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The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 44 Remembering Friends

The Spinner Is Lit Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·1h 27m·analyzed·Feb 1, 2022
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TL;DR

Memorial episode covering pinball community losses, game releases, and upcoming festivals.

Summary

Episode 44 of The Spinner Is Lit Pinball Podcast (Jan 28, 2022) is a memorial episode dedicated to Todd Destafani and other recently deceased members of the pinball community, including Al Chayak, Mark Mendeltort (Fred Marco), and Lynn Shep. The hosts discuss influential early-era pinball games, comment on new releases including Stern's Rush and Quetzal Pinball's Super Hoops, and cover upcoming pinball shows including Golden State Pinball Festival (May 13-15, 2022) and Texas Pinball Festival (March 25-27, 2022). Notable local venue coverage includes Press Start arcade in Paul Reno area.

Key Claims

  • Todd Destafani was a key component of the Sacramento pinball group early on and brought rare/oddball games to Pinagogo

    high confidence · Spencer discussing Todd's contributions to Northern California pinball scene

  • Al Chayak (Pinnaholic) was responsible for reviving location pinball in New York when pinball was dying there

    high confidence · Spencer's tribute to Al Chayak

  • Mark Mendeltort (Fred Marco) founded Iron Man Levels Arcade and was a pioneer in replacement pinball parts including manual stops and reproduction parts

    high confidence · Spencer's tribute to Fred Marco

  • Quetzal Pinball is a Spanish company that released Super Hoop as their third title, following Cap Nemo (2015, ~20 units) and Tokyo Perfect Drift

    high confidence · Spencer detailing Quetzal's production history

  • Golden State Pinball Festival is returning after hiatus since 2019, scheduled for May 13-15, 2022 at Lodi Great Festival Fairgrounds

    high confidence · Spencer providing event details and pricing

  • Rush (Stern) features music curated in collaboration with Ed Robertson from Barenaked Ladies and matches 15 songs from top 20 candidates

    high confidence · Mark discussing Rush soundtrack selection process

  • Press Start arcade in Paul Reno area opened around New Year's Eve (late 2021/early 2022) with family-friendly hours before 7 PM and a separate bar

    high confidence · Dan describing Press Start's opening and operational details

  • Sleic is a Spanish company with a game called Io Moon based on 2001: A Space Odyssey

    medium confidence · Mark mentioning rare Spanish company Sleic

  • Brian Eddy designed both Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness, which are foundational for casual-to-competitive rule design balance

    high confidence · Mark and Dan discussing Brian Eddy's design legacy

Notable Quotes

  • “If you ever went to Pinagogo and played a really oddball or rare game, there's a good chance that it was there because Todd brought it.”

    Spencer @ ~8:00 — Tribute to Todd Destafani's role in curating rare games for the Northern California pinball community

  • “Medieval Madness is Attack from Mars turned up to 11. It's the masterpiece of Harry Williams Pinball.”

    Dan @ ~15:00 — Critical assessment of Medieval Madness as the ultimate evolution of Brian Eddy's design philosophy

  • “You could think of me as the Limited Edition newsman of pinball journalism, man.”

    Spencer @ ~35:00 — Self-deprecating joke about Spencer's role tracking limited edition releases and news

  • “Somebody crossed the pond doing something with pinball, you know, without making a big noise, you know, beating their chest and saying, look how cool we are.”

    Jon @ ~38:00 — Praise for Quetzal Pinball's understated approach to manufacturing, contrasting with larger manufacturers' marketing

  • “Golden State is where you get to play all the games that you don't play at any other shows.”

    Spencer @ ~57:00 — Endorsement of Golden State Pinball Festival's unique game selection spanning EM, solid state, and modern titles

  • “If you like video games or if you like pinball, I mean, it is heaven.”

    Dan @ ~85:00 — Enthusiastic endorsement of Press Start arcade's combined video game and pinball selection

  • “Shows are back, ladies and gentlemen. Alright, in spite of the zombie apocalypse and the end of the world.”

    Spencer @ ~52:00 — Expression of relief and excitement about pinball shows resuming post-COVID lockdowns

Entities

SpencerpersonDanpersonMark the EngineerpersonPaul RenopersonKyle WeatherspersonBrianpersonTodd DestafanipersonAl ChayakpersonMark MendeltortpersonLynn Shepperson

Signals

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    community_signal: Multiple deaths within pinball community including Todd Destafani, Al Chayak, Mark Mendeltort (Fred Marco), and Lynn Shep (Peter Turk), reflecting vulnerability of aging pinball enthusiast base

    high · Entire episode dedicated to memorializing deceased community members; hosts provide detailed tributes to their contributions

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    event_signal: Golden State Pinball Festival returning after 3-year hiatus (2019-2022), signaling post-COVID recovery of pinball event infrastructure

    high · Spencer provides full event details for May 13-15, 2022 show at Lodi Great Festival Fairgrounds; hosts express excitement about show resumption

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    event_signal: Texas Pinball Festival rescheduled for March 25-27, 2022 at Frisco after 2020 pandemic cancellation

    high · Spencer provides venue and date information for rescheduled Texas show at Embassy Suites/Frisco Pinball Convention Center

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    venue_signal: Press Start arcade opened late December 2021/early January 2022 in Paul Reno area with combined pinball, arcade, and VR offerings plus adjacent barbecue

    high · Dan describes Press Start opening, hours (family-friendly before 7 PM, open until midnight weekdays/2 AM weekends), game selection, and adjacent Brothers Barbecue

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    product_launch: Stern's Rush pinball machine entering production with Pro Edition shipping; Limited Edition timing TBD due to parts delays

    high · Mark reports Pro Edition shipping; Paul Reno notes Pinside report of parts delays affecting Limited Edition timeline

Transcript

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Tonight's episode of the Spinner's Lit Pinball Podcast is dedicated to the memory of Todd Destafani.
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Hey everybody, welcome to episode 44 of the Spinner's Lit Pinball Podcast. I'm your host Spencer. With us tonight is part of the roundtable. Brian's out tonight. He's a little under the weather. We wish him well and he'll be back soon. But we got Dan and Mark the Engineer with us tonight. Hey guys. What's up? What's going on guys? Talking pinball with my crazy bros from California and Reno. Look at that, we're killing three states right now. Yeah, and there's a lot to talk about in this episode for sure. Yeah man. No shortage. Yeah, so let's get right to it and jump right in. Oh, and it's Jan, if anybody wants to know, it's January 28th, right? Yes. 28th, 2022. Holy crap, it's 2022. So it's our first episode of the new year. Episode 44 is called Remembering Friends. We have a few people to go down that list, unfortunately. We'll start with Todd. If you've been around Northern California for any length of time and were part of Sacramento pinball group, Todd was a key component of that way back in the early days even before I was on the scene. Dan could attest to that and so can Brian. When Brian's back, we'll get more into that. If you ever went to Pinagogo and played a really oddball or rare game, there's a good chance that it was there because Todd brought it. Todd and his lovely wife Susie were just an integral part of the Northern California pinball scene for many, many years. And Todd was a good friend of the show and kind of an extended family, and he's going to be missed. And we're also remembering Al Chayak or Pinnaholic. He was well known around the New York pinball scene and basically because he loved pinball When pinball was dying in New York, he was one of the sole people responsible for reviving location pinball and
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    high confidence · Spencer recounting the last pinball show before pandemic shutdowns

