# Texas Pinball Festival Walk-through 2016!

**Source:** Dead Flip  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2016-03-22  
**Duration:** 32m 22s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRiORSQ6KIY

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## Analysis

Dead Flip provides a first-person walkthrough of Texas Pinball Festival 2016, showcasing numerous machines, vendors, and industry figures. The content captures the scale and energy of the event, featuring appearances by Mark Ritchie, Jack Danger, Measlemods, and others. The streamer plans to broadcast gameplay on The Big Lebowski Pinball and discusses tournament participation and technical streaming challenges.

### Key Claims

- [MEDIUM] Multimorphic is announcing four new games at Texas Pinball Festival 2016 — _Multimorphic booth section; speaker mentions 'They're announcing four new games, and we're going to try to stream this'_
- [HIGH] Mark Ritchie (Steve Ritchie's brother) has a talk scheduled on 'Ramp or Mode and Roll' at the event — _Direct conversation with Mark Ritchie: 'Did you do a talk today? Or do you have a talk at all right now? Tonight. Ramp or mode and roll.'_
- [HIGH] The speaker was 3rd place in tournament standings when going to bed, dropped to 19th by the time of the walkthrough — _Tournament area discussion: 'when I went to bed last night, I was third, but now I'm like 19th'_
- [HIGH] Virtual pinball content (Lexi Lightspeed) is being showcased by Multimorphic — _Multimorphic booth section: 'they do Lexi Lightspeed and stuff'_
- [HIGH] Ed Vanderveen is the curator of Texas Pinball Festival 2016 — _Direct encounter: 'That's Ed Vanderveen ladies and gentlemen the curator of this whole event super awesome dude'_

### Notable Quotes

> "Pins for freaking days out here, guys"
> — **Dead Flip (streamer)**, ~2:30
> _Captures the overwhelming abundance of pinball machines at the festival_

> "I'm like so freaking hungover, it's disgusting. I'm doing great. I'm hungover as hell."
> — **Dead Flip**, ~16:00
> _Running gag throughout the stream; establishes the speaker's condition during the event_

> "They're announcing four new games, and we're going to try to stream this, because I've never seen Lexi Lightspeed on the internet."
> — **Dead Flip**, ~18:30
> _First major product announcement attempt at the event_

> "That's Ed Vanderveen ladies and gentlemen the curator of this whole event super awesome dude who was mega cool enough to fly my ass out here just to sing pinball"
> — **Dead Flip**, ~24:00
> _Credits the event organizer and acknowledges sponsorship of the stream_

> "Ramp or mode and roll. We take one of the riders, he's a big player. We just squeeze in. We play our game and have some fun"
> — **Jack Danger**, ~30:00
> _Jack Danger confirming participation in streaming gameplay session_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Dead Flip | person | Content creator and streamer providing first-person walkthrough of Texas Pinball Festival 2016; participates in tournament and plans broadcast gameplay |
| Mark Ritchie | person | Pinball game designer and industry figure; Steve Ritchie's brother; speaks at festival on 'Ramp or Mode and Roll' topic; encountered multiple times during walkthrough |
| Jack Danger | person | Pinball designer; appears at festival; coordinates with Dead Flip to stream gameplay battle on 'Ramp or Mode and Roll' machine; has discussion about machine repairs |
| Ed Vanderveen | person | Curator and organizer of Texas Pinball Festival 2016; provided sponsorship to bring Dead Flip to the event |
| Measlemods | person | Pinball community member with booth at festival; has knuckle tattoos; appears to be a vendor or modifier |
| Ben Heckendorff | person | Associated with Domino's Pizza pinball machine at festival; present at event |
| Color DMD | company | Vendor at Texas Pinball Festival with booth; sells color DMD upgrades (referenced for The Flintstones and Avengers games) |
| Spooky Pinball | company | Pinball manufacturer with booth at festival; machines Centaur 2 and Stargazer present; booth visible during walkthrough |
| Multimorphic | company | Pinball manufacturer with booth at festival; announcing four new games; showcasing Lexi Lightspeed virtual pinball content; holding talk during event |
| Outside Edge | company | Vendor at festival selling wall decals and pinball-related merchandise |
| Back Alley Creations | company | Vendor at Texas Pinball Festival selling cool artwork; noted as having booth |
| Pinside | company | Pinball community platform with booth at festival selling shirts and stickers |
| Fred Marco Specialties | company | Vendor at festival selling rubber and ball supplies for pinball machines |
| Dust Pinball | company | Associated with Jack Danger or Jack Danger-related pinball content/tournament machine |
| Slam Tilt Podcast | organization | Pinball podcast; Tommy Skinner is host/associated member; presence noted at festival |
| Texas Pinball Festival 2016 | event | Major pinball community event with numerous machines, vendors, tournament play, talks, and industry figures; location includes tournament area with 12-game bank |
| The Big Lebowski Pinball | product | Pinball machine at festival; Dead Flip plans to stream gameplay on this machine; mentioned as primary streaming target |
| Full Throttle | product | Pinball machine at festival; secondary streaming option considered alongside The Big Lebowski Pinball |
| Ramp or Mode and Roll | product | Pinball machine at festival; has mechanical issue (broken coil of bolt draw being replaced); scheduled for Mark Ritchie talk and Dead Flip/Jack Danger gameplay stream; takes riders |
| Lexi Lightspeed | product | Virtual/digital pinball game by Multimorphic; being showcased at festival; Dead Flip indicates never seen streamed before |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Festival walkthrough and venue tour, Vendor booths and aftermarket manufacturers, Live streaming infrastructure and technical challenges, Pinball machine showcases and gameplay
- **Secondary:** Tournament participation and standings, Industry figures and designer encounters, Virtual pinball platforms

