The 2nd Annual TWIPY Pinball Awards - LIVE

Straight Down the Middle·video·1h 43m·analyzed·Mar 24, 2019

Analysis

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TL;DR

TWIPY Awards honors top pinball games, mods, venues, and creators across 22 categories.

Summary

The 2nd Annual TWIPY Awards (This Week in Pinball Awards) is a live ceremony celebrating pinball excellence across 22 categories, hosted by Greg Bone and Zach Sharpe at Texas Pinball Festival. Notable winners include Deadpool (Best Music/Sound, Best Theme, Best Theme Integration), Pirates of the Caribbean (Best Toys/Gimmicks, Best Light Show), and DeadFlip (Best Twitch Streamer). The event features industry figures presenting awards and emphasizes community appreciation across designers, artists, coders, operators, and players.

Key Claims

Deadpool won Best Music and Sound Effects at the TWIPY Awards
high confidence · Award presentation ceremony; Jerry Thompson accepted on behalf of Iron Maiden (later corrected to Deadpool)
Pirates of the Caribbean won Best Toys and Gimmicks
high confidence · Award presentation by Christopher Franchi
PIN Stadium Lights won Best Pinball Mod of 2018
high confidence · Award presentation with product creator accepting
Texas Pinball Festival won Best Pinball Convention
high confidence · Award presented by Jack Guarnieri at the TPF event
DeadFlip won Best Twitch Streamer
high confidence · Steve Ritchie presented award; DeadFlip accepted with multiple thank-yous
Pinside won Best Pinball Website
high confidence · Charlie Emery and Bug Emery presented the award
John Reese (actor) presented Best Call-Outs category
high confidence · Host introduction and acceptance speech by John Reese Davis
A TWIPY committee was formed this year to verify vote legitimacy
high confidence · Host Greg Bone explanation: 'last year everybody said okay you guys Game of Thrones a lot of votes but how do we know these things are legit right so Jeff constructed a twig committee team'
The TWIPY Awards were held at Texas Pinball Festival in 2018
high confidence · Multiple references to Texas Pinball Festival as host venue

Notable Quotes

“There are no losers tonight everyone in this room whether you have designed the game did art on a game code or just simply go to an Pinball Expo or a convention you literally are what makes pinball happen and what keeps pinball alive”
Greg Bone@ 14:24 — Core philosophy of community inclusivity across all pinball contributors
“I did not expect to meet the extraordinary quality and intelligence of the people that I have met this weekend. You're a remarkable oddball community but dear me are you smart.”
John Reese@ 24:14 — Reflects outside perspective on pinball community character
“Location pinball is something near and dear to my heart. I grew up as an operator. I was routing games. My dad started when I was three years old and I never had a babysitter so I was always with him.”
Eric Meunier@ 39:45 — Personal history connecting family business to operator culture
“I really appreciate it. It's one of these products I made in my basement for myself a couple years ago and never had any intent to sell it. You guys all spoke up and liked the product so I thank you very much for the support.”
PIN Stadium Lights creator@ 35:14 — Grassroots product origin story from community feedback
“I honestly could not do DeadFlip without you guys watching every single day and just tuning in and supporting me and the adventure that I'm going on.”
DeadFlip@ 61:56 — Acknowledges viewer support as critical to streaming success

Entities

Greg Boneperson Zach Sharpeperson Jeff PattersonpersonJohn ReesepersonChristopher Franchiperson Eric Meunierperson Jack Dangerperson Jack Guarnieriperson

Signals

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business_signal: Jersey Jack Pinball's Pirates of the Caribbean maintains strong community recognition with wins in Best Toys/Gimmicks and Best Light Show, indicating sustained market appeal
high · Pirates of the Caribbean wins two major technical/gameplay categories; Eric Meunier emphasizes 'threw everything I could' into game design
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community_signal: TWIPY Awards established formal committee process to verify voting legitimacy after year one concerns, indicating maturation of community recognition framework
high · Greg Bone: 'last year everybody said okay you guys a lot of votes but how do we know these things are legit right so Jeff constructed a twig committee team now this team was responsible for a lot of things'
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event_signal: Ceremony brings together pinball designers, artists, coders, operators, streamers, and players in unified celebration of industry excellence
high · Multiple award categories honoring different industry roles; hosts emphasize 'there are no losers tonight everyone in this room'
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community_signal: Streaming/content creation firmly established as core community pillar; DeadFlip wins Twitch Streamer award with emphasis on daily viewer engagement and support
high · DeadFlip wins second consecutive Twitch Streamer award; thanks viewers for daily support of streaming adventure
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event_signal: Texas Pinball Festival wins Best Pinball Convention award, affirming its status as major industry gathering alongside Chicago Pinball Expo
high · Multiple references to TPF as premier convention venue; Jack Guarnieri notes 'years ago there were maybe two or three pinball conventions in a whole year that were really good and now there's two or three on a weekend'

Topics

TWIPY Awards ceremony and winnersprimaryDeadpool game acclaim across multiple categoriesprimaryPirates of the Caribbean game recognitionprimaryCommunity inclusivity and appreciation across all pinball contributorsprimaryPinball streaming and content creationsecondaryLocation/operator pinball businesssecondaryPinball aftermarket mods and lighting upgradessecondaryPinball conventions and industry eventsmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.92)— Event celebrates pinball community with genuine enthusiasm, humor, and appreciation. Hosts and presenters express warmth toward attendees and winning game developers. No significant controversies or criticisms emerge during awards presentation.

