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Episode 258 – Goodbye Stranger

Slam Tilt Podcast·podcast_episode·1h 40m·analyzed·Oct 31, 2025
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TL;DR

Slam Tilt recaps Expo 2026 with mixed takes on Star Wars/Harry Potter and celebrates Winchester's surprise success.

Summary

Ron and Bruce recap Pinball Expo 2026, covering Star Wars (mixed reaction, Spike 3 concerns, Special Edition clips criticized), Harry Potter (positive gameplay, high price concern), Predator (limited 200-unit production, Arnold impersonator audio issue), Winchester Mystery House (surprise announcement, sold out in 1.5 days, Carl D'Angelo design praised), and various other releases. They announce STOMP tournament (April 23-26) with 96 spots and discuss community reactions to new and vintage games.

Key Claims

  • Winchester Mystery House sold out in a day and a half

    high confidence · Ron and Bruce both confirmed this, with Ron noting his prediction of non-sellout was wrong

  • Star Wars Pinball uses Special Edition clips instead of original trilogy

    high confidence · Ron played the game and noted the Jabba's Palace musical number is from Special Edition with 'horrific CGI'

  • Predator Pinball production limited to 200 units through end of year

    high confidence · Ron stated 'they're only selling 200 something more' and 'they're stopping at the end of the year'

  • Carl D'Angelo designed Winchester Mystery House playfield

    high confidence · Ron confirmed talking to Carl at Expo and praised the design

  • Winchester uses a hologram/Pepper's Ghost effect similar to Pinball 2000

    high confidence · Ron described the main toy as a turntable with Pepper's Ghost effect

  • Star Wars Pinball (Borg) has no major mechanical issues but lacks standout playfield features

    high confidence · Ron noted 'nothing about it play field wise really stood out to me' and 'no rejections' but no exciting shots

  • Blues Brothers prototypes had non-functional flippers at Expo

    high confidence · Ron described multiple Blues Brothers units being non-functional on opening day

  • American Pinball introduced Whirl-O-Ball, a skeeball variant with hidden ball landing

    high confidence · Ron played Whirl-O-Ball at Expo and criticized the design concept

Notable Quotes

  • “Not only did it sell out, it sold out like a day and a half. Holy crack cocaine.”

    Ron Hallett @ early in episode — Emphasizes surprise success of Winchester Mystery House announcement

  • “It's the worst one, though... It is the special edition. Now, on the previous Star Wars, the only time I really saw anything that was special edition or stuff that was like annoyed me, a youngling, when they said that at one point, like, what the fuck?”

    Ron Hallett @ Star Wars discussion — Core criticism of Star Wars Pinball using Special Edition movie content

  • “I completely forgot about that I know you did You left me hanging. No, you left me hanging.”

    Ron/Bruce @ transition to good news — Comedic lead-in to STOMP tournament announcement

  • “They're in trouble we're in trouble guys... Well, I mean, most of their sales by far have been Alien. Oh, of course. Which is a game they didn't make.”

    Ron/Bruce @ Pinball Brothers discussion — Assessment of Pinball Brothers business health struggling

  • “I don't know who this is for. I don't know who this is for or who would ever buy this.”

    Ron Hallett @ Whirl-O-Ball discussion — Dismissal of American Pinball's new product direction

  • “Winchester... shot good but i mean of course it shot good carl d'angelo did it”

    Ron Hallett @ Winchester discussion — Recognition of Carl D'Angelo's design credentials

  • “It's basically like the possession sound effect. Kind of like not quite as strong as the deadite effect, but kind of like that.”

    Ron Hallett @ Winchester callout discussion — Description of Winchester's audio design approach

  • “Mark your calendars. April 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th. Stomp.”

    Ron Hallett @ STOMP announcement — Official announcement of major regional tournament dates

Entities

Winchester Mystery HousegameStar Wars PinballgameHarry Potter PinballgamePredator PinballgameBlues BrothersgameWhirl-O-BallgameRon HallettpersonBruce NightingalepersonCarl D'Angeloperson

Signals

  • ?

    business_signal: Pinball Brothers (Predator) facing severe sales difficulty with production limited to 200 units through end of year despite Expo booth presence, primary sales driven by games they did not manufacture

    high · Ron stated 'they're in trouble' and 'we're in trouble guys', noted most sales from Alien (not their product), Queen and ABBA underperformed due to overestimated popularity

  • ?

    community_signal: David Van Ness (pinball designer/industry figure) actively listens to Slam Tilt Podcast, confirmed in conversation with Ron at Expo

    high · Ron mentioned Van Ness introduced himself as podcast listener, cautioning about critical comments

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Star Wars Pinball criticized for using Special Edition movie clips (Jabba's Palace musical number, Death Star ring effect, youngling references) instead of original trilogy content, directly contrary to nostalgia expectations

    high · Ron extensively detailed disappointment with Special Edition inclusion, noted LaserDisc/original trilogy collector context, stated Jabba scene would make him 'want to vomit'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Winchester Mystery House uses Pepper's Ghost/hologram effect (Pinball 2000 style) as primary mechanical feature rather than traditional playfield toys, with turntable as main interactive element

    medium · Ron described playfield design as 'the mech' centered on turntable with hologram effect, noted limited traditional toy count

  • ?

    event_signal: STOMP 2026 tournament announced for April 23-26 with 96 maximum spots, pre-tournament on 23rd, main event 24-26, guaranteed spots for past winners within 2-week registration window

Topics

Pinball Expo 2026 recap and reactionsprimaryStar Wars Pinball design and Special Edition content criticismprimaryWinchester Mystery House surprise announcement and successprimaryPredator Pinball production and sales challengesprimarySTOMP tournament 2026 announcementprimaryHardware reliability issues across multiple vendors at ExposecondaryPricing concerns for premium pinball machinessecondaryAmerican Pinball business pivot away from pinball to other gamessecondary

Sentiment

mixed(0.45)— Ron and Bruce express qualified appreciation for Winchester and Harry Potter, but significant criticism of Star Wars (Special Edition clips, lack of memorable shots), Predator production issues, equipment reliability at Expo, and American Pinball's product direction. Positive tone around STOMP announcement and vintage game playing. Overall cautious and skeptical about recent releases but not hostile.

