# Episode 73 – Italians Do It Better

**Source:** Slam Tilt Podcast  
**Type:** podcast_episode  
**Published:** 2018-01-11  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.slamtiltpodcast.com/2018/01/11/episode-73-italians-do-it-better/

---

## Analysis

Slam Tilt Podcast Episode 73 covers State Championship Series (SCS) tournaments, MAGFest results, and upcoming pinball events including the Upstate New York Championships and Stern Army tournament. Hosts Ron Hallett and Bruce Nightingale discuss tournament brackets, state qualifiers, game acquisitions, and recent pinball news including licensing deals for Pulp Fiction and The Beatles themes, plus updates on Batman 66 code and Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Robert D'Estasio won MAGFest, defeating NYC-based players Greg, Levy, and CJ — _Ron Hallett looked up and confirmed the winner on the IFPA site_
- [HIGH] State Championship Series Finals are taking place on January 19th (corrected to January 20th), which is a pre-Buffalo tournament qualifying event — _Ron Hallett and Bruce Nightingale discussing SCS dates and structure_
- [HIGH] Two pinball manufacturers have obtained licensing for Pulp Fiction and The Beatles themes — _Reference to This Week in Pinball news about theme licensing_
- [HIGH] Batman 66 received a significant code update adding 2,162 new video clips (4,595 to 6,757 total) — _Ron and Bruce discussing Batman 66 updates from This Week in Pinball_
- [HIGH] Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle game is upcoming with teaser imagery — _Ron planning to see it at Texas event; Bruce mentioning cool-looking skull imagery_
- [HIGH] The Upstate New York Championship will be held at Silver Ball Saloon in East Rochester, New York — _Bruce Nightingale confirming venue selection by league officials_
- [HIGH] Ron Hallett is ranked 9th in the Upstate tournament top 16; Bruce Nightingale is ranked 13th — _Direct statement of current rankings for the double-elimination tournament_
- [MEDIUM] A Stern Army tournament is happening this weekend at the Banning Pinball Museum (Create Expo) in northern upstate New York — _Ron and Bruce discussing the event but some uncertainty about exact location name_

### Notable Quotes

> "They basically took the future spa out of the tournament area, rolled it through like the lobby of the hotel, up the elevator, up to their room, and in the room it went where they were playing it. At one in the morning."
> — **Ron Hallett**, MAGFest discussion
> _Illustrates the enthusiast community's creative rule-bending and passion for gameplay during tournament events_

> "I would have been 12th. You would have been 12th. And you would have been 13th. Yep. I was above you."
> — **Ron Hallett and Bruce Nightingale**, State rankings discussion
> _Reveals the competitive dynamic between the two hosts and how tournament selection affects rankings_

> "If anyone out there is going to send an email like this, please, you send the email to yourself and then BC everyone else so people cannot see everyone else's email"
> — **Ron Hallett**, Email etiquette discussion
> _Public service announcement about tournament communication best practices in the pinball community_

> "Bruce, of course, knows everything. Try to."
> — **Ron Hallett**, Big Bang Bar locations discussion
> _Light-hearted jab at co-host's encyclopedic knowledge of pinball venues_

> "To be continued. To be continued? Yes. That's very, very vague, Bruce."
> — **Ron Hallett and Bruce Nightingale**, Game acquisition discussion
> _Teases upcoming game acquisition reveal, building listener curiosity about future content_

> "I have another surprise coming that you don't even know about. Oh, God. Okay. Are you going to tell me or not? No, I'm going to make you wonder now."
> — **Bruce Nightingale and Ron Hallett**, Game acquisition segment
> _Demonstrates the hosts' playful dynamic and hints at upcoming game-related content_

> "Pulp Fiction does nothing for me. The Beatles won that."
> — **Ron Hallett**, Licensing discussion
> _Expresses community preference regarding newly licensed themes_

> "I think it's going to be the Munsters. The Munsters?"
> — **Bruce Nightingale**, Kapow game speculation
> _Speculation about which upcoming title will be a limited edition Kapow release_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Ron Hallett | person | Co-host of Slam Tilt Podcast, pinball player, and tournament participant; ranked 9th in Upstate NY Championships |
| Bruce Nightingale | person | Co-host of Slam Tilt Podcast, pinball tournament organizer/director at Silver Ball Saloon in East Rochester, NY; ranked 13th in Upstate Championships |
| Robert D'Estasio | person | Winner of MAGFest pinball tournament from New Jersey, defeated NYC players (Greg, Levy, CJ) |
| Chuck Webster | person | Operator of Wicked Piss Pinball Pit in Massachusetts; mentioned for game maintenance expertise |
| MAGFest | event | Pinball tournament held at Gaylord Convention Center in Washington D.C. area; IFPA circuit event |
| State Championship Series | event | Tournament series with state finals on January 19-20 leading to National championships |
| Upstate New York Championships | event | Double elimination tournament excluding NYC boroughs and Long Island, hosted at Silver Ball Saloon in East Rochester |
| Silver Ball Saloon | venue | Pinball venue in East Rochester, New York, hosting Upstate NY Championships |
| Stern Army | organization | Tournament organizing body; northern upstate NY tournament happening this weekend |
| Batman 66 | game | Stern pinball game that received major code update with 2,162 new video clips |
| Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle | game | Upcoming pinball game with skull-themed imagery, to be shown at Texas event |
| Pulp Fiction | game | Recently licensed pinball theme obtained by a manufacturer |
| The Beatles | game | Recently licensed pinball theme obtained by a manufacturer; Ron's preferred choice |
| Banning Pinball Museum | venue | Museum hosting Create Expo and Stern Army tournament; contains extensive classic Stern collection |
| This Week in Pinball | media | Pinball news website (thisweekinpinball.com) that sources news for podcasts |
| IFPA | organization | International Federation of Pinball Association; manages championship rankings and series |
| Harlem | game | Pinball game that Bruce Nightingale is selling (possibly a limited edition 300/301) |
| Future Spa | game | Pinball game that Bruce Nightingale purchased 5 months prior and is expecting delivery soon |
| Eric Russell | person | Buyer of Bruce's Harlem game; noted as one of three Eric Russells in the community |
| Roger Sharp | person | Subject of Pinball Profile 100th episode; legendary pinball player known for detailed memory of 40-year-old game details |

### Topics

- **Primary:** State Championship Series tournaments and bracket analysis, MAGFest results and tournament recap, Upstate New York Championships logistics and qualifiers, Pinball licensing deals (Pulp Fiction, The Beatles, Alice Cooper), Batman 66 code update and feature additions
- **Secondary:** Stern Army tournament announcement, Game acquisitions and cabinet restoration projects, Rare vintage pinball machines and collector experiences

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.75) — Hosts are enthusiastic about upcoming tournaments and licensing news. Some light frustration about tournament logistics (long drives, single elimination format) and communication mishaps (email privacy). Overall tone is celebratory regarding championships and community events.

