen, with rules communicated primarily through inserts and bottom score displays

Notable quotes

“That lookout tower shot on the upper play field... holy fuck, this shot is amazing. Like I just stopped what I was doing. I didn't even finish my game or my ball.”
Travis
“I literally texted Tom and I said, holy fuck, this shot is amazing... Because you've seen it, but when you talk about kinetic satisfaction. That's what I'm talking about.”
Travis
“My concern is I noticed that this was happening a lot whenever I was in multi-ball. And then, of course, so if you're playing a premium or an LE on location somewhere in a tournament, it's highly likely a ball will get stuck there during multi-ball.”
Travis
“I don't care about tying a knot. I don't care about starting to like, he's just like, I just want to keep flipping, you know? And so he's sitting there just banging on, like, come on, skip and trying to skip the animations.”
Travis (reporting brother-in-law feedback)
“I do not feel like I would enjoy this game anymore if I was seeing video clips of the actors instead of just hearing them. I don't think I would. It's not needed.”
Joel
“The audio engineer of Pulp Fiction, David Thiel, crushed it on this game... I don't know if I ever heard the same sound clip more than once it was far from annoying.”
Joel
“Everything you shoot. Yeah. If you make a shot. Yeah. That's the cool part about it. If you successfully make a shot, it's leaving the play field.”
Tom
“My buddy... said, one term you guys need to start using is pinball enthusiast... I don't care about like, he's like, I don't really care too much about whatever. Like he doesn't get crazy deep into code, but he, he's super into modding his game.”
Travis

Entities

  • MuselMods· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
  • Attack from Mars· game
  • Elton John· game
  • Foo Fighters· game
  • Godzilla· game
  • Guardians of the Galaxy· game
  • Iron Maiden· game
  • Jaws· game
  • Medieval Madness· game
  • Metallica· game
  • Pulp Fiction· game
  • Dan (Penwoofer)· person
  • David Thiel· person
  • Elizabeth Gieske· person
  • Jack· person
  • Joel· person
  • Josh Sharp· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Mark Ritchie· person
  • Steve Ritchie· person
  • Tom· person
  • Travis· person

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