Transcript

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to the second annual Twiggy Awards celebration of pinball excellence introducing your hosts for the show Greg bone and Zachary holy moly hey welcome to the second annual twitty pinball Awards how's everybody doing tonight that is the kind of crowd I love they yell for me like that all the time not you the response itself was better than a lot of seminars I've seen already right Greg what are we doing what are we doing here we're here to celebrate pinball and everything pinball all right tonight we're gonna we're gonna celebrate everything pinball a Greg was saying we've got 22 different pinball categories what we're gonna do is we're gonna show you guys a montage in each of those 22 categories and to show you those top three vote getters that we received in the twin Thea Ward's and then subsequently you guys are gonna find out what was the best or the favorite of 2018 in pinball how does that sound everybody [Applause] I love these people I do they're nice can you guys hear me because they're all drunk well there is a cash bar back there there's Josh well you guys ready to get this thing started all right first before we begin we've got to do a couple quick thank-yous right this is the boring part bear with me all right we were going to thank Jeff Patterson Jeff poke your head out buddy Jeff is the editor and owner of this weekend pinball this guy's passion for pinball you everybody it's unbelievable he does this day in and day out and we couldn't thank him more for putting on this show so thank you Jeff Patterson [Applause] next we'd like to thank the TWiT committee members now this is that we did something different this year last year everybody said okay you guys got a lot of votes but how do we know these things are legit right so Jeff constructed a twig committee team now this team was responsible for a lot of things the their time expertise we want to thank them for that to really make the twits reliable responsible and represent all aspects of the industry that each and every one of you love like we do agree we'd also like to thank our sponsors markup specialties and flipping out bimbeau for proof oh thanks [Applause] there they're providing a lot of support for our vision we just we love those guys - thank you and also to add van der Veen and the TPF team for providing the platform for this ceremony this evening [Applause] so look there's a whole list of people we could paint if you guys helped us we've got a lot of crew back here from the bottom of our hearts truly truly truly thank you guys and hell for you guys sitting in these seats thank you so much for supporting Greg and I and this week and pinball and again that's what brings us here tonight is that this the twigs are a celebration of everything pinball there there are no losers tonight everyone in this room whether you have designed the game did art on a game code in a game or just simply go to an expo or a convention you literally are what makes pinball happen and what keeps pinball alive and for that we think every damn one of you okay alright I'm good with that actually I can't top them you guys let's have some fun let your hair down grab a drink from the back that's my number one go in and enjoy the show let's first let's take a look at all of the pinball machines that are going to be nominated this evening [Music] alice cooper's nightmare castle by spooky pinball the beatles by kapow pinball and stern pinball [Applause] [Music] Kosmic kart racing by multi morphic [Music] Deadpool by stern pinball monster bash remake by Chicago gaming company Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack Kimble Nakia [Music] and listen to those Aussies out there representing that Thunderbirds okay all right everybody needs to grab a drink except that guy back there Greg hey hey I love all of you too I really do especially whoever's over in here we can't see yes we see nothing how many machines were made this year pinball is healthy and pinball is alive let's get into the nominees right no good our first our first individual who's going to present for us this evening he's no stranger to best music and sound effects you know why Greg well because he's awesome and he created one of the best tracks in pinball history plus he won the damn twit last year for this everybody put their arms and hands together for Scott Denis see [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] awesome awesome I love you too back there I love you I love all you guys thank you so much guys thank you all right so the nominees for something near and dear to my heart best music and sound effects our best music and sound effects the Beatles by Kapil pin bow and stern pin bold Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack pinball [Music] all right you guys here's the moment of truth I have not peaked in the envelope I promise and the winner for best music and sound effects goes to Iron Maiden anyone here from stir football I see somebody coming down the aisle here such it is that Jerry Thompson yeah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Wow this is his bryce keith was a great collaborator and designer to work with and and I love working for Stern and we've done some cool stuff this year can't wait for you to hear what we have coming this year and thank you very much for this isn't this fun it's kind of exciting yeah if you think Iron Maiden was gonna win it did rock it did Rob he literally took a minute what you guys know my feeling about these a hard rock right where the Beatles yeah myself alright let's go to the next one okay so our next presenters if it's fine so if if we did like a home brew toppers best of home brew toppers these guys would actually win it you know what I'm talking about I think they said we're presenting tonight favorite home brew pinball machine and that's going to be done by mrs. and dr. Penn [Applause] look at all these beautiful pinheads dr. pan I'm not gonna lie I'm geeking out right now I feel like everyone in this room deserves a Twitty it's funny you mention that I stayed up last night and I came up with a little something trophy for everyone I like to call it a wampie and here's your's oh thanks baby that's amazing I just have to say that the really the best crafters out there are the ones that make their own pinball machines at home that's called homebrew dr. pen and here the nominees for best homebrew game favorite homebrew pinball machine Ed's a thy home group involved Knight Rider for Christmas in the city the suspense is killing me the winner is the nightmare [Applause] [Music] everybody mark just wants to say thank you to the community have a nice night all right [Applause] and I have to tell you guys our next presenter is