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Tucson Pinball Podcast – Episode 74 – Revving The Engine
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Tucson Pinball Podcast – Episode 74 – Revving The Engine
Highlights
- TISC hockey rink received email mid-September 2024 that the Tohono O'odham tribe needed the land for casino development
- Went from 14 always-available machines (10 at TISC + 4 at Hot Rods downstairs) to 4 (only downstairs at Hot Rods) due to upstairs availability restrictions
- Upstairs games at Hot Rods can only operate when the host is present (tournaments or practice sessions)
- Moved tournaments from Thursday evenings at TISC to Saturday afternoons at Hot Rods to compete less with weekend family time while reaching broader audience
- Hot Rods has approximately 3,500 Facebook followers/likes, compared to Tucson Pinball's ~500
- Rita Ranch and Veil area has population around 30,000 people with multiple high-traffic intersections
- Donated Deal or No Deal ticket redemption game to local kids organization, configured it for free play
- Has started targeting social media ads toward Rita Ranch/Veil gamers (video games, board games, pinball interests) but hasn't yet converted ad viewers to players
Notable quotes
“How about we do something nice and easy and talk about me losing my largest location. Okay, so yeah, it's kind of a bummer story”
“So basically the ones that are available at all time, I went from fourteen games to four. So that's gonna be a noticeable reduction in coin drop, which is unfortunate.”
“if I could figure out how to find all the pinball players in Tucson and let them know that we have stuff to do and come on out to a tournament... we'd probably double or triple our typical headcount”
“I see your Facebook marketplace listings. I know you're out there. But a lot of people are just more on the casual side”
“the goal is not that the headcount average increases because those people are able to play more consistently... Another target is to also just increase the player base”
“I have all my games set up in an alternating fashion from modern, classic, modern, classic... I'm willing to bet Godzilla earns more than Dolly Parton”
“Hot Rods has 3,500 Facebook follows or likes... the difference between 500 and 3,500, that's a big difference in reach”
“eventually you just get to a point where you have enough people that are showing up and they're bringing it up in conversation to their friends. And it just kind of self-sustains.”
Entities
- Deal or No Deal· game
- Dolly Parton· game
- Godzilla· game
- Sharpshooter 2· game
- Rita Ranch· location
- Veil· location
- Tohono O'odham Tribe· organization
- Tucson Pinball· organization
- Bud Foster· person
- Harold Viensa· person
- Howard Hughes· person
- John Hay· person
- Electric Bat· venue
- Hot Rods· venue
- TISC (Tucson Ice Sports Complex)· venue
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