Fresh Pinball Season 5 Premiere Is it? Or is it? Or is it? It could be a reboot Reboot? We could pull a stern and Season 1 remaster You remix a remix, it's back to normal. Welcome everyone to episode one of season five, also known as the season premiere of the Fresh Pinball Podcast. Four of us once again are around this merry table in my garage of all places. He doesn't let us in the house anymore. No, no. After the last incident. I tell you man, you pee on the carpet, I'm going to rub your nose in it and you're not allowed back in. We've got to use the yard now. The rules is the rules. On the board, to my right, Mr. Kyle. How are we feeling, buddy? Feeling great. Feeling great. Thank you for bringing that Camelones pizza tonight. That New York style is hitting just right. The two kids working there tonight, I almost want to be like, do you guys want to sponsor a podcast? Because it seems like we get Camelones quite a bit. We do. It's pretty delicious. We need to start focusing on sponsors or whatever that gets us food and snacks, beer. Corbin loves free stuff. Brought to you by Columbus Brewing. Well, I was also, don't worry, the shout out's coming to the fine, fine gentleman that sponsored our beverages tonight. Absolutely. Without a doubt, that is coming. And across from me, Zach, the still WRX-less, Zach Angeli. How are you feeling, buddy? Maybe tomorrow. I'll be real excited if I get it back. Tomorrow could be your day. It was supposed to get a little bit of paintwork done to it, but that was April when it was supposed to get back. Now it's end of August, so, you know, fun stuff. Maybe tomorrow. We'll see. Could be your day. Could be. He's holding his breath. Ask for boy blue. Yeah, right. To Zach's right, to my left, the boss man himself in the flesh, Corbin Angeli. Corbin, how we doing, buddy? Doing good. Doing good. Do you feel like after the last week of phone calls and video calls and whatnot that your French proficiency has increased? You know, I had a previous – I used to work somewhere else before. And I dealt with the French a decent amount. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. And so I used to use Google Translate to like, so I had a real hard, I was like, I had to try to email them to order things and ask questions and get updates on production. And English, they would always, they were not as friendly. But then a couple of times I tried just Google Translate and some stuff, send it over. They loved it. Oh, of course. And they were like, so then they were all like, oh, you're trying to learn French. I'm like, yeah, yeah. You know, I'm just trying. I'm not that good. And so then they would actually respond. But anyway. You're not that a-hole American anymore. like you're actually trying to immerse yourself. Exactly. But either way, a little bit, I do feel like it's been interesting. This Hexa game, I mean, I don't know if we want to jump right into talking about it now. I think we dive right into Hexa, right into Space Hunt. I think this is exciting times, so let's do it. The real, real. Where do you even begin? I think we should begin at the beginning, as one does. We do. Get it from FedEx stock. We have talked before that. There's more beginnings than that. Dawn. Don. This all started with Don. Don. Don's Pinball Podcast. If you don't listen to Don's Pinball Podcast, don't worry about it. It's not that great. Just keep listening to us. No. It would be very strange. I would think, I don't know the numbers, but I would think like... It's one to one. I think if you listen to us, you're probably listening to Don. I would be interested to see anybody who's listening to us but isn't listening to Don. But maybe. Maybe. So Space Con... I don't listen to either. There's like a trailer or like a teaser, like this little video that's out there in the ether that's kind of in the pinball periphery. It's not even in main news. It had a very catchy soundtrack. That was the big thing about it. TNA-esque. Very. And Don was – he was feeling the beat in his soul. So then he started to get in contact with the folks, the fine folks over at Hexa, which is a French-based pinball company. Yeah. It was their first game. started the dialogue and then he said to us hey mad pinball like what would it take for you guys to get one over here you know possibly this that and the other this was probably two years ago yeah i mean this has been a long time in the making yeah so he's he did that and i don't know we emailed a little bit but for some reason it kind of went on the back burner for a good six months easily i want to say at least i mean there's a lot of other stuff going on a lot of other games coming in so we kind of didn't didn't really do too much with him then i don't remember what i think at the beginning it was the beginning of this year and we had talked about it and you had you talked about your interest in it and don was interested in it so we're like well let's let's read like the restart the conversation see what we can revisit it yeah see what we can figure out um i think at the time i think the first round shipping was a lot but it's like we ended up waiting and so now we got shipping and a tariff so really worked out yeah it was the beginning of the year you and i were talking about like what are some of the goals for 2025 and i said this hexa one kind of excites me a little bit let's you know at least pursue it to the point i really did let's pursue it to the point of where at least hey if it doesn't make sense we don't do it but at least we you know figure out a little fact finding if nothing else so we do our fact finding we email back and forth video calls this that and the other and end up you know it makes more sense for us to just be distributors for hexa that way we can get our game at wholesale i don't really You know how it went. It pretty quickly changed from us just trying to get one to being like, we need a North American, a U.S. distributor. And I was like, sure, is it going to get us the game cheaper? Okay. And next thing you know, we're – Signing contracts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're the distributor for Hexa. The sole distributor. So at this point – At this point, it's us and Joe at Pinball Star Joe, the big spooky guy, good dude. And then Nitro in Canada will be handling distribution of Hexa. So they've went from nobody in North America to three distributors in North America. Coming up. Link of an eye. Yeah. So we end up, we get our first, we say, all right, well, you know, we sign on with you guys. We want, we're going to need to see one though. So we, of course, order the, there's two trim levels for everyone who doesn't know. The Classic. There's the Classic. And then there's the Elegance package. So that goes? That's what I was going to say. I'm assuming there's probably better ways to say it. But we went with the Elegance package, as they say. Got to have that mirrored back glass. It's so sick. It's a nice mirrored back glass. And the cabinet is real, like, buttery smooth. It's almost like a Radcal. It's like a Radcal kind of finish on it. And then it has a nice, like, almost, I'd say, plum color powder coatings. Maybe purple. Magenta almost? Magenta. Magenta. Magenta. It's a nice color. Art Blades. Anyway, nice game. Lights up nice. Plays nice. Pretty good game. So we've had it around. I had it at my house. We took it over to the North Canton show, Sweeper City. Shout out Mike Bear. Yeah, yeah. We've got some news there. Don't let me forget the Sweeper City lodge news that I need to share. Continue, continue. Okay. Then we took it over to Penberg over in Shedsburg, and they played it over there for a little while for the weekend. Everyone seemed to have a good time on it. We brought it back, added a credit switch to it, which in my full honest review here of it, as the operator of me comes out, and I've said this about a lot of other games too, prototypes or whatever, but it came with no coin mech, which okay, I get it. It's from a different country. It gets to your country. You add your appropriate coin mech. That makes sense. That's fine. Also didn't have a drop switch though, a credit switch. Really? Yeah, and it was like, okay, like a credit switch is universal, and it's going to cost you like five bucks or less. Right. You know, when you buy them in bulk, so throw that in, And then there wasn't even wiring for it, like tucked up anywhere or anything. So that was also then I was like, well, now what the heck? And