someone very special me no not you if you heard the crowd come on Greg I love Greg Boone so I love you guys so I grew up watching this next presenter he is a legend and an icon he's one of the best voices in Hollywood and undeniably the best voice in pinball presenting four best call-outs please welcome John James Rees put your hands up [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you're all very silly very good so I've been told to say something along these lines Jacques what true well I my name is Rhys Davis I'm delighted to be here I did not expect to meet the extraordinary quality and intelligence of the people that I've met this weekend you're a remarkable oddball community but dear me are you smart oh I'm impressed anyway now apparently my function is to give you the nominees for the best call-outs and they are best call-outs Deadpool by Stern pinball it's me Deadpool the Vampire Slayer that was so good it gave me the tingles gonna shine some love on these suckers you're both painting a nick what it's not funny this is your tough cab Iron Maiden by stern pinball on this battlefield no one wins well aren't you just full of surprises your rabbit corpse is no match against me Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack pinball shoot the left spinner and what makes you think you're worthy to crew the Black Pearl mutiny most foul [Music] [Applause] and the winner is small trumpet roll or something like that well I the winner is dad to pool [Music] [Applause] [Music] they would like to I was sound designer on the game and boy what a fun game with Jorge Gomez Tania Kleiss and now having nolan north as Deadpool was was icing on the cake and Tim Kitts row and all the other great people in there and I will share this with them and I accept this for them thank you very much [Applause] Zach we got two surprises there okay what's that we got a Hollywood icon and I don't know if I was expecting Deadpool to win I love it you know I wasn't either I thought maybe somebody else would pull that out but it's how deserve it is very much so now how good is how good is he it was great we need him in another pinball machine actually kind of gave me goose bumps okay okay our next presenter well first off no one wants to hear about competitive pinball right that's why they love look but this next presenter does want to talk about competitive pinball because she's presenting four favorite pinball tournament I'm very proud of her she is an ambassador to all of us in the pinball industry for introducing more and more diversity into pinball put your hands together for Crystal Jim Mitch [Applause] thank you your nominees for best pinball tournament our favorite pinball tournament Oh competition your winner is pin burg is there anyone to here to accept Penenberg award oh I've got a walker that guy's just getting a beer okay we will accept at this on the behalf of pin Burke thank you guys okay Greg all right let's see what we got next year right oh that's a good one okay so this guy I told him to be prepared this guy is a we're gonna talk about toys and gimmicks that's probably the most important thing to me really yeah what boys and gimmicks it's a large this guy is gonna present is a professional toy collector so I find it fitting right he is also a prolific pinball artist one of our favorites everybody for best toys and gimmicks welcome Christopher Franchi [Applause] hey guys Dylan you having a good time oh yeah isn't this effing great night oh pinball you guys listen to podcasts are there any pinball podcasters out here oh yeah could you give me some tips on how to present an award I am here to announce the award for best toys and gimmicks I am here to announce the award for best toys and gimmicks something I can relate to something I asked for so this is about everything cool the world under glass and the nominees are best toys and gimmicks Deadpool by stern pinball [Music] Houdini by American pinball [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey jab pinball [Music] and the winner is Pirates of the Caribbean [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you everyone appreciate it it was a it's a lot of fun putting all that stuff into the game and I threw everything and I could so thanks a lot [Applause] need to breathe it's a lot of people thank you thank you I think you just need to remember what he's supposed to sing up here I love pinball mods I do but I'm a little too tight I have to leave you hanging there just to see what you would do as you know how I am we actually get to present the best pinball mod of 2018 who likes pinball mods and their pinball machine I like the love yeah I like that I can honestly say the three that we're presenting I love every one of them I love them all on your machines listed let's take a look at the top three nominees for best pinball mod favorite pimple mod of 2018 color DMD flying monkey mod for Jersey Jack's The Wizard of Oz [Music] pim stadium lights [Music] okay all right we get to open you want to open this you will mean something you open it like I'm hands full come on on our show I always have my hands full all right no I don't like that and the Twitty goes to no surprise PinStadium Lights [Applause] oh here we go mr. Pibb stadium yourself come on down spin I can't see him I need a I need a pin stadium belt that's right is this one of your new products go go ahead man well thanks guys I really appreciate it it's you know one of these products I made in my basement for myself couple years ago and never had any tent to sell it you guys all spoke up and liked the product so I thank you very much for the support and it's just been overwhelming thank you so much [Applause] okay where we in now we got that we did that one that one okay feel good I'm terrified I'm not gonna lie to you terrifies man cause people are welcoming though I like it so I love you guys over here I don't know what's going on you gotta step it up over here this crowd is killing it come on the alcohol is kicking in now isn't it besides hit the bar this side hazard so our next presenter is a theme unto himself it's true presenting for best theme and pinball please welcome the dirty the dangerous Jack Jane Jackie Dee [Applause] [Music] what's going on under that how is everyone doing tonight are you good I've had a lot of moonshine so I'm gonna try to read this the best that I can but I'm here to present the best theme some might consider this to be the best category because I'm presenting it yes I agree we get it we get it I love you okay Internet the best theme of 2018 is Deadpool by stern pinball [Music] [Applause] iron maiden by Stern Kimball [Applause] [Music] Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack in ball alright folks here we go obviously