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.82) — Enthusiastic tone throughout despite hangover; positive interactions with industry figures; excited about showcasing machines and event scale; minor technical frustration with streaming but handled with humor

### Signals

- **[community_signal]** Live streaming of pinball festival gameplay and tours; Dead Flip broadcasting first-person content to online audience; demonstrates growing media infrastructure around pinball events (confidence: high) — Extensive live streaming setup, camera equipment, mobile hotspot deployment, chat interaction, subscription notifications during broadcast
- **[event_signal]** Texas Pinball Festival 2016 featured major industry presence with multiple manufacturers, vendors, tournament play, and live streaming; demonstrates significant community engagement (confidence: high) — Extensive vendor presence (Color DMD, Spooky Pinball, Multimorphic, Pinside, Back Alley Creations, etc.), tournament area with 12-game bank, multiple talks scheduled, Ed Vanderveen curation
- **[market_signal]** Extensive aftermarket ecosystem visible at festival: Color DMD upgrades, rubber/ball vendors, art modifications, decals, and custom plastics indicate active secondary market for machine customization (confidence: high) — Multiple vendors: Fred Marco Specialties (rubber/balls), Back Alley Creations (artwork), Outside Edge (decals), Color DMD (display upgrades), custom plastic vendors
- **[announcement]** Multimorphic announcing four new games at Texas Pinball Festival 2016 (confidence: medium) — Speaker mentions 'They're announcing four new games' at Multimorphic booth; plans to stream the announcement but specific game details not captured in content
- **[technology_signal]** Virtual pinball platforms (Lexi Lightspeed by Multimorphic) being showcased at major pinball festivals alongside traditional machines (confidence: medium) — Multimorphic booth dedicated to Lexi Lightspeed; speaker notes 'I've never seen Lexi Lightspeed on the internet' suggesting growing visibility