it's a single coin shoot. And it's a single coin shoot game. But the single coin shoot thing made sense when we asked them about it because they said generally when they were on location in Europe, hardly anyone uses coins over there, and they're all set up on card systems. So to have a larger area on the face of the coin door. And what's barrels of funds? Barrels of funds excuse. Go ahead, Corbin. They thought no one was going to put it on location. Oh. They literally said. They said we'll get the cheaper door. Yeah. Because then we can put more money into the game. Yeah. Thanks. But it turns out. All right. I agree with that. Yeah, for sure. That's fine. Yeah. So anyway, I did get a credit switch wired in. And then I tried to put a DVA in, but the stacker runs into the play field. Oh, shit. Yeah. Because you know, like on a Stern or like on most modern games, they have that notch. Right. There's no notch in the play field. Oh. Either way, that was one of the frustrations. Yeah, I got a Zaza. Yeah, a router. I liked your idea, though, of using an old-school Bally Williams, one that just dumps the dollars into the cash pan. That would be the move. Because then you don't need that notch for the stacker. Roadshow. Yeah. So we got all jazzed up. I'm like, yeah, we're finally going to take it out. We're going to do an event at Arcade on Detroit. Don's coming over because he was working in Toledo at a hospital. We're going to do a little trade with him. We're going to do a little event up there, have it up there for a week or so. Quarters are going through. It'll make some money, start paying for this thing. I guess we skipped the whole point. It got stuck in tariff jail. We talked about that before. Yeah, okay. Anyways, we get it up there. Go back to season four if you want to hear about pinball jail. We get it up there, plug this shit in. It's working fine when we leave it, get back. I'm like 10 minutes out from getting back up there that night. Hey, it's off. God damn it. So walk in. It's, sure enough, shut down. Shut off in the middle of the game. So we start messing with stuff. we pull the screen out when we were starting to put the screen back in kicks back on we're like heck that's weird so it maybe boots maybe it booted all the way or not some weird thing we had to go in the coin door and hit buttons some kind of setting thing we ended up discovering that it would play for a little bit then it shut off and then you'd take and you'd tap on the side of the cabinet it'd kickback on for a game or so maybe by the end of the night it wasn't kicking on at all completely dead I'm looking at you Legends of Valhalla Yeah. So you're giving Corbin PTSD right now. He's like, oh, my God. So needless to say, it wasn't the most lively event, but we picked it up, got it back. Turns out that the power supply in it, which it's the same power supply that are in Stern's. It's the same power supply that are in American. It's a standard. Meanwhile, you know, one one 10 in 48 volt out power supply. So it just happens to be a faulty, faulty, or I don't know if it was because we had it on so many different power sources. I think that's it. I truly do. It was on so many different power sources. If that did it, either way, the power supply shut out. So we're going to do it again. Because you figure we took it to Super City. It's good now. And it was sitting upstairs running off of probably two, you know, what, 15 games running off of two circuits. The same circuit as the bathroom. Right. And then you had at Pinberg, you know, running off of an extension cord. That was off an extension cord. Because there was no power on the wall. A power strip off of this, off of that. and you're just getting inconsistent power. Who's at my house? Yeah. So, yeah, either way, I don't want to – I mean, I'm not saying – it's nothing against the game and the manufacturers, the reality of it, the power supply shit out. We put a new one in it. It's good now. Now it's going to start its journey on Thursday, I think. Yeah, so exciting times on Thursday. I'm going to take it up to the Rochester Pinball Collective, and it's going to spend two weeks at the Rochester Pinball Collective during the event segment. I'll give you the dates. They're doing a big IFPA tournament that will involve Turner Pinball's Merlin's Arcade and Hexa's Space Hunt. So it will spend two weeks there. Merlin's Arcade is going too. Yep. Are they just going to be in the free play area? So at the collective, everything is free play there. None of it is on coin drop. But not in the tournament probably. Will the games be in the tournament? Yes. Yes. Yeah, okay. Yep. So they'll be in the tournament, all of that stuff. It might be like one of the first IFPA tournaments for both of them. Oh, yeah. Oh, definitely for Merlin. Well, Merlin's is – the Merlin's are finally starting the ship. I saw the first six. I think those customers were getting invoiced for them because I saw that Dave, you look Dave, that we got America's Most Haunted from, he was getting number six of Merlin's Arcade and that it's only – What number do we have? That's a fair question. I would have liked to have thought we had number one. I mean we have zero-zero in possession now, so I guess we're fine. But just I never even thought about that. So those two games, I would have to bet that it will be the first IFPA-sanctioned event that has either and or both. I mean, that just is bizarre considering there are two axes. Good luck, TD. So they'll spend two weeks there culminating with a tournament, and then they'll go down the road. They'll head west to Buffalo, New York, to Nickel City, and it'll spend two weeks there where they're going to do actually a Bells and Chimes women's event, and then they're going to also do a IFPA-sanctioned event. It'll spend its time there, and then it's going to come on down south to Pittsburgh for PGX, where we're going to be one of the main pinball vendors there. It'll spend the weekend there at PGX, and then it'll go to Pittsburgh Pinball. Both of them will go on location for a couple weeks in Pittsburgh. Locations to be determined. We'll obviously announce that on social media, but it should be a cool little tour through upstate New York down into Pittsburgh, and then we can bring them back into Ohio, do a couple of fun things. Keep pronouncing Pittsburgh wrong. I know. It took me a second. I'm like, where is he talking about? Yeah, I was like, what is he talking about? But after its little Ohio run, we're in talks with some folks in Cincinnati, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky. It's a busy pinball, man. I better play it tonight before it leaves town for a while. Right? So Hexa Pinball, we're collaborating on a booth at Expo with Hexa. Dude, Expo booth, like, for as much as we put out, like, we don't want to do booth at Expo or whatever, we somehow are part of two of them right now, right? Two, I think, right? Oh, my gosh. Don doesn't have one, does he? Well, I guess we're part of his topper competition a little bit, too. So that's three then. Yeah. So let's talk about all of these things. So I'll start with Hexa at Expo. They're doing a booth. And so us and Pinball Star are going to have a classic and an elegance edition of the game. So we'll have one of each. Joe at Pinball Star will have one of each. So if you're looking to take one home, not have to pay shipping, not have to worry about tariffs and all that other BS. Pick it up. Carry it out of the place with you. Yeah, you can email Joe at pinballstar.com or Corbin at madpinball.com. I'll even buy you a beer. Yeah. We'll drink it with you. We can share it. Yeah, we'll get you hooked up. One of each will be there for all of that. Two of each, one of each for you to take home. Yep, yep. So there will be some available of those, and then the Hexa folks are doing a seminar. Oh, isn't there some kind of gift bag or something? They're going to give away the two? Yeah, we'll announce that officially on social media, but it's going to be like a cool little, they were saying like a $150 value swag bag with like a shirt. French wine. I don't know. There was a baguette. A nice brie. There was an extra upper plate feeling. But no, it sounded like, I mean, no expenses spared in this situation. It's like a 22 by 20 booth. It should be a nice little four bank of games, banners, the whole nine. So it should be a pretty cool thing. They're going to be giving out champagne most of the weekend too. Yeah, I mean, I only