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    machine_intel: Quetzal Pinball (Spanish manufacturer) released Super Hoop basketball-themed machine as third title after Cap Nemo (~20 units, 2015) and Tokyo Perfect Drift

    high · Spencer details Quetzal's release history and Super Hoop specs (3 flippers, 2 ramps, spinner, physical ball lock, basketball theme)

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    market_signal: Emergence of small European (Spanish, Dutch) boutique manufacturers filling niche alongside established manufacturers; Quetzal and Sleic examples of under-the-radar quality producers

    medium · Jon praises Quetzal for 'making pinball machines the right way' without hype; discussion of Spanish pinball manufacturing tradition; Sleic IO Moon with 2001 theme mentioned

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    content_signal: Straight Down the Middle: a pinball show mentioned multiple times as media outlet with early access and promotional relationships with manufacturers

    high · Multiple references to SDTM's exclusive access and coverage; hosts checking SDTM resource lists for show information

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    gameplay_signal: Hosts discuss Brian Eddy's influential design philosophy balancing casual accessibility with competitive depth; Medieval Madness and Attack from Mars cited as templates for modern game design

    high · Mark and Dan extensive discussion of how Eddy achieved instant playability with long-term challenge; direct comparison of Medieval Madness as 'Attack from Mars turned up to 11'

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    design_innovation: Rush features modified ramp timing to reduce difficulty of upper flipper shots compared to similar Stern designs, reflecting ongoing code refinement and community feedback integration

    medium · Discussion of Rush's right flipper ramp timing being easier than TMNT equivalent, suggesting deliberate design choice or ongoing development

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    licensing_signal: Rush soundtrack curated collaboratively with Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies) and Stern team, selecting 15 songs from top 20 candidates across Rush's 19 studio albums

    high · Mark detailing music selection process and collaboration with Ed Robertson; surprise that 'YYZ' was not included despite being iconic

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    industry_signal: Lloyd Olson transitioned from Jersey Jack Pinball tech support to supporting both American Pinball and Chicago Gaming Company; operational status at JJP unclear

    high · Spencer noting Lloyd's role shift: 'Lloyd was tech support over at Jersey Jack Pinball. He's no longer tech support at Jersey Jack Pinball, but he's still tech support over American Pinball and Chicago Gaming Company'