Transcript

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The DDT gave them massive brain damage. It's amazing they have enough brain function to still be alive. Actually, Doctor, these scans are from before they drank the DDT. These boys were here a month ago to have objects removed from their nasal cavities. Those were army men. They made the ultimate sacrifice. 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 the other host, Bruce Nightingale. I want to be your turd burglar. Why don't you call my name? Oh, I know I'm turd burglar. And this is episode 258, and we're ready for the big time. I'm on my way, I'm making it. That would be a better song for your disgusting, you know, you're like, big turd. Big turd. I'm on my way, I'm flushing it. Big turd. There's no doubt about it. Okay. So Bruce, professional as always. Yes, of course I am. Hello, everybody out there in beautiful pinball land. No one responded to my whole, like, do they want to see us in video? So I guess that means no or no one listens. No, I'm very grateful. My ugly mug. My computer has like 480 camera on it. 480p. Yeah, like 16 megs of RAM, so it barely can record this at this point. Yes. He's also just grinding the mega bitch. The mega bitch. Oh, he's yawning already. Already. I've been up since four. Okay. Yeah. Four yesterday. Ha-ha. Yeah. Ha-ha. Oh, hee-hee. All right. Expo happened. It did. We're just going to go right into Expo. And there was other stuff that happened after Expo, but Expo happened. Now, I think right before, I think that Winchester Mystery House was revealed like the day we recorded. And we were confused. And then I made the prediction, well. I made the prediction that they weren't going to sell out, and I was wrong. Yeah, my prediction was also completely wrong. Not only did it sell out, it sold out like a day and a half. Holy crack cocaine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, well, at least that one you could see first. Yeah, true. There's another game we'll be talking about that no one's even seen. It's pretty much sold out. Ron Hallett. Ron Hallett. Ron Hallett. Oh, I get it because it's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. But I have a list here about Expo. Is there anything you want me to get into first? How many people hugged you? One. All right. who's that penny hug me all right that's good thing that's perfectly acceptable yes that's it that's your only question that was my only question about xbox shout out to neil mccray he brought my uh blu-rays with him oh nice it was it was good good didn't have to worry about him not getting to me they got to me and they were they worked they were good we're all good everything's good my hong kong action movies are in my position yikes hey oh nothing i didn't say anything okay so i wonder if i should just go in order here i just like right after x-file i wrote all this down so i wouldn't forget because it's been like a week and a half ago now and i'm old and forget things what exactly exactly exactly So let's see. Star Wars. Star Wars. Beautiful Star Wars. Star Wars. I'm talking Star Wars. Yeah, they had Star Wars stuff everywhere. They had Vader and a stormtrooper up on stage. Well, animatronic Vader and animatronic stormtrooper on the stage. Yes. And I played a couple games. I didn't play a ton of any particular game because a lot of them, well, Actually, yeah. A lot of them, I didn't want to stand in line. They were too long. Wow. Or I had already stood in line once. I think for the Winchester game, I had at least an hour and a half of standing in line between the two games I played. Yikes. Yeah. Extreme line. Star Wars. Man, I couldn't hit anything. Star Wars! We know that. I know that definitely nothing about it play field wise really stood out to me no a lot of rejections I didn't have that well I didn't I never tried to hit the Death Star never shot it why not why did you not hit the Death Star because the other shot to the left of it you can lock balls and get multiball or you can backhand it yes that's what I did yes The Whirlpool It's weird in single ball play Because you just hit it And you just wait Like You know, surf at Safari and Ain't When it comes to cool Whirlpools And Let's see, the problem is a lot of the Benefits of the Spike 3 system I really couldn't hear Star Wars The new LCD looked good That's good It's bigger It's bigger It's bigger I could kind of figure out what I was doing Hitting the lit things And I started Like I hit a certain amount of shots And then all the characters are flashing So I'm figuring okay Which every one I hit is the one Yeah Baby you're the one I hit the center shot a bunch And then some kind of multiball started Multiple balls across my face So what did you think? Is it going to the collection? No. I already have a Star Wars. Yeah, it's the worst one, though. The thing I didn't realize, I didn't realize this. Now, this game, it has way more clips than the other one. So there's a benefit. They got a ton of clips. All original trilogy, but it's not the original trilogy. That's the issue. It is the special edition. Now, on the previous Star Wars, the Steve Richards Star Wars, the only time I really saw anything that was special edition or stuff that was like annoyed me, a youngling, when they said that at one point, like, what the fuck? They never used that term in the original trilogy. Never. Never. Never! And when the Death Star blows up, it has the stupid ring around it. Yes. But other than that, what the hell was that? That's the guy when he, when he, oh God. Oh yeah. Whatever the hell that thing is. Yeah, exactly. But see, you know, if you were in Star Wars, you'd be the, uh, the guy, he doesn't like you. I don't like you either. No, not him. You'd be the other guy with the butt, the butt mouth. I thought it'd be one of the guys that was playing in the band. Actually, your head, yeah. It shines kind of like that. See? Exactly. Nailed it. Long, tall Eddie and the ass heads. I think that's what they're named because their heads look like asses. But actually, it's funny you should bring that up because that was the issue I had with the new Star Wars. One of the modes is the Jabba's Palace musical number, which they have the one from the special edition, which I completely forgot about that they redid that whole thing. No, I wish they had that. No, it's a completely different song, and it's all horrific CGI, and it's terrible, and I wanted to vomit. That alone would like, unless I could, well, you can't pinball browser it. It's Spike 3, baby, so that automatically takes it out of me ever getting it. Just, I could not watch that. Could not do it. Remember, I'm the guy with, I got the Harmy editions, I got the Negative One editions, I got every original trilogy edition I could get. I have the VHS. I got the fucking LaserDisc. I got the crappy DVDs. I got it all, man. I'm all original. Old school. Yes. So as soon as I saw that, I'm like, oh, God. I can't. No, no. Don't block the screen. No. Did you like the glowing Java? Java. You're glowing. Java. Yeah, I played a premium and a pro just to see the difference. Pro's better, I think. Well, the Shabba one is weird because he's got the ball there, so you keep thinking it's stuck. Yeah, I know. There's a stuck ball. Oh, no. Oh, no, it's not. Yes. Yes. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it's fine. I mean, you guys are going to have one, right? Yep. You're going to have it. It's not in the building, but our one owner has it already. Yeah, you're going to have a launch party, right? Yes, we will. The 12th of December and the 13th of December, I think it is. It's the Friday and Saturday. Friday for the women's and Saturday for everyone. Yeah. I don't know. I didn't see anything egregiously wrong with it. Again, I never shot the Death Star. I guess that seems to be the thing people complain about. The shots are pretty tight. My games did not last long, which I kind of, yeah, thumbs up. I like that. but it wasn't anything like oh my god i gotta have this oh my god this this play field is incredible these shots are amazing there was there was nothing like that so it's all going to be on how good the software is basically really limited time offer please come and get it right now where what you just you just said limited time offer come on yeah so that was star wars i did like the uh what was it they had he had an le and the oh in the flipping out booth there there's your plug here's i said hey who's flipping out pinball the distributor that rpc gets all their games from yes thanks flipping out pinball yes buy your game from flipping out pinball they live in our pinball is the best they had a dune they had a king kong le and they had a star yours, Ellie. Yeah, that's good. They had a big buck hunter and a golden tee, which I played with my dad. We played golden tee. We played TPC sawgrass. I got seven under. Nice. He started bad, but then he got back to even par. And he made a couple 30-foot putts. I think it had to be in some kind of super easy mode, though. Like, every putt was just straight. Like, there was no break. There was no break. you want people to buy the thing when it's there that's true it made me feel like I was better than I was I'm sure oh I guarantee you suck they had Dune there also and they also had the Winchester I think there was like five of them there or six there was one in the Flip N Out Pinball booth there was three or four in the Barrels of Fun booth and then there was one they had a Barrels of Fun room on the second floor where they had one. That sounds dirty, doesn't it? Barrel's all fun in the upstairs room, big boy. So, yeah. That was Star Wars. It was fine. Star Wars! It was fine. It was absolutely fine. I don't like... Oh, yeah. I forgot. Hoth. I did like the Hoth art package for the Ellie. Yeah, me too. I did like... And I usually don't like snow. So that's saying something if I like... Let's see. What else? uh harry potter i played again because the only time i played that was with uh well you remember it was at uh which one the beast the beast um and i played like one game and didn't do particularly well uh this time i played it and uh did much better started hitting things uh what what what do you think would be my favorite part of the play field knowing me the repetitive round shot up top the upper exactly as soon as i hit that like oh yeah yeah i just kept trying to hit that over and over like yeah yeah and and hitting lit things yeah several different multi balls no clue what's going on um speaking of the beast did you know that they released their dates for next year oh what are they bruce it's gonna be uh the 30th to the 2nd on August. So July 30th to August 2nd. There you go. There you go. And we got more big news. Oh, yes. Go ahead. Why don't you go first? Tease the people a little bit. Okay. Yeah, I actually, I liked Harry Potter. I liked the way it shot. I like that. I mean, I like everything about Harry Potter until you get to the price tag. And you're like... Joe, like I said, I'm just clueless. At certain points it had me make decisions. I'm assuming on picking a movie, like which movie, and I haven't seen any of them. Snausberries, it's like snausberries. What is it, Quidditch? Is that what that other thing is? Yeah, I don't even know what that means. What is that? Is that currency? No, no, it's a game. Oh, it's a game. It's a game. They're on their little sticks flying around. You mean brooms? Yes, they're sticks. I do love the broom thing. I just love that way. It never stops moving. It's just like boing, boing, boing going around. I'm easily amused. What can I say? What else is new? Okay. I play Predator. Oh, I can't say that. No, the impersonator can. Oh, yes, I know. Remember, they got the Arnold impersonator. So you do hear the Arnold impersonator. Who's – all right. It is weird just every time there's Arnold, it's just like his head's cut off and stuff. when no one else is. That's why it's just so weird. Yeah, it's a wide body and it plays like it. Slow and go. And everyone's like, it's like Whirlwind. Wide body Whirlwind. It's like, I don't feel like I'm playing Whirlwind at all when I'm playing that game. Again, I didn't see anything egregiously wrong or bad with it. Other than there's no Arnold. I think I started one of the multi-balls. The rightmost shot, I could not hit that. The leftmost shot I did hit a couple times. They had Poncho there from the movie. I can't remember the actor's name, but he was there for a couple of the days. That was cool. That's cool. That was a good idea. Yeah, I mean, what are they going to sell? it's like 200 right it's 200 because they said we're only selling 200 something more and it's like and if there's and if they're still plugging it at the show that ain't good yeah they need to what 200 and and they're stopping at the end of the year that's it no more yeah that's pretty bad when you can't get you know they're in trouble we're in trouble guys Well, I mean, most of their sales by far have been Alien. Oh, of course. Which is a game they didn't make. Yeah. Queen was not good. No. I mean, I'm sorry. It wasn't. ABBA, I think they overestimated their popularity in this country. Oh, yeah. Because in Europe, maybe, but here, people are like, what? Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. I mean, I thought it was cool. I mean, I got, you know, Grace hits ABBA. I got some ABBA stuff. Yep. Waterloo. Take a chance on me. Take a chance. Take a chance. Waterloo. Would you think that I wanted to? I actually like shooting that better than Queen. Yes. Totally agree. But, yeah, I mean, in this game, I mean, it seemed fine, but I just don't think they're going to sell enough of them. No. I don't know. I don't know what their exciting new licenses are or whatever, but we'll see. womp womp let's see what else do i got here wonderland amusements you know who they are yeah they're making that cheesy sub thousand dollar alice in wonderland that's no longer sub thousand i think it's like 1100 now or whatever uh here's the funny part it did play wow yeah it had ramps and i could hit them yay it is it's everything's smaller scale so the pinballs are like like a hyper ball size yeah but it had ramps that i could hit i was quite impressed like wow i would think that i wouldn't be able to hit them because there was a lot of games there i played that had ramps i couldn't hit but that was not one of them i mean i don't know who would buy this what the audience is for but it played i mean that's positive Yay, you played! Yay! Yes. I wish I could say the same for the Blues Brothers. I know Mike from HomePan is going to say, like, oh, those were proto-models. Like, how many fucking prototypes do you have, bro? So we got there when the show opened, well, a few hours later, on Thursday, right? There was a circle of games. It was two Blues Brothers, a Tokyo Perfect Drift, and a Super Hoop. So two Quetzal games. They're from Spain. And then the two Blues Brothers. So when we got there, the one Blues Brothers was already off and not working. The other one had a different Translight in it. It looked like some kind of aftermarket Translight. and my father is like what what's with john belushi looks like he has wisdom teeth taken out he did he looked like he had swelling in his face at the translate it was it wasn't good and that one it was in the middle of a ball you could tell but there was no ball to be found and only one of the flippers worked surprise surprise surprise so friday that one was gone the one that at least one of the flippers worked the other one was still there but still off and then saturday that one was gone yikes yeah come on man i don't want to shit on anything but come on like we got there a few hours after the open and we couldn't play a fucking game of it just insane you're you're expecting too much from the uh casual player that our game is going towards right here. I think the casual player expects it to fucking work. No, no, no, no, no. Because you're going to be programming this game and all the time you're going to spend programming on this game to make your own special rules. Yeah, but if the flippers don't work, what is the programming going to do? It's just going to make it more special for you. Don't you understand that? My Dr. Phil here is trying to get a little better than this. Uh-huh. You've got to enjoy the Blues Brothers and feel the Blues Brothers while you're trying to play it. Okay. Speaking of other things that made me go, huh, American Pinball. Or should I call them Orbit Games now? Because I think the pinball part of it is dead. It's dead, Jim. It's dead, Jim. It's dead. They brought these games, these new games called Whirl-O-Ball. Whirl-O-Ball. Whirl-O-Ball. Whirl-O-Ball. Have you ever played skee-ball, Bruce? Yes, I have played skee-ball. Did you ever play skee-ball and think, you know, if only there was a version where I couldn't see where the ball goes when I throw it? That'd be great. I live for that. Whirl-O-Ball's for you. Oh, my God. They knew how to market this. You throw it down, and instead of actually going into a hole, it just goes up and into the back of the game and... You did the hole. It's incredible. You know, if you throw it down the center, hopefully you will get the center value of 50 points. But, yeah, you can't see where it lands. And it's enormous. I don't know who this is for. I don't know who this is for or who would ever buy this. If it's that big, I'm just going to buy a Raw Thrills game and put it on location so I can actually make money. Oh, my. I don't get what they're going for here. I don't understand. I did hit five 50s in a row, just saying. I'm pretty good at skee-ball. Except I found out later I did it wrong. I was actually supposed to be trying to get each different value all the way across. And then I would get basically like an extra ball, which meant nine more balls, get to play again, and it would add on to my score. So I was playing. Sure plays a mean chin ball. So I was playing incorrectly. Yikes. But, yeah. I don't know what that's... Who that's for. Yeah, I don't know either. I don't get it. And it's a pinball show, and you bring in... Well, you bring an amusement device. That's what it's for. Okay. Okay. Let's see. Like I said earlier, I played the Tokyo Drift and the Super Hoop, which I... I find those games are fine. Yeah, I don't mind them. I mean, they were cheaper, because... I don't know if they're cheaper because they were used, but they had lower prices on them than some of the other games. Our prices are low. They're insane. Oh, shit. You can't get rid of this fucking thing. They're very basic. Yes. Oh, very. They're very basic, but it's fine. Flipper's kind of weak, but there was a lot of that. There was a lot of that at the show. A lot of weak flippers and a lot of not-level games. games. But yeah, while staying in Europe I also went to the Hexa display. They had a bunch of space hunts there. Space hunt. Space hunt. The two I played had fairly weak flippers. Space hunt. I played a game with Timmy, Tim Sexton. Timball! Our original third host. I just challenged anyone in the group who can get to the upper play field. And none of us did. Because you got to hit the drop target down and you got to hit the narrowest ramp in the game to try to get up there. Now, when I played it at past times, at least the one there, I ended up doing it multiple times in a row. Like, oh, okay, I guess it is easy. But at least on these, when I hit the ramp what I thought was perfectly clean. It would go halfway up and die. So they're going to be making Three Musketeers is going to be their next game. What do you think about that? It's a free... It's a non-license license. Non-licable license. Yes, non-licable license. It's free. I mean, I can't think of any Three Musketeers games. wouldn it be funny if it actually it gonna be great it gonna be the candy bar it just the candy bars You trying to get as many Three Musketeers as you can Now I going to really have some people thinking about and scratching their head I remember when they had the animated cartoons with the Three Musketeer advertisements. Look that up on YouTube. Okay. Does that mean like candy bars are living? No, they actually had swords and everything. Aha. Did you know they had California Raisins too? They did that, we're alive Yeah, but Played the Space Hunts Got some multi-balls The two I played, the flippers were on the weak side Again, it's a show Who knows what these things are Power-wise, if you have good power Like I said There was a lot of weak flippers there but you never have them like stay in the stern booth like the star wars i played didn't have any easter's week flippers neither did harry potter uh let's see what else do i got here trying to save certain things for last well should i give my good news now okay give your good news i completely forgot about that i know you did You left me hanging. No, you left me hanging. You keep me hanging on. Oh, God. Okay, Vanilla Fudge. Yes. Talk about a song that's better than the original right there. Far superior. Anyone out there, just go look up Vanilla Fudge. Yes. It's bad. You keep me hanging on. No, it's awesome. From the Ed Sullivan Show. It's awesome. Love it. So, mark the calendars. Mark the calendars. Circle this date. Is that a name? Mark the calendar? Oh, no. Mark your calendars. Your calendar. Okay. April 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th. Stomp. Four days. West, west, west. Four days. Oh, dear God, no. The first day is going to be a tournament, an open tournament to everyone. Stomp will be the 24th, 25th, and 26th. Stomp will have all past winners of Stomp will be able to register after. You'll have reserved spots for two weeks after the tickets go on sale. So you will guarantee you have a guaranteed spot. And so do you. And so do I. And I don't play. And I don't play either. So there's two more free spots. Yes, all past winners will be reserved for two weeks. If you don't pay within two weeks, you're in the oh, fuck group. I think we're maxing out at 96. Oh, God. 96 people. Yeah, baby. What days are these? April 23rd will be pre-tournament. So stop with the pre-tournament. So it's basically two weeks after Pentastic. Yes, and one week before Allentown. Uh-huh. Yes. Get your New York State points. Get on while they're hot. Oh, wait a minute. That is, okay, so that's the same weekend as the VFW thing. Yes. No, VFW is May. No. It's Allentown. No, it's not. No, it's not. They did it the weekend before. Wow. Which I thought was interesting. It's like first time. I was thinking like, hey, I might go to that. No, you're not because you've got to play part of Stomp. No, I don't. Can you dig it? No. You do? No, I don't. I would choose between the two. I'm going to choose the one I've never been to, not the one I've been to a zillion times. Well, your face is on the belt. You have to be there. I can be there in spirit, Bruce. Nope, nope, no spirit. Yeah, yeah, spirit. This isn't ghost. You're there. That's why you got six months ahead. That doesn't mean anything, Bruce. I could still be recovering from another foot surgery then and not make it. But you're still going. I'll just wheel you out. Okay. we'll get you like a hospital bed there you can you can wave to everyone the way my hip is now i'll need one let's see so stomp uh details will be coming out next month and i think we're going to put the tickets on sale december 1st uh-huh so save the date save 96 96 spots only only like that's not enough well once they're gone they're gone and we've had 16 or yeah 16 winners of stomp two are not going to be included two or three are uh carryover so really if every old winner comes back it's only like 87 entries okay so look at that i've already knocked down the numbers Uh-huh. All right. Stop! Can you dig it? Can you dig it? Yeah. Played a lot of older games there, as I always do. Yes, of course. The ones from past time. I played a lot of Playboy for some reason. I really wanted to get the 5X full bonus. I wanted to hear the full bonus countdown. So I did that. Then I wanted to get the colossal bonus on Kiss. I could not do that. I could not. Kiss was too hard. I could not do it. I could not do it, Bruce. I could not do Kiss. Why couldn't you not do that? Ace really was disappointed in you. Oh, I'm sorry. Actually, yes. He was looking down. He died during the show. I know. Everyone said the moment of silence. Yes. That's originally why I played Kiss. I was playing it in Ace's honor. Yes. Moment of silence. Kiss. How much am I going to get for this entry? I flew all the way across the country. Actually, if you want to watch something funny, go to YouTube and look up Kiss Tom Taylor Snyder interview. Oh, God. If you want to see full Ace. Ace was fucking cracked out. Yeah, he was bombed. But I love it. He's saying the absurdity of everything while the other two are all so ultra serious. It's hilarious. Exactly. Gene and Paul were trying to be very serious with their makeup on. Like, you know, the world politics these days. He's like, I'm wearing clown makeup. It was fucking awesome. It was. It was. And Peter Criss is next to me. Yeah, you're right. We are wearing clown make-up. Okay, that's not actually what they say, but you get the idea. All right. Well, I saved it for last. No, I won't. Winchester. Yes. So I played Winchester. Two games. Two games. Two games on Winchester. And remember last episode I said I thought there was something weird about the call outs effect or whatever. Well, in person, I know what it is now. It's basically like the possession sound effect. Kind of like not quite as strong as the deadite effect, but kind of like that. Like the I am possessed sound sound effect on the voice. um yeah it shot good but i mean of course it shot good carl d'Python Anghelo did it and i was totally wrong about the power of the carl d'Python Anghelo name obviously that's the power of carl i talked to carl because if you remember well i don't know if you saw any of the interviews about the game, but Carl was making his own homebrew from another license with the idea that when he retired, that was going to be his, like... Cash grab! No, no. That was going to be his resume, like, you know, this is what I can do. But I remember thinking, like, retire, like... I didn't think he was old enough. Well, he's closer than my age than I thought, which makes me feel really old because i have not aged as well as carl yeah how old is carl 55 uh no he's younger than me wow but he's not i was like retire like what are you talking about he's been working for his company almost the same amount of time i've been working for mine that's a long time it's a long time but yes um i did get clarification on one thing though because the game one of the things they said in one of the interviews was they couldn't use the term ghost and then it clearly was on the display during one of the modes i can't use the word term ghost but uh yeah that was incorrect they totally can use the word ghost yeah i was gonna say it was a licensing thing supposedly but it was not true you can totally use the word ghost the art look cool light show is cool i mean supposedly 25 done it's like Okay. I mean, I saw multiple rooms and at least two different multipulse, so that's pretty good for 25% done. I asked Carl, like, the mechs, like, how do they work? Because he was