drink from the finest champagne flutes. Anyway. Let's talk about Electric Playground because they had exciting news today, too. Yeah. Electric Playground went live with their King Kong topper today. Looks pretty cool. They jumped the shark, if you will, and got ahead of Stern on getting a King Kong topper out there before Stern did. It's not that difficult, I feel like. It's not that difficult to do. I know. That's five minutes before we're in trouble. Oh, man. This guy again. As I listed it on the website this morning, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to hear about this. Anyway. Yeah, they released their King Kong 8th Wonder of the World topper today, this morning at different times, depending on where you lived. It looks pretty cool. The first 100 are going to ship by October, it looks like. You're getting corner protectors with it, I guess, as well. They have 20 ready to ship now. It looks pretty cool. I ordered one, but I just thought it was on the list, so we'll see whenever that comes through. Oh, thanks, Rob. Freaking Rob. Don's making me a cool one, though. I'm going to get before that. Anyway. I'll show it to you after the podcast. It's very cool. But anyway, we're going to be part of their booth as well. We were asked to be part of their booth. I understand they're making us a cool sign. And their booth last year was pretty cool and known for it had them in there. Nick now works with them. Yeah. So who knows what else they're bringing, but I think they're bringing some games, I assume. They're going to have a lounge area, and we are specifically sponsoring the lounge area. Should we tease what we're bringing from the lounge? Go ahead. Go ahead. Does it rotate around? Eight times. Eight times? It does. So, yeah, one of the things that kind of solidified the whole relationship, the whole bondages of us and the electric playground was Gears Over Rotation 8. Gears Over Rotation 8. So we thought if they're doing a green room, they're doing a lounge, there would be no more perfect game than Rotation 8. And they're making sure the chairs and everything, we're talking about height so that everything lines up perfectly. It's a good thing I scored you guys that extra board. Talk about that a little bit because that was freaking clutch. It was a random. He's bringing it to Chicago, right? It was just a random guy. random guy like i have this board set for this game called rotation eight i don't know if they work i don't know anything about it i instantly text jeff and then never hear anything from back from he's like oh no i got him i got him 150 bucks can't pass out for the entire board set for rotation eight like yeah we're gonna throw those on the show oh i didn't realize the screenshot was their entire board set i thought it was like the entire board yeah it's like someone basically It's not no surface mount shit, so it can be repaired. Oh, yeah. Clive. Send it to Coin Op Cauldron. Get that stuff fixed. Throw it on the shelf, and then we'll have backups. So, yeah, we're sponsoring that one. We're sponsoring the... Or not. I don't even want to say sponsoring. We're just working together with them. It's co-branding. Yeah. Collaborative. So I'm excited about that. I happened to lay in low at Expo this year. What happened about that? This guy. Not me. He won't stop. This guy won't stop. Oh, yeah. Can't stop, won't stop. I mean, that's true, but not about that. But anyway, they... We've got to fucking work and shit. No, we've made it clear to all the booths that we're not doing. No, we're not attending any of it. We'll provide beer. We'll hang out. We'll bring a beer. And like we said, Robin, you need to run out for like 45 minutes, an hour, maybe an hour. Got an hour tops, bro. You and your fiance can have dinner. Oh, Margaret's in town. Sure. That's it, though. Okay. Well, I mean, we'll probably go with him. That's true. We'll just... Yeah, no, but we're not... We'll have Tank Dog. Tank Dog. Let's talk homebrew toppers at Expo. So there's going to be a competition at Expo this year. Oh, there's been a competition the past couple of years. But this year, Don is running a competition on homebrew toppers. His Kong topper is going to be in it. He can't win, though, so don't worry. And anyone else who wants to enter wins. There's going to be major prizes. He's giving away a play field. We're sponsoring it. We're going to be – We'll put together a cool basket. It'll have the new Mad Pinball hat, a couple of the new Mad Pinball shirts. Corbin got some awesome shimmery stickers. I've been thinking about it. Those are very limited runs. So I've been kind of hoarding them, trying to decide what I want to do with them. I don't even have one. He doesn't give me any stickers. He sent me all the way to Japan with no stickers. You have to go to the sticker machine if you want a sticker. You know where to buy them. Get your quarters. I'm down at Finney's just feeding quarters into the sticker machine. Every sixth one is just a good one. Oh, my God. Yeah, so anyway, we're sponsoring the Topper competition as well. I'm excited. I feel like the homebrew section over the past couple of years, it's really come a long ways. there's a lot of companies out there now that are making things off the shelf I wish I still had my turtles topper I made with Shredder and the bus I like that a lot you had a pretty good Elvira one too I thought did you do an Elvira one? no it's just the skulls oh no no that was Phantom of the Opera maybe that's what I was thinking with the candelabras that lit up yeah but anyway we're sponsoring that as well So that's currently our three connections. Nice. Yeah, it should be a good time. And then on top of that, throw in the possibility of some pinball Olympics. I'm not sure why you say the phrase possibility. Yeah, seriously. And pinball Olympics. September, we're coming up soon, so the tickets are almost on sale. Aren't we sponsoring some tailgate for something, too? So when we talk about – should we talk about cleaping? That's cleaping, yeah. Let's talk about cleaping. This is the episode about events. All right, so Cleveland Pinball and Arcade Show. It's next weekend. yeah he's coming up here in september i'll have all the dates for those here momentarily but jason um from flip for the cure from our toledo pinball scene friends said hey we usually do like a little informal tailgate in the parking lot anyway like would you guys want to sponsor it i'm like well what does that mean he's like well i just like put your name on whatever we advertise i'm like yeah i mean that sounds cool but like we could throw you some money for some beers i don't think he realizes what he's getting into yeah you're taking it over man see that sick fucking grill I got. That's what I'm saying. That sounds good. The bus goes to Tailgate. It's so nice. Don't tease me. He was messaging me the other day. He's like, what kind of beer do you guys like? I'm like, I thought we were sponsoring your tailgate. You're buying me beer? Hell yeah. Like, alright. Corbin likes Heineken. Heineese. When we were in Egypt, that was like the only beer you could find. You can get Heineken anywhere in the world. You can buy it from alleys in Egypt. What do you got? Heineken tall pounders. Yes. Perfect. Fine. White Rum. So, Klee Pin is September 11th through the 14th. So, is that next weekend? No, that's in two weeks. Two weeks. At least. That's 14. Yeah, like 14 days. I've really been thinking it was sooner than it is. So, we've got the tailgate going on. We're also going to have the random booth. I'm guessing we're going to be in the back corner again. And what are we thinking that we're going to bring? Is Challenger on the table of something that we're going to bring to Klee Pin? Why not? so weird stuff another opportunity we take stuff people see all the time of kyle perusing facebook and getting me into trouble well i mean i'm tell the story kyle you guys keep me around for something uh i mean it just popped up and i like what in the hell is that and it a head to head EM which is very odd And uh we just like the odd shit So I like Hey Jeff, look at this thing. He's like, fuck, I gotta buy it. So yeah, Gottlieb challenger. So I'd run on 100 production, I think. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, super low. I mean, I would almost put it, I mean, that's barely a production number. That's almost prototype when they're doing thousands and thousands of EMS in that era. Oh yeah. Gottlieb is like pumping them. and I've been around to a lot of places and I've seen two others so I can't imagine I would have to imagine that the majority of them came back to operators warehouses when I just glanced at it I thought it was like was it the Elvin G that's what Corbin thought it was I wouldn't mind getting one of those I don't know what the numbers are on those it sits next to joust up at BFW I love all these weird ones so I'm going to shout out Troy Smith over at Tilt Amusements he hooked it up on this. He had taken it in on trade and I must have been the first to reach out and say that I wanted it and he did a phenomenal job packing it up, built essentially a custom pallet for it and got it from the day that I paid to the day that it was at the depot for me to pick up was like three or four days. That's good. Really? Super expedient. So shout out there. Troy and Tilt Amusements have been doing a ton for the community for a very long time. Thank you Mr. Troy But yeah I think that's one that we could take up to Cleapin If we're wanting to Have that same vibe I like competition games like that Like the soccer game Things where people can play head to head And you can get them riled up This fucking guy before you guys get here He's like I don't know I gotta put like Mylar on here So I'm like fucking wax it Jeff I just don't want it to get worse It's not gonna get worse if you wax it Don't put Mylar on it We'll do we'll wax her up He's gonna put Mylar on it I can see it in his eyes my sad puppy dog eyes? No, I just see him saying, yeah, I'll put a light on. I'm not going to. Later. It's out here with tire shine. His kid's getting ripped open. He's got fucking tire shine on his mylar. I need 80 of them. Just tape them together. Make it smooth. So what do we have used that we could take there? Bond Pro. Bond can go. Family Guy. Maybe Family Guy. It's been misbehaving. There's a Deadpool Premium we could take. There is a Tommy, I guess, can go. Did you play it? I thought I played fine. I did not play. I can't play games on the... I can't play Bally and Data East games on stern legs. Like, it just feels way too tall to me. The garage is fine. Yeah, it's fine. That's the old section. We have more stuff, though. Well, that guy's the other guy trading for the Spookies won't be in yet. Jurassic Park is sold. Next Gen sold. So Next Gen went to Don. He traded in his Wipeout. Yeah, which we're going to keep. We're selling Nate and Mikey. Yeah. I mean, I'll probably keep it and sell it to them. Is Punny Factory going to make its 2025 debut? Let's fire it up and see what it does, but why not? I thought we had more used games than that. If we get capacitors, we could bring vacation. Christmas vacation. I like weird stuff. So if we bring vacation, but I put Christmas lights on it, does it then become Christmas vacation? Sure. Yes. I bet we can get an alternative backlash. If you put a pumpkin on it, it's Halloween vacation. Halloween would be sooner. Yeah. What do we need to do to make it European vacation? How about put it next to Hexa? Topless chick. Any volunteers, please email freshpinball at gmail.com. So, CleePin, yeah, we'll bring the, I mean, some eclectic stuff, whatever's kind of hanging out, hanging around. Whatever's working. Available, currently working. That's usually a requirement. Oh, if football was work. Was that tracking you some of the day? Was it for Perfect Sport? I assumed. There was nothing in it that indicated who or what it was from. Fun Inc. I assumed that you sent a wire to someone and you would know what it meant. I paid him like a long time ago. And that it was coming from Wisconsin. That's all. Is that where Purr Report is out of? I don't know. It's going to show up tomorrow, I think. You're the master Bill Parod. And I saw it and I didn't recognize it. I paid for that Purr Report months ago. Like six weeks ago. Not months. Weren't they getting like new tap handles or something? Are you getting the better tap handles? I don't think they are yet. There's still prototypes. So that's cleaping. Where should we put it? That's the real question. Lakewood or quarter up? Quarter Up. I need Quarter Up to redeem itself after taking a crap on that centipede game that you put up there. Centipede Assault or whatever that no one played. Galaga Assault. Galaga Assault. Yes, but they play Harry Potter, so... I need them to play Perfect Poor. That's what I need. So that's Cleapin. If you are in the Cleveland area, September 11th through the 14th, stop by and say hi. We'll have t-shirts for sale. if you say the magic word hey Kyle here's a free beer he'll probably give you a shirt or a sticker for free he has a track record of if you want me to sell a game I need a vodka tonic the tailgate I think is going to be a good time it is going to be a good time here's what's going to happen Corbin's going to turn this tailgate into an excuse to never be in the booth and just be out there on the grill and I'm going to be with him the apron drinking beers. We're going to have more people, just so you know, whenever our tailgate's going on, we're going to have more people in the parking lot than we're going to have probably inside. You know what? Barry O's at the tailgate. I will have my apron on. I was going to say we do probably need to have Barry O's out in the parking lot with us. It's on location. It's so wide. It has been down there a while. What are you going to swap it with? I know, that's the problem. I've got to get some games out of the tank's basement soon. You do. Flintstones? Does he have Flintstones? He does. I kind of wanted T2 to take the quarter up We need to talk about Project Rearrange Yeah I got a lot to So that's coming up and then First weekend in October is the Pittsburgh Gaming Expo October 3rd through the 5th I heard there's lots of mics Mike Hoverlock Mike Bear Mike Massaro I'm not shitting you today I'm walking down the hallway at work And there were 6 mics that work Where I work. I think they just get all together at the same time. Yeah, like four of them were going to do something. And then another guy's like, oh, I'm Mike, too. I'm like, Jesus. They get in a room together. Just call everyone Mike. And they rub together. Just like, yo, Mike. And the next thing you know, there are three Mikes. And then they rub together. And there are six Mikes. It's a real problem, especially in Pittsburgh. Real problem. But yeah, that's going to be a wild one because they're running all kinds of tournaments over there. Arcade game tournaments. And pinball tournaments. Friday they're having one. Saturday they're having two. Sunday they're having a classics tournament. They're having a flip frenzy. That's a gaming expo? Yeah. So you're going to have anything from retro consoles to tabletop board games to pinball machines to arcade games. Dude, I'm going to take – it's less than a month away. Say it, Corbin. What month is it? It's October. Oh, so we're over a month out. Never mind. I was thinking Dark Escape. I knew you were going to say that. If you haven't put it out yet. It's not out yet. I might as well go. We went to the tattoo convention. Yeah. Ollie played it. Scared the shit out of him. No, tell the tattoo story about Ollie. That's my absolute, like, I was dying. The boys have been running around with us and taking turns. And we were setting up for the tattoo convention. We dropped a few games off, and we had to pick one up from Lakewood, Metallica. So on our way back down, we were dropping it off. and I don't remember like something came up as oh you know we'll get you a tattoo because he didn't want to go back in or something and he was like oh okay and it was quiet from there on we were leaving the tattoo convention Corbin's literally pulling out in the traffic and all he goes wait guys wait I didn't get my tattoo he was very concerned he was like we'll get you a tattoo one day I'll get you some fake ones so I'm over at Zach's a few days ago and I asked him about it and he remembered and I said yeah man I heard that you wanted to get a blue dump truck tattoo and he's like no no I wanted to get a blue excavator and I'm like my man and I looked at MB Mary Beth Zach's wife and I'm like dude that's that sounds like a tattoo that like 40 years later you wouldn't be upset about like you'd look down at your arm be like yeah blue excavator like I'm still good with this sick you touched up every three years man yeah most other things you'd look at it you know even when you're 20 you get a tattoo and