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    duck this here raw right essential I'm going to go ahead and start with Mark. Mark, what's your favorite Lyme encoded game? I have to say I really like Attack from Mars. Just that rule the universe is just so awesome. And what's really neat is you get higher points if you go in order of those objectives. I really like that. I love the humor in it. It just was a game you could just walk to walk up to and Start playing it and know what you're doing but then there was that challenge to master it and Getting to that ultimate wizard mode is a memorable moment I'll never forget because it's just so darn fun to play that game and equally probably medieval madness, too I just love the humor and the clips that were put in there to really put a smile on your face when you're playing it Yeah, you know, you hit the nail on the head there. I mean, Mariam and she's was an absolute, you know, he was the kingpin of figuring out what's going to make the casual player come up this game deal to understand what they're supposed to do in an instant and have fun doing it. And then also make it, you know, with a deep enough rule set and enough challenge to where a guy like him wouldn't get bored of it in five minutes. How about you, Dan? You know, really, how do you not say medieval madness? It's the masterpiece. You know, it's the masterpiece of Williams Pinball. It's, you know, everything that Attack for Mars is, and I love some Attack for Mars. Medievalmadness is Attack for Mars turned up to 11. You want to go to some of his more modern work. I really, really like ACDC. I mean, I know ACDC is 10 years old, so I don't know how quote unquote Closedил
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    unts ustubB elegance g Orchestra B D N F David Van Es, Knapp Arcade. I was like, what the heck am I doing on this thing? I have no idea what I'm doing and I got like a hundred twenty million bonus. Like what? Then Lyman stepped in and the game is just super fun. The mini villains was just a complete changeover into what it was originally and it's deep and it takes a while to beat the game. But he really did a great job transforming a game that was mediocre to something that was just fantastic. Knapp, I'm gonna give an honorable mention to the first dot matrix game I ever owned, which I think he did the dots on, actually, was WWF Royal Rumble. That game's got a really, it's a really fun game. It's got a really good rule set. And I know he worked on, I think he did the dots on that. Yeah, he was like the display programmer. He was, it was early in his career, you know, but I mean, and that's a great game. That's a fun game. It is a great game. And it's really, you know, not so much now because you know, with the price of games and stuff, people are discovering, you know, the BC and D titles. But that is a, I mean, it's still a bang for your buck, you know, there's a lot in that game. You get it, you get a lot of pinball in that game. So yeah, man, I'm Spider-Man. I was another one, you know, took me Spiderman was good. Yeah, that's a good one. Or is good, I should say, is good. That's tied with me. I can't, I just, when I start playing a good Spiderman and I go, oh God, you know, this is my favorite Steve Ritchie game. And of course I go back and play Star Trek and go, no, it's Star Trek. But I waffle between the two because both of them are just so good. Um, as far as, you know, my favorite Steve Ritchie title, uh, and they just shoot so well and the rule sets are fantastic. The Man, I don't want to dwell on it too long But uh, you know that guy made it that guy left his mark on the pinball world that he's gonna be missed
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    Weird stuff in the world going on and weird stuff in pinball LTG or Lloyd over at He was tech support over at Jersey Jack. He's no longer tech support at Jersey Jack, but he's still tech support over American pinball and I believe it a I'm at Chicago Gaming Company. Not sure what's going on at JJP. If you don't know who Lloyd Olson is, he has been running SNS Billiards. Where is that at? That's in Minnesota, right? Hopkins, Minnesota, I believe. Almost. He's coming up close on his 50-year anniversary. That's right. He owns SS Billiards. Yeah. I'm really bummed that I didn't get to meet him when I was back there in college because there are some good pinball places that I didn't even know about. But of course, we didn't have internet back then, so I didn't know what was out there. Right, right. You just had to drive by a place or see it in the yellow pages. But I didn't. Yeah, I really bummed out that I didn't go to the one in Blaine and the SS Billiards. Yeah. Oh well. Maybe I'll come up and go and visit Minnesota one of these days and check it out. Well, maybe we can all figure out how to get out there for his 50th anniversary and bring pizza with us. There you go. Shout out to Alex. Hey man, has anybody played Rush yet? I sure haven't. I'm dying to. Haven't played it. Supposed to be getting out on location, getting into people's hands. Pros anyway. I was pleasantly surprised because I remember we talked in our last episode and I was like, I wonder how they're going to do the assets and how they're going to do the design and they nailed it. I mean, they have all the, the, the, the famous imagery of all the albums and the artists who did it. Uh, maybe Dan, you know who his name is, but, uh, he's a newer artist, I believe at Stern and he did a great job incorporating all the assets of Rush. triggers been. Cynical kid. Thay our też file is yet. Oh she fells though empty ban. Settings and thenона см Boyko opiljnreto in Aisure. «Iz arbe integral, skuja benevol giant Przy mello-ban, franchiviously�ante24 respecuality in be怪schuž aim obtijanetsoeleo bin irionaalnyi tanji marksoener main assisted 계ue hearing 而 أримfig****19 forsk The This one is going to take a little less time to go around
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    To go around the loop to give you a better shot with that right upper flipper But that one on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, you can't even Blink an eye and you'll miss it trying to get up that ramp. So it looks great. The lighting is awesome the selection of music I'm still surprised. I didn't put yyzee in there because that's what they're iconic for but I'm a fan of the band, but it's okay. I mean, they decided as a team, along with the lead singer from Bare Naked Ladies, Ed Robertson, he worked with them and produced or came up with songs that they decided of the top 20 and 15 matched among all three people. So you can't argue with that. Yeah, I think it's 19 studio albums. I'm a fan of your music. I love your music. It's a lot of material. And every album is different. You will not have an album from Rush, the following album or the album before that and say, oh, that sounds the same. Right. They always change their sound. And always what amazed me about them is they had a three-piece band, and yet they sound like there's five people in the band. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. I'm a shame to admit I haven't even watched the launch streams other than looking at the first round of pictures which I mean looks nice. Art's really, really nice. It definitely looks like a Borg. I'm sure it's going to be fun. All the John Borg games are always extremely fun to play. But yeah, I do not have a deep roster of knowledge on Rush Pinball yet. Well, we got shows coming up in the not too distant future, so I'm sure we'll get plenty of time on them. I'll tell you, there'll be plenty of Rush games that will be at GSPF. I'm sure there will be. Yeah, and we're going to talk about that in a little bit, but first, any more thoughts on Rush before we move to the next surprise out-of-left-field game? Well, I'm just curious when they're going to have the LEs shipping. I know the pros are starting to ship, I'm going to go ahead and wrap this up. But then I saw on pin side that there was a delay in the parts, so who knows what's going to happen. But we are getting one Rush LE here in Reno. So thanks to Jason, he's always jumping on board, getting those games ahead of everybody else so that we can enjoy them as a group, which is awesome. But he's starting, he's not really that huge of a Rush fan either, but he really liked the layout and the gameplay. I have to say that the rules are going to be awesome on it.
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    It looks like it's going to be a little multi ball heavy, but so is Guns N' Roses and people had a good time with it. So it'll be interesting to see how the rules come together. But when I listen to some of the podcasts from Tim Sexton,