working on this, like, in his house in California. Like, how'd they do the mechs? Like, did you send stuff back and forth, and they built stuff and sent it to you and all that? And he said, like, a lot of the mechs, he did most of it himself. Like, damn. That's good. He's the man. He's doing it all. He's doing all the rules, the design, and the mechs. So really, I think it's one of those games where the play field design is the mech. Yeah. Because in the end, the one main toy is the turntable. And the Pinball 2000 effect, as I call it. Yeah. The Pepper's Ghost or whatever. I just call it the hologram. It's a hologram. And, yeah, I mean, the only thing that I didn't really like was the voice, the call out. The main narrator guy they have. It just wasn't working for me. Okay, if there was one available, would you buy it? I'm not really into the theme, so probably not. Okay. I'm not. You heard that, Carl. He just hates you. I heard it here, too. I'm not one of these just completely buy it. Like, every L1 game, I'm there. First day, got to have it. I know I'm going to buy it. I don't really go that way. yes i have several elwynn games but i have you know i don't have several other elwynn games you know and i think if the call outs were like a creepy remember talky tina from twilight zone i'm talking to tina you better be nice to me if it was something like that see i think that would work better for me for me personally but they actually did i think they have a doll mode in the game where they have creepy girls' voices, so I guess that was already taken. Excellent. To me, that's some of the scariest shit. Talkie Tina, the girls in The Shining, you know, come play with us, or whatever. Like, ugh, no, no, what the hell? Ugh. But it was quite impressive. And the fact that they did this just out of the blue, total surprise. Yeah, I like that part. No leaks is amazing. Spooky felt it Because they released a meme of Beetlejuice Right after the announcement Because it was on the 13th It's coming out, I swear it's coming out Well, we'll get into that But Yeah, I mean, it was It was quite impressive I also talked to David David Van Es He does listen to the podcast first So be careful what you say I don't think I've talked bad about him I don't think I've talked bad about him at all But I can do it now no i don't think i've said anything bad but yeah that was cool i think the combination of carl undesign and the only 525 i think that was the key yeah that made the fomo kicked in like oh i gotta gotta have it oh shit 60 sold i gotta buy buy buy buy buy and boom i asked carl how How does it feel? It's your first game and it's already sold out. No one's even played it yet. Isn't that great? He's like, brr. I'd be like, that's great. Congratulations, though. Congratulations. Congratulations to you, Carl. Everyone loves you. You're the best around. Nothing's going to ever bring you down. You're the best around. Nothing's going to ever bring you down. Who's nicer, Carl D'Python Anghelo or Jim Belsito? I think Carl. Carl. Come on. I've seen Carl mad. I've never seen Jim Belsito mad. No, I've seen Jim mad. When? Hit the lockdown bar. Oh, come on. I heard he was mad once, but I think that was just a rumor. He's like the chillest guy. If you were pissed and you were waiting for him to come over for a ruling, you would immediately be calmed down. Yeah, like, oh. What's the issue? Okay, I'm calmed down now. uh california guys are so chill yeah i wonder what would he move to texas no not the south oh this is south texas is the south it's down south i mean so south america is the south yes okay Hey, Texas is part of the Confederate States. That doesn't sound right. The South, but it is. That doesn't sound right. It was. You would like to make a bet on this one. Listeners, feel free to email us if that's not true. I'm not going to look it up. And you can email us at slamtelpodcast at gmail.com. uh think about expo like thursday and friday it seemed kind of deader except for you know said games that everyone wanted to play texas declared its uh secession from the union in february 1st 1861 and joined the confederate states march 2nd 1861 thank you wikipedia good good job i knew it already i knew it i knew it confirm it to you yeah but fucker whoa so uh it was i saying oh yeah it seemed to be not like a ton of people there and then saturday was packed madhouse so yeah if you want to play madhouse you want to play shit you got to be there thursday and friday yeah or you're gonna be in pain um one of the biggest areas they had was the whole brew section and guess what was there they had harry potter remember the homebrew that was there last year yeah that the guy had to pull probably because i would assume jersey jack had an issue and had to pull it yeah so this time he brought it again they kind of put it in the corner or a little off in the back and he had a whole banner they're proclaiming that this pinball machine is a self-funded, non-commercial fan art project strictly for artistic and educational purposes. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Warner Brothers Entertainment, J.K. Rowling, or any associated entities. So there you go. Wow. No revenue has been generated from this project, and it is not for sale. You just wanted everyone to know that. And I told Glenn I would read that. Glenn was there, and when I talked to him, he was feeling no pain. Oh, boy. Oh, yeah. Oh, my. So what other things did I play there? I played a game called Monster League Hockey. It was a rethemed Alvin G. Soccer. Yeah. Do you remember that one? Yep. And when I say rethemed, like, you could not recognize the Alvin G soccer from it. It was loud, in your face. In your face. Flashy lights, full, like, the LCD display, all that. Totally new art package. That was fun playing that. I played my dad in that. I'm not sure if I'd ever played that before. I'm not sure. Because they didn't have – Alba G had soccer and they had football, which I think is the same game, but one is like the European market and one is the U.S. market. But that was fun. Like it's got drop target between the flippers, so you can make safe – and it's simple. I mean, you literally just want to score goals by training your opponent. Oh, while we were playing that, I heard this like big crash. Oh, no. And we look over, and a play field fell on a dude's head. That was not cool. And it cut him in the back of the head, and he was bleeding all over the floor. Did he win the play field then? Did he win? I think it was his own game he was working on. Oh, fuck. Yes. Womp womp. Yeah, so he was sitting up later, so I take it he was eventually okay. But, yeah, I don't want that to happen to me. No, never. Because, you know, obviously one of the sharp instruments flick right into his skull. Boom. Ouch. I played Battle Stations, Brian Smith's game again. Yes. He's going to be selling it. Yeah, he's going to be selling it. $89.99, I think I saw. Or $87.99, I think the price was. And it's in a regular-sized pinball cabinet. Yep. So you can use, like, regular playfield glass with it. Yes. What else? A lot of the ones I played before. Oh, yeah. So they had Big Trouble in Little China. Yes. And that had one of the longest lines. I went in first thing, and I still ended up at 40 minutes in the line for that. Yay. So I played that. Out of all the new stuff I'd never played before, that I played the longest. I got several multi-balls. the impressive thing about that was the art I think it was Brian Allen did the play field art but the art looked like you would see in a commercial game and the LCD animations and all that looked like something you would see like the UI looked like something on a Stern game like they would do it looked that good with tons of movie clips as you would expect of course it's a big trouble in Little China I'm trying to think The play field, it was weird. It had like a main ramp on the left. So I tried to hit it with the right flipper, because that's what you would think, forehand, and I couldn't make it. And then the guy next to me, I think he might have been the designer or something, like, the ramps are backhandable. Like, oh, how's this going to work? I can't make it with this flipper. But sure enough, I put it on the left flipper and backhand, no problem. That's weird. But the left flipper didn't seem any significantly stronger than the right flipper. So I am totally confused. this game literally has, it goes against the laws of science or something. I don't understand how that works. I'm trying to remember anything specific about the play field. Like any really crazy stuff. It's not, it's more standard. It's not something crazy like the Tony Hawk where you play that and it's got stuff on there like no manufacturer is ever going to even attempt to do what's in this game. Nope, nope, nope. It was nothing like that. But yeah, I played that the longest. So that was cool. It also did this in between balls. It would put like behind-the-scenes photos it would show from the making of the movie and stuff like that. I thought that was a cool touch. I like that. And then I watched Big Trouble in Little China with Dad recently just after playing the game. That's right. You don't like it. Yeah, not a big fan of that movie. Fail. Okay. Talked to a ton of people at Expo. This is probably the most people I've ever talked to at Expo. Long conversations. All kinds of stuff I can't really say or talk about. As I said, I played a bunch of games with Timmy. Timmy! Timmy! He told you the next seven games from him. That's great. I'm glad that he... I talked to... Well, so I talked to Joe Chervino. We were talking about Star Wars and... Star Wars! Our hardcore original trilogy. and at some point Roger Sharp comes over and he's talking to us and I told him, you know, I always wanted to get you on our show and then not talk about pinball and just talk about pro wrestling from Florida. And he'd be like, oh, yeah, that sounds good. We're in. And he's like, oh, yeah, did you know that Bob Backlund originally came from that? He did. I'm like, don't forget, you know, Dusty Rhodes, baby. He was a big star of Florida, baby. See, his coolness level just keeps rising. Pro-Wrestling for Florida, like, all right, okay. We're in. Thanks to everybody who came up to me, said hi. Thank you. You'll find this funny, Bruce. Many times when I've gone to these shows, I've had other podcasters, other media people, whatever you want to call it, come up to me and say, Ron, why don't you get a press pass? Why are you paying to get in? Why do you pay? Get like the VIP and all that stuff. And I just still don't feel right doing that, honestly. But the funny thing is I had – I'm sitting there right outside the main hall, and Gabe, you know Gabe, the guy who runs Pantastic? Yep. Yeah, he says, hey, Ron. And we're talking. He said, you know, why don't you ever go for like a press pass or something? You should just go for one of those. Then you can get in all the VIPs. It's like the guy who runs the show is telling me I should do that I know, see It just doesn't feel right, Bruce No I don't feel like media The media to me People who actually are making content Videos, talking about Stuff you really got to work on I told you, we can be on video I don't want to be on video I don't want to be um video what i do you know video video kill the radio video kill the slam podcast radio kill the slam podcast okay that'd be fucking awesome you start with that song oh god by the way i believe the pentastic hotel block supposedly is available this Saturday. I got it on my calendar for some reason, so I'll throw that out there. Don't be missing Pintastic. One of my favorite shows because it's local and I can actually drive to it. I don't have to fly, and it's not like four hours or five hours. It's great. I can get home in a reasonable time. And it's just the right size. And the hotel lets you do whatever the fuck you want. That's the other thing I like. What else? I want a beach. Your turd burglar? Your stage hammer. Your stage hammer, okay. Why don't you call my name? All right. We have other news. Oh, tournaments. There was a tournament there, Bruce, that I did not. There was. There was the bracket from hell tournament that went on until like 2 in the morning or whatever. It's a tournament that never ends. That's the reason I don't. It goes on and on, my friends. Hey, it's my turn to get up at 2 o'clock in the morning. Hey, I'm ready to play. Shout out to Fox Cities. Hi, Tom. They streamed the whole thing, which they're crazy. Hey, Mr. Graff. How you doing, sir? I cannot stay up that late. But the main tournament, the bracket of doom, was won by Arvid. I'm not going to say his last name. Anyone in tournaments knows who Arvid is. So he won. It was him and Logan. Logan was in the loser's bracket, so he had to beat Arvid twice. And he beat him the first time, but then lost the second time. Womp, womp. Zach Sharp was third. Yeah, I saw that. Raymond Davidson was fourth. See, Raymond Davidson, he beat Zach McCarthy. He never beat Zach McCarthy. And I figure, like, oh, man, this is going to be it. But then he lost to another Zach. Damn it. And if not that didn work then Zach would come out of the woodwork Our own Zach would be like I got you this time He get his ass kicked Let see The women tournament was won by Jane Verways I think she's local. Yeah, she's one of the locals there. So she won that. And then they had a classic. Where's the classic set? Here's the classics. Donnelly. I talked to him, too. I keep meaning to ask him, is it Zachariah or Zacharia? How would you say it? I say Zachariah. I say Zachariah, but being of Italian descent... What the fuck is it? What the fuck