I dressed up for the occasion I look amazing in my busted freaking denim jacket alright so the best theme of 2018 is Deadpool [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] first I'd like to thank Jack danger for making me look like I dressed up on behalf of the Deadpool team of which I am a proud member I'd like to say thank you to everybody that voted for the game and thank you all for your continued support of what we do and allowing us to do what we do every day so thank you very much [Applause] [Music] okay congratulations Deadpool they're bringing them in I'm actually surprised I'm not surprised I actually just bought one any but you did anybody else in here own a stern Deadpool there they are look at him man absolutely okay guys we're rocking and rolling through this you're making it pretty good okay now everybody has their favorite place to play pinball right location pinball who here plays some location pinball personal shout-out to Zanzibar Google Kentucky there's a couple so our our presenter for best pinball location actually plays on the Black Pearl er please everybody welcome Eric Meunier [Applause] [Music] [Applause] everyone so location pinball is something near and dear to my heart I grew up as an operator I was routing games my dad started kingpin games when I was three years old and I never had a babysitter so I was always with him and bringing location pinball to people so anyone who owns and routes games Thank You you you are keeping this hobby alive you are helping it grow just so all of us nerds can have pinball machines in our basement you bring more people in you bring new people in so the nominees for favorite pinball location are [Music] pinball location a Bari game bar Logan arcade title town in and the Twitty goes to Logan arcade [Applause] [Music] crystal come on they're accepting is one of the most fantastic Texan pinball Wow oh my gosh thank you so much everybody who voted it's Logan is just one of my favorite places in the entire world it's where I learn how to work on pinball on behalf of Jim's SP the owner I want to thank our Tech's our bartenders our door guys everybody who works and everybody voted again thanks so much three more people okay that was pretty nice I do like Logan I do like I love that place I visited that every time I go to Chicago he's gonna lie yes I do Greg I'm sorry it's hard to deal with this guy sometimes okay so our next presenter has some of the most beautiful pinball machines in all of the world in almost every convention and every Expo around the world presenting four best pinball convention please welcome the one and only Jersey Jack yep [Applause] Wow I wish I could see you people I know you look beautiful I was in the audience you know years ago there were maybe two or three pinball conventions in a whole year that were really good and now there's two or three on a weekend maybe more and I'm really blessed to go around the world and attend all these so it's really cool this is one of my favorites I didn't vote but let's see the favorite pinball convention nominees favorite pinball convention Chicago pinball Expo replay FX Texas pinball festival [Applause] [Music] this is my turn again okay well this envelope was given to me by the CPA firm of Dewey Cheatham and how we're gonna find out oh and the winner is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the future mayor advanced me yeah so you know I really have to thank all the exhibitors well first I'm gonna say that it whatever the pinball show you go to you need to support your pinball show but we're just very blessed that we have a very large collection here in dallas-fort worth and in the surrounding areas North Texas and we really thank everybody everybody support we work really hard to my wife Kim Paul McKinney and Darren cammer and all of our volunteers that helped put this show together we appreciate it you know when they when they announce this the I'm going to talk forever so when they announced this category I thought to myself okay well this is going to look good so if Texas pinball festival wins everyone's gonna say okay well clearly because they're having the Twitty Awards here and if we didn't win I was gonna think okay well this shit's rigged thank you very much we appreciate it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Wow Zach the only thing that would taken me poor by surprise than Jack taking his clothes off Oh hate would would be you having more than five fans come on there's gonna be five people out there that appreciate old Zach right is there any Zach fan that was so near it was terrible you do bad stuff and they oh the cheer all right let's let's do best light show okay everybody loves a good old light show and pinball right I do speaking of light shows these uh these things are these things are bad these you're killing me I'm just glad we don't the picture everybody naked yeah it's like there's little blotches now okay presenting for best light show ooh one of my favorite podcasts it's kin Cromwell and Bill Webb [Music] [Applause] what's going on pinball and I am Ken Cromwell I am bill Webb and we are very honored to present the word for the best light show the thing I like most about this award is that all these machines are special when lit the nominees for best light show our best light show [Music] monster bash remake by Chicago gaming company Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack pinball momona true we've got a big Chicago contingency over here I hear and the winner is Pirates of the Caribbean [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a great job chief Johnson Joe Katz JT Harkey they won this I was bringing a home - congratulations man I saw that other Twitty and Eric's pocket that one goes in the other pocket if he wins a third one Oh where's it gonna go I don't show this sugar so for you what do you want this one you can do it so our next presenter is actually over in the other room killing it in the tournament so he can't be here mr. Steven Bowden from fun with bones in the finals yes so we're here to show the nominees for best pinball publication nice favorite pinball publication drop target omnibus [Music] then bull adventures with totaku [Music] [Applause] [Music] who's gonna win it Greg oh you already opened it okay I don't got this one great the winner of best publication is none other than pinball magazaria [Music] [Applause] [Music] juice is loose oh no stairs needed [Music] I just walked in sorry about that thank you everybody I really can see anything with these lights here but I know you're there so all I can say these things I love making this publication I'm very happy that it's appreciated by so many so thank you very much I love that he came like he came up with such