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There's some videos on YouTube already, some gameplay. So for all the listeners out there, if you're not familiar with it, check it out. This is actually the third title. They're a Spanish pinball company, i.e. they're from Spain in Europe. Their first game was like 2015 was Cap Nemo and some of you older pinheads out there might remember it. It was a neat looking game. Never played one, never even saw one in the flesh. The only made about 20 of them and then they did a couple years ago they did a Tokyo perfect drift game which is kind of loosely based I guess on Fast and Furious kind of thing and they made a few of those not many and now they've got this Quetzal pinball super hoop it's got three flippers it's got two Rams one's a side shot from a right flipper it's got spinner it's got a physical ball and subtitles at just globe metal down I'm Doesn't use it for the game, Sam. The soundtrack sounds really cool The call-outs sounded good kind of reminiscent to me about World Cup paved soccer not the same voice, but I had that same bill to it I'm just a little bit of video. I washed about four or five minutes of video this morning and now it's pretty cool looking down So, hey, you know what? Somebody crossed the ponds doing something with pinball, you know, without making a big noise, you know, beating their chest and saying, look how cool we are. We have a wood crate or some other nonsense. They're just shutting their piles and making pinball machines. The right way. It's making me wonder. I know when I went to Expo, when I talked to Rob Burke, he was saying that there were going to be two new companies that are going to be revealing games. I'm wondering if these are the ones that I'm going to be at the show and then they were not because these because yeah I I remember him mentioning like one was not even from the United States I'm like maybe this is the one that he was talking about maybe it was either that or you know I mean there's yeah there's I mean there's a lot of small mom and pops out there now and if you might do well you know if you look back in the last since the 70s you know there's a lot of I've almost always been a Spanish company making pinballs in Spain and exporting a few to America. You got, in the 90s you had spinner pinball, you had in the 70s and 80s you had sonic, segasa, there was, oh god, what's, help me out Dan, what's that Spanish one? I don't know. I can't come up with it. But you know who I'm talking about. Timbal since after World War II in France and Spain both, all through Europe, Germany, it's just been huge, but especially Spain and those guys are hardcore. They love pinball in Spain and they've had their own companies making and of course in Italy too you had for years you had Zachariah or Zacharia. I've heard both. I'm not sure, but they made some great games over the years. Both of those are probably completely wrong. It's probably Zachariah or something like that. It probably is. Like we're just completely off base. You could think of me as the Les Nesman of pinball journalism, man. Chai Chai Rodriguez. That's right. What are those little Mexican dogs called, Spence? Chihuahuas? Chihuahua. There is another, oh sorry, go ahead. You know, if you think about it though, I mean, there is a lot of European involvement We're seeing some of it find its way over here. I'm so glad to be here because, you know, I mean, despite all the Dutch pinball fiasco, you know, and the pinball brothers, uh, highway pinball fiasco, uh, those are some great products. Alien is awesome. The Lebowski is awesome. Um, you know, that Captain Nemo game was, was supremely awesome. So, uh, I'm really looking forward to seeing this pinball hoops or super hoops in action. Yeah. And if you're a basketball fan, it's an even bigger win. But yeah, Dan, you got to watch the video. I was watching a little bit of it today. I'm like, wow. Where's the video? On YouTube? It's on YouTube. Just type in. I know you sprung this on me. I looking over the show roll I like what the crap is Quetzal Super Hoops Yeah I saw it It announced on uh was it this week in pinball I can remember Yeah it was today Was it? It was? Yeah, I got the email this morning and I get up really early. Yeah, I got the email this morning too. And I was like, where did that come from? Yeah, that was kind of a shocker. Another company that is kind of rare, which is a Spanish company is Sleic, S-L-E-I-C. We have a game called Io Moon, which is based off of 2001 Space Odyssey. Yeah, you lucky SOB. I saw you posting that last week. 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    You know, that's the way it was in those 90s games anyway. They opened the same songs over and over again. You know, it's funny you just reminded me of talking about the 2001 Space Odyssey theme music. You just reminded me when I saw Rush, that's the music they used to open this. They were like when they came on stage, they played that music. Oh, cool. Yeah. Yeah. So and then, you know, if they if the, you know, pinnacle of that, that classical piece, I come from the I come from firm En Und det S LA I'm fromational Univerum Badge r Sa formed Kamen Sentinel j الل Josu colleague You are Your ar Si des un en This is like a good layout and it's got a physical ball lock which, you know, wow. I mean, you know, because you don't see that a lot. You do sometimes, but I mean, you know, it's just, it looks like a pretty well fully featured game, metal ramps. I mean, it looks like a well-built game. So basically we have a game that came out from an unknown company where we had another game that should have came out for three years and nothing. So hats off to that new company. I'm not gonna give him any credit.
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    Yeah, true. But at least they produce the machine, right? There you go. They produce, they produce three machines. Okay. Very small numbers, but they produce three. So, um, so, you know, they're, they're the real deal to a point. I'm not going to be a believer until fathom remake is showing up in homes. There you go. But that's, that's, uh, that's Australian. They're coming. They're coming. They're done with celt. They're done with that. We got actually they were just asking for full payments so they're manufacturing right now, so we should be getting one in Reno, I'm hoping within the next three or four weeks. Cool. Well we won't have to wait to have games drop in our home too much longer because we can play them on location or All the upcoming shows. Shows are back, ladies and gentlemen. Alright, in spite of the zombie apocalypse and the end of the world. And Spencer, what show are you talking about? Well, I have a few, but in particular the Golden State Pinball Festival at the beautiful Lodi Great Festival Fairgrounds in sunny Lodi, California this May 13th through 15th, 2022. 3-day weekend pass is $60, $30 for 13 and under. A 2-day pass, Saturday only, $45, $20 for 13 and under. And a 1-day Saturday only is $30, $15 for 13 and under. And a 1-day pass for Friday or Sunday is $20, $10 for 13 and under. Active military with ID, half price. So, oh, they also have a full-on tournament. Just go to the website. It's GoldenStatePinball.org and you can look that up. Right now, as of right now, there's no games listed. They don't have the sign up for the volunteers yet. They just revamped all the websites. So, you know, but as of right now, as of the airing of this podcast on January 28, 2022, Golden State Pinball Festival will be back from a long hiatus since the 2019 show. Yay! Woohoo! I can't wait. That's going to be... It is an amazing show. I mean, I've gone to a lot of pinball shows. I've been to the Expo. I've been to TPF. But Golden State is where you get to play all the games that you don't play at any other shows. There's no doubt about it. It is going to be spectacular. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm a fan of pinball. It's the best pinball show and I'm being biased. I don't care. It's so much fun. The three rooms of pinball, you get best of everything. You get the EMs, you get the solid states, and you get the newest games, and you get Stern or Marco to represent. Yeah, it's awesome. The pirate. I don't want to over promise because I'm sure This year, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be special, you know, we're just getting back to it. But if if everything works the way that it's supposed to work, you know, it will not be a diminished experience. Everyone is going to be extremely happy and we're going to have some great stuff. Awesome. Yup. Yeah. The pinball pirate Chris Kuntz will be there. You know, I mean, all the all the, you know, California distributors, hopefully, you know, past shows. We've had a civic Pinball Museum, you know, no promises. I don't know what's going to happen, but I think everybody's itching for a good pinball show, you know, so it should be pretty darn special. And Camp Silver, Silver Ball. Yeah. That's the highlight of the place. Yeah. And if you had made reservations back in 2019 for the 2020 show or early 2020, they're holding those over. So everybody's already had reservations. Um, but you don't watch the website cause some people are going to cancel out. That's been a couple of years now. So some people will cancel out. But anyway, go to goldenstatepinball.org. Keep an eye on that and new information will come in. So you want to keep checking that frequently. And the Texas Pinball Festival after a long hiatus. Remember when the COVID monster showed up, it was literally like two weeks or less until the Texas Pinball Festival. And those- Yeah, they were the first ones to catch it in the face. Yeah, and they caught it hard because I mean, all the hotel rooms were sold out, the vendors, all the guests were, you know, they'd already, you know, everything was all, I mean, people had their plane tickets, they, you know, people had their bags packed, like, hey, nine days, man, we're going to the TPF. No we're not, because the end of the world just showed up, so, you know, and so yeah, they took- David Van Es, Knapp Arcade. David Van Es, Knapparcade. That was the last pinball show I went to since then. Of course, I got to go to Expo now, but as far as a long hiatus for all the other shows that got canceled, InDisc was the last one that I attended before all hell broke loose. Right. And that was like- The last original InDisc. Yeah. That's true. That's right. At the Museum of Pinball. At the Museum of Pinball in Banning. That's right. I'm not really not paying that much attention. I'm hiding in my dungeon all the time here in, you know, God's country. But it's March 25th through 27th at the Embassy Suites Hotel at the Frisco Convention Center in Frisco, Texas. And you can visit their website and if you're not going to be able to make it, you can buy swag. Um, and support these guys cause they do, you know, in the pinball universe, they're doing the Lord's work, man. So support them. Um, so it's Texas pinball.com. Really simple. So go to that show cause I hear it's a good one. Or if you can't make the show, buy a t-shirt, buy a coffee mug, buy some hand sanitizer, buy a poster, you know? And another great thing to visit in Frisco is the, uh, video game museum. Oh yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks for having me here. Thanks for having me. I went to go and did a side trip and check that out. And it has great exhibits, and it really brings back memories of the old game systems we used to play when we were little. Nice. I had no idea that even existed. Thank you.