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## Transcript

 It's my camera and we should be off. Alright, here we go. You guys can hear me and all that fun stuff? So, uh, you got the full throttles over there, Big Lebowski behind me. Um, let me pinch this closed a little bit. I need a segue. Uh, we got like some arcade games over here. There's a DeLorean over here. I got the Back to the Future pin. The sound is A+. Look at that. Cool. We're in the back end of it right now, folks, so it's going to get better. There's more and more stuff. We're piloting the flip. So there's like pins for days against the walls here. Got a bunch of EMs over here. Got a bunch of playfields. It's like Monster Bash and Medieval Madness. HD POV. Got some like roller games and stuff. I love that you guys can see my hands and stuff when I'm pointing. A bunch of medieval magnets over here. We'll start over here. There's pins for freaking days out here, guys. Can you hear me okay? Just making sure. We got some hobbits and some wazes over here. Color DMD has a booth here, which is pretty rad. Pardon me guys. Color DMD Flintstones. Avengers ColorDVD, man that game looks great with a ColorDVD. Just, there's pinball machines freaking everywhere. It's a virtual pin. We're going to cut back around guys so you can see what's going on. Oh my god, they have a Centaur 2 and a Stargazer here. Spooky. We're going to weave in and out so I can show you everything. Outside Edge, these guys do, look at these. There's like wall decals. that you can get. It's pretty cool. Find a guy with a mullet and battle him. The battles will happen later today. Oh my god. Mark Ritchie. Good to see you, brother. Just showing the internet the thing. Did you do a talk today? Or do you have a talk at all right now? Tonight. Rock and roll. Rock and roll. That's great. I'll try to be there. Cool. All right, man. That was Mark Ritchie, Steve Ritchie's brother. Mark Ritchie's made a lot of great games, too, ladies and gentlemen. What the hell is Motor Show? What the hell is that thing? You need a cup holder? We got famous people. We got pinball machines. Here's the Foley acrylic pinball machine. Guys, you wouldn't believe all the crap I have in my hands right now. I don't think playing a game is super doable right now. I need, I do need a pin belt buckle, yes. Oh, it's Ghostbusters. The line for Ghostbusters is like around the freaking booth. What's going on, brother? Uh, alright, let's go over here now. My arm is getting tired. Sorry about the, uh, the cup. I'm gonna keep drinking. So here's all the virtual pins and stuff. I've only shown you, like, just under half of the event. Uh, coin takers over there. Alright, let's go look at some of the, let's I was just going to say hi to Snoopy and stuff like that. How you guys liking this first person view? Pretty cool. What's up? 1984, Queen City Pinball. Pins for days. Pins for days. What's going on brother? Internet, can I get a hey guys in chat please? Oh, you want to see the Domino's pinball machine? Hell yeah. It's a beer. There's an Apollo 13 that I'd like to stream one of these days. 13 ball multiball. We got Frankenstein. So here's like video games and some people that sell stuff. There it goes. Old Chicago. By the way, so that right there, that old Chicago, oh, right here, my buddy Adam pointed out that, number one, the guy on that game looks like me, and he has a pocket square, and on the pocket square is written two initials, J.D. For Jackie Dill. Here's the pin side booth. All you pin siders, it's like shirts and stickers and such. Man, I look like a nutjob wearing all this crap. There's Mark Ritchie yelling at somebody about something. Here's the spooky boo. Oh, Domino's Pizza pinball machine. Mr. Ben Heckendorff. Yeah, I'm still waiting for a deadflip shirt too, buddy. I'm still waiting all sets. So they covered up the playfield because I don't think there is one in there. It's pretty neat looking. There's Ben and Charlie checking some stuff out. We got to go say hi to Measlemods here in a bit It a back alley creation Some cool artwork. Do you guys know the Double Danger guys? No, I don't know them. This is their booth right here. Once I get past... I'm drinking coffee. Oh, sorry buddy. Double Danger. TX sector I'm actually wearing a double-digit shirt right now. My man. Oh baby! I'm gonna have to check that out. What are we looking at? Oh, restoration. Nice. Oh yeah. How you doing so far in the tournament? I had a zero grade on Torx. Yeah. They did better instead. And I got a 16 or something. So I'm going to go back and do this. Oh, yeah. I just fell below the bubble, so I got to go put in some more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, man. It's good to have mine, right? I think so. But I have to, like, stream a bunch of shit, so I might not be able to. Yeah, whatever. All right. Yeah, thank you. Let's look at this fathom really quick. Oh