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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 61 - TPF Prep 2025
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 61 - TPF Prep 2025 Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf and Travis Murie The stars have aligned and Tom is BACK! Buckle up because today we were riding the Struggle...
Highlights
- Triple Drain Pinball Podcast is leaving The Pinball Network after episode 60 to become independent with dedicated podcast and YouTube channels
- Jaws dominated the Twippies awards across most categories
- X-Men won Innovation of the Year at Twippies, surprising category with Danger Room feature
- Electric Bat Arcade (Cale and Rachel) won Best Podcast at Twippies
- Flippin' Out Pinball finished second for best video creators and Tom (Fox Cities Pinball) finished third at Twippies
- Triple Drain Podcast placed sixth in Best Podcast category at Twippies
- Evil Dead by Spooky Pinball is a wide-body game with strong art design and thematic integration of horror elements
- Evil Dead includes story-based modes recreating scenes from the movies, with specific mechanics like the 'hide' mode and 'hack them up' mode with knocker effects
- Evil Dead shipped with a missing leg on the unit received by the reviewer, requiring creative solutions
- Stern will showcase Dungeons & Dragons as the main highlight at TPF 2025
Notable quotes
“Triple Drain, we are leaving TPN. We are leaving the pinball network. There's nothing. There's no issues. There's no problems. There's no drama.”
“Jaws dominated jaws dominated in pretty much every category.”
“That's the first time that Jersey Jack hasn't won LCD. Usually Jersey Jack has won like best LCD in animations literally every year.”
“Franchi crushed it. Like the art on the game, the game looks so beautiful in person. It looks, and the topper is obscene in person.”
“If you're a fan of Evil Dead, they did the property justice. It's all there. The audio clips, the video clips, the art is on point.”
“This game is full of moments. There are so many mechs in the game and they have different modes and different multi balls that all highlight different mechs.”
“I have to actively think of it from an end consumer point. And the most consumers are not tournament players.”
“Welcome to Triple Drain, everybody. This is a sixth place podcast effort right here, guys. I'm super proud of us.”
Entities
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
- Twippies· event
- Dungeons & Dragons (Stern)· game
- Evil Dead (Spooky Pinball)· game
- Jaws (Jersey Jack)· game
- X-Men (Stern)· game
- Electric Bat Arcade· organization
- Flippin' Out Pinball· organization
- The Pinball Network (TPN)· organization
- Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· organization
- Cale· person
- Christopher Franchi· person
- Joel· person
- Keith Elwyn· person
- Kerry Hardy· person
- Rachel· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
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