you look at it 20 years later like what what was I thinking blue excavator no i'm still into that still in that that's cool so yeah pinball tournaments at pgx we're gonna bring all kinds of of goodness where the big trailer is going out big trailer lots of games we should we should by all accounts have the new fall stern cornerstone by that weekend there is a very very good likelihood that we'll have the brand new game from stern which they tease today as star wars something something something follow the empire do you think so is that off of the the the timothy zha books i believe so okay so those are pretty good that's the speculation which is what they're on and stuff exactly yeah this could be very very cool interesting i'm interested to see obviously the art packages between the three the max all of that stuff apparently um jack danger did a dead flip stream this evening as we were recording this um and john borg was on and they were playing the data east version of star wars and a board game yes so john borg is the designer on this new one and john showed uh i believe it was a job of the hut sculpt that is going to be on this new game so we now know one component out of 365 Wait a minute, Jaba? I believe it was a picture of Jaba the Hutt. But if it was after Return of the Jedi, which these books are, Jaba would be dead. Could be a lot of Hutts. There are a lot of Hutts. I was talking to one of our customers earlier in the week. It's probably Pizza Hut. I hope it's a Pizza Hut. It's the Turtles, actually. This is actually just a Spaceballs game altogether. Dude, I would not be mad about that. I came out for Spaceballs 2. Oh my gosh, yeah. But I was talking to this customer about the Star Wars game that was coming because everyone had been speculating that it had been Star Wars for over a year easily. And he was talking about mechs and whatever else. And I said, well, what if they ripped off – holy crap, my garage is haunted. It is haunted, man. I'm like, what if they ripped off the sandworm from Dune, but it's like the Sarlacc pit instead, but it's like the exact same mech? Like wouldn't that be just – Absolutely. Yeah, it would be something. So there's a good possibility that we will have some version of that for PGX. So stay tuned to this channel for future updates. I was hoping for another Star Trek, and then I remember there was fucking Elton John instead. It's very hurtful. Is it? Very, very hurtful. so don got the Steve Ritchie uh williams super pin 1993 three star trek the next generation and he tried to set it up by himself we were trying to load in his truck that night too and he was struggling he was like this thing's heavy it's like yeah bro it's a fucking full game that's probably four pounds on that bitch right it gives jersey jack yeah it's in that same category for sure so he gets it he gets it set up he you know start weighing these we need to get a record of them oh we need like a little caster like you know they have like car weights you can put under the four wheels that's what we need to put under the four like gvrw or actual weight what would be the more accurate one to have right anyway he gets it set up he gets it going he's playing it and then he calls me and he's like man like this game's an awful like an awful lot like elton john i'm like yeah man like you take most Steve Ritchie games and there's like some mixture of next gen elton john star trek um spider-man like they're just kind of all like a lot of like very similar things we were at finney's last week and me and ben were on elton john he's like man i just really like this game i love the layout and this that whatever whatever i'm like have you ever played Stern Star Trek? He's like, no, I don't think so. And I brought up a picture of the play field. He's like, oh, fuck, dude. I'm like, yeah. It's like the same. Because as Don's playing it, he's like, oh, that's like the piano lock. I'm like, yeah, man. Because it's literally just those two. It's just two Star Treks. There's a reason why that shot feels so good that it's like, I'm going to use this on like half a dozen games and every time it's going to feel amazing. Seriously. Give them what they want. Give the people what they want. So that'll be PGX and then And first weekend in December will be Pinsonati, December 5th through the 7th, where we'll be working with the aforementioned Tilt. They'll be bringing the Stern product, and we'll be bringing all of the other weird stuff. Jersey Jack and Spooky and all of the other funness. I'm wondering, though, by Pinsonati time, will we know what the next Spooky title is? Will that be announced? Of course, normally. It'd be right in that range. So I think it was Scooby-Doo. they announced at Pinsonati. They don't do Pinsonati anymore. They did not last year. Could be the time. Could be. Because the speculation and the rumor is that their new game could be at Pinball at the Beach in February. It was last year. So if we're looking at an announcement in December, that's not a done deal yet. I'm holding hands with Don in the ocean again. The Gulf of America. Yeah, I mean, that's happening either way. Well, yeah, no shit. That's what I was talking about. There's no special announcement. Yeah, so all kinds of fun upcoming events and things. Things and stuff. For the Mad Pinball stuff. Keeping everybody busy. Busy, busy, busy. All right, what else did you fellows want to talk about? We talked a little bit about the Gottlieb Challenger here. I mean, to me, it's in that same vein as Williams Joust. The tilting is really cool, yeah. Yeah, so imagine that you took almost two pinball cabinets smooshed together with a header over top that keeps your score. Like foosball almost. Yeah, and then depending on which player is on the attack, the play field within the cabinet articulates one way or the other, giving the advantage to the attacker. The art has a real groovy, kind of pointy elbow era. It does. symmetrical colors, kind of crazy vibe. It does. What year is it again, Jeff? 70? It was right near the crossover. It's got three-inch flippers on the main flipper. The 70s, they were doing all kinds of weird shit, man. Yeah, I mean, this game, in terms of the articulating play field, feels very ahead of its time. 1971 with 110 of them produced. That's like a prototype run, like a test run. Because if you look at it, I know you guys haven't given it a real super close look like even the cabinet um build on it is like super thin almost like particle board on the outside it's not like a normal we haven't looked at corbin slept under it last night him and zax um opened the coin door at each end of it and they're like hello there hello from the other side looking more as good but the the um uh the flyer on this This is pretty funny. The headline on it is The Challenger. And it is brought to you by... It has one arm instead of two. Yeah, in the picture it kind of does. The House of Coin Limited brings back the good old days. Is that the distributor, you think? House of Coin Limited? That would make sense. A game of skill and reflexes only. Thrilling, exciting, and fully automatic. Fully. So thrilling. This is a challenge game played by two players Footprint, Trouble Free Something Oh, backed by the famous Gottlieb Manufacturing It's Trouble Free I'll post a picture of the flyer On the Fresh Pinball Instagram So that everyone can Check it out It's a unique one Two non-standard pieces of glass That go over the plate Just all kinds of things Reasons why you don't want to own this game because a bunch of non-standard parts. Yeah, it's flat flash. You get that cut down. I didn't look in the bottom of it. Is it just a standard board with the relays down underneath it? Yeah, that's what it looks like. Just like one standard board. One board, yeah. I mean, because you think about it, at its core, it's just a two-player game. Right, exactly. But how does the play field articulate? That's what I need. That is the interesting bit. I need more information. Need more input. Need more information. So do you want to talk about Japan at all? Talk about your journey? Yeah. You saw some interesting arcades there. I did. Saw lots of cool arcades. Not a lot of pinball. There was some pinball. So some of the ones you were telling me about, it sounded like they were like, you said there were like multiple floors. Each floor was kind of like you had a crane floor, you had like a retro floor. I mean, that sounded very interesting. So every neighborhood. Was