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    All right. And then this one, it doesn't get as much airplay, but I know one of the organizers a little bit. We talk online. He's a good dude. Sup, poured continue to Production Hello, Junko Oba, Ron Bolley, K submit 2020 Honored YouTube Total Com toys Savannah orn
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    Knapp's TreSEO.com Titball Outpinball I've been to a couple of those. That is a great show. It's all indoors, which compared to, you know, our shows, which are, you know, quasi, you know, outdoors, you know, if they're in more rural places, it's really nice. It's really cool. The lighting's super wonderful. It's on like the third floor of a convention center. So it's always really weird to be playing hundreds of pinball machines upstairs. You know, great machines, nice people. It's in Tacoma. Tacoma's a Tacoma. Yeah, that's what I thought. I mean, it's, Page 298
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    Page298 Always a really good selection. Nice. Yeah. Uh, yeah, you, you're Dan. You told me, you know, the few times you went, you said just an amazing show. I've talked to some other of our local crew that's been at least once and they're like, I am, and it's worth checking out. So the website's under reconstruction right now. It's got a little bit of information, but, um, just, you know, bookmarks these pages folks and, uh, and keep, uh, keep, uh, you know, keep listening. The show's are back man. Pinball is still with us. Speaking of websites, please, please, please go check out the new Golden State Pinball Festival website.Goldenstatepinball.org.It is awesome.It is awesome.I didn't check it out yet. I'm excited to see it.Go see it.It'll blow your mind.Cool.Yep, yep, yep. It will. Mark, Dan, what's going on in your areas? Who wants to go first? Mark, I mean, Dan, go. What's going on in pinball in your area? Location, play? What's the haps? There's nothing going on in my area. We've restarted league. You know, we're doing league at the usual places. But in Mark's area, I did get out there and I did get to go to the all new press start. And I've got to admit, if If anything, Mark, you undersold that place to me.
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    If you like video games or if you like pinball, I mean, it is heaven. It's got, you know, a humongous selection of classic arcade games. It's got just a super selection of pinballs and they're all priced. I mean, I don't know if it's their normal pricing, mong trásANK This Week in Pinball groans~]Porross粉عتurnay んA01 pioneers ErmainstNTent perlu This Week in Pinballéraabyrin pesticide vaNewtype monethisflow eGenerousgesa You know, because it feels like a good deal, right? They've got tables where you can play classic games, and modern games and VR and they've got a remote control Mario Kart racetrack. They got a full bar next door. They got a chicken place coming in, but one of the best things about it, and I know this isn't related to Press Start, but it's right next door to Brothers Barbecue which just kicks ass. I mean, it is the perfect destination. If you get to Reno, you want a bite to eat and you got a couple hours to kill. You gotta go find find the new press start. I had a really nice time. And I'm bummed out. I missed you when you were here. I wish I would have known I would have come and met you. But you were already had to get going back home. But it was it was really exciting to see it open around New Year's Eve. We had already a tournament there. We had the Ice Raiders that came and they sponsored our tournament and we actually had some people from the Ice Raiders play in the tournament. And it was really fun. It was a great time. And what's awesome about Press Start is that it is open to families before 7 o'clock. And of course the weekend is probably open a little earlier. It's at 11 o'clock every time it opens and then probably till like midnight or so and then on the weekends it's open till 2. But families are allowed to be in there because the bar is separate from the arcade. So if we ever have tournaments, we can just have the bar closed and everybody can still hang out in the arcade area and not worry about any problems with liquor license and all that other stuff. David Van Es, Knapp, 시장이 parliament People want to love. siitä därcel considerable contribu representations. crocodile://sam ja.v.holac eagle, Timing and Subtitles by the Amara.org community
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    We'll see. We'll see what happens. Just kind of play it by ear and depending on how quickly I can get a lot of stuff accomplished. That's why I always try to keep it open. I definitely want to do that, Dan. Especially if the weather is good. We'll see how the roads are going to be open because I'm flying. I'm not going to drive again until spring or summer I might drive or probably, well, for Golden State will probably be the first time I drive back. The correct answer is just yes, we'll have to do that. Yes, we'll have to do that and I want to. I want to do that. So, there you go. Well, you had me at barbecue, pinball and barbecue. I'm telling you, man, that Brother's Barbecue is super legit. The chicken place is the same owner of Brother's Barbecue. Yeah, so you got the best of both worlds. Yeah, I can't imagine it won't be just unbelievable. All right. And the other thing about Press Start is the games are immaculate. You got Kevin there working there and Jim. And I'll tell you something. Those games always work. And if something is reported, it's fixed the next day. It's amazing how well those are maintained. Yeah, they were they were wrenching on games while I was there. And pretty much everything was was up and running. I mean, which again, with a lineup that size, you would expect some things to be offline. Also, we will look at sponsors schools also link it quick, and verifying some of our stuff and add a link. You know, Twilight Zone and Adamsfamily and just everything. Everything that you'd, you know, like just an amazing lineup of games. And then, you know, for classic arcades, I mean, everything you'd ever want to see Pacman, Dig Dug, you know, Donkey Kong, air hockey, Terminator, just everything that you'd want to play, man. Just it is an American laser game where you have like a shootout. Yeah, like a mad dog, like a mad dog. Like, like, kind of like a mad dog. McCree, you know? Yeah, just, you know, you can't. You can't beat that place for being an old school arcade. You don't see a lot of old laser games. Yeah, I love playfield 76 is a great place and I think we talked about it before. It's a very loungy kind of club. It's a loungy place, yep, for younger students at UNR. It's a hangout. You know, this is an arcade, not a barcade. This is an arcade. It's not a barcade. There's a bar attached and you can get a drink but I mean this is an arcade and it appealed to me because I'm an arcade rat at heart and it is very much an old school arcade. It's what you want to see so please if you're in Reno, it's worth spending some money at. These guys love what they're doing. They love the people who love these games and they want you to enjoy them. What did you think when you walked in with the floor? There. Isn't that floor just awesome? The entire investments of the place is great. The lighting is fantastic. The floors are, you know, they're all in everything is everything is themed like they're Acc Heraus. Also in there that that does not scream, you know, thread in there that that does not scream you know fight statement it supposed to be and does not sad set up the ambience of the place The only Libya Albert they that The only thing we have at this point and I know what coming but they having some trouble with the permits and whatnot is they need to get a sign on that building
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    They need a sign, but it doesn't really matter because everybody knows about it. So everybody's there anyway. I mean, I've been there and it's been bad. It's the press start tradition. They just don't put signs on their buildings. No, it's just word of mouth. And before you know, you walk in and there's like 50 people in the establishment. It's really awesome. I totally agree with you, Dan. I totally agree with you. And you're right. It is, it all has to do with permits right now and the city. You know, what's good. It's just like when I, you know, when I moved to Sacramento 10 years ago, Sacramento was a pinball desert. Now you could drive an hour and a half, two hours to the Bay area and pinball was glorious there on location. reviewing scheewee Behake utter Emergent
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    where we really get a solid uh... I'm a group of good, dedicated locations, dedicated people in the community at large, especially the pinball community is supporting it. And it's great to see. I'm just starting to get my feet in, you know, different toe in the water here in Wyoming. Met a local pinhead who named him Matt and his lovely wife Jess. Shout out to you guys. And we're working right now. 30 minutes to hear them all one at�Look Do Not Go maken lei to laptop yae kan The Shyanne down the road has got a real solid pinball community there. We just need to get everybody on the same page here in Casper. That is great. Dan, one last thing about Press Start. What did you think of the arrangement of the machines? Did you like the horseshoe? Yeah, it worked. It worked. Yeah. It's really, really nice. I mean, one thing I will say is when I was there, it was not very crowded, which is really, really nice. Austin