### Signals

- **[event_signal]** MAGFest pinball tournament concluded with Robert D'Estasio from New Jersey winning against NYC contingent (confidence: high) — Robert D'Estasio won MAGFest, defeating NYC players Greg, Levy, and CJ
- **[event_signal]** State Championship Series Finals scheduled for January 19-20 across multiple states, serving as pre-Buffalo qualifying tournament (confidence: high) — State finals taking place Friday January 20th, pre-Buffalo tournament, winner advances to Nationals
- **[licensing_signal]** Two new pinball themes licensed: Pulp Fiction and The Beatles (preference expressed for The Beatles) (confidence: high) — Two themes obtained by pinball manufacturers. He's given up the goat. It's Pulp Fiction and The Beatles.
- **[licensing_signal]** Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle confirmed as upcoming pinball game with teaser imagery (confidence: high) — There was some teasers for Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle. It has a cool-looking skull.
- **[code_update]** Batman 66 received significant code update adding 2,162 new video clips (4,595 to 6,757 total) and new scoring mechanics (confidence: high) — They went from 4,595 clips to 6,757 video clips. Yeah, that's big. Total nuclear annihilation with the single point for the reactor value.
- **[event_signal]** Stern Army tournament happening this weekend at Banning Pinball Museum (Create Expo) in northern upstate New York with classic Stern collection (confidence: medium) — We're going to have a nice thing besides in disc. And that is? We're having the first Stern Army tournament in up-upstate New York.
- **[venue_signal]** Big Bang Bar location at Sunshine Laundromat was sold; venue changes affecting tournament and event hosting (confidence: medium) — It had a list of the locations that Big Bang Bar is at, and I thought there was one in Sunshine Laundromat. No, they sold it.
- **[community_signal]** Communication/privacy concern: tournament email sent with all attendee addresses exposed in TO line instead of BCC (confidence: high) — He sent out the email to everyone as the two. So now I know everyone's email address, and everyone knows mine...Please, you send the email to yourself and then BC everyone else
- **[collector_signal]** Bruce Nightingale sold Harlem game (limited edition 300/301) to Eric Russell; acquiring Future Spa machine and another unannounced game (confidence: medium) — I did. What did you sell? Harlem. To be continued. To be continued? Yes. That's very, very vague, Bruce.
- **[product_strategy]** Speculation that Munsters may be next Kapow (limited edition) release, with regular production expected for Pulp Fiction and Beatles themes (confidence: low) — So what's the Kapow game going to be? I think it's going to be the Munsters.
- **[content_signal]** Pinball Profile podcast reached 100 episodes, featuring Roger Sharp discussing 40-year pinball history and details (confidence: high) — Pinball profile, 100 episode, Roger Sharp. Congratulations. That was a really good episode.
- **[competitive_signal]** Analysis of state tournament brackets showing interesting matchups (Levy vs Tadman, Jason vs Eric) and state-by-state ranking disparities (confidence: medium) — Levy our number two seed gets to go against jack tadman...Jason and Eric usually carpool together...they're playing each other in the first round