is it? I would want to say it right. Hey, we're from Bologna. You're from Bologna, all right. Bologna, that's where I get the fucking pinball from, from Zachariah, Bologna. And my cheese underneath my nut sack is from Bologna. That's disgusting. okay so that was uh that was expo a fun time was had by all except for me played a lot of pinball except yeah i was telling everyone there bruce is coming next year get ready yeah i'll be i'll be flying in friday that's my plan you just gotta get big speaker system i'm gonna get the big robe like macho man and it's gonna It'd be slam tilt on the wings, on each arm. Pure athlete. Yeah. Yeah, that's what he says on the toilet. Slam tilt media. Run wild. Okay, now you're Hogan. Wait, old brother. Slam tilt media's running wild, dude. Now, I wanted to go to Galloping Ghost, but no one's going to want to go with me. I'll go with you. Yeah, because no one plays video games, but you do. I do. I want to go to the largest arcade in the U.S. or whatever. Yes. because it's not Fun Spot anymore. They have more games. And I want to see the Karate Champ is there that my record was beaten on. All right. Next. We have other news and other stuff that's happened. It's not all expo. King Kong Accessories came out. Cash grab. Oh, God, a slow one. I don't know if we talked about it the last episode, but they came out. The topper is basically the same animatronic gorilla that's in the premium in L.A. It's literally the same. You buy that, you have a spare one forever. Or if you got a pro and you didn't get it, now you can get a topper and you have it. Yeah. And it's got spotlights, but I think they're just plastic. They don't actually move. And how much is it, Ron? How much was it? $1,699. It does have a marquee Which you can change Supposedly can change That could be interesting Some of the things you could put up there Like I stuck monkey balls My banana is bigger than yours Yeah you're going to have some really bad things up there Stroke my banana baby Deep banana or something I don't know I'll throw my poo at you My Kong is great but yeah they had the art blades the shooter knob the armor etc yeah I would probably if I had a King Kong of course I'd get the art blades you gotta get the art blades the topper did I mean it looked cool if I had a pro it would be a good way to actually get it animatronic if I had a pro yes deetle deetle deetle 1699 Godzilla where they used the same figurine they had in the play field on the topper yeah 16.99 hey they're here to make money bruce cash grab god sticking with stern uh you can get whole leaderboards now you you can pay yeah insider connected or whatever and and how much was it 79.99 till the end of this month and then it's 99.99 a year yeah bruce first he messaged like 99 a month yeah he said 99 a month like i I just read it. I don't think that was the price, Bruce. Jesus Christ. Like, what the fuck? I was just so upset. Like, you knew there was going to be a cash grab. Well, yeah. You knew it. Disney, ex-Disney employees do it well. Oh, you mean Seth Davis. Yes. I hear that Gary Stern has a new boat. What's it called? The Vodka King? I wonder what his boat is called. The Vodka King. The Vodka King. okay so you bought if you were gary stern you bought a boat what stern game would you name it after uh godzilla don't you just go see i would go with an old one go one of the old why you go with the biggest seller you have godzilla godzilla because i heard they sold like so many that it wasn't even funny did you hear about that well why won't they advertise that i know but did you hear what they said they said they said Joe Kaminkow said that they sold over what was it more than and then adam's family yes and then he said a number under his breath that was like ridiculously large yeah yeah i'm like no fucking way did they do that because stern would be would be climbing the mountaintop screaming at the top of their lungs they'd be climbing the building with king kong yes exactly going we sold this fucking medic we beat up we beat the record if they did that that's what they'd be doing what's the stern game that's the like sea witch it would be something you could call it but what's the other one oh trident because he's got the trident see i think that'd be a cool name for the boat or stingray oh but it's a shitty game though but it could be salvaged it could be salvaged with a cool boat yes stingray stingray or torpedo alley okay and he has his whole crew dressed up like that horrible the guy with the pants or whatever it's just oh god it was like trying to be next generation outfits but just wrong coloring and wrong it's just wrong so how is the king kong accessories Okay. Oh, okay. I don't remember saying anything about this on the last episode. DPX, our favorite. Oh, yes. Dual Penetration Extreme. No, it's Dutch Pinball Exclusive. No, it's Dual Penetration Extreme. Guess what game they're going to make after this one? They're fucking John Papadiuk. After the Alice in Wonderland. They fucking drank that fucking Kool-Aid so much from John Papadiuk it wasn't even funny. They're going to do Raza. They mixed that big, humongous gallon. They got the five-gallon bucket from freaking Home Depot. Mama Duke, Chiz. And they poured in the water, and they poured in the special. They're doing Raza, the game that Deeper couldn't even make. 333 units. Will it have the pin bar? It better have the pin bar. That's right, dude. I'm back. I'm back. I'm back better than ever. Robert Mueller, bro. I'm going to sue their ass. How can they do this? It better have the pin bar in it, dude. Oh, God. Look how easy it is to put this glass in the lockdown bar. Oh, God. That was funny. The play field. Cut, cut. Cut, cut, cut. You don't know what we're talking about. There's like a video out there of him, like the new play field mounting system. And he can't get the play field to go back in. It was fucking awesome. but um yeah they're gonna make 333 of rosa why why why they drank that fucking kool-aid they haven't even made the 200 alice they're supposed to make which so now and i think we did mention this last episode they're having the thing where if you don't yeah they did what 30 made it over 30 made it over so if you don't get your game by the end of the year you can get your deposit back You can ask for your deposit back. Or if you don't want your deposit back, you could be first in line to get Dutch Pinball's next game, which is rumored to be Back to the Future. Yep. Gotta get back in time. So then once they start production of that, then maybe 10 years later, if they have their regular production time, you can expect to get your Back to the Future. Gotta get back in time. Uh-oh, you're a first adopter. You get the end of the line, really. Yeah. Just like what happened with all those. Yeah. The early adopters are the last ones to get their game. Thanks, guys. Guys, don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. I think they're. Just say no. I think they're scared. Because they're not going to get these out. And you're going to have all kinds of people. I want my, what was it, 2K? Yeah, it was 1,500 2K. 1,500, yeah. But yeah. I want my deposit back. Give me my deposit back. And they're not going to have the money. The exchange rate has changed, and you're only getting like $74 now. We have to take the tariff fees out of it or something. Yeah, and the $74 fee from the bank, and this fee, and the Dutch government fee, and you got $79.95. Here you go. Thank you very much. Just say no. Just say no. We could say what we want about Pinball Brothers Games, but they actually made them. Yes. And they've actually made several titles and gotten them to people. Yes. This has actually happened. They didn't take 10 years to make a game. One game. one game one and get it to everybody so and we didn't have to make an extreme and with the x at the end just to sell a different you know different game you know just fucking stop plus the games are all made by um hey who does the remakes and they they they make those so i'm pretty confident they will be able to make their games so just dutch has not had a good record. With their two games now. If you don't include the kit. Oh, before it was COVID. No, it wasn't COVID. No, it wasn't the tariffs either. Just fucking suck it up and say you can't fucking meet your commitment. I just remember that year they were at Expo and they were the superstars. Oh, 2014. Hey, look at us. We're spending money like it's fucking rock stars. They had the They had the ladies there, if you will. They were walking around handing out the flyers. They had the private room upstairs where only the most important people got to play it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would say this year it was definitely the barrels were the stars. That's good. Yeah. Every year they got, like, stars. It's interesting to see at Expo. Like, one year you'll have a game that has, like, the longest lines you've ever seen, and the next year it's just another game. And you can just walk right up and get out. I was like, wow, this thing is cool. Oh, yeah, that was another thing. Me and Dad played Cactus Canyon with the new kit in it, saloon doors and a spinner that you can't really see unless you're like 4'2". That's the problem. You've got to be really short to see a spinner. But I still like me some Cactus Canyon. I'm a sucker for Westerns and the goofy Williams humor. I still think it's some of the best stuff. And everyone knows the call-outs, even though they hardly made any of the freaking game. I know. Lock is lit. So am I. Celebrity voices impersonated. I know. Oh, God. All right. What else? Yeah, I guess Beetlejuice. So this is funny. I kept these emails when Winchester came out with the Mystery House or Winchester. When Barrels of Fun came out with the Winchester Mystery House, then Spooky had that meme that they posted on their Facebook page with Beetlejuice, but they never officially said it was Beetlejuice at any point. Yet, one of the distributors, I'm looking at it, yeah, first email, Well, Pinball Star, starting October 14th, Beetlejuice theme revealed. Taking deposits. I know. I was like, oh, fuck. And it's like it wasn't officially revealed yet. And then October 20th, Beetlejuice theme revealed. And then when they actually did reveal it, Sunday, same one. Beetlejuice theme revealed. Yeah. That was weird. But they showed. They had a trailer. where you got to see part of the Translight. Someone's standing in front of the machine. So you got to see parts of the Translight. And you got to see it introduced a new feature. I'm trying to find it here. Here it is. It's Spooky Speak, voice interactive pinball. The deal is, you know, you say Beetlejuice three times. Masturbate, masturbate, masturbate. Jesus Christ. Oh, God. Oh, wow. this thing really works wow wow that's what i call an accessory yes that's the best for 16.99 i'll buy that i buy that for a dollar so uh 999 units yeah that's too many units at 9999 each basically same price as evil dead Yep. Topper is $15.99. I thought the Evil Dead Topper was $14.99. I could be wrong there. Hey, did you see the shotgun video? The shotgun video. Do you mean for the shotgun handle for Evil Dead? Yes, how to install it on any game. Name it a video. Oh, cool. No, I did not see that. Yes. Are you ready to put it on Scooby-Doo? Yes. Scooby-Dooby-Doo. I still have to hang. Here are you. And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids. Yeah, fuck you. Ruh-roh, Ruh-roh. Ruh-roh, you're dead. You're red. The Jetsons. Oh, God. The Jetsons. Ruh-roh, it's Ruh-roh. Astro, get back here before I shoot your ass. Spacely, Sprockets, fuck you. No, Spacely. Spacely kills Cogswell with a shotgun. Yes. uh well cogs will always be bad at it basically rocket i'm looking at actually it shows most of the trans light in the the trailer there you go so and supposedly it's close to being sold out yes so yes supposedly most of the interest lists are already taken up for the amount of games that the distributors have uh they're going to be selling some of them direct there's some kind a special ticket you can get through some other thing like 20 i got a golden ticket i got a golden so we're now back to the it sells out before anyone sees it this is nutty again this is nutty again because if you remember spooky was doing that yeah until halloween yep i mean that sold out but then people were like oh god oh god and playing like uh i need to sell my spot immediately and that that hurt their next couple games i mean yeah i think you can still get a scooby oh yeah i don't think they ever sold 1600 they had too many there's too many 1969 yeah 1969 so i think we're evil even evil dead that came out 800 in what 88 and it took four months for that to sell out basically two shows though the pinball at the beach but then texas once it was at Texas and everyone saw it like oh shit and it boom yeah I think based on that and now and the license and you know 999 items like I think you're probably not going to get it if you if you weren't on a list already 99 red balloons sorry okay instead of 999 99 Oh, the butter finish for an additional $1,600. I remember what is $1,000. Now it's $1,600. For the silkscreen butter or whatever, that if anyone smudges it or does anything against it, you're screwed. It's like gone. Yes, art by Christopher Franchi. It said spooky speak, voice interactive pinball. And the full reveal will be November 14th. Are you excited? It is, when is the 14th? That's Friday. Friday, quitting time. Payday. Payday. Party time. Put on your dancing shoes. Two seconds later. How much for a pinball machine? I'm all tired now. I'd like me some Ro Show. I don't care what