baby. Uh, Rolling Wonder, they covered it because the playfield's not in there. There's a cool Xena. There's the Star Trek here, universe that this gentleman made. He actually rebuilt, he took apart this Star Trek and flipped it. Oh, what's going on, dude? I'm streaming out to the interwebs. First person, I'm wearing the camera. It seems to work out pretty well. I love it, dude. Oh, wow. That's beautiful. mean, we got more to show, guys, more to show, hold on, here we go, my arm's getting tired, so when we're done doing the tour, I'm going to shut down and set up on either Big Lebowski or full throttle, what would you guys like to see? Either one would be good. Here's Marco's specialties booth. Rubbers and balls and all that fun stuff. Lebowski? Alright, we'll stream Lebowski then. Lebowski it is. It's packed in here. We're gonna be playing more than one game, so maybe we'll stream Full Throttle after Lebowski. But as we do that, I gotta like shut down, set up, shut down, set up. Um, look at this freakin' beautiful creature from the black league in it, pretty hot, so here's the tournament area, where when I went to bed last night, I was third, but now I'm like 19th, so if I play one good game of like one of those EMs down there, I'll be back in it, but I don't know if I want to be competing and doing commentary at the same time, uh, because that would suck. Now, I'm going to be doing the, um, commentary for the finals, but we only have enough cameras for, like, two machines, and there are 12 games in this bank, so we're going to have to figure something out. Uh, that, I don't know that I missed anything, but I think that, I think that's it. There are a bunch of fedoras here, absolutely. People like cats here in Texas. I got to throw this coffee away. It's making me sick. Guys, I'm like so freaking hungover, it's disgusting. I'm doing great. I'm hungover as hell. I'm looking for a trash can And I don't Oh there it is Alright folks Remember hit A to trash B to keep drinking Too late I'm switching arms Oh my god A coffee needs some Jameson No thank you dude Oh pardon me guys No JMO please You're making me thirsty Oh my arm is like freaking red Here's the Measlemod's booth Go hair the dog No way man Ladies and gentlemen Measlemod I'm the real Measlemod She's the real Measlemod When you're talking When Measlemod shows up in chat, it's her. Yeah. Great job. Look at, dude. Really? I'm having a terrible time. I'm like, grossly hungover right now. Look at, look at. Adorable. Knuckle tattoos. They'll never wash off. It's a permanent marker for a reason. Miss Measel or Miss Mods I think it's both Miss Measel, Miss Mods Uh, yeah Beat 9, absolutely dude Absolutely It's been pretty nuts people are walking around putting stickers on games and I don't like that I brought a bunch of dead foot stickers but I'm afraid to like hand them out all right what's over here so here's the more the multi-morphic booth uh they do Lexi Lightspeed and stuff um they're doing a talk right now, I believe, out there. They're announcing four new games, and we're going to try to stream this, because I've never seen Lexi Lightspeed on the internet. Something I need to build are these black covers that they have for their pinball machines. My arm is Rats. Let's see what's back here. That's awesome, ball. Augmented pinball reality. Flip, flip. Looks like you do this. Spliff69 just subscribed, brother. Welcome to the league you amazing Ladies and gentlemen you know what to do Flippers and butts up if you could please I look like I walking around Straight up getting stared at by that kid behind me We're going to walk. I don't know how good the internet is over here. I'm afraid to like walk out. and like go to the talks and stuff. I heard a side corner. Uh, where are all the talks happening? Is that down there? Okay, cool. Uh, great. I don't know. Thank you. Well, that's the gist of it. So did we agree on the Big Lebowski? I think we did. I gotta rest my arms for a minute. Holy crap. I do not work out. Wild blood. my man, that's Ed Vanderveen ladies and gentlemen the curator of this whole event super awesome dude who was mega cool enough to fly my ass out here just to sing pinball look at that topper, what's up dude we're uh I'm just doing a little tour of the event right now. Yeah, it's working out pretty well. That's a really nice back to the future. It's beautiful, man. It is. The one down with the DeLorean is kind of a blood down after the same plane hour. Yeah, that's interesting. Oh, baby. All right. Mosey and on. Dude, Jaded, I love you, buddy. Yeah, the EMs are on point. Lethal Weapon 3. there's a CNC dance, uh, wait, why am I, whatever, who cares, I'm, I'm too hungover for this, what's funny is I have to do that walk around in bat, oh my god, guys, I need, I had one of these in the studio, I need one of these back, because the deadfoot clippers would look killer on that game, um, I need, oh, so, I'm