---

## Transcript

 Can I help you? Uh, we got like, some fur. Yeah, we'll sell it to you for like, twenty dollars. Yeah, and it's worth at least half that. I'm going to have to ask you to leave, and take your smelly little creature with you. Uh, okay. Um, I don't understand, how come nobody wants our fur? Uh, I don't know, it's like that saying, don't look a dead horse in the mouth. I don't think this is a horse, butthead. Coming to you from beautiful upstate New York, this is the Slam Tilt Podcast, a show about all things pinball. I'm your host, Ron Hallett, here with my co-host, Bruce Nightingale. Championships, baby. All about the championships. What championships? The NFL Super Bowl? No. No? Okay. What championships? SCS and Upstate New York Championships. SCS, and that stands for what, Bruce? State Championship Series, if I remember correctly. Okay, yeah, I think you're right. And welcome to Episode 73, Creed. I was right, State Championship Series. Yes, Creed. Which was, I guess, the last Rocky movie so far. bar. Yeah. It's going to be like Creed 2. I never saw it. You never saw Creed? Supposedly it was good. I didn't see it either. They did say it. I was actually going to watch it last night, but I stayed at the bar really late. We really need to get serious before we've seen the movies. That would help. Next series we will be. What is that again? Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Everybody dance now. Was that even in any of the Lethal Weapon movies? No, and you were wrong about the getaway one of our listeners said you were wrong about a lagrange being a song okay i'm gonna bring it up right now yeah he said it was uh uh what did he say sharp dressed man yes i don't think so well we'll have to have more people vote on that vote no it's either his or it isn't no i'll just go on in the uh i'll just go on on the the internets and find a clip of it i'm sure I will find the interwebs to see what the song is. I'm probably wrong. I never picked it anyway. I would always pick, everybody dance now. So before we get started, I'd just like to thank everyone for their well wishes. Yeah, that was very nice. A lot of love there, and that was nice. Not something... You're used to. No, not something I'm used to. I'll give you love. God like that. You know, Jesus Christ. So just thanks to everyone. Thank you, guys. It's easy to say a nice thank you. Put the little song at the end, which Bruce didn't even know about. I'm sure he didn't know that until he heard the podcast. So from my band days back in the day. Yeah. I was told I sounded pitchy, whatever that means. They're not used to you after a week. I mean, a month of not being on. My singing is not pitchy. No, those vocals were recorded, like, in a bathroom, so. Oh, wow. Oh, my. Oh, my. What were you doing in that bathroom, sir? Acoustics. The great acoustics of the bathroom. With the lyrics, like, taped to the shower curtain. First yawn of the year. Yeah. Wow, Bruce. Wake up. Oh, I'm exhausted. I was at the bar until about 1 o'clock last night. Then worked all day. So this is going to be the normal. Yawn, yawn, yawn. So, what's new? What's new? What's new, pussycat? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry, that's all I think of when I hear that. A Tom Jones reference. Wow, that's really topical. Yep. See, you said that, I think, 40 episodes ago or 45 episodes ago. Who's going to get that? No one. Me. Okay. Well, they just had MAGFest. Yes, they did. In the Gaylord Convention Center, and it's basically Washington, D.C., for the most part. Gaylord. Okay. And I don't even know who won, unfortunately. It was, well, three New York City guys were in there. Yep, and none of them won. Nope. Greg, Levy, and CJ were all in there. And the guy they played, he beat them all. And he's from New Jersey. And you'd think I'd remember his name. Nope. But I did not. But luckily, I am prepared. The power of the internet. Yeah, but I am prepared. and I am able to just stall while I go to the site and look up the winner, who was Robert D'Estasio. Very nice. Congratulations, Robert. I hope I said that right. So congratulations, Robert. You win. You would have liked the game list. Actually, I really liked the game list. I saw some of it. It was pretty cool. We can read them out for everyone else, though. The game list. Well, yes, that's what I was going to do. I wasn't going to just say the games were awesome. Let's move on. Okay, you would have. No, I wouldn't have. Let's see. Definitely getting back into it. I can feel it. Can't you feel it? Feel it. I can feel it. Where the hell is the game games? How are you doing? Where are the games? We're really back into it now. Oh, there was like a top score. They kind of remember. Okay, there it is. Cues. Oh, great. It just has the abbreviation, so I'm supposed to guess what all these are. Come on. Where's the game scores? There we go. Where's the BJ? BJ? What? Well, you can think two ways. BJ or Blackjack. I'm back, baby. DM Demoman. Okay. Let's just do the initials, see if you get what they were going for. DM Demoman, FT. Fishtails. Correct. F-N-T. F-N-T, fun. You're about to say it. Think of the one, one of his favorite games. Oh, one of the one's favorite games, F-N-T. F-N-T. Kenny Rogers on the back glass. Oh, Frontier. Yeah. I wouldn't put it that way, but go ahead. How would you put it? I would put it FNR. Okay. All right. S-P-A. That's easy. S-P-A. Space Jam? As in future. Oh, spa. Yeah. I thought these were easy. M-H. M-H. Matterhari? Yep. M-E-T. Metallica. Yeah. N-G-S. uh a nitro ground shaker yeah sttng star trek next generation make it so number two with the number one on my face i mean backwards oh either way it's disgusting swle star wars limited edition yeah and um h2o uh whitewater of course great game so damn that's i like almost every one of these games. Except for Star Wars. I would have dealt with it. And then we had... I believe the way they do it is it's like pump and dump, but you don't pay anything. It's free. That's cool. So you can just play and play and play and play. Your hands bleed and your freaking arms are all disfigured. I noticed Tim Sexton, he didn't make it. What? Yeah. He didn't actually get there until Saturday. That's been working. Yeah, working. Yeah. I had dim balls. I had dim balls. I think he left work and drove to Virginia, which was from Poughkeepsie. Looks like looking at the – he got there around midnight and started playing. This is one of those shows that's like open 24-7 or, yeah, so – or 24 hours. So he started playing until about 3 a.m., then must have went to bed, and then came back at nine and played all the way until the end of qualifying and just missed out, unfortunately. Wow. That sounds like what I'm going to be doing next week. Oh, but we'll talk about that a little later on. Okay. That sounds like your new line now. We're going to talk about that later on. Of course. I like letting people wonder. Yeah. You're kind of like, I remember back in the day when I would watch. I'm a teeth. When I'd be watching the Yankee game, and after the Yankee game went on, This was like on picks, and they would come on with the news and say some interesting story. Like, right after this, we're going to get to it. And they would do that for an hour. And eventually you realized that that was the last story they were going to do, and they would do that every time. So you just would go do something else and come back at 6.45. That was MAGFest. Oh, and I don't know if you saw any of the Steven Bowden final bonus. Hi, Steve. I saw the video of them bringing the future spot. Yeah, first he was streaming the finals because they have no streaming there, even though it's a circuit event. Come on. So he's streaming on his phone. And then after that, the New York contingent, they basically took the future spa out of the tournament area. No, I don't think it was. They said they were borrowing it. So they took it out of the tournament area, rolled it through like the lobby of the hotel, up the elevator, up to their room, and in the room it went where they were playing it. At one in the morning. Nice. Nice. I heard him banging on the wall a couple times. That was bad. Well, it was just the leg. So it was fine. So that was MAGFest. Yes, it was. And now all the state finals are now closed. So now we know who is where and what position everyone's in. We do? We do. Where can we find this information out? It would be at ifpapinball.com forward slash champseries forward slash question mark year equals 2018 and sign S equals A capital A capital R. You got all that, folks? Or you just go to the front page and you click on. Yeah, that you can do, too. Yes. Yes, but. I love seeing where, like, certain people go when they don't go in their home state. Well, first is funniest. I want to go to Arkansas next year. Okay, why do you want to go to Arkansas? Arkansas only has six people. Arkansas only has six? Like an entire state? No, they had eight people qualify in the ranks for state, and six are only going. Only six are going? Yes. All right. Let me look at that. I'll bring this up now. The highest ranked person is 1394. The lowest ranked person is 30,768. my father would kick ass in this tournament. I think he would too. Let's see. Yeah, they were talking about, like, which states went down the least amount of spots to get their finalists and which went the most. Which one was it? I don't know. There was, like – New Jersey had 16. Yeah, and I can't find that. I should have listened to what you said for that site. You should have. Because I can't find, I found the standings, but not the thing I want to see. Yep, the IFPA registration page. Yeah. Oh, oh, yeah. So you go to the front page. Yeah, I'm here. Oh, there it is. There you go. Dumbass. Oh, God. So New Jersey had all 16, 16, or 17 out of 16. Yeah, 17. And I think there was like two or three with 17 out of 16. So that was interesting. So, Ron, you are going to not New York State as the hypocritical person that you are. Like I said, total hypocrite. I'm not driving the five and a half hours. Instead, I will drive three hours. And go to Massachusetts. The spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of America. To go to Chuck Webster's Wicked Piss a Pinball Pit. Yes. and you're going to