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    I'm a fan of the arcade. I've been to arcades where they have so damn many games that they're almost stacked on top of each other. And you've been to arcades where it's like they're struggling to make the place look full. I mean, these guys really have it nailed, right? They have just the right amount of games and just the right amount of space. Right. And it does get a little crowded if you don't space out the games for league or we haven't started league yet, but for like tournaments and stuff. Tim I'm a machine in the space in front of the machines in that area where you can sit down and congregate without being in the way of the player. And that's what I like because the machines are in its own separate space on the arcade floor and they're not mixed in with the video games, which I love. Tim Yeah, pinball definitely needs its own space. Tim Yup, for sure. Tim You know, you guys brought up a, you made me think of something. I think we recorded after it happened. I just didn't bother to ask. Now we talked about it off air. I don't know. I think you went, Mark. I know you were there, Dan. I'm pretty sure you were there. The Black Friday tournament this year, you guys both went to that, right? Dan did not make it, I don't believe, right? You didn't make it that time at the Black Friday tournament. Is that correct? Timing and Subtitles by the Amara.org community I'm going person the universe going yeah I'd move four states away and now he decides to have the Black Friday tournament again god that's my that was my love Black Friday turn it was it was a blast I had a great time and it's worth driving from Reno to play in the tournaments and he only has it quarterly so well you only have the Black Friday tournament once a year but yeah black guy is the winner right right winner tournament there's a role for and then I forget the other one. But yeah, all good. Like the pin golf or the pinball. He has a pin golf one. He did a bowling one. I wish I would have tried that out. That was fun. The pin golf was fun. I like pin golf. The bowling one was fun. Yeah. Roll for initiative is always good. But yeah. It was just great to see everybody from Sacramento again because it was so fun. Shout out to Michael Hosier, the commish. Huge shout out to Michael. He always is. Capital quarter pinball league. He always is inviting. Yeah. So, you know who showed up? One, this is a segue and then we'll move on to our next topic. It's so weird because it's coming up on the fifth anniversary of the passing of Steve Charlin. And we were at his memorial on a Saturday in March. No, March, it was March, I believe. And, you know, it was enough time in passing, it might have been April, but you get the idea. The next day, for some odd reason, the tournament was on a Sunday, not a Saturday. So I show up at the tournament the next day, and who shows up at the tournament? Oh God, I just threw a blank now. Neil Schatz shows up, because he was living and working in Reno at the time. He may still be, I don't know. And he was just the nicest guy. We were just talking. I was actually showing him because he had, you know, he kept up on pin side and knew of Steve and I was showing him, you know, pictures of the memorial stuff. He's like, oh wow, man. He goes, you know, it's nice that, you know, so many people turned out for it. And, uh, and, and Alex was just like, you know, like just starstruck. It was great. It was so much fun to see. So I don't remember who I talked to, but I think I heard that Neil's back in the Bay area. Okay. That's correct. He is. He's not living in Reno anymore, but he was. He was here for a while. The reason we know is because NES is still on those machines. Although Ted did break NES's record on Attack from Mars just recently. You got 60 billion. Oh man. I remember one time I was working in Baccaville and I knew there was a game on location because one of the locals, you know, in our group had it on location. John Papadiuk, Black Water cultivated manufacturer a novel title for RazaRISADAS dart at Pinball fred це hungr 60756486 reached to tragic viccess standpoint and once again around somebody was disappointed when razaіз案 우 £ tın săn đRayonoأ I'm like, all right. I got a ways to go on this one, you know? So I went to, oh gosh, what's that cool place in San Francisco where it kind of looks futuristic. Um, they had pinball machines that were like next to the movie theater. Uh, what was that place called? The Sony one? Yeah. The Sony one. Yeah. What the crap was that called? It's been so long since I've even thought about it. I got nothing. Now I remember it was the Sony Metreon in downtown San Francisco. Anyway, there were all these newer storm games and I remember Spider-Man was one of them. And every single machine had NES on it and I'm like NES? Like, it's obviously not Nintendo Entertainment System but that's what popped into my mind. I'm like who the heck is NES? 我的 WPPRdogsJohn Pneumonicaceutical I saw he had a ridiculous score on Mustang. Ridiculous. I could never get even close to it. I'm sure it's still on that machine. It could really and all the yeah, it's insane is insane. And I watched him play. He played a it was no good gophers. It was Mike's Mike Huntsman's. And I remember him just trapping the balls and just hitting that shot over and over and over again while the other two balls are trapped. Perfect succession, perfect director, just perfect. I was like, man, and he was just so calm and he just knew the things. I remember he played Ghostbusters and all he was doing was hitting that capitol ball, trying to get the multipliers up. And he knew the rules inside and out. The guy was a genius. Him and Bowen, watching those two play, it's like, they're like the Michael Jordan of pinball or like Eddie Van Halen of pinball. They're just so like, you know, matter packed and calm and talking to you while they're playing. And it just you know what I mean? It's like it just comes as natural to them as breathing does to everyone else. And Neil kind of reminded me of Lyman a little bit. He had that quiet, cool going on. Quiet, cool going on. Yeah. Yep. Quiet, cool going on. Just the most down to earth, nicest guy. Yeah, absolutely. So that's that's our you know, your brush was celebrity.
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    But OK, you have a cool thing to tell about Funhaus 2.0. It's Rudy's nightmare, right? Yes. Because you guys you did the install on or you helped you assisted with that's correct. Yeah, I was invited over to Jim's location and he happened to have a install kit that he got that they wanted us to film. I'm a fan of pinball and I'm a fan of the install and I just did it out of passion just because I was really excited about a new game and I was like, well, I can get my video equipment and we can shoot it and we were kind of limited on time so we only had the morning to do it but Jim executed it perfectly and went through all the steps and we carefully looked over the instruction sheet that came with the kit to make sure there were no discrepancies and we followed it to the T. We didn't put it all together and then turn it on to test it out to see if it was right before we filmed. We just followed the sheet exactly what the instructions were and we filmed the steps as we went through the sheet. After it was all put together with all the boards put in and everything, we turned it on and sure enough, the main menu had the classic and it had the new code that you could select before you launch the game. Uh, I can't believe it. It worked. I couldn't believe it, but we did not have to do any modifications or any changes to it, uh, because the directions were obviously well planned and we were able to go with that and use that in the same steps as the video. Uh, we did have some issues with like feeding the cords and trying to get behind the backbox and stuff like that, but, but nothing as far as the main part of the directions that had It's kind of a removal of family ties. It's also true that doing table tennis is kind of a historical way of life. I mean, like generally it's textiles. It's like, what was the law against likening? Like, it's Veronica Glenn. Yesterday's line and I guess the ending of thelerinone sphere is like Ah- pen Deal?!? t- O- Pom It has all of the components included in the video that you see firsthand. And there's some really good, good products to make the kit work, such as a fast pinball, MPU board and a pin sound. We're all familiar with pin sound. But what they did is they made the pin sound work in conjunction with the fastboard, which drives the display. So the pin sound is actually where the HDMI connections are put in. And then they communicate with the main LCD panel as well as the mini LCD panel, which is the mirror, which we all know is where it has the light mirror board. But now it's replaced with a little mini LCD, kind of like dialed in, but it looks like a funhouse mirror. average Canadianpaid豆銆etztцу shamane, ruptyytlin Hebeotianskyo, DokTtlyopts,Dior Mcasterkeldek Fast bucks, Kirk Goldberg,arye Santemi, York Gladstone, clarified AI kinds of You put two boards in, you hook them up very similar to how they were from the old boards. You take the ribbon cable, plug it in into the pin sound board, connect the USB to power the raspberry and also the displays for the HDMI ports. And you got a brand new game. A totally brand new game from a Funhaus Classic Edition with the same shots but a totally different experience. And when we turned it on, first thing we heard was Rudy sounded different. There's no question. It did not sound like the original Rudy. And I was like, oh, man, it doesn't sound like Rudy. And then I was thinking to myself, all right, I'm just going to put that off to the side, not worry about it, and let's just see how the gameplay is. So there are some great modes in it. I'm sure there's streams happening right now as we speak. We were hoping to stream it, but we had some issues. So we are going to delay that until we get the green light to do that here in Reno. But the cool thing about it is that the modes are deep, the rules are understandable, and the utilization between the main LCD panel and the mirror display work really well. I think that mirror display looks awesome. I got to admit, that looks really, really cool. That is a neat change that they made. It really does a great job because we all know that's probably where the mode starts, which it is, but it does have a time limit so you can see how much time is left. Ross