gonna be battling people for those trophies, but I'm so freaking hungover that I feel like I'm gonna give them all away, there's a, a Maryland taxi, uh, Destilate, I think you have to pay to come in for the day. So this, yeah, Big Lebowski, that's what we're streaming. Yo, we got a lot of jealous people on the internet right now, man, that they're not here. Well, you should be here. Exactly. Dang. I'm looking at your camera going, what am I looking at? What am I looking wearing it's making it easy to like not jiggle around and stuff like that, it's working pretty well, he's tiring my arms out though, oh boy, um, all right, so I think we're gonna, I mean, they're working on stuff, I don't know that I want to like bug them, I'm gonna shake your left hand, my man, Jack Danger? Yeah. He's going to put your little house key over thousands and thousands of people in here. But we can do it like we said yesterday. Maybe, uh... Wait, come on. Yeah. Yeah, rock and roll. We're having one of the coils of the bolt draw. Okay. Now, uh... Broken. So we're going to replace it. Great. So as soon as that one's up... Yeah. Uh, I will make sure you go first. Because that's easy. Rock and roll. I can do that. I think I'm going to set up my equipment around it right now. Yeah, sure. Obviously not to get in the way. And then, yeah, once it's up and running, you and I will battle, and we'll just let it run for a little bit. Set it up, like, 10, 15 minutes. Okay. I'll hold off. I'll hold off. I'll hold off. No, no, no. Hold on. Let me see how we do that. I know what we can do. Hold on. Yeah. That's Jop, ladies and gentlemen. from Dust Pinball? We'll take the machine on the right. As soon as that one is ready, we'll take the one on the right. They're now trying to put a new one in. Well, I don't need to necessarily play it. I don't want to cut people in line. I just want to set up and show it out to the world. Okay, yeah, but you have to play it. Oh, obviously. You and me have to play it. Yeah, we have to play it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, obviously. Obviously. Damn, yeah. Cool. We're dropping a few frames right now on the internet because we're moving around so much, but once we post up, we'll be good. Okay? Okay. It's just because we're moving around so much that it's... It's hard for it to keep up with us, I guess. If that makes sense. Give me a cap in chat if you know what the fuck I'm talking about. Donate to kids. It should have stabilized. Oh, we'll get some people to play for sure. Remember, we also have full throttle over there to possibly show... I gotta put this damn thing down. Oh, it's killing my arms. Let's go, man. What's Comcast's excuse? You lost your ball again. Okay, let's start. You beat the man. Okay guys, we'll be back. We'll be back. Okay, you guys go. Rock and roll. We take one of the riders, he's a big player. We just squeeze in. We play our game and have some fun and then we'll send it to the other three. Awesome. Yeah, I'm into it. Yep. All right, so I'm going to set up on the right. Yes. Can do. You can do it right. Uh, it's, everything's on the side. Okay. Yeah, so. Cool. Okay, and I'll follow. Awesome, man. All right, we're going to go set up on the right machine there. Should be good. We're gonna be dropping a few frames guys, don't sweat it, everything's gonna be okay. And the proceeds from the lawsuit, yeah no shit. Um guys is everything looking okay The frame should have stabilized again because I put the thing down Beat 9 I know Tommy Skinner from The Slippin' Podcast is here. I don't know who else, really. I don't know. You know, I think when I stream the game, I might have to drop the bitrate down a little bit in order to make it sexy. Yeah, I'm just going to have to drop the bit right down just a little bit. Good old drop frames, huh? Gotta love them. We are on hotel internet, though. I might pull out my mobile hotspot for this, actually, guys. That's what I'm going to do. I'll pull out the, uh... I'll do the mobile hotspot that should stabilize everything. Hopefully. They call me Dr. Love. You were there last year? Oh, okay. Well, we'll see. I'm gonna record this local also when I go live with Big Lebowski so that if the internet's crap, we can still get like a clean shot of what's going on. The internet's being like super butts, but hopefully my hotspot will make it better. I'm like sweating profusely, I'm so damn hungover. Thank you. Yeah, right. That's awesome, man. Uh, dude, thank you. My man. You're only a viewer because you throw prototypes. Right. I'm a fan of your channel. Hell yeah, brother. Thank you so much. They just gave me a prototype plastic That wasn't allowed on the game. We're going to see tournament finals, guys. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. Okay, I've got to shut it down in order to set up. So I'll be right back. Thank you.

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