be playing Kenny Weiner. Sorry, Kenny, but I just have to laugh when I hear that. How do you know that's how you say his name? Weiner? It would be Weiner or Weiner. Why did you go with that? You always just go with it. Of course I do. They might have actually dropped down the most spots because of the whole fantastic in the league. Their league that they had where, like, every single state was in, and it had like 200 people in it or whatever it was. Because if you look, most of the people in the Massachusetts were not from Massachusetts, and they were all picking other states. That's why I didn't think I was. I was 40th, and I'm freaking ninth. I'm the ninth down. It's insane. Where would you have been in New York State if you actually did want to play with the big boys? Oh, sorry, I said that out loud. Oh, wow. You just insulted Massachusetts, sir. And your point? I would have been 12th. You would have been 12th. And you would have been 13th. Yep. I was above you. Oh, my. Oh, my. Let's see who wouldn't have got in. It would have been JT. JT Harrison. You made JT a happy person. JT, you should thank me, man. So there are some good matchups in our New York State here. uh i'm sure we should be talking about this because no one wants to talk about tournaments no nobody does nobody does but levy our number two seed gets to go against jack tadman that's a tough first round yeah for levy right or no uh no i don't know actually i'm i'm putting my money on levy okay you hear that levy levy and i would not want to be in the car with jason and Eric, because Jason and Eric usually carpool together. And Jason's always late? Well, that's one thing, but they're playing each other in the first round. Ah, excellent. So someone's going to lose and have to sit around. Yep. That's the part that sucks about this format is I could have basically drove five and a half hours. Hung out with me. Yeah, hung out, played my round, played like shit, lost four straight games, and that would have been it. and I'd just be standing around like an idiot. But you could have been in and hanging out with us. That would have been a cool thing. Yeah. Long drive, man. Just a long, long drive. You'd love me, though. You'd come out for a long drive. I want to go to Chuck Webster's again. I want to play BMX. That is good. Yes. I agree. Did you see Chuck Webster's post today? I hate 6803. Yes, I hate 6803. It was great. I posted on it, too. It was great. It was great. He stopped in a game out and like, what did he do? He put a remote battery pack. He did some things and all of a sudden it had like no sound. So he thought he blew something up. Then eventually he just went to the number pad and realized the sound is off by default. That's the stupidest thing ever. So I get to play CJ Smith. That should be fun. I'm going to enjoy that because I like CJ. We get along together. It'll be a good time. So let's see who's in Illinois. Oh, are we going to go? Well, we're going there. Actually, New York went down. Actually, Massachusetts probably went down the furthest. In Massachusetts, the 16th place was the 72nd place overall in the state. Are you friends with the one's girlfriend on Facebook? Yes. Because she actually posted a funny thing this weekend. She went to a wedding this weekend. And the one wasn't there. But he was there. So she had a cardboard cutout of him made of him in a suit, which was weird, but with his baseball cap on, of course. Of course. And was carrying it around with her. It was very ingenious. That was funny. I was laughing my ass off. She got that from George Takei, you know. I'm sure. I'm sure she did. They had a long-distance relationship, and they make it work, and it's really cool to see when they actually have fun with it, too. That was really funny. So, yeah, Illinois looks kind of interesting. Zach, Keith, Josh, Lyman, Zach, Parks. Zach Parks, you mean the one who had like $30 billion on the Guardian stream? Yeah, and don't forget we have some slackers in the backside. Joshua Joshua Henderson and Roger Sharp. Never heard of these people. I don't know. Jesus Christ. This is a pretty tough field. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be in this field. No, no, no, no, no. Let's try California now. Per, Andre, Carl, Gene. Oh, my gosh. Jim Belsito, of course. Josh Lian. Bob Matthews. Wait, Bob Matthews is actually attending? He is. In California? Okay. Yes, he is. And then let's go to, let's try Washington. The king of the Whoppers. The king of the Whoppers. Looks like most people are attending. Yep. Robert picked British Columbia, of course. By the way Raymond he actually did some streaming over the weekend where he streamed out in If you want to see what Armageddon looks like Oh he did do it Tune in I think he only really played it once because the first he had issues with the stream Then when he got it started up, I think he only played like one game. Almost got showdown, but had trouble getting it in the SIM card hole. Not surprisingly. So where do you think, now Trent has won all these tournaments all over the place. All over the world. Which state did Trent pick? All over the world. Well, we'll go to where he's from, Ohio, which I'm sure he's there. Oh, wait a minute. No, he's not attending. He's going to North Carolina. Yes, he is. He must like flippers. He must like flippers. I don't know. Is that where it is? Is that where the final is? I don't know. Yes, it is. Okay. And he's actually ranked seventh in that one, so good time to get away. And when does all these wonderful state finals take place? On the 19th of January. No. No? No. They will all be taking place Friday. This is why I'm here to correct you. Yes, that is correct. It's actually the pre-Buffalo tournament for us guys. Pre-Buffalo? Like before Buffalo? Do you mean the Buffalo pre-tournament? The pre-tournament. The pre-Buffalo tournament. What the hell? You don't listen to me ever. Pre-Buffalo doesn't make any sense. So what's pre-Buffalo? Would that be right? It's like pre-medical pause. It's like right outside of Buffalo. It's pre-Buffalo. It's like pre-medical. Well, actually, it kind of is almost outside of Buffalo, but it's pre-medical pause. Pre-snow. So, again, folks, that's January 20th, which is always a fun day because you see all the results coming in from across the country. And Ron and me, we'll be booking our flights to wherever it is this year because we're going to win. The winner gets to go to the Nationals. Yes. And I bought my ticket already. Well, no, with the new dollar fee, it's practically paid for, right? We don't have to pay to go anywhere, right? No, next year. No, next year we won't have to pay. Oh, okay. Don't forget I bought my ticket. Hmm? You're not catching the joke. Four times I've said it to you. No, I don't get it. I bought my ticket already. You bought your ticket already. That's the first New York State Finals. Well, when a certain person bought their ticket already? Yes. Did I beat? Yeah. Yes. That was fun times, fun times. Also, we have the Upstate New York Championship. What's that? We have everywhere except for the five boroughs of New York City are included in an Upstate tournament. So all the tournaments that have been played all in Upstate besides the five boroughs of New York City and Long Island are counted up over the year. I track that and follow that. and we have just started seeing who's going to be in the top 16 for our tournament, which is a double elimination. Ooh, double elimination, as opposed to the single elimination, four out of seven format. No, it's going to be best of five. Best of five. Yes, I know. I was saying the regular state tournament is single elimination, four out of seven. The upstate is the far superior double elimination, three out of five. Very good. And Ron Hallett just told me before we started, he is going to join us. Yes, I am going to attend because where is this going to take place, Bruce? At the beautiful Silver Ball Saloon in East Rochester, New York. Luckily, I did not vote on it. All the other league officials from all over the state have a vote into it. And they all voted, and I didn't have to vote. They all picked my place, which is very nice. I got in legitimately, too. I'm actually in the top 16. You are, and I'm in 13. Okay. I have a beef to pick with you, though. Uh-oh. Okay. Now, folks, he sent out an email. Yes, I did. To everybody. Yes, everyone. First mistake. He sent out the email to everyone as the two. So now I know everyone's email address, and everyone knows mine. Who is? Fail. Who is? Fail. That's the first. And then if that, you got by that part, and you didn't notice that, when you open up the email, It is everyone's name with their email address. I'm going to show what the people were doing. Right next to it. Yep. You don't give – no, no. Yes. People don't want to give away their email addresses all the time. I've already spammed you on thousands of sites. Oh. I got all three entries for giving you my friend. Send your friend an entry spot in this tournament and win. If anyone out there is going to send an email like this, please, you send the email to yourself and then BC everyone else so people cannot see everyone else's email everyone can enjoy emailing Ron with all of your spam and your chain letters he loves chain letters I hate you I hate you see don't be Bruce don't do this and not only that he sent an email to the top 50 so I know like all 50 people's email except number 50 His email's not on there. You must have cut off the screen like when you didn't paste everything. Yeah, I still had 10 more underneath it, but I think we're going to admit the 16 out of the 50. We're waiting on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 6 out of the 16, top 16, are already answered back. So we have pretty good answers so far. Of course, I'm going to keep this email to make sure I have everyone's email address in the future if I ever, you know. But I shouldn't have this information. But you do. But I do. And you're loving it now, aren't you? Yeah. Oh, quit your bellyaching, you blubbermouth. So upstate finals are going to be fun, fun, fun. Yes. I'll get to suck at your games again. Yes, yes you will. There'll be one less one there. That's right, you just sold a game. I did. What did you