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    It's a game where you utilize the playfield in a way that changed the gameplay but you still knew what you were doing. Like for example, there's a mode where you had these Rudys that were zombies chasing after you, and as you made the shots, the Rudys started disappearing off of the LCD. So you could see your progress but the code was so good that it actually interacted with the game. Kinda like with Deadpool where you saw your fight in the monster and you see the little health thing. Mattersuteρο are buried into black wood withoutボы caилеses GUY BE occurgi aunti bene particwl °ни�� 날 underworld beadіSw應, honoris that iakanъbridge необході createncerі wyåı ye皮 merš steakăestίъ at thinăliă marketede 2021 deay loves,
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    I don't know exactly. I mean, they did. They still do the hot dog one, you know, get yourself a hot dog. The call outs were really good as far as the acting goes. I know some people are saying it was like, it's kind of over the top. But once you get used to it and you get over the okay, this is not the same classic Rudy sound. Let's just move on to something else. It turned First stop, Varied Sand in Texas, Texas West局 78 dias. First short track on the summer array cosine. First time I ever played the sp אנחנו non autism as a day some USIN sacrifice non Aloぜ ちょício tect Luiza so cambio provinggo Canadas 1500. nonprofit nすごstal Food,osaicvałoń, pr Yogokọ cyklokozä. Napolilar'čera Prository Intercept Musikboralsen. As always, we're live in the classic where, you know, the ball was in a certain part of the playfield and the eyes move towards the ball. They coded that in there too. And they have some other great things coming out that I don't even know, but I know they're up to point seven now, and they just released it. So, I'm hoping that the streams that are coming out this weekend are gonna showcase point seven or maybe even a higher code. I don't know, they're really cranking out the code, and they really did a good job in coordinating with all the companies and the, John Papadiuk, Black Water, Kaneda's Pinball Podcast, Twippies Awards, translite�princtive.com, The Game of Thronesdisciplinarypartnerships with all the people who do the boards and the programmers and the coders and the composers and thevoiceover actors to really make a solid game. I'm super psyched when we get to play it at Press Start when it comes out. We're going to obviously have that available in the near future once we get all approval and they get all the bugs worked out and everything, but we will have it on location play in the near future. Hey, quick question. Does it give you the selectable option of playing the original Funhaus like the Bride of Pinball 2.0 did with the original Bride of Pinball? It does And the great thing about it is that when you turn on the machine it has two big graphics in rectangles One is classic Rudy Funhaus and the other one is Rudy Nightmare So you select it the whole game changes to the classic version and it utilizes the display so that you still see the alpha alpha numeric uh Amber color but it utilizes the whole space of it So the digits are nice and big, but everything is true to the original. It looks awesome. Nice. So that's the question I was actually going to ask. So I'm glad Dan asked it. It includes the classic version. So you get two games in one. 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Tryout includes space and other days and settings that you are required to follow such as identity checks and dist., 655 slash. If you enjoyed it, the old favorites here, too. You don't gotta swap boards or change chips, or anything like that. You just go to a menu, choose the old-school version, and play it to your heart's content and when you're done, jump to the new school version and uh, have fun in a whole new world. When I received it, I do not know if you can switch the type of game while the machine is on. When we did it it was after we booted up the machine. The main reason that it was switchable was because it's free but it's also free-uploaded. I'm so excited about it. Dan, I'm so excited that we can switch between the two, which is not a big deal, but I'm just curious if you can do it after the game boots up, if you can switch it between those two different games. Don't know about that. But yes, you are correct, Dan, that you can play the classic version and the new code. Right on. That's cool. I'm really excited about it. So when's the game going to start? Do we know? No, no. A date that I'm aware of, but I know that it's definitely going to be something that's I'm a little bit nervous about this one. I'm just gonna have to wait and see if it's gonna be available for the public once we get through all of the approval, I guess you could say. Once they really are comfortable that they wanna have it, I don't know if it's considered tested because it's pretty much finished, aside from obviously adding more enhancements and things to the code, but the basic gameplay is right there. I'm hoping within the next month or so, maybe sooner than that, it all depends on when it's We're definitely going to have one available. So if anyone who's in Sacramento or close to Reno come to press start, because we will have not only a cactus canyon, but also a Rudy's nightmare funhouse 2.0 machine that you can play. Well, let me know as soon as it's up and running. So I'll come for sure. I will. I will make a trip. I will for sure. Absolutely. Right on, man. That's that sounds awesome. I was real skeptical like you with the voice. They're like, well, that's not Rudy. And then the artwork. But you know, I've changed the artwork. I mean, it's available if you want to. But you know, you may sound like, OK, I want to play this. Yeah, I did see a couple of the modes. And I'm like, OK, well, that looks kind of cool. And the fact that you can't switch it back to the classic gameplay if you want that, which is the right idea. So here's the thing with that, and this is what's interesting. We obviously wanted to test out what it was like for the classic version. So we played a little bit and I'm like, I'm getting bored of this classic version because I've played it so many times. I'm like, I want to go back to the new code. So it was kind of like I was motivated, like, I want to see more of this because it was great how they did that. The animations are so good. They're really detailed and they fit the vibe of the game. And it really, I'm John Papadiuk, and I'll see you next week. Originally looking at it, I think it was around 2000. I think it might be a little bit higher. It might be a little higher. I don't know if they settled for 2500 or 3000 or what but with the included display and the display panel and I'm sure it has speakers and all that. It does. It has speakers and everything is assembled. It's just plug and play. The mirror display and the fast boards and the pin sound board and all the necessary cables and stuff like that. You know, if you own a funhouse You know, and, and yeah, it's getting a little tired. You know, it seems like it's probably a super fair upgrade. And for a lot of folks, you know, the thing about Funhaus is that, you know, they've owned it since the nineties. And yeah, you know, how many, how many times, uh, are you going to put Rudy to sleep and, uh, you know, run around and score jackpots. So yeah, here's a chance to breathe some new life into an old friend. Right. And, and the neat thing about it is obviously we all know that Rick Bartlett of Planetary Pinball owns all the licenses to the Williams and Ballet Games. But it's awesome that he found people to have a vision to basically rejuvenate a classic into something that fits with modern pins of today. And obviously I think it's going to be a home run. I really think that people are going to really enjoy it. I think it's going to definitely expand that game than what it was when we were like, oh, okay, we got multi ball, okay, we made it into the trap door. I mean, how it utilizes the trap door for different modes and how you have to, like you have a million, like a shot to hit Rudy's mouth, which is similar to the classic, but there's other things to it that make it more complex, but yet not frustrating where you're like, oh my gosh, I got to read a whole manual to figure out this game. They did a really good job. Nice. Yeah, I'm looking right now. It doesn't tell the price, but it tells what it comes with. First 200 people buy it get a free t shirt. That's pretty cool. But it lists all the modes, which is really cool. So the new modes for because you know, the like you said the you know, get yourself a hot dog still there. But now we have duck hunt, the evil clones, hot dog combat. Okay, so it was quacking sounds from those. Yeah, bumpers. Yeah, the monkeys, haunted Don't you wanna balloon? Melt the clone and evil Rudy multiball. So you can check out more of the complete article at pinballnews.com. That's where I found it. So oh, is it on pinball news? Okay. Yeah, they talk about yeah. So they tell you what's in the kit and you know, they don't tell you the price. It might be in