tenacity and got here he's like oh okay so here's the red carpet Gregor next our next presentation next presenter we're gonna talk about favorite pinball website now why don't we why don't we have a pinball website right SDTM pinball comm or something like that has been taken dot-org know maybe because you haven't worked on it yet oh that's so true civ and so true laziest man in pinball right right here all right presenting four favorite pinball website is Charlie and Corwin (Bug) Emery [Applause] [Music] Wow is it bright up here I can see all eight million of you we would like to thank Jack and the nice one for that lovely introduction we hope everyone's having a good festival we're having a great one we just watched Bowen reach the wizard mode an Alice Cooper I've had like ten people tell me can I just say good things about us yes let's get to the nominees for the favorite pinball website favourite pinball website pin side [Music] this weekend pinball hey wait a minute if this week in pinball wins best pinball website isn't that like saying the Oscar goes to the Academy Awards and the winner is inside [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I really can't see anyone are there any pin ciders here oh I just want to say thanks to all of you and I'm sorry my brother isn't here you couldn't make it but I'm sure he's really proud so thank you [Applause] I like our next presenter he's a good guy tiny little feller why I don't know if I'd say that is that's kind of rude unfortunately when this is one guy whenever you go and give him a hug it could be a bit inappropriate right he's everybody's favorite pinball guy and NBA star it's Todd McCullough for best theme integration sorry Tom we didn't get the mic up high enough thank you very much thank you very much thick I can't go free bird even that's taped down sorry Todd I'm just messing things up okay I'm just gonna I'm just gonna squat this okay so it has been said by a wise man that theme integration is everything I just said that just now it wasn't a wise man it was a wide man a wide man once said that so my theme and my theme was Brad Pitt I'm gonna come out with the hair the eyes the jawline but because of bad integration I've got Chia hair eyes like Rudy from funhaus and the jawline of mr. Potato Head and instead of looking like Brad Pitt I dressed in Darryl eked here are some examples of good theme integration and the nominees are best the integration Deadpool by stern pinball [Music] iron maiden by stern pinball [Music] Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack pinball and the winner is Pirates of the Caribbean [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you okay I'm not sure what he said but I hope he didn't tell us where that trophy was going so hard mix presenter taught me literally how important it was that first mistake of the night you're right there oh my goodness oh sorry we swap those just like a real show couple mistake so you're supposed to announce Steve Ritchie right now so you ruin my tagline go for our next presenter do come on look at the camera yeah hi guys are we streaming live we are streaming live okay go okay we were we really recovery I want to do you killed it damn it man next presenter is one who never lets us forget that we should play better for best pinball streamer is the Arnold Schwarzenegger of pinball Steve Ritchie yeah are y'all doing tonight gotta wear glasses best twitch streamer this is mine that's the best twitch streamer right there all people don't get it Internet you know streaming out anyway the nominees for favorite pinball twitch streamer I nominate that one our favorite in boats which streamer buffalo pinball [Applause] I need the same what's up are you all right so really excited it's season five really even in mom okay it wasn't enough to hit 119 walkers but I had to hit Woodbury three times dead flip with Jack danger just pop it right in because I got lessons from Jack danger danger is I don't want to touch anymore no internet I got a surprise for you ready [Music] speed limit [Music] there were too late ready now [Music] uh we ended up tilt [Music] [Applause] and the winner he's a good friend of mine we're talking death lip [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh internet I honestly could not do jet flip without you guys watching every single day and just tuning in and supporting me and the adventure that I'm going on and I can't thank you enough for this awesome awesome second freaking twig in a row which is out of control [Applause] just um you know if you have Amazon Prime you know you know what to do with it all right guys flippers and busts indeed I'm gonna call foul on that one because I think kind of what pushing him over the edge was the Bulge Oh hashtag bulge gate maybe next year that's things that we forgot that well that's you jack that's you okay and you left your shot glass up here next presenter has made an appearance on Stern's new monsters pinball machine yeah yeah I think that's gonna be a big contender next year for best artwork when I see twig written all over it ladies and gentlemen this is really really special put your hands together for butch Patrick thank you thank you very much you know first of all thank you for you till I don't do stand-up here anyway thanks very much I like to thank Eddie and his team for bringing me in and Pat priests for bringing us to the Texas pinball festivals our first one and it's interesting a lot of people come up and ask me are you having a good time if you can't have a good time at this place you need to see a doctor because we're having a wonderful time have you checked out the artwork on the new Munster slot machine pinball machine well speaking of artwork and the nominees for the best artwork our best artwork Deadpool by stern pinball artwork by zombie Yeti [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] iron maiden by stern pinball artwork by zombie Yeti [Music] Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack pinball artwork by Jay szalinski [Music] okay nice round of applause for all the nominees but the winner is Iron Maiden [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] right stop me if you heard this one before as a proud member of this team because I work on them all sadly I'm not as witty or as humorous as zombie ideas but I will tell you that he is one of the most humble and talented artists I've ever had the pleasure of working with or have you ever met so on behalf of the iron Maine team and stern pinball and zombie Yeti thank you so much for everything for voting and for all that you guys do to support what we do I talk to Jeremy I told Jeremy I said you got it it was the year of the Yeti this year and I said you know if I could just tell everybody