sell? Harlem. Oh. But it's going to a good home. Really? Who's it going to? Eric Russell. I don't know which one. Oh, one of the three Eric Russells. Yeah. Maybe you can fool all three of them into paying you the same amount. You could triple your money. It's fine. I could triple my money. Yep. Just throwing it out there. So why are you selling it? To be continued. To be continued? Yes. That's very, very vague, Bruce. Yes, it is. Our listeners deserve better. To be continued to buy a game. How's that? Interesting. Yes. Interesting. Is this a special game? Oh, it's special. Very special. Only 300 people special. Or 301. Hmm. So you're saying that this game may be in a future Heads Up Challenge. It could be. It could be. Here we go. That's enough, I think. Yeah. Which one would be superior? Yeah, let's... Oh, yours is going to be superior. The pictures I saw, it's not even close. No, the cabinet's pretty wonked on mine, too. Actually, yeah, the back of it looks like the bottom's falling out. But, you know, you got a guy. I got a guy. You got a guy. I got a guy. Hey, I just got to get stencils. That's the hard part. Why? The art is pathetic. That's what I'm saying. But if it's wasted, you know. You should just do new art on it. Ooh. Yeah, a new project. Yeah, you could have the coolest one of all. And I got something else this past week. And I have another surprise coming that you don't even know about. Oh, God. Okay. Are you going to tell me or not? No, I'm going to make you wonder now. Make me wonder. Well, you just said two different things. So you're getting – what's the first one, or is that a secret? No, the first one's not a secret. Okay. What was the first thing I was going to say? Were you saying about the future spa? No, the future spa is coming eventually. Okay, so that's not even one of the things. Nope. The future spa he paid for five months ago. He's finally going to get it. Finally going to get it. and then I have something else coming, which you were in on a conversation a long time ago. Enough said there. Okay, Captain Vague. Okay, what's the other thing? I forget. I had so much excitement. I really do. I am confused. I can't even edit this in a coherent way now. I have no idea what just happened there. Yep, I forgot one thing. You said you had one thing you were going to tell me, and the other thing you were going to leave a secret. Then I mentioned the future spot, which was the third thing. I forget what I was going to tell you. That's the problem I forgot to tell you. So, see? All right, let's move on. Also coming up this weekend is InDisc. InDisc. Carl D'Python Anghelo. Carl D'Python Anghelo. He was just on Head to Head. Pinball. Really? Yeah, I heard they had a really long podcast. Three-hour tours. Was Martin drunk again? No, that was a classic one. I liked that one. He was quite bombed. He seemed fine at the beginning, but then it seemed to be more bombed as the... That damn gin just catches up to you. Yeah. And man, he went off on John Papadiuk. That was something. This weekend, we're going to have a nice thing besides in disc. And that is? We're having the first Stern Army tournament in up-upstate New York. Keeler has southern upstate. We're going for northern upstate. That doesn't make any sense. It does. No, northern upstate would be like Saratoga. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're Western upstate, which, again, makes no sense because that's the whole, like, everything not in New York City is upstate when you're, like, West. Okay, the cool part of the state. Yeah, as in really effing cold. Yeah, not today. We hit 43 today. Wow, amazing. I know. Yesterday morning it was 12 or 10, and now we're at 43. Tomorrow we're supposed to be 47, and then we're supposed to hit 52. and then at the end of the weekend we'll be back down to 11. Heatwave. So you're going to have a lot of just mud. Yes, we will. Mud is me. Mud is my middle name. Your name is Mud. Yep. Yeah, in disc, which will be at the Banning. Yes, it will be. What is it called? There's an official name for it. Create Expo. No, no. That's the name of the show. That's not what this is. Or the Banning Museum or something like that. We really should be more prepared. What's that? The Banning Pinball Museum. It's in panning. It has a shitload of games. Yes, it does. And they'll all be available. Including all classic sterns. Almost all classic sterns. Including games like Quicksilver. Dragonfist. Dragonfist. Did they have an Orbiter 1 there anywhere? Yes, they did. Forfella. Forfella. Oh, Spirit. A really nice Spirit, by the way. Yeah, it was really nice. You know, there's really only one Super Rare game at this point I've never played. Which is? Take a guess. So I played games like Loch Ness Monster, which there's only one. Yes. So what could I possibly not have played? I played Kingpin. Wizard Blocks. Bing Bang Bar. You never played Wizard Blocks? No, I played Wizard Blocks. Oh, you thought you said you didn't? It was at a show. I could have played it, but it was out of order the second I was in front of it. But I did at least see it. Okay, but you didn't play it, so that's not why. I win. I win. Later, Space Invader. That's not the one. Try again. I played Q. King Kong. Oh, you got me. I'd never played a King Kong. So that's another one. Add that to the list. So we got Wizard Blocks, which you should be able to play that someday if someone brings it to the show. The guy. Well, same guy. I played King Kong. I played King Kong. Really? That was from PASAC. He had two of them. Really? That must have been in an expo. No, it wasn't an expo. It was actually at the Ohio Pinball Show, one of the early Ohio Pinball Shows. Interesting. thing. I played an early prototype of Wizard Blocks, no artwork or anything on it, but they had it. It flipped like three times and played Prototype Tommy. Yes, with the chimes. With the chimes, we both played that. That was cool. We played a prototype 8-Ball with the Alpha and America displays. 8-Ball Deluxe. I played that twice. I played that when it was at Expo, and then I played it just this last year in Banning. But the one I was thinking of... I'm trying to think still. Hold on. It's a Gottlieb. Oh, God. And I could have played it, but it broke like 10 minutes before I got to the party where it was at. Cuber's Cube. No, I played that. Yeah, so why? Not good. No, it sucked. Krull? Yep. Krull. It was at Mike's party in Massachusetts where I got to play the Loch Ness Monster in an original Big Bang Bar. He had a crawl. It broke right before I got there. So it's normal. It was freaky. It had the window thing, but the window, instead of just a plain window, it was like a magnification effect. It was weird. It was really weird. So that was that. Let's get to a piece of news. Piece of news. This Week in Pinball. This Week in Pinball. Hi, Jeff. Hi, Jeff. go to thisweekinpinball.com, the site that everyone, all the podcasts rip off. Yes, but we at least say it like other people do sometimes too, but not everyone. Two themes obtained by pinball manufacturers. He's given up the goat. It's Pulp Fiction and The Beatles. Yeah, well, Pulp Fiction does nothing for me. The Beatles won that. That I heard. Yeah. Pulp Fiction has been out there forever, so I guess. Okay. Which one do you think is going to be a Kapow? No. No? So you actually think these are just regular production games, not Kapow? Yep. So what's the Kapow game going to be? I think it's going to be the Munsters. The Munsters? Okay. I think so. And there was some teasers for Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle. It has a cool-looking skull. And I'll get to see that at Texas. Yes, you will. Will you? Hopefully I do, too. Okay. I'm hoping. It all depends on the bar. Not the Big Bang. No. No. The overrated Big Bang bar. No, it's not overrated. The Twippy Awards. Sorry, Twippy Awards. Which are on the 19th. Yeah, we don't want to be involved. Oh, that's right. That's right. Forget we even mentioned that. Pretend I edited it out. So, yeah, Batman 66. More code. More video clips. Yeah, they went from... 4,595 clips to 6,757 video clips. Yeah, that's big. That's really big. Yeah. I like the total nuclear annihilation with the single point for the reactor value. That's pretty cool. Yep, so however many reactors you destroyed will be the last digit in your score. Yep, which is really freaking cool. Mm-hmm. Have you played one yet? Nope. Damn. But you could actually buy the music. Yes, on cassette. God, I'm waiting for it to be on iTunes. Or it will be released digitally on iTunes, Spotify, Google Music, etc. Then it was mentioned like a Big Bang Bar. Like a Big Bang Bar is going to be at a location. It's funny. It had a list of the locations that Big Bang Bar is at, and I thought there was one in Sunshine Laundromat. No, they sold it. Oh, they sold it. Okay. I did not know that. But Bruce, of course, knows everything. Try to. Let's see. It never drains. We mentioned that. Thunderbirds, no. God, this pass. Pinball profile, 100 episode, Roger Sharp. Congratulations. That was a really good episode. Good job, Jeff. Check it out. Watch as Roger Sharp remembers intricate details from 40 years ago. But you're lucky that he remembers his son's names. I added a little Jeff into that one. I like how he said he'd whip their ass if he was in his prime. Yep. And he's like, did I actually just say that? So there we go. That was good. And then Black and White Twilight Zone. Okay. So it just makes me want to hate that game even more. Okay. That was freaking hideous. Oh, and this actually interests me. It looks like they're Planetary Pinball. Yes. Which owns rights to a lot of different things now. They have got someone going through the archives, basically. It looks like they're going to start showing some of this stuff off. And, of course, this doesn't make sense that I'm thinking about this because it's a Data East game, so I don't know how they got this. But they have the play-filled artwork. This was out before. This is not the first time. The play-filled artwork for Total Recall. Yeah. But this has been seen before. But this is seen before. I've seen this picture. Well, you've seen everything. This is in one of those books. It's one of those pinball books by the Italian guy. He had it in there. And if