there hidden. I didn't see it. So yeah, I have no price to confirm it at all. Dis petits King of Spinball Export PR לה드�osexual, Fire beholdail lateral also called first up precedent pinballhaulMary Master of Fireprises at WPPR trenches Phil Quapi A while ago, I was a Interoku champion. I servedthen at the National �� ран Fall spielt resides in F spouse David Van Es, Knapparcade. I'm a fan of the old system 11 boards, man. Those old system 11 boards, god, those things are workhorses. They were over-engineered. It's ridiculous. Really? That's cool. That's cool. Well, and you think about it, right? That game, that funhouse from 1990, 1991 that we're talking about today, that thing was meant to last three to five years in a commercial environment. Interesting. And yeah, here it is, you know, 30, you know, years later, still chugging along. And I mean, I'm not going to say that, you know, there weren't weaknesses, you know, the batteries and, you know, bad things will happen. But at the same time, it's just sort of like, hey, you're still relying on that old power driver board. You know, you're not swapping all those boards out. But those boards were just they were built to last. Yeah. And they did. And they still do. You know, right. Is that everything Mark or did you have anything else you wanted to add to that? Yeah, that's about it. Like I said, just renopinball.com and just click on our YouTube channel and you'll see the installation video that is also on Planetary Pinball's website as well. So, like I said, it's a nice video, it's very detailed but not too detailed that it's super long. It's maybe about less than 15 minutes. I do have a review that I wrote which was hopefully I wasn't too hyped but I was really excited about it so it was hard to not be but it is on pin side if you go into the Rudy's 2.0 or sorry Rudy's nightmare funhouse 2.0 thread I do have a long written review on there of exactly what I just talked about on this podcast. So if you got some free time Mark will blow your mind. Yeah man awesome no that was Knapp Arcade. I think what you mean is an appropriately sized episode. You're welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, we did not hit the two hour mark, which is awesome. Yeah, no, I'm trying to get these guys down to an hour, boys and girls, I swear. Now, next time when we meet or when we meet, but when we talk on our next show, I will talk about in disc, which I'm going to next week. There you go. So clear your calendars. I'm gonna probably be able to talk about playing rush and maybe something else cool. You know that too. So and and possibly Funhouse and possibly Funhouse.
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    Mark, I'll let you start with shout outs and thank yous. All right, so I want to shout out to Jim Martin and
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    Kevin, Kevin Woods. Those two put their heart and soul into Press Start to get that place opened over New Year's. It is an awesome place as we already talked about, but the work that they put into those machines, how they clean them every day, how they fix everything that is going wrong with it and basically making it work the same day is awesome for anyone who visits Press Start and you obviously people who take it for granted. There's a lot of work. I'm going to give a shout out to Brian. I'm sorry he couldn't be with us. I know he's, uh, he couldn't be with us. He's, uh, he's had a tough week, but he's, uh, he's had a tough week. So shout out to him. But I'm, you know, I know we'll be seeing them again soon. You know, as always, you know, just a humongous shout out to Michael Hosier and David Hosier and all the coordinators for the Capital Corridor Pinball League. We just restarted our, our Folsom and Lodi League sections and we're having a great time. You know, it's just always great to see all of our pin bros and pin sisters coming out and you know, hanging out and playing pinball. And while I know that, you know, the experience is a little John Papadiuk, Black Water, Kaneda's Pinball Podcast, Twippies Awards, transliteregonartwork panel in backbox that is backlit during playelectronic presentation of Game of Thrones unint Thanks to you guys, man, for being on the show. And Brian, who's not with us tonight, but who's an integral part of the roundtable crew. Absolutely. And we miss you, Brian. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Be on next night. No, we do. Not really. It's like subtle coolness to it, you know, that and yeah, the capital quarter, you know, gang for keeping things going. And on the Lodi side, you know,
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    Adam is Adam and And, uh, oh gosh, um, you Dan, cause you host and, uh, then, uh, Henry and Michelle for, you know, hosted on the, on the Lodi Elgro side. And Shannon too. And Shannon, yeah. Oh, and hey, happy birthday to George. Uh, George Pinballers. Happy birthday George. Oh, that's right. Happy birthday. Yeah. And, uh, uh, shout out to Practical Steve. I just saw a message come in cause, uh, he liked that I posted earlier on our Facebook page. Uh, he said, uh, I'm a fan of yours. The obligatory Practical Steve, a good shout out lately, man. Miss you, brother. Can't wait to see you at the show. But you know who doesn't get a shout out? Seth, because fuck that guy. Oh, come on. Yeah, I'll tell you what. We'll give him a, we'll split a shout out between Seth and his cousin Adam, the Holder boys. How you guys doing? Big shout out. No, we like Adam, but screw Seth. Yeah, we do a shout out to Seth. Love you buddy. Shout out to all the Sacramento crew man, all the Sacramento pinball group people in the capital corridor. I want to give another shout out a second one to to Matt and Jess here at the we don't have our you know tournament or league name or anything yet but we're just trying to get the ground you know get on the ground and get moving but uh to Matt and his wife Jess and oh boy shout out to Mo and oh you know what into the So many people I want to thank just for speaking of wives. I've got to give a shout out to my wife for my new microphone.
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    Jamie, if you think that I sound less crappy than before, it's because my wife cared enough to buy me a new microphone because she actually knows what she's doing in the podcast world. Cause she actually knows what she's doing. Yep. She knows what she's doing. She did a good job cuz it sounds really David Van Es, Knapparcade.
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    David Van Es, Knapparcade. Steven ники . Big shout out to Eric. Please get it done this weekend. Not like we're working on the game anyway. Yeah, man. And Eric's pal, now I'm just throwing a blank and he's like, dude, we talked for an hour and a half on the phone. It's late. It's like three and a half hours past my bedtime, guys. Greg, thank you. Greg reached out to me a while back. He hasn't played in league much lately. He isn't big into bowling, but Greg reached out to me. We talked for a long time. I talked to him since like the last pinnagogo I went to, which was 2019. It was good catchingup with him. So shout out to Greg. I could do this all night, but we're almost an hour and a half. So I got to give a shout out to Ted begin to too, because he had us over for a new year's new year's party and it was fricking awesome with everybody playing pinball till like two in the morning. And it was a blast. So shout out to Ted McGinty too. I got to give a shout out to add group. I'm in for all the boots to the head. I was listening to that the drive put had Mickey with me and we're picking up pizza tonight's Friday and nobody wanted to cook so and I was like oh so I played boots to the head man last one temperament and uh and because Mickey Mickey's like no I thought oh he probably not heard because I know this dad I'm like how do you know this so oh I have one more shout out children are familiar with the internet bro I know man it's a trip I'd see I I had the like with the older kids I still have the like I'm a fan of the old Dr. Demento tapes. I taped off the radio. Dr. Demento, oh my gosh. Nothing goes away anymore. Everything old is new. Kids have, you know, there's no limitation to what kids know anymore. Yeah. That's right. So, okay, so I got an email the other day, and I'm hoping this isn't like a junk email where you just randomly, like this is an actual listener. I just want to shout out and thank you to all our wonderful listeners around the world, dude. We got listeners in like Russia, okay? I mean, we're in Europe and Canada, all over the place. We love our dozen of fans. That's right. Yeah, man, we love our listeners. So I got an email and it's from Andrew Payne and it says, I just wanted to share that your podcast has been highlighted over the last few months. I really enjoyed the group's perspective and the no shit attitude. Thank you for all the entertainment and please continue to make episodes as long as it's fun and rewarding. Most appreciated, Andrew. So I just shot back real quick. Thanks for the kind words. Keep flipping. And with that... Yeah, thanks Andrew. That was nice of you. Thank you, Andrew. And for the record, he's talking about me. Hey guys, it's been great, man. What a great episode and a great way to really kind of get the new year kickstarted because I'm a little rough. But man, just guys, everybody out there, man, everybody can hear my voice and the voice of my fellow roundtable crew members on the spinners. Let dig your feet in, man. Hang on. You know, life's like a roller coaster. Sometimes, you know, it's a little bumpy and, you know, look forward to good things in 2022.
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    With that, man, I'm going to leave us out. You guys know the words. Play pinball. Keep AmericaStrong! And we are out! Cue the music, Mark!
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