that there's no you know animosity between us honest we all get along it's a big family well you know we love each other we're just happy when other each other wins and you know Oh all right okay all right Mike Vinick or and Christopher Franchi everybody I guess that's what happens when you don't come to accept your Twitter ward okay the hell was that and he like he's going to all right yeah congratulations I know we just bought this damn pedestal - you know what that was the first thing I'm worried about us more money we have no budget no it's all we could afford okay our next presenter is a guy who I have absolutely learned to love and he I love that you've learned to love him as if you didn't love him before I've learned to love him because I've got the recently I've recently got to know him yeah and he's kind of into taught me the importance of mathematics and then I kind of should have probably listened in school a little bit better please welcome the multiplier master Oh Dwight Sullivan [Applause] thank you thank you um thanks I can't see who you are so so favorite pinball YouTube channel you know back in my day we didn't have internets right we didn't have YouTube channels but of course you know that was back when pinball was hard [Music] and the nominees are favorite pinball youtube channel papa live from just outside Pittsburgh Pennsylvania this is Papa TV hello everyone my name is John replica I'm here with my good friends Fred Cochran on my right and on my left is Doug polka and we're here to talk about Inbal button hi John and please show so we're gonna choose criminal first like major villain modes by shooting various shots hey I'm over here from Boyle headquarters just outside Pittsburgh replaced some barians of the galaxy ham oh we're here in Southern California to play one of the first games I can remember getting really good ass it's earth shakers hey I'm over here pop world headquarters this outside Pittsburgh to play Sindbad 1978 game from D Gottlieb and company hey I'm Boeing we're here at Papa wool headquarters just outside Pittsburgh to play World Poker Tour hey I'm Boeing we're here at Papa headquarters just outside Pittsburgh to play World Cup soccer this is one of my absolute favorite pinball machines let's do this [ __ ] straight down the middle a paintball show mark don't blows mark of war it's not very nice mark forsberg I think port Forsberg Forsberg Forsberg forsberg might be able like hors d'oeuvres but forsberg HS islet there's bird Wartburg good bait that's where your mom's from right I [Applause] [Music] we were starting to think about what our next theme should be Joe Paul sir was really big on ways to do act over fast welcome to stay done the middle of pinball show Halloween special it is high count Zack EULA and Wolfman bow hang who now we've upped the ante you see TNT amusements we had a great lunch so I'm gonna take all these imbecile people over to the warehouse to show them the warehouse works out very well let's go off we have separate entrances in case I go bankrupt and close down I can sell one building look boys a picture tube it's a little wing it works Neotech it's a little dull [Music] coffee of God bless them they're out of here I hate visitors you spoil the illusion people thought I really and the winner is my friends straight down the middle [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Wow okay I got tears in my eyes from your hold to rules oh wow girl hey is your mom here in the audience mrs. bone no she's not you know where she's from hey horse burger okay I I literally have to move my wife because I was told to so Thank You Chelsea bone for allowing me to do pinball to spend all the time in the world with my best friend and it is truly moments like these that when you say it's me or pinball I want to choose pinball I love it we got a little emotion maybe really are crying no I'm laughing from the horse bird thing I promise I would like to also thank my wife I have no clue how they deal with us hours upon hours a week on this live living so Nicole from the bottom of my heart thank you thanks for supporting me so much sweetie thank you and also need to thank you bud thank you I love you man I love you yeah we got to we got to yeah all right a little bit we get the field goods going on here wedding I seriously want to thank Jack and I want to hear a round of applause for these fantastic twiba videos that he has put together he spent hours upon hours for months thank you man building thank you all right we're back in it maybe let's talk what it was everybody love when they play pinball right in 2019 you better have some good rules and pinball right I hope so you're not gonna be up here feeling having good rules very true go ahead and tell them who's presenting best rules I'd live there but how our next presenter are you really gonna start fresh with your whole thing I like it good prepared next presenter for best rules is Marty Robin who the king sac himself there he is whoo a man that knows kangaroo says I'd also like to give a big shout out to Jack danger for dressing me tonight as well thank you um and you can tell I'm from Australia and I don't know whether you've noticed but this year in particular there are a lot of Australians here so big up to the Aussies here and pinball is really important to the culture of Australia and in fact we've actually had some great pinball manufacturers including Hank and pinball and now hagas pinball so well done to them so the nominees for best rules are best rules Deadpool by Stern pinball's code by tanio Kleiss and team when you make shots Deadpool is hitting Sabretooth and he's taking itself down and then you have this opportunity to make a final shot that's gonna cash out a bunch of points then you make that shot and it's a big cool Iron Maiden by Stern pinball code by Keith Elwin and team I think it's fun to shoot the rules are good the sounds good the artwork stunning so that that's gonna draw the new players in Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack pinball code by Keith P. Johnson and Tino yeah the goal is to play the champions well they'll play the multiball well score big in the wizard and the twiba for best rules goes to Iron Maiden [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I now I'll be playing the key the part of Keith Elwin alright I knew I knew I knew Iron Maiden was gonna be something special when I would go play Keith's Whitewood and they didn't even have display effects yet it was just text on the screen and his rules and I would walk out of his office before I went home smiling every day and I couldn't wait to play it again and there was nothing even to look at in the play field besides blank wood and lights it's a fantastic game and Keith