you want the original head-to-head challenge, this game would have been it. Yes, it would have been. Man, how would that have been shipped? That looked so weird. Oh, it was terrible. That would have never worked. That would have never worked. They had two games, like Siamese twin games, connected at the back of the playfield. It's that complete pinball book by Marco Rosigannol. I think he had a picture of it in there. Rosigannol. I know that's not how you say it, but it's still funny. Pinball Let me see Let me see Hey end of victory laps End of post bonus Welcome back to the Slamtail Podcast Yes Thank you Thank you, sir. We're back. Back in the New York groove. I just like how you say the Italian names. You are not Italian. Oh, fuck no. Hey, Italians rule. We are the best. Where did you win last? Where did I win last? What does that have to do with anything? Because you're saying Italians rule, then they haven't won a war in so long. Haven't won a war? What does that have to do with anything? You said you rule. Did you just say you rule? Yeah, I said I rule. If you win, you usually rule over people. Pinbird champion, karate champ champion, you know, pintastic inaugural winner. Do I need to go on? That's it. That's it? Where's all your accolades, Bruce? I am the New York State upstate champion. Okay. Okay, enough said. That's it? Come on. I'm stomp champion. What's that? New York State finalist. Oh, I know. So was I. You were? For New York State? I want to see what you'd say. Hold on, what? Yeah, I don't remember that. I was actually third in Connecticut one year. Seventh place in the 24-hour tournament, which I'd never played in. out of 100 people? Third in Pintastic. First in Pintastic. I already covered that. Yeah, third. P3, first winner in B. Okay, in which tournament? There's like 30,000 P3 tournaments. First P3 tournament, all the way down at the... Oh, the pinball parlor? Yep. Where me and my father basically played Hydro Thunder most of the time. Yes. Hydro Thunder! Hydro Thunder. This is pretty funny going over all the accolades and seeing how I'm obviously the champion. Biggest stud. Winner. Okay. Yeah, you got that. Yep. Karate champ, world champion, though, as verified by Twin Galaxies. Oh, and I was also in King of Kong, the cult favorite. Exactly. Exactly. He's got no comebacks for this. No, I don't. I fell asleep during that. Very good. That was a good comeback. I like that. Yeah, you can do your yawn. I am the host of the Slamtail Podcast. No, I'm the host. You're the co-host. The Complete Pinball Book, Collecting the Game and Its History by Marco... Now, let's see. It's R-O-S-S-I-G-N-O-S-A. Razzaganolli. That's how I would think you'd say it. Fellow Italians, feel happy to correct me. Come on, Pavarelli. Get out there. Give us some info. So I should use my Italian name, Labello. That's my Italian name. My great-grandparents, Frank and Conchetta Labello. Or my grandmother, her main name is about as Italian Catholic, I think, as you can get. It's like Carmilla Teresa Labello. So now that we haven't talked about pinball for like five minutes, well, actually we did. We did. We talked about how much better I am at it than you. we can continue on with, let's see, I had a stream this past week. And your machine failed so many times I heard from my machine. My machine failed. That's what the programmer said. Well, the programmer couldn't get on the stream for the first five minutes. I think the programmer said you failed. We did a nice little stream of some beta software a la Stern, Stern style. It didn't have any actual lockups, but we did have this situation where I locked a ball and it just kind of sat there. And then, of course, said programmer said, oh, your switch must not be working. So I took the glass off and actuated all three lock switches about ten times in a row each. So the programmer's wrong, you're right. Yeah. Okay. I heard it here first, and you heard it there too, Poopo. So then he had to resort to resort to insulting you know, flipper hop and all that, which he's right. There's bad flipper hop on the left side. Yeah, you can see the medals bent up. I got to get a Cliffy for that. By the way, Cliffy, Passion for Pinball, if you have a Williams game with those metal in-lane guides, especially on older games and you're getting bad flipper hop and you know how much we hate flipper hop at the Slamto Podcast, check out his site. He has like, he has in-lane guides that fit almost all like your early solid state games, unless they had some kind of special configuration. But pretty much anything up until like almost the mid-80s. So he has one right for firepower. So I'm going to have to get that one because it's annoying me now. Firepower. Firepower. And I have to adjust the top lock. It's not feeding up there right. Yeah, it's not. And all this was brought up, of course, in the stream. So thanks. Fail. But we found some things. Some things that happened. Some improvements that could be made. What repairs did you do besides? That wasn't a repair. That was a stream. Stream that you. So are we going to repairs? No, that proved that you do need to do repairs. What? You had a stream that proved you need to do some repairs. Adjustments. Repairs to me means something is broken. Okay, so what's broken in the old world of. All right, let's get to repairs. I tried to make the dialed in more dialed in. Mm-hmm. I was getting too many right orbit Slash shots that were not registering, which gets really frustrating. So I just made some angle adjustments to try to get it. I think it's like jumping the switch or just passing it away where it's not actuating it. So I made some adjustments. That seems to be working much better now. Oh! Yeah. I then made some – I changed some rubbers. Oh, my. There you go. I was waiting for the comment. Because the rubber that they used, and a lot of the mini post rubber, it just shreds badly. You got just white shit all over the play field. So I had bought some of the synthetic rubber, whatever, the stuff from Pinball Life. And I'm trying it out. Just the mini post rubbers, the smaller rings. And I actually have them in the Dragon Fist. on the big game, and they're working well because they're not rubber, so they should not completely freaking disintegrate, and I shouldn't see the rubber just shredding all over the play field because that was getting annoying. So I replaced the one by the pop-uppers and the two that are on either side of the SIM card hole that you can never hit, and played a bunch of games that dialed in, and it's still awesome. Nice. Still love it. Let's see, what else did I work on? I made some assessments on the cheetah. Uh-oh. No, I just... Is it dead, Jim? No. You ready to sell it to me? No, no way. I think I know where the right flipper doesn't work. Because the wiring is massively fucked up. Oh, great. Massive. Oh, you should see it. It's a thing of beauty. Wire soldered two wires. Not going to the right lug at all. It's beautiful. So I'm not even going to pursue it. It's the wrong coil, too. So I'm just going to rip all that shit out, put the right coil in, put everything where it's supposed to be, and I have a feeling that flipper will probably start working. My assessment, it's pretty good. There's some hacking here and there with, like, the original screw was gone, and they put some shit in there. I mean, all the flippers are going to have to be totally done over because they're just bad. but for the most part the things i'm most worried about is cheetah has two different like light it's got a light board a rather significantly large one i think it's got like 12 lights on it in the grid it's not not nine like on big game it's like 12 and unfortunately as i anticipated like hardly any of the lights are working i put in light test i start pressing down the sockets and they work. Of course, sir. That's a lot of fun. So that's going to be fun trying to get solder to stick in there. Ah. Yeah, you guys have... You got to stick it before you lick it. Oh. Edit. So I... I filed the hell out of them. I even put like the... What do you call it? What's the stuff you put on before you put the solder on? It's supposed to make it stick better. What's it called? I don't know what it's called. You know, you can do it in like liquid form, but it also is like a cream form. Oh, good Lord. Oh, yeah, it's cream. I like the cream. I'm sure you do. Flux. Flux, yes. So I just filed the hell out of it. Put flux on there. Heat the damn soldering thing as hot as it'll go, and it still won't stick. Cream. Sorry. You said cream. The cream. That's my favorite Prince song. So, back to your board repair. Oh, oh. I'm going to be diving into that pretty soon, getting started. I'm looking forward to it. Excellent. Yeah. I have to... See, and this is my own fault. But I need to get another one of the Envy RAM, like little mini boards. Yeah. From Andrew at Weebly. I don't know why I only bought one last time because I should have bought more. Because the board, I cut the battery off of it. It had the original battery on there, and it somehow did not leak. So I got that off pronto. But now, of course, it won't keep any settings because there's no battery. But you can get a nice little board. It replaces two chips. You put it on. Boom. Done. Done. Done. Done. And then I want to re-jumper the board for two 2732s, burn some new ROMs, the Scott Special with the corrected rule set, and boom. You're going to do it for me too, right? For your cheetah? You got a cheetah? No, for my other ROMs you're going to need to do it for me. Oh, your Stargazer ROMs. Yes, sir. So I would, well, can you re-jumper the board? Is that in your realm? It's a Weebly. Oh, so you don't even need to do that. You actually need to 2732s because I think that's all it takes. Okay. Get working. Get working. Anything other repairs for you? Nope. So you'll have to remind me before I leave for the upstate tournament, like, Ron, bring the ROMs because I will forget all the rest. Ron, bring the ROMs. Ron, bring the ROMs. Ron, bring the ROMs. Okay. I had a ground roar short on my IJ. Translation. IJ? Indiana Jones. Ah, the good one or the bad one? The good one? There's only one I consider. Oh, oh my, okay. The ball hit the switch underneath the mode that was on the playfield, the lower right switch for the upper playfield, the moving playfield. The Path of Adventure, it's called. Yep. The lower right switch got hit because it's right underneath the mode hole and made a ground row short. So when people were playing, it actually would start a new game. Nice. Yeah, that was fun. But luckily, all the other switches besides the start switch were on the mini play field. So once I took it apart and flipped it over, I saw the switch was just hammered. Replaced the switch, and we're good to go. Zoolander, good to go. Never seen it. Neither have I. What else did I do this week? Oh, I had one of those beautiful coil stops fail on the sterns where the rivet just comes right apart. Wait a minute. The rivet on the coil stop? What? What rivet? The rivet on the coil stop. You know what a coil stop is, right? Yes. You know how to rivet it? Do you mean like the actual part that sticks out is riveted in? It's riveted. All right. Sorry. Wait a minute. It fell out? In the new sterns, they break and fell off. Oh, you mean on the new sterns. I was about to say, I was thinking of the old sterns. No, no, no. Those old sterns are rocks. Yeah. Like, you know, Williams and Data East, everything, they knew how to make coil stops for how many years? 