it also, not to interrupt, but was it also like all coins or was it like cards? Was it... Great question. Tickets, tokens? Yep. So almost every neighborhood had one of these six or seven floor arcades, and you'd have two floors, usually the first two floors that were just crane games. So traditional Sega UFO crane games. Were they all the same? They were not. They were all kinds of different ones. Some of them were doubles. Some of them, one of them was wild. You would pick up a 20-sided die with the crane, and you would drop it. And if it landed on a specific number, then that is the prize that it would then dispense. I don't know what number it landed on. must have something in it that read it, which is wild to me. Pirate bottom side. It's got a little kid underneath of it, and he, like, read it, and then throw the fucking prize out. One of the cranes, too, they had a kid that actually picked stuff up. Right. What was amazing to me is, like, a lot of the cranes were plushies and, like, you know, Nintendo Switch 2s and whatever else, but there were probably 50% of them that were food-related, like candy or ramen or... So they were, like, just a hot dog or something? So the hot dogs over there are hot dog buns that are filled with noodles that have sauce inside of it. So it's a sauce noodle hot dog situation. I would eat that. Right? Did you eat it? I did not. What? There's a lot going on there. There were other things that were prioritized above the crazy sauce noodle hot dog bun sandwich. I just feel like when else are we going to get a chance to eat one of those? When in Rome. Yeah, when in Rome, dude. When in Japan. Give me them sauce noodle hot dogs. Give me them sauce noodles. So one of the crane games that was full of candy were like basically almost like – Those are only for peasants. That's almost like a noodle taco, man. Yes, absolutely, but in a hot dog bun. In a hot dog. Is it like a legit hot dog bun? Yes, it is a hot dog bun. There was one that was basically like imagine a bunch of fruit roll-ups stacked up in a pyramid, and the goal was that you ran the crane into it and knocked off the top of the pyramid to get it to dispense these candies. It was like a fruit roller pusher. Fruit roller pusher. Yes. Instead of a coin pusher. So, of course, that's like the first one that Noren goes to, and it's timed as opposed to like number of like attempts with, you know, the claw. Did he? How did he do? Oh, my God. I had a suitcase. I had to buy another suitcase. Because you got so many? To fit the candy and all the other junk that we bought. I mean, you had plenty of room on the boat on the way back, so it didn't make any difference. Are we going to talk about it, or we can't talk about it? No, no, can't talk about it. It's not the SS. So, yeah, those were the first two floors in most of these mega arcades, and then you would have two floors of, like, rhythm machines. So I know that you've kind of gotten more. Yeah, when we talk about Barberton in a minute, I'll definitely touch base on that, but they're very, very interesting. And there are way more different versions of rhythm games than I was aware of. like as an american i was aware of and i'm like what yeah like the dancing ones and i was aware of like a drum based one and one that was like guitar hero and whatever else but like i'm walking through there and there are just all kinds of different some of the ones too that like sense like so you have like keys on that you sense but then it also senses how far up your hand is moving or a hand movement there are some that are like a motion that you make one of the ones that stefan has it's like he's like it's crazy it's like a whole and to watch people play it it's like very intense it is so two floors of that and then there would usually be a floor or two of like candy cabs they're called which are just arcade cabinets that you can put different jama boards into so fighting games uh 1942 style games just like all of the things that you think of from the 80s and 90s and then the top floor was the wildest floor of these arcades to where it was nothing but photo booths so an entire floor photo booths and so you would get these japanese girls and women and whatever that would come in with like costume changes and whatever else to get these pictures taken so before you could go onto that floor guys weren't allowed on it the only way you were allowed to go onto that floor was if you were accompanied by a female so did you see it there you go of course okay i needed access yeah of course i needed to see like it's the forbidden in an area i need to know what's going on and it was just literally this entire floor of different photo booths with different backgrounds and different whatevers and it was crazy times so what was the payment system payment system so uh tokens on a lot of them so there were three or four main different operators over there there was taito which made like space invaders back in the day they're probably known for oh like the company taito yeah tato would i say tato tato tato um but he said space invaders like but there's yeah but their logo over there is like the space invader alien or whatever so they have a bunch of them yeah their own buildings and then there was another one that was gigo which is g-i-g-o it's standard for like gamer something something oasis and then there were um kunami ones and what was the other one there was one other main one but they were kind of here there and everywhere but some of sega anywhere like they were not so sega used to be like a big time thing over there i guess would have been too back in the day yeah i don't know if nintendo had their own arcades back in the day or not selling games yeah yeah but i know sega there so there was a sega and akibara that now is a i believe a gigo okay um but yeah there were a couple of these just different stations and things but some were on tokens some were on cards um some were just straight up on yen it just depended on who was which company was was operating it But there was one really cool one that an entire it was either fifth or sixth floor was nothing but like 1990s enormous arcade you told me that that sounded awesome so like the alpine ski and the jet ski one and the top skater and like what was the top game you played that was there anything that you played that you never played that was awesome or was here what was so have you guys ever played the arcade version of super monkey ball no no So it's literally – are you aware of what Super Monkey Ball is? Okay, so Super Monkey Ball was a Sega game from the early 2000s. It was on Dreamcast and other things. It's like Crazy Taxi Era. Okay. And you would have this monkey on the screen and a big, like, bowling ball-sized track ball. And you roll the ball, and that controls the monkey going through the course. And you're trying to collect the bananas and navigate this course without falling down and then make it to the finish line before the time ends. Okay. there was a game there that preceded that that was armadillos so it was a two-player like me versus you you each have this enormous trackball and you're racing armadillos that are rolled up it was an absolute riot sounds amazing that sound amazing there of course was you know the game like we played at logan whenever we went this this past year i know sorry keith but yeah They had all of the things that I remember from the 90s of going to the arcade and going to the fair and going to the mall was there. It was all these. I mean, every version of Time Crisis, Time Crisis 1 through Time Crisis 5, just it was very, very cool. The arcade scene over there is just nuts, very, very vibrant. I mean, it's what people do on Friday and Saturday nights. They go out and they go to the arcade. That's awesome. They find their whatever game that they're good at or game they want to become good at, and they spend hours and hours and hours playing it. Not wrong with that. No, it was refreshing in a lot of ways and makes me hope that it continues to grow here, whether it's pinball or these retro arcades or whatever it may be. I mean, there's definitely hope for it. It feels like there's a new generation. Because when I was going to these arcades, it's not like it was old people like me, like 40s, 50s. It was young people, people in their teens, people in their 20s. So you were like the old guy. I was absolutely like the creepy old man, like taking pictures in the arcade. He's here back again. He's taking videos