anyone says. Every little thing I think about you. Every little thing I think about you. Country and a pinball machine, maybe not the best decision. I didn't mind it. Brooks and Dunn? I would have loved to have seen that. With the big jukebox on there? Yeah. I think that's it. So do you want to do repairs or the ball bag? Repairs we can do. Yep, I don't have any. Oh, great. Congratulations. Thanks. So Torpedo Alley I picked up, and I knew it had an issue with the display. I replaced the display with one of the Wolfpack displays. Very nice product. Very happy with their stuff. And then I get to the PPP board, the popcorn board. The popcorn popper board because it's so hot. It's so hot you can pop popcorn off of it. And when you were shooting any one of the vertical upkicks in Torpedo Alley, the ball save you know for the right hand for the left hand side uh laser kick would also kick so i look at the relay and the relay is smoked like wow okay so i replace you know i get i have i order another board because you can see it's just burnt and it's actually it was it was discoloring the relay inside thing it's like i'll just order a new board they're pretty cheap we put it in zach's playing with it you know i i had to leave so zach's playing on it and letting the coil go through and through smoked again and it smoked the transistor like fuck so we replaced the coil and i fixed the ppb board and i had a spare one i found finally through all my crap i found i found one i tried to the the found one you know before we fixed it replaced the coil and everything works so it was actually a bad coil you're gonna say everything burned up everything burned up so uh i have now with my spare board is in there and a new board is i mean the new board's in there and i have a spare board that works also so popcorn for all next thing on that will be uh re-rubbering it cleaning it tearing it down and then uh building it back up and do the flippers and all the mechs the mechs are very loosey-goosey very this thing was play hard and put away wet very hard it was really bad other than that customer comes up to me friday night hey uh i want my money back no the medieval madness uh the gate's not going up oh i'm like okay maybe it's that bug you know once in a while there's a bug where if you hit it certain way with somebody switches the gate doesn't go up so go over there bang bang nope doesn't go up okay let's go on oh the gate broke broken gate oh sheared right off so order the gate today so hopefully i'll be in before friday we'll replace that god everything is just getting killed on that medieval but it does have 24 000 people love medieval there's a reason uh number one gaming is uh making another run, which is called Merlin, which is the same name as the Turner pinball game. It's confusing. Got multiple Merlins. We got multiple Alice in Wonderland. No. What else did we have for repairs? That's about it. Oh, we're still trying to figure out rotation eight. The rules? It's not very complicated. You see, you just want to get the... Oh, sorry. There's a short somewhere inside the play field. Ah. And it blows two fuses right off the bat. Oh. So we're trying to disconnect stuff, and me and Zach are going, what the fuck? Some of the logic that they used in this game and the Z80 compared to a 6502, they're both on there. So it's using architecture from video games and from pinball, and it's just a clusterfuck for the resets and everything like that. So we're just trying to figure out stuff. Cool. Can you play Asteroids on it? You can play your ass on that any time you want. So that's on our list. A couple new games at the Coop. Oh, I did mention at Expo I played some Gyruss, and I did get to Uranus. Oh, I knew you would. You love Uranus. There's a plan at the Rochester Pinball Collective. Hopefully, if it all works out, we're going to put more games in. Wait a minute. More? War! We have more room. We have more. I figured it out. I proved it to Zach. Zach goes, I never saw it this way. it could work. So if I can get the electrician to come in. Oh, if the great Zach saw it that way, then clearly it must work. So we voted on it, and if I can get the electrician to come in pretty cheap for the electrical for that wall, we're going to have more games. We're going to have more games. It will be up to probably 87. You're a cheap electrician. You zap it, I think it's called. Yeah. The shocker. The shocker. Two in the pig. It was. That would be something. The electrician's name is the shocker. What would be the worst names for an electrician? Call the fire department. That's the fire alarm electrician. Oh, no, I don't want him. Call 911. Call 911. That'd be fucking awesome. That's not a good name. No, go with it. It's going to be great. I'm going to be a great electrician with this one. that's all the repairs for me. Okay. Time for the ball back. There you go. This is from Kristen. The subject is rewinding it back. Okay. See, I just rewound myself. You didn't know I could talk backwards, did you? Dead silence. Okay, greetings, good folks. And Bruce. No, it doesn't say that. Just as good folks. We love your podcast here at the Rewind Arcade. Oh, my. Wow, thank you. I'm actually listening to episode 243 now at the arcade, currently surrounded by 30 sleeping pinball machines and 20-plus box arcade games. I feel like a kid in a candy store. What a dream come true for this Chun-Li wannabe. I wanted to introduce our arcade to you and plant the seeds of possible future collaboration. A bit about us. We've been open for two years now, and we just expanded to double the size, sound familiar, Bruce, and double the gains last week. Our owner, Adam, grew up in a bowling alley in San Francisco and fell in love with the arcade. So he created his dream arcade here in Apple Country. and now his 11-year-old son is presently number one on the leaderboard for fall of the empire a mini wizard so is that they're in cap and what's the name of the town where uh apple actually is cappuccino or something like that uh oh california is that the apple country there says apple country but a lowercase a so it might just mean apples oh fuck what you don't like apples apples are great I love apples. Apple pie I like. I don't like apple cider. Oh, I like apple cider. No, no, no. You're weird. We got a pretty sweet spot here and have become a bit of a cheers clubhouse in our community Norm We run a Monday night league and some IFPA tournaments along with a weekly DJ Community nights when folks can play for four hours for 20 bucks and karaoke nights too. Karaoke nights. Why don't you do that at the RPC? Let's get Zach. If Zach can sing at the RPC, I will do it. There's no way he would ever do that even if you paid him. I can tell him I'll take all my games I think he'll put all his in He might do it then If you are ever in Sonoma County Hey, fuck you too S-O-N-O-M-A No, no, Sonoma Not Sonoma It could be Sonoma It's probably Sonoma That sounds more correct Ever in Sonoma County I know y'all are on the opposite coast though So we'd be honored to show you around and pour you a beer from our beer wall and plunge some balls. So last time I think we were out in California was California Extreme, right, Ron? Yeah. You and me together, yes. Probably was. Or no, it was probably, no, it was the other thing, not California Extreme. It was the one up in. Banning. Yeah, Banning. That is no longer there. That's no longer there. Boo hoo. If you think an interview with Adam could be fun or want to get to know us more, just call out our names. Future guest? Adam. You can also... Adam. Okay. Adam. So we called his name out, so there you go. Oh, Jesus. The Beetlejuice. Okay. You can also spy on us at attherewindarcade.com, and you can find us on Instagram and Facebook, too. Thank you for your thoughtful and delightful conversations. You have a fan in us. You got a friend in me. You got a friend in me. Just think, that guy, he broke the music from The Natural. Think about that. That's just, let's see. And it's got a little smiley face with glasses like that. There you go. Well, if Adam, Kristen and the Rewind crew. Oh, she said it three times again. You're more than welcome to join us. You can see the hilarity from behind the scenes. Maybe we can have them as our first video guest. Stop. We're not doing videos. I just said that. I was never going to do that. There's just no way. No way. No way. It is a happy talent to know how to play. Do you know who said that? Ralph Waldo Emerson. Confucius. Confucius was a gamer. Most people don't know that. Yeah, you don't know that. He was hardcore into gaming. Hardcore. Mm-hmm. All right, here we go. Next one. Let's see. This is from Tim. Subject is Star Wars rethemed thoughts. Okay. Hello, dudes. Fun question for you. All right. I bought the new Star Wars machine, and I do like it. Someone likes it. Sabers? Hey! I was sitting here thinking that I would like it a lot more if they rethemed the Stern 24 play field to be Star Wars. Star Wars! Okay, what would the suitcase be then? The Death Star? The suitcase could be... Let's see. Do you guys think 24 would be a good play field to retheme as Star Wars? I mean, it is Steve Ritchie. If so, what would your 24 Star Wars 3 theme look like? Let's see. His thoughts. The building in the back would be a great exploding Death Star. I guess if you totally redid it. Oh, I know what it could be. I know what the bookcase could be. Whatever you said. What was the other thing? The safe? No, the suitcase. The suitcase. You make that into carbonite. You make it into Han Solo, the carbonite. Oh, yeah, you're right. It closes, and then you've got to save them or something. Yep. There you go. You've got to save them in a certain amount of time, or you're screwed. Let's see. The building has a cool strobing effect and already kind of blows up. That's true. The building in the back right would make a great superstar destroyer. It even has a little window where you can see the crew meet their tomb. The briefcase could be the Millennium Falcon that tilts on its side to avoid asteroids or tie fires. I like your idea better. It's carbonite. Carbonite, yeah. The helicopter could be the X-Wing fighter. The pop-up terrorists with stormtroopers, right? Yeah, stormtroopers. They can't hit anything anyway, so you don't want to worry about them. Yeah, there you go. it's like it'd be like on dialed in when the lasers come down but they never hit you ever they just never every time the escape on the right is clearly the rebellion escaping larvader you could steal the idea from the new star wars and have the middle ramp be hyperspace what do you think ron and bruce uh hyperspace i'm shooting i'm shooting shooting nowhere to go I always liked the way that 24 shot, to be honest. I actually liked 24. It shot pretty good. I think it's a better shooting game than the new Star Wars. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. If you could rethink, yeah. I don't know. Like, the drop targets is Stormtroopers, yep. And I like your idea with the suitcase is now the Carbonite. It just closes on them. So when it's open, you've got to have, like, a Han Solo figurine in it. Yeah. Yeah, you could do it like, I love you, I know, and then it closes. Yeah, it closes. And a little steam comes out. Oh, Jesus. Wisp of smoke from the coil that melted. And the house blows up, so it pretty much has to be the Death Star. Yes. Unless you want to redo tons of Macs. Let's do it. Let's do it. I think it's pushing it a bit. Make it so, number one. Make it so, number one. Is there anything on there that could be an ad ad or a – We don't need ad ads. We don't need ad ads. You don't need this ad ad. You don't need the AT-ATs. The Imperial Walkers. Imperial Walkers have entered the base. Imperial Walkers have entered. I love how that cuts off. Like, you know that guy's fucking dead. Yeah, he's done. He's done. He's sitting there. Imperial Walkers. All right. So last one. No, it can't be the last one. This is from Patrick. Subject, you missed the mist. Oh, I think I know what this is going to be. Greetings, gentlemen. I enjoyed your takes on the most and least influential mechs on episode 257. My list would have been much akin to Bruce's and Zach's list. Oh, not mine. However, I must say that I was disappointed that all three of you missed what is arguably the most creative use of an underplay field magnet at all of pinball, the missed multiball. When it works, yes. And actually, that's true, and you'd think I would have gotten that one being I own the game. But you failed. I did fail. While it may not always be the most mechanically sound mech, well, there you go. When it does work, well, to be fair, usually it's the opto that has the issue. It's pure magic. I would argue it's the first magnet mech that truly immerses the player in the game theme and could be considered a pioneering feature in the idea of creating a world under glass. I think I should say it that way from now on whenever I say it it's just a shame that the rest of the game isn't really something to write home about it isn't I always liked it although it pissed me off too much I'm looking forward to our upstate New York extended pinball family coming down to past times for the Mega Match Play Tournament in November I'm not sure if you'll record your next episode before or after the tournament so I'll wish you safe travels to Ohio And also, thank you in advance for coming on down and spending the weekend with us. Maybe one day we can pry Bruce out of his on-again, off-again retirement to come on down and play a tournament at the arcade. They have lots of video games, Bruce. Unfortunately, everyone else goes, so somebody has to work here. Okay. In the meantime, may your flippers never stick, your bonuses be multiplied, and your balls never drain. And your spinners always spin. Or magnetize. See you soon, Patrick. Thank you, Patrick. All right. I'm getting a massive headache. That's what happens when you're around me. Well, no. I think it's the shot I had today. I think it's starting to affect me. Herpes? How'd you know? damn it or is your shingle shot uh oh no i had oh i had that then you gotta have shingles you gotta have the second one yep that hurt my arm like a motherfucker yes it did shit yep that was like the worst one as far as arm pain yep damn pain sucks to be old pain Do you have a prediction? Prediction? Rocky III, folks, watch it. It's great. Rocky III and IV. Hey, IV is coming back out in a couple weeks. Yeah, you notice all the old movies are coming out again because all the new ones suck. The new ones suck. They're just going to release all the old ones. Holy suck. Trying to get people to come in, yeah. Oh, my God. Back to the Future is the 31st, and Rocky IV is the 5th and the 9th. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I must break you. The director's cut. The director's cut? That's what it's called for Rocky IV. God, what does that mean? He does more. I don't know. I was in the boxing ring, and I just got it all good. Drago does even more steroids. Yes. There's even more scenes with, what's her face? Stallone's girlfriend at the time I just remember she was in Red Sonja Cobra Beverly Hills Cop 2 and Rocky IV and then disappeared all these like massive well Red Sonja wasn't a huge hit but all the other ones were massively huge movies Brigitte Nielsen Brigitte Nielsen Cobra I watched that again it's like you know This isn't quite as good as I thought it was. No, it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. The beginning is good. Yeah. When he says all the stupid lines when he's in the supermarket, you're the disease, I'm the cure. Yes, I know. Oh, God. It's so bad, it's good. You know what's really bad? If you go back and watch it, Twins. Twins? Twins. With Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger? Yeah, it's really bad. Oh, come on, they have great lines in there. You're my twin. Oh, really? Obviously. I thought I was looking into a mirror. It's really bad though It's like you get the slapstick humor But I mean other than that you're sitting there going Oh my god can I turn this off So it's not the level of like commando No no no no Don't disturb my friend He's dead tired He's dead tired There's so many I'll be back Bennett Oh there's so many good lines What happened to Sally I let him go I let him go I love it. You can see the obvious cable that's holding him up when he's doing that scene. When he throws a grenade, you can see the things like pop up in the air to make the guys fly in the air. Yeah, I know. So good. I love that movie. Good old 80s slop. This is great. Right? Wrong. Right. You're right. You're right. You're right to say. Oh, God. Right. You're right. You're right. Did he just die? One of them did, yes. Yeah, like recently. Yes. The lower voice guy. Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah, you're bloody well right. I always wanted to do Goodbye Stranger, but do both parts. Goodbye Stranger, it's been nice. Yeah, but try to do them. And then he alternates. Try to see your point of view. You know the words better than I do. I love Super Tramp. I'm trying to... Sweet devotion. Sweet devotion. Yeah, sweet devotion. Goodbye, man. It's not for me. Goodbye, James. Give me most we ever. Set me free. Meet again. Bye-bye, Georgia. To do that. Far away. Switch back and forth. I wanted to see if I could do that. Well, I just did it. But I wanted to, you know, karaoke or something. Do both parts. Every day. I was wondering, since the same guy is singing both parts, obviously two different vocal tracks, how do they do that? live, I think they had one of the other guys to back up the whole backup. Supercrime's great. So, I think it's time to say goodbye and to plug our film. Goodbye, strange and truth. Goodbye, nice. Goodbye, peanuts. It's been nice. Goodbye, peanuts. It's been nice. Hope you don't get head loss. Wow. That's the sweet devotion. That's all I could come up with in a short matter of time. I'm sorry. This slam to the podcast will set me free. Bye-bye, Georgia. Far away. RPC is on the way. Every day. Wait a minute. What is the address for RPC? 349 West Commercial Street, beautiful East Rochester, New York. 29-65 is a sweet number and a bathroom code for our Canadian friends. 3-4-5-3-4-9-2. It's not looking good for Don Mattingly and the Blue Jays. Yes, I love it. I don't. I actually want to see Donny Baseball get a ring. I want to see Donny get a job as the new manager of the Yankees when we fire Boone and we'll have Mattingly. That's what should have happened 20 years ago. Well, the problem is he's already been a manager and kind of been demoted into coach's roles now. Yeah, but he was a pretty good manager at the Dodgers. He set the Dodgers up. Oh, okay. He did. Donnie Baseball. And the Marlins, you're fucked. He was just getting a paycheck on that one. Okay. Jeter and him couldn't save that team. When did the game end? It was like 18 innings? It was six hours long. Six hours long. Like two in the morning? Yep, 2 in the morning. I'm like, what the fuck? I'm not staying up for that shit. People did. People did. I was up until the 13th. You're crazy. Yeah, wait a minute. So you can stay awake for that, but you can't stay awake for this podcast. Yep. Okay. Baseball. But, hey, I'm not even thinking about baseball anymore because my team's out of it. I'm not even thinking about football anymore because my team sucks. We at least won a game. Jets. I saw one of the funniest clips I've ever seen, a guy interviewing Jets fans. This sucks. This fucking team kills me. No, he looked like the most defeated 18-year-old you've ever seen. He came up, and it's like, man, I'll always root for the Jets, but, man, it's just so bad. It sucks so bad. I got pushed into this by my family. It's like telling them the whole story. Wait a minute. They won the last game. They had a comeback. Yes, they did. Yeah, a comeback, 23 points in the fourth quarter. Have they figured it out? Yeah. Yeah, good luck. I'm back to my hockey. Hockey is my wintertime. So it's devil's time for you. It's devil's time for me, and they are 8-1 starting off. Whoa. Yeah, baby. How's your Rangers doing? I have no idea, Bruce. Oh, they're 3-4. Oh, okay. Sorry, did I say that again? Yeah, say it again. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Is Martin Brodeur still Brodeur? He can't be still playing, right? He'd be like 60 now. Yes. I'm sorry. He's like Gordie Howe in a fucking comic. Well, he was there a long freaking time. He was. He was there for 16 years. And if you like this completely non-pinball related topic. You'll love Silver Ball Slug Chronicles. Let us know. Wait a minute. We talk about pinball. Yes. Silver Ball Chronicles. I got it right here. Plug. Silver Ball Chronicles. My other podcast where we talk about pinball history. We have another exciting episode coming up. As soon as David Dennis, my fellow host, writes it. What do you mean? It's not like us off the cuff? Well, technically, even us isn't totally off the cuff. I mean, I have a topic list here. You have a topic list, but we don't write it. No. We just go. Well, we also go off the cuff on Silverblock Chronicles. I mean, you've listened to the show, of course, right? Not lately. Not lately. I don't like the topics lately. You don't like learning about Keith Elwin? I know. That one was good. Other than that, yes. Other than that, no. You didn't like our bingo episode? No. Poor bingo. I don't think a lot of people liked the bingo episode. No. Poor bingo. B-I, throw it in the pile. B-I, throw it in the pile. B-I, throw it in the pile and burn it. See what I deal with, folks. You know, I texted Bruce this morning to make sure he was ready. No, first yesterday he messaged me like, hey, you know, you want to do a podcast tonight, tomorrow, whenever, you know, this week. Let's go. I actually said, I think, Tuesday! Because I'm trying to get you to do Tuesday. And I was like, I'll do Tuesday, you know, no problem. And he's like, yep. Yep, we're good. This morning in a message. Your friendly reminder, recording at 6. I need more reminders. Yep, I need a lot of reminders. Jesus. If you know how fucked up my life is right now, you would be like, holy shit, he sounds good for this. Do you need me to remind you to wipe your ass? No, I just go around with skin marks. Oh. What was all that? I just scoot like a dog. On that note, scoot like a dog. Oh, wait a minute. I just got that. Scoot like a dog. Scoot like a dog. Scoot like a dog on the carpet. You really like the high voices, huh? You're doing your... Scoot like a dog. Scoot like a dog. He needs to stop singing. He looks like he's about ready to just keel over, Frankie. He looks like they're carting him out. like i know one day you're gonna hear a siren from the ambulance oh god well now you got me doing it stop it i'm fucking contagious i love the four seasons that's how i learned to do my falsetto thank you frankie valley let's say hi to everyone hello everyone in our clusterbuck yes hi everybody several of them I met and spoke with at Expo Jeff Teolis he's in Los Angeles right now he wasn't at Expo he was supposed to be there but no he had to follow these baseball games yep so hi Jeff hi Steve hi Jane oh that was the other thing they had the circuit finals on Wednesday yes do you remember who won that? nope not at all it was too late shit I can't remember who won that look it up while we're here uh i don't want to okay we were having a good rhythm there at the end so if someone wants to email me and tell me who won the circuit finals i i don't remember i can tell you the circuit i can tell you the circuit finals for rodeo 2025 rodeo the columbia river river circuit finals oh god they got the bull riding on like on sundays and i swear so bad oh it's great are you kidding it's great it's great they got teams now and the team names are all cool. They're not like the terrible team names they come up with. The Texas Rattlers. Cool shit. We got the Boot Barn Circuit Finals and Cross Me a River. Yep, that's right. And then they got the stands. They have this thing in the middle where people can sit in with a cage around it so you know they'll let the more expensive seats so you can be part of the action. And they're like, what a great idea. I love that shit, Bruce. I always did. He's going to the pay window. Yeah. And they're all smarter now. Now they actually wear the flap jackets and helmets. You know, they don't just wear the freaking cowboy hat where they get fucked up. What are you looking up? You're looking up who won the circuit finals? It was Raymond versus... Raymond Davidson? Yeah. In the final finals? Yeah, I don't... Oh, they're going to be... He's going to be mad at me if I didn't know that. Actually, you should go to the wonderful IFPA website. I'm sure being it was the... I'm going to watch the video while we're doing the show. Oh, Jesus. I'm looking at it right here. Let's see. There we go. Live results. Let's see. Wouldn't it be funny if they didn't update the final bracket? They never do. They never do. I complained about that, and then it was updated the next day I noticed. And? Let's see. Bracket. Here we go. It was... Oh, Zach McCarthy won again. Oh. Okay. Just all... Oh. Raymond cannot defend the adults and the kids won again. Yeah. Oh, well. Oh, yeah, that's it. Okay. Thanks. So check us out, www.slamtillpodcast.com. All our links are in the upper right-hand corner. Our email, again, is slamtillpodcast at gmail.com. If you'd like to comment and see us on video, please do. No, don't want to see this on video because it's not happening. Because Ron doesn't want to do it, so that means you want to make Ron do it. That's the way you look at it here now. See, if you don't like me, you will say you want video. You see how that works. Make it happen. Yes, sir. No, no, no. You can see all my junk behind me. My room. Oh, okay. There's a lot of shit in this room now. Oh. Did you ever finish the Quicksilver? Yeah, it's mostly done. Cool. Mostly done. It's the other stuff I'm dealing with now. Yeah. Yeah, it's not good. Not at all. If you ever finish it, you'll be the big man in town. I'll be a big man in town. Okay, enough of that. Until next time, say goodbye, Bruce. Goodbye, Scott Corstange. Hold my mind, hold my mind You can donate if you try Hold my mind, hold my mind Guaranteed to keep you alive Meteor! Level Zero! Clusterfuck! George Takei! Timballs! Bruce Isms! Tournament Talk, Car Holder, Cheetah, Sanity, Cash Grab, ELO, Ball Bank, What You Buying, Game You Love, Game You Hate, Tournament Talk, Pinball Princess, Sir! Oh my! Oh my! Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my. Goodbye, Scott Corstrain. Corstange. Corstange. Corstange. Corstange. say it again of course danj uh you're coming out here in december right for the star wars thing star wars probably the last time i'll be out there for a while i know yeah and unless it snows you know then i won't be out there on december we'll have to come visit you then oh yeah because no one ever visits me no we'll just get a package of hot dogs and drop them on your face oh i don't even like hot dogs. This is bouncing off your face like that video of the girl. Ew.
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    high · Ron noted 'I call them Orbit Games now' and 'the pinball part of it is dead', criticized Whirl-O-Ball product concept as poor market fit