really hit it out of the park and it was a wonderful team than again I was proud to work on that one with them as well so thank you guys all very much they might keep all those awards for all that lately great job Mike thank you sir I think maiden is doing well Pirates is doing well no run away this year last year we had a bit of a run away that's true this year no run away that's nice people step in their game up the next one I'm really excited I am - so our next presenters are no rookies - pinball but they are a little bit of a rookie to marriage please welcome Rachel and kale from Marconi's who are the sexiest people in pinball look at that [Music] thank you very much guys no no I haven't but that would make us rookies at this but I noticed that in the email you sent me in preparation for this they said we could tell a joke yeah so I've prepared my favorite pinball joke what did one necrophiliac say to the other let's grab a cold one ladies and gentlemen the trippy 2018 ROI Rookie of the Year nominees are Rookie of the Year Keith Elwin [Applause] Eric mania [Music] Tim Sexton [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he told me he was gonna do that but I thought he was joking all right the Rookie of the Year goes to keep that way [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey look who it is maybe we shouldn't have mics in on the stage all right Keith if you're watching this at home on the internet I think you're gonna have to buy me lunch when I get back home because of all this stuff I have to figure out how to carry back on the plane with me I loved I loved work on that team with Keith and that whole group Keith hid went out of the park on his first time out and I think as long as Keith wants to make games he will make great games for us and I'm proud to work alongside him and everybody else there so thank you on behalf of Keith and the iron maiden team okay we've only don't like a couple left okay get another drink are you guys having fun in the show with more yells than we began it with that's right they're sleeping that guy back there look at him oh I see them wake up yo Fox let's just wake up all right next to present best animations and display look owners the days of DM DS right new pinball machines have Big O LCD screen not in my house Oh Lethal Weapon 3 doesn't have an LCD screen it's like a bug and guess who sold it to me I did with a buzz that's right they all have it steadies they love the buzz this year's to present the award for best animation same display as pin size very own Creator Robin [Music] all right I've got a great category here it's best animations and display so let's see who the nominees are best animations and display get fooled by stern pinball Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack pinball all right let's see what do we got here the winner is Kristoff oh wait that's the wrong car no it's my friend John Paul Pirates of the Caribbean [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] again it can thank you all that it's a thanks for voting it's really really an honor to be here and and accepted this for award sorry I'm so nervous let's go second in a row as well I'm sorry you can't watch all the animations while you're playing but yeah giving you all for another for love a bindle yeah Oh for you I I have like the biggest pinball crush on JP to win I'm not gonna lie any time he puts anything on the display I love it like just like any other artist he is masterful do you know what I hear all the time JP keep it with him for the win that's right JP for to win tonight he just won what are we doing next great oh no you tell them you have how many of you slam back there I'm sorry go ahead what are we pursuing we're almost done Greg we've got a couple more left but so we are presenting the nominees for best for a favorite pinball podcasts Oh podcasts okay our god help us favorite pinball podcast Podcast find us on Facebook analysis it involve a change our call okay well website welcome everybody to the head-to-head pinball podcast this is our episode 50 and my name's Martin and with me it's Ryan C and we've got a very special guest ladies and gentlemen Jack Hammond Cal hello Joe doing well thanks guys for calling we're the one only Roger shouts hey gang Raja greetings thank you for that incredible introduction ladies and gentlemen Chris Grenier it's Charlie Emery how are you Charlie ladies and gentlemen Jorge Gomez Keith P. Johnson mrs. zombie Eddie himself Jeremy pakka scott NAC Keith Ellen Josh Cruella tenure clients jump all de Winne whites Alvin Christopher Francine I equated to like it Taco Bell came out look like a new chalupa if you didn't like it would you stand on their front lawn ago Canadians pinball podcast isn't it a glorious glorious week in Timbo come on come on we're gonna get to see a brand-new pinball machine for the first time out in the world come on that's what it's like way to do this up Stern won't stop Chicago Gaming will not stop Jersey jack won't stop the the stakes are really high there's going to be as I've always said winners and losers winners and losers and you know all we can hope for is that you know we get the best games from each manufacturer and they put their best foot forward for this week in pinball podcast hello out there pinball world is me Zakia hosted this weekend pinball podcast rolling into episode 22 with one of my favorite co-hosts and one of my favorite pinball buddies this man once lost a debate discussing Jersey Jack pinball's The Hobbit the co-host of the eclectic gamers podcast everybody welcome Dennis kriesel it was nice to be back Zak until you lied about that Hobbit debate okay you're really great can we not have anything nice be always entertaining yet always there's always a but is it me I was rooting for you buddy you didn't even vote for me go ahead me always controversial Canadian cans tomato [Applause] [Music] all right we're gonna get that guy booing in the back to come on the show who's that come up here you're just making more people watch the show cruddy I love it I love it see this is what we need more of right all right so here's the deal I'm gonna change the format of my show thanks to this guy ready we're gonna talk about tournaments from now on all right I'm also gonna do I'm gonna do 200 episodes this year and they're $11,500 each all right all right I just need to thank a few people I want to thank all the people back in New York City that are watching Brenda I love you and all the people there you see why the show is amazing I want to thank all my fans I know you're here right that guy he's number one he's my biggest patreon supporter um look here's the deal I want to dedicate this award to Nate shivers all right without Nate shivers of cosec OHS