this time. Yeah, yeah. I think he's live streaming. There's only fans or something. I don't know. But then I did run into some pinball. I went to the Silver Ball Planet, which was the one that had like all the spooky machines, JJP, Sterns. What was the average? So in U.S. dollars, what was the cost of a game over there to play? So Silver Ball, every place that I went was coin drop. none of them were pay and then everything was free so at silver ball planet some of them if i convert it to american dollars i could play a firepower for six cents for a football game for the most expensive was 200 yen which i'm trying to remember that's like basically like almost like a dollar 20 so not bad more than we pay but not you know anything crazy but that place was wild no $2 nightmare on Elm Street no I was somewhere so when I was in Nashville subsequent after that I was at the terminal and I sent you that picture of the huge Fast and the Furious thing that was $5 a play I was setting the price on ours today just saw one for $2, $5 I did not price it that high but I think it was like I did the same as Jurassic Park $1.50 to get started whatever to continue Yeah. Yeah. But then I... Another dollar to upgrade, too, because you get the super fast car. Oh, I mean, that's what I need. So, Fast and the Furious, is that a one-pedal game? You just get gas pedal only? Honestly, that game... I'm going to brake on it. There's no brake. There's no clutch. There's no shifter. And the fucking thing didn't even come with a coin door. What? Wait, what? That is some bullshit. Because they assumed that it was going to be on card swipe. Yeah. There was plugs. Once I pulled the plate off, there's plugs back there for a coin door, but I'm assuming it must have been an upgrade. You'd think for 20k You'd get everything So if that one was 25 How much was the big one like 50 Which one was bigger with the topper Well the next bigger one The one that they had at game terminals Like each one has 3 screens So like you sit With just the topper It must have been like it had to be like 35-40 then That's nuts And no fucking coin door That's insane But I will say when we moved those in like perfectly movable with two people it should be harder i need to be so big it's unwieldy this is impossible to move i needed to be so heavy like that basketball game we saw dude up at ben's he had a connect four basketball game you ever seen it was as tall as the ceiling so fun oh yeah but it's like it was it was bigger than your house man it was huge like you'd have to have a spot to put the i don't even know where and the problem with buying i would think buying something for with a specific location in mind then is yeah it's such a challenge Then if that location is no more, it's like, then what do I do with this warehouse? Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, Japan, if you are into nerd culture, retro games, anime, arcade games, any of that stuff, definitely make the trip. It's without a doubt worth it. Drinking. Did I tell the story when I called in about going into the wrong video game shop? You did. All right, so I need to – You're pretty brief on your call. You were sitting on a bus or something? What were you doing? I was going to Captain C training. On a bus. On a bus. Okay. And apparently I was getting some dirty looks because I was being loud American on the bus talking on the phone. Typical. So anyway, we go to this neighborhood with the idea of we're going to go into these vintage retro video game stores. Like that was one of my goals of the time that we were spending there. So we are on the outskirts of the neighborhood that we want to be on. and I see like some of it's in Japanese writing and some of it is in English. And I see in English it says like videos, comics, and something else. I'm like, awesome. Like this is going to be the store. Check, check. Yeah, like this is going to have like all the things that I want. So like, hey, Tia, Noren, let's go in here. So if you're not aware, new to the program, Noren is my 15-year-old son and Tia is my wife. What if we let this open in? What do you think people would guess? I mean, Tank is a dog. I mean, there's a lot of interpretation here. So it's me in the front of the line, Noren behind me, and Tia behind Noren. That's the order of operations here. So I walk up to the door, I open the door, and the first poster in front of me is a very naked Asian woman. And I quickly do the math in my head and realize that this is a porn shop that sells DVDs, magazines, dolls, toys, and other things. And comic books. you guys are outside so I quickly closed the door turned around and told Lauren this is not for us Tia provided me with some hand sanitizer and we moved on with our day after you came out after 20 minutes but in that same neighborhood in that same neighborhood so they had these there's big like cafes are a big thing over there whether it's you hang out at the cafe and you can pet capybaras or you go to a Pokemon cafe or you go to whatever. Well, apparently there's another cafe that is people dressed up as maids who then serve you while you're at your table. And I don't know. It felt like a very Hooters Twin Peaks sort of. Have I ever told you about the cleaners that Nate and Mikey used to have in Columbus? You have not, but now you need to. We can talk about it later. Oh, about it later. This is going to be off podcast. But yeah, so, you know, Noren being 15, we're like, hey, you know, we can get you a reservation over at the maid cafe if you want. He politely declined. If I were 15 and I had been offered a reservation at the maid cafe, I would have been like, yes, please. Were you dating Tia at that time? We've been married since we were 13. That's what I mean. We were betrothed to each other. We do things differently down in Carol Palace. Oh, I know. Different wild world. Wild, wild world. Crazy times down in Carrollton these days. But yeah, Japan was a good time. Highly recommend to everyone. Had a blast. There are very few trips or vacations that I ever take where I come back and I'm like, ooh, I immediately want to go back to wherever that place was. He said that about Arkansas the week I played. I did not. Arkansas. But I did the next weekend then go with Tia on a work thing to Nashville, and where I finally got to go to the Game Galaxy in Shmyrna, Tennessee, which I had missed out on multiple times before because it is a good 20, 25 minutes outside of Nashville. Is that where you sent us that Joust picture from? Yes. So, I mean, imagine dark, dirty, damp, 1990s arcade. That's what this is. You just described my basement. Oh, dude, it was the second I opened it. What color was the carpet? So, I mean, you had like a garage area that was just like concrete. And then you had like the traditional, you know, arcadey, you know, Georgia Mills looking. This was the place. Immediately I knew like I had found my home. And they had everything from the newest of the new Stern and Spooky. And they even had a Harry Potter arcade edition. And then they had just the wildest and craziest backlog of stuff from the 50s going forward. I mean, Dolly Parton. This is the guy who did work for us. This is. So, yeah, shout out Jason Wilson. He had done some warranty repairs for us. Game Terminal is cool, but it's very expensive. It's very corporate. It's very corporate. It's awesome. I love Game Terminal. It is very cool. It's absolutely worth a stop. I will not go through Nashville without stopping, but it is. It's almost like the Penn's Mechanical kind of vibe of over the top. Game Terminal is if you're going to take someone who's not into what we're into. That's true. They're going to have a blast. Anyone can have fun there. They also have that awesome outdoor area. It's a cool spot. Now, Game Galaxy, that's for your hardcore. I'm not going to take other people that aren't. If you're not into playing games and just playing games, it's not the spot for you. Was he a coin drop? Was he pay per hour? It was $20, $25, $20 or $25, and you could play everything all day. No limits. And there was a very small selection of like brand new games or whatever that he did have on Coindrop. Like Evil Dead was on Coindrop and a few others. And he said a few of his other like rare or high maintenance games he'll put on Coindrop just so that they don't just get absolutely beaten. It even thins out even more. Like you really have to want to play it. Exactly. So just walk up, play a ball and walk away or