47 to... Bull Data used his stern, so you're saying they forgot how to make coils. No, not because they changed manufacturers. They chintzed out like a... with everything else. And they don't work. They pop open. They actually split apart. All of a sudden, my flipper started sticking on the Star Trek. And the Star Trek only has like maybe 1,200 plays on it. Take it apart. And the rivet's still in the coil sleeve. And the rest of the piece, the coil stoppage is sitting there empty. Nice. Yeah, cute, huh? So luckily Todd from Knox Amusements had a spare one. I grabbed it. I actually put it temporarily. I put a Williams one in there. And then I got one from Todd. And I have now one to replace from him because I went and got five extras. He's one of those operator guys or something. God. Elvis is going to be entering the building in a couple days at the old Silver Ball Saloon. Really? Yeah, see? You actually might be able to win something at Silver Ball Saloon now. Ooh. Oh, snap. What? Did you say something? I did. I was just thinking Elvis. Sorry. Oh, see. See, see, rider. Oh, see. Pintastic champion. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you play that there? Elvis? Actually, they have a... That's right. They had Elvis. Elvis is at the sanctum. And, oh, yeah, they had that thing brutal, if I recall. Yeah, it can be. You can really make it brutal. Yeah. But Todd's bringing that over. and then this weekend I'm going to grab Eric's Spider-Man. Nice. So I'm going to work on his Spider-Man, get it up to snuff and then put it on location at the bar. So we're going to have 20 to 21 games soon. So I have a question for you, my brother of Stern and Early Valleys. Yes, sir. You're going to ask me what game to bring up. Now you know my selection downstairs. Now my choices are what? Okay, here's Rod's choices. What is your choices? You know what? This would be a good thing for a listener segment. They could vote. They could vote. We should make a poll. Poll? I got one in my pants. Good Lord. So this would be good for a poll. So you're my manager of social media, so you can put the poll up. So no Centaur. Centaur will not go in the bar. All right. So for our listeners, your choices are Harlem is going bye-bye. How did Harlem do when it was there? Wasn't it one of the weaker earners? It was the worst solid state. Well, let's give the listeners some background. What are your top, let's see, how many games do you have there now? 19. All right, 19. So do like top three and worst three. Top three are Star Trek LE, number one. Metallica, number two. Medieval Madness, number three. This isn't going to be helpful. What's your top older game? Okay. The top older game is Stargazer. Second, Stars. I'm like, where's Stars? That's got to be there. Stars, yeah, that's number two. Stars is the second best older game. And then Paragon's third. All right. So, listeners, you can vote. And I might veto all your votes, but hey, what the hell, we'll try and see what you want. That's good. Full for no reason. Okay. It'll be two wide bodies and three regular bodies you can choose from. Regular bodies. Oh, my. So we have five games to choose from. Yes. And they are what? Sea Witch. Quicksilver. Nine Ball. And now we're getting to the wide bodies. Big Game. and a perennial favorite for the cheesy 70s goatee, hotdogging. You mean cheesy 70s mustache? Yeah, goatee. Yeah, I don't have a goatee. There's a difference between a goatee and a mustache. Just letting you know, Bruce. Some people call it one. Some people call it the other. No, there's a mustache and there's a goatee. A goatee is a beard. But if you have a goatee, you usually have a mustache also. Not always. Most of the time. No, Eric Russell doesn't. Ah. That's right, he doesn't. Gotcha. Which Eric, though? Oh, Eric S. Russell. All right, so I'm looking at these five games. Okay, what would you choose? I'll tell you what I wouldn't choose. The two wide bodies. Wow, I was actually thinking the opposite. Oh, big game, no one's going to want to play that. They're going to see the weird flipper arrangement, boom. And they look at Hot Dog and they going to see the weirdness of that Nope they not going to play that So boom Nine ball forget it Maintenance nightmare I would never put it there That target bank will break within the first two days you have it there. It'll be broke more than it's on. So it will make you no money. So that just leaves Quicksilver and Sea Witch. This is a tough one. I would say Sea Witch. Okay, you're saying Sea Witch. I was going big game. Yeah, you're high. No one's going to play that. But our listeners could tell us we're both wrong. Yeah, maybe. What would you like to see? What would you like to see? We'll post it Thursday. Okay, so we'll do this as an actual poll. Poll, and we'll leave it for a week and a half. Which even, it's not going to be, I'll have a game in there before then. What's the point? I want to see what people think. I don't want an empty spot. Do you want an empty spot in the bar? No, he didn't want an empty spot. Still vote, folks, and then we'll tell you what he decided. And we can tell him he's wrong if he put the wrong game in there and it doesn't earn. I'll know if it earns or not. But definitely don't put nine ball in there. I swear that'll break within the first day. You and your fear of nine ball. I just don't like that sound. I have that... I don't know what that sound is from. That's the sound of that target bank dying. No, it's not that. Yeah, you've heard it when I've posted the video for you, you know, and I've changed the soundboard out and I've changed the CPU and it still does it. That's weird. Yes. Yeah. So that was, is that all the repairs? I'm still thinking. I did one other one. Oh, I worked on that stupid ramp for freaking Whitewater again. The one that kept on getting stuck at the tournament. Yeah, I think that thing's having way too many problems. You need to sell it to me. Yeah, you can get in line with everyone else. No, I asked first. No, actually. My father loves that game. No, your father had his chance. Dad had his chance with Scared Stiff. Yeah, but he likes Whitewater, too. I know. It's one of his favorites. Ask him. I'm not making that up. I know. I got to keep it there so he keeps on coming out for it. Okay. I don't think he's coming all the way out there to play Whitewater, but all right. He'll play other games, too. So you said you were still working on Whitewater? Yes, but it's fixed now. It's actually a lot better. It only gets stuck like once every – I don't think it got stuck once at the week so far at the bar, so that's a good thing. Good job. Good job. All right, so what do we got next? We got – I think it's time for the mail ball bag. I love spending and reading my mail ball bag. Spending and reading. Yes, I'm sure you do, and it's easy this week because we have one. Wow. You guys are knocking them out of the park. They're not just getting back yet. I haven't even read it yet. Well, we had a couple other ones. One was from Scott. That was more to me than it was to the actual podcast. What the hell? Scott, you never email me anymore. I want your blackjack. And we had one from Jeff Parsons from the Players Pinball Podcast, which was more like wishing me well type thing. That was very nice. It was very nice of him. I'm just getting it over here. This is from Parnell Lutz. I think I'm saying it right. And the subject is CoinMax. No, this might be for you. I love the podcast and your love for the older games. I listened to the last podcast and remember hearing issues with CoinMax. Yes. Not sure what the issue was, but an op friend of mine recommended these. And they're Aminexes. they have lots of old versions on ebay and such with no moving mechs they barely have issues talk to you soon parnell okay i'll have to look them up you might want to check those out i gotta get the name and i can look them up right now he's got a link i need a plastic of black if i remember oh he's got a link right in the email i've had these i have these and guess what They also fuck up. I got the V9s in mine. Oh, bummer. I got three of my games, and you know what they do? They fuck up also. But thank you, Parnell. Thank you for the link. Please ignore Bruce. They fucking suck. Wow. Wow. There's one listener we just lost. Nope. So you've tried these V9s. Yes. Yeah, I still kept jams. because the problem is... So, Parnell, if you have, like, maybe you can ask your op friend what particular model he's using. Because maybe it's not the V9s. Maybe it's something else. Because we've got the V9. We've got the V92. The R9. I love these names. R9UXM. OU812. No, this is not a Van Halen album. Fuck. But, yeah, so who's going to win a Translate this weekend? That's the big key. Stern gave me 10 Translites to give away, so one a month we can have a chance. Because you're a Stern Army member. I am a Stern Army member, sir. Wow, you got Translites. I do. For what game? I'm not telling anyone. You're going to have to guess. Oh, Jesus Christ. I'm