pinball there wouldn't be any pinball podcasts oh and can we give Nate shivers a round of applause all right I also I want to thank all of the pinball companies out there right we didn't even cheer all them without them we wouldn't even be here in the room tonight we wouldn't be celebrating pinball in 2019 and nobody would have any content to talk about so can we give a round of applause to all the manufacturers [Applause] I I need to thank someone who is a my best informant I want to thank Jorge Gomez for telling me that Chicago gaming company was going to manufacture alien pinball and ship it in two weeks so I want to I want to thank him for that but here's the deal this podcast as you can see is not the most popular but I think it reflects what a lot of you feel but don't always say is that we're not happy about every single thing that happens in pinball so I always do the show in defense of getting pinball magic back all right all right all right everyone and I want to also say we hope Ryan C is back on the airwaves soon Ryan we're thinking about you buddy all right thank you everyone Lou [Applause] okay he's off the stage loving or hating me hello do [ __ ] that comes out of his mouth alright a couple more this is a big one this is not the biggest one but this is like probably one of the biggest top four or five let's talk some pinball design right so category is Best Play filled gameplay and layout our next presenter Greg egg shoes designed and beauty right please everybody welcome Marco Specialties Antoinette [Music] [Applause] hello everybody well I can remember from a very early age being absolutely memorized with playfields and just the overall design so here are the nominees for Best Play field and game design best play field gameplay and layout iron maiden by stern pin bull lead designer Keith Elwin I really like this design we haven't done a for flipper game in probably 15 years this game brings that back I think that's gonna be unique draw for the player with the four flippers the upper two flippers allows you to play more of the pinball machine than just the bottom part I think when you get stuck at the bottom fire for too long the back looks very distant and then when you have that flipper up there it feels like okay I'm up there I have the control at the upper part of the play field usually the ramps are some of your easiest shots in the game Keith's put the ramps on the outside of the game and spinners and some loops in the middle of the game and make those the big shots and make ramps the tough shots what it actually winds up building is a more flowing game because the ball is always near a flipper and that flipper can always affect it Deadpool by stun pinball lead designer Jorge Gomez I wanted simple toys simple ball interactive stuff and I hadn't really done a game where I was very focused on the flow of the play field or the shots for a while and so in Deadpool I did that Deadpool's got a lot of interesting ideas put into it you've got different shots you've never seen you've got a really interactive toy right in the middle and you got this shot on the left flipper just the right side of the play field to feed a side ramp the ball gets whipped around this wire form up this side ramp and it actually crosses through the play field unguided by anything into the ninjalock Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jack pinball lead designer Eric memmio I now know from experience I've had spent over a week with nothing more than this flipper mm-hmm this flat rail and this flat round yeah getting this tuned in okay just those this those three elements I was adjusting the positioning of this just in the positioning of those that the strength of this the pitch of that where they're gonna where they line up weird and on the important part was where this flat rail this continuous loop you don't want a lot of chatter back there to do and the winner is have you ever been so nervous that you young or is that just a me thing I was doing that backstage it was really weird and the winner is Iron Maiden [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey I'm definitely getting my steps in walking back and forth and I'm gonna need a bigger bag thank you on behalf of Keith and the iron maiden team once again I'm proud to work with all of them and clearly that that game made you all smile as much as it made me smile when I was playing it during development with those guys so thank you [Applause] I'll tell you Zach if there was an award for the best speeches of the nine they would go to definitely to my well by default alone yes anybody's gonna come up with so many where's he gonna put all those things you got like a satchel I got a satchel Mike come on Mike tell us just what the time's come we're out where it's we're out of the categories we don't need a drink we've got one more left there's a real partying after this I want to party with every one of you guys okay I agree dagmar so we're about to present you your 2018 game of the year be most important award of the night clap come on for this big we should draw it out how about we do this at the count of three I want you guys all cuz I know every one of you voted right I want you all to yell your favorite game of the year ready one two three say Ally okay alright there's a lot of machines okay here to present game of the year is us and I close the show down shut this down how about it your top three nominees for game in the year what again thank you all for attending this is our first live of this we're still nervous but we want to thank everybody for showing up for sticking around staying here being a part of this we greatly appreciate in you two it's probably all I'm talking about the web camera people are still watching hi don't mind throwing them when I said house bumpers and nuts mention of flippers and butts butts yeah the doppelganger who nominees for game of the year are [Music] iron maiden by stern pinball [Music] Deadpool by stern pinball [Music] Pirates of the Caribbean by Jersey Jacksonville [Music] Wow okay I feel weird too fum yeah it was like a whole role reversal there I'm always a little left eurozone yeah you were the likable one infirmary just remember the night game of the year is everybody ready for the game of the year I told you we should just set you up here Mike gratulations dolls nerd key felon you owe me lunch of the year for all this hardware I have to bring back to work on Monday thank you guys for everything once again I've run out of witty things to say so I'll just say thank you once more and behalf of the whole company thanks all right everybody that's our show have fun make sure to check out the third annual twigs Award next year let's go have some fun let's do it [Music] [Applause] [Music]