whatever. But I went through, I mean, I spent a couple hours there playing arcade games, playing this, that and the other. And then before I was leaving, I just wanted to say, hey, thanks for doing those couple repairs for us because you really saved our necks of not having to come all the way down to freaking Tennessee. We did a couple damages and shipping and different things like that, that warranty stuff that we would have had. Yeah, it was easier to pay someone, so he did them for us. So I stopped to just say thanks, and then we ended up chatting for like 30 minutes and just definitely our sort of people. So we'll have to sit there next time I'm down that way? Without a doubt. So, yeah, definitely. Is he a seven days a week guy? Is he weekends? I was there It was either a Thursday or Friday So he's not totally only No and it was early Earlier it was like noon or one Like they're open No it was just like drinks And like bags of chips and things like that So it was like I grabbed Yeah and they also sold like A selection of like Retro video games and things Like that He'd said I thought he'd said they'd been in their current Location where they are now for like the last 10 years And then five years prior to that, they were in a smaller location. So it felt like having the conversation with him that they're very in tune with the overall pinball scene in Nashville because he said at no quarter up, down and maybe pins mechanical. They had helped orchestrate like leagues and tournaments and things like that. So definitely our sort of people that they're in it for. They love the pin. They love the pinball. So all of those places are cool. If you're in the Nashville area, check out Game Galaxy, Game Terminal, No Quarter, UpDown. Does No Quarter have Led Zeppelin? I'd hope so. I'd have to look back at my pictures. Off podcast, I need to tell you guys something about No Quarter. It's a pro. It's a fucking pro. So, Kyle, you went on vacation, too. Oh, yeah. What did you play? Did you play any pinball? Yeah, I did. Did you stay in the trailer park? Was there anything there? I did stay in the trailer park. It was a good spot, though, from what you said. Oh, it was great. It was just like a single wide trailer and you could like sit on the deck and like, there's the ocean. So it was like, you know, and I, you know, I've always looked at like, and I was in Myrtle beach. So it's like, I've gone to Myrtle beach for years and years as a kid. I hadn't been there a really long time. And obviously it's probably about the same. So it's real similar, you know, but I was like looking on pinball map. I'm like, there's like fucking nothing, you know? And it makes sense that it's like the pinball garage guy has an, Does he have his Airbnb somewhere? No, it's not Myrtle Beach. No, it's in the Carolinas. It's in Florida. Oh, Florida. And I don't know that he does that anymore. Because I think a couple years ago a big hurricane came through and he had some stuff on the lower level that got wiped out. And I don't think they do that project anymore. But anyway, you know, like obviously I'm always going to look on a pinball map and just check out the situation, you know, because obviously you're there to be on the beach. Obviously. And so therefore is there really – Says the guy who doesn't want to leave his basement. is about as pasty as I am. No shit. We're in Florida. Him and I went on the beach. That's true. Yeah, we did. Yeah, see? He was selling jet skis one night. Anyway. I was. He's renting other people's jet skis to people. It's one morning. Beer, 8 a.m. You can pay now. That's good. How much cash do you have? How many beers do you have? That's fine. $2.50 for the day. You have beer tickets? How many do you have? So I assumed that it was just because It's a beach destination, and that's why there's no pinball. But sometimes there is stuff around beaches for people to do when it's raining and family things to do together. So there's no arcades or anything in Myrtle Beach. It's very, very, very... There is. I thought it was water. There is. Yeah. I mean, obviously you have a Ripley's at Ripley's. Of course. And that was basically it. What's the most Myrtle Beach-themed pinball that you can think of? Is it a spring break? Is it like a NASCAR? Is it a PBR can crusher? What sums up Myrtle Beach? Whoa, Nelly. Mini golf. What sums it up? What? Mini golf. Yeah, mini golf for sure. What pinball though? Tee-dough. Tee-dough. Mini golf is a big... Did you mini golf while you were down there? No. Yeah, and the Myrtle Beach Pinball Museum is the one that I usually hear people talk about. So we were in Surfside, which isn't... North, right? No, it's south. It's the opposite of what I thought. South is opposite of what I thought. but anyhow we need to turn this into like a Sesame Street thing I forget what it was like I think Tuesday we spent like a long time at the beach and I got sunburned and shit so like Wednesday I'm like I'm not did you not apply sunscreen? no I did I just didn't reapply apparently often enough I think the dog does that all the time yeah it doesn't do that lobster tank you mean so I assume everybody else I was with wanted to go back to the beach which was fine and I was like cool I found a spot and it was like I don't know, noon or 1 o'clock, like early in the day, and this place had just opened, and they had all their games upstairs, and they had 15 games. Oh, okay. And it was like a nice spot, and it was a very... It was like a bar or something. Was it Griffin's PH? Yes. Like Bobby Orr, Dracula, Dungeons & Dragons. This place looks like my sort of spot. Yeah, it was very, very, very eclectic. Stern Electronics, Dracula, Freddy, Nightmare on Elm Street, Mandalorian, Oktoberfest, Pool Sharks. yeah very very random uh there was a scooby-doo like it was just random as hell yeah this place looks cool and like i walk up there and the operator is there counting his counting his coins counting counting his drop and i'm just like oh yeah i'm just here to play whatever he's like oh if you want to play something whatever just let me know and i'll shut the door or whatever i'm like dude it's it's cool i'm gonna drink my beer i'm just gonna play scooby-doo yeah it's fine but i ended up bullshitting with the guy and the reason that there are like no fucking games is because the state of south carolina charges five hundred dollars per game per year so does he pay for a tax stamp stamp does he have tax stamps on him yes and he was putting that he was putting the tax stamps on and the only reason that that location even existed is because there was four people that went together and it was their collection so they could have a league because there was there was uh dude you see a private club might get you out of the tax stamps that's what i was gonna say it probably could or probably could have and do pay at the door something some kind of work around but i mean five hundred dollars a fucking game that's insane so seven grand for them to have 15 games there per year isn't that also the state where it's still on the books that if you're under 16 it's illegal to play pinball so it's like you have every freaking barrier known to man. Yeah, I mean, it was just insane. But the guy was super nice. What was the predecessor to Pits Mechanical? Oh, um... 16-bit? They had a 16-bit where they had pins and that's where they did League, and they closed. Right. And that's why they opened this place up. But it was like three or four different guys that owned the games, and then they would have their leagues. Does Pits have one down there? Do they pay that shit? I don't know how they handle it. The closest one that I know they have is in Raleigh, and then Sam Bowman, one of our good customers, is also the place that he's at is North. Yeah, I don't know that. Just curious. I mean, if you look on a pinball map at South Carolina, there was two locations. Two good spots. Yes. There's 15 games there. It must not be pinball specific. It must be anything coin drop to try to encompass the gambling shit is what it has to be. Who doesn't care? $500 a year. Dude was super cool. He's like, I'm the only one that repairs games. I go to the museum and repair all their games and stuff. It's such a touristy, trafficked area. The difference is, if I have a claw machine and I pay that $500 tax stamp, I'm making that back in a month. It's a no-brainer. Without a fucking Scooby-Doo? Correct. Good luck. Yeah. Or on a 1979 Stern Electronics Dracula. I think it