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    community_signal: Carl D'Angelo designed Winchester Mystery House as Barrels of Fun commercial release, previously was developing homebrew game as potential retirement resume project

    high · Ron confirmed talking to Carl at Expo about homebrew-to-commercial transition, praised D'Angelo's solo work on playfield design, mechs, and rules

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    market_signal: Ron expressed concern about Harry Potter Pinball price point ('until you get to the price tag... oh my God'), indicating growing community sensitivity to premium game pricing

    medium · Ron noted price as limiting factor on Harry Potter purchase consideration despite positive gameplay assessment

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    announcement: Winchester Mystery House announced by surprise at Expo 2026 with no prior leaks, sold out in approximately 36 hours, designed by Carl D'Angelo for Barrels of Fun

    high · Ron and Bruce both confirmed zero-leak announcement strategy as impressive, Winchester exceeded sellout expectations from both hosts

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    product_strategy: Blues Brothers homebrew prototypes remain non-functional at Expo with multiple units failing within hours, suggesting ongoing production/QA issues despite multiple prior Expo appearances

    high · Ron questioned HomePan's 'fucking prototypes' after seeing failures on opening day, implied pattern of repeat issues across shows

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    product_strategy: Star Wars Pinball marketed in three tiers (Pro/Premium/LE) with Pro model outperforming Premium/LE based on Glowey Java Jabba effect visibility comparison

    medium · Ron played both Pro and Premium variants, stated 'Pro's better, I think' based on glowing Jabba visual effect clarity

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    product_concern: Multiple vendor booths at Expo exhibited weak flippers, unleveled games, and non-functional equipment including Blues Brothers prototypes with broken flippers appearing non-functional by opening day

    high · Ron described Blues Brothers units failing by first hours of Expo, Stern Star Wars/Harry Potter notably avoided flipper issues, weak flippers noted across European games booth