not going to be there. Just tell me. Nope. Nope. One through ten, and then that person's going to get the number that is associated with each one. What? What did you just say? When the winner wins, I'm going to go pick a number one through ten. So you have ten Translites? Yes. Ten different games? Yep, ten different games. Really? Does Stern have that many games in the last year? No, it's not a year. I have some as old as Roller Coaster Tycoon. Really? They gave you Roller Coaster Tycoon Translites? World Poker Tour. Really? Yeah. I wouldn't, oh God, if I won a World Poker Tour, I'd donate it back. Wow. That's a terrible translate. I didn't mind it that much. Oh, it's terrible. Terrible. At least give me like a kiss or... Nope. Or did I just say that? Actually, I already have a kiss one. An Aerosmith one. That would be great. That would be great. But nope, no Aerosmith. And everyone was asking me like, did you get a Guardians of the Galaxy? I'm like, no, I did not get one of those. And then, of course, Eric Russell, I think CNY asked me if I got a Metallica Monsters one. And I was like, no. Let's see. What else do I got? That empties the mail ball bag. It's spent. And if you guys want to email, talk to us, criticize us, definitely email us at slimtiltpodcast at gmail.com. That's slimtiltpodcast at gmail.com. You stole my line. I know. I loved it. There's a nice Paragon for sale on eBay. Oh. Well, we can't do the, when we buy that. There's no one here. I know, but we can talk between each other. It's like a bonding thing. A bonding thing. We're talking right now in front of at least 10 people. I know. Well, hey, I think we're up to 13 now. Maybe 15. Maybe 15. So you're going to give me some eBay number, aren't you? Yes, I am. Are you ready? Yep. 3-2-2-9-8-5-5-0-5-0-8-4. OU812 Again with the Van Halen reference Which wasn't that like a jab At Dave Lee Roth Yes it was Because he had what, Eat Him and Smile Yes Was his album, so it was OU812 Ooh, Paragon It says, Paragon Pinball Machine, Bally Exclamation, exclamation, exclamation Original, wow Super fun Yes it is Why do people do that? God, I hate that Playfield's really nice. Well, let's see. I see a picture with the glass on. I see the back glass. Close-up of the back glass, one of the greatest back glasses ever made. Ooh, there's the playfield. I see one wear spot. Do you pick up on it? Just looking through all the pictures here. Man, there was no wear on the inserts. Okay, so there's got to be wear on a kick-out hole or something. Nope. No? Nope. I've never seen one wear this place, but it's worn. The one insert? By the spinner. By the spinner? Yep. Never seen one wear there. Yeah, and it's just like that one's worn more than all the other inserts, but man, the rest of it looks sweet. I know. That's for $1,200. Cabin is faded, but that could be the camera because it looks like he's got flash on. And it's only three hours from my house, Ron. Too bad I don't have any room. You've got plenty of room. We've already proven that. Have we proven that? Oh, wait a sec. On the stream that you talked about your games, people were actually making fun of you. People were going, oh, my God, Ron, you have more than enough room there for more games. No, it's called space. It's called so people can walk around, so it's a normal effing room. Nope. Nope, nope, nope. Yes, yes, yes. Wow, this does look good. Told you. Boy, do I find number one. Used and working. Displays look good and everything, too. It's in Ohio. It is. Three hours away. Three and a half hours away. Let's see. What does it say? What does it say? Email for payment on pickup. No PayPal if picking up in person. Payment is due in full. Up for your consideration. Mint back glass. Nice Mylar play field. I wonder what that means because there's obviously wear around the inserts and there's no Mylar there. Yeah. So I don't know what that means. And nice looking cabinet. Machine is working good. Ready to plug and play. Oh, yeah. Rubber bumpers could use replaced. Great grammar, but not necessary. I don't know what that means. Cooked on phonics. If you have been looking for one of these machines, then don't pass this one by. Got another one for you, Ron. So should I just put the name of the segment on there? Yeah. Give the intro to the segment then. Would you or would you not buy that? Or would I or would I not buy that? I'd probably buy this. Yeah, so would I. Especially if it's working. I mean, it looks excellent. It looks really clean. It actually looks really clean. I got another one for you. I'd like to see underneath the play field, but okay. 253-351-101-616. Memory Lane. Play this whenever I'm at Howard's. Yep, it's a great game. It's a great game. I don't know about the price for that one, but it's a great game. Yeah, it's a little high. Mike Kubin. design we talked about before. Yep. Yeah, he made a lot of good gains in a short amount of time, and then kind of dropped out of the industry, which is a shame. That's a great game, though. $1,200 is a little high, but the back glass is actually really nice on it. Playfield looks nice. Really good. I thought so, too. It's very clean. A couple good deals. So you might want to try and negotiate him down a bit, but I'd definitely buy this. I would buy that in a second. Looks like original boards, too. Yep, I agree. The displays are a little burnt. Number 2 and number 4 burnt a little bit. And so is the credit display. Original targets? Yep. Which is good. The back glass isn't perfect, though. The back glass is chipped on number 3 and number 4 players next to the girl's green shirt with the big... Yeah. Yeah, like unnaturally big. Like, what the hell, man? And a head and everything else. Yeah. Still? I know. I thought it was a pretty good deal. Yeah. I was a big fan of the game. That's why I brought it up. Well, let's look at the description. Let's see. Very sparse description. Memory lane pinball machine by Stern. Everything works. Local pickup only. Thanks for looking. I like that. Short to the point. All right. I'm looking to see if you've got anything else, but I don't. So I think we're good on that for this week. I think we're good with this week's content. Yes. Yep, I'm out of stuff on my list. I'm out of stuff on my list that I didn't have a list for. Very good. I got Black Sheep Squadron again in here. Is that still there? No, it's a different one. It's a different one. Yes. Black Sheep Squadron. Astro. So, yeah, Astro. You know what that means to me? That's the dog on the Jetsons. Gene, stop this crazy thing. Dang, yes. All right, so I think we're ready to pay some bills. Go for it. The Silver Bowl Saloon. Check out our Facebook page. This weekend we are having Saturday night karaoke. Lou Graham is going to be there because he's a Rochester native. He's going to be singing foreigner songs. It's going to be great. Yeah. No. I like that, but no, but it'd be cool. Last Sunday we had our first trivia night, and this Sunday we have another trivia night, and it went over very well. We had nine teams. Nine teams of how many people? Two to three per team. Okay. Pretty good crowd for first night of trivia. So you can come out and show your brain power Sunday, because you're off Monday, right? I am? Oh, cool. You have Martin Luther King off, because you are at a bank. Yeah, which is the last day we have off until, I think, Memorial Day. Nope. I have one more. I get President's Day off. Good for you. Yes. Check us out at the Silver Ball Saloon. Sign up. Like us. Also, pinballlifter.com. Website. What? Per Silver Ball Saloon. You said it on Facebook. TheSilverBallSaloon.com. Pinballlifter.com. Check us out for lifters, tilters, helpers, wheel kits. Mike Pupo for your Stern game from Flipper Fidelity, your best sound kits. Pinball Star with Joe Newhart for all your Houdini, Spooky, Chicago Gaming, and I know I'm missing one, and Jersey Jack Pinball. Say hi to the podcast, Jeff Teolis with Pinball Profile. The other Jeff from the Players Pinball Podcast. Nick and Kevin from Bro, Do You Even Talk Pinball? Marty and Ryan from Head to Head Pinball Canadian Pinball Podcast with Mike Dimas and I can't forget the other guy's name and Nate actually had a podcast from coast to coast he's dead to me now wow damn we are the Slam Tilt Podcast and we are back in black if you want to like us on Facebook, you're more than welcome to also. Follow us on Facebook. Follow us on Facebook. We will have the poll up that Bruce will not pay attention to and we'll do whatever he wants anyway, but I'd like to know what our listeners think. Yep. We have five games to choose from. So again, you got Hot Doggin', you got Big Game, Nine Ball, Quicksilver, and Sea Witch. Which one of these five games should replace Harlem Globetrotters? Sea Witch is actually working fully now. I took a half day and got that working. Let's just assume, folks, that all five games are working 100%. They are. Okay. You know me. So, yeah, come check us out. Give them the info about how to get in contact with us, Ron. Oh, the info I forgot last week, but we didn't put in awesomely, so it was just seamless and no one could tell. It did actually sound seamless. Yes, it did. We're very impressed that you actually. Very impressed, yes. Actually, actually, actually. Actually, yeah, you've been really short on actuallys. This is a good podcast. Actually. Actually. Actually. Yes. We can be found on Facebook. Just search for Slam Tilt Podcast. We are also on YouTube. Just search for Slam Tilt Podcast. We can be reached at slamtiltpodcast at gmail.com. Can we? Please send correspondence. Yes, we can. I'm checking there every day. Well, at least once a week or maybe right before the podcast starts. Did I get everything? I think I got everything. I think you got everything. This has been episode 73, Creed. Next week we'll be starting the new series, starting with Lethal Weapon. No, no, no, no. Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell. Because it was a Christmas movie. It was, but not the best Christmas movie. Because that's Die Hard. Yes, it is. Yeah, okay. Goodbye, everybody. Say goodbye, Bruce. Goodbye, Fred Cochran. Outro Music

_(Acquisition: groq_whisper, Enrichment: v3)_

---

*Exported from Journalist Tool on 2026-04-13 | Item ID: 196bc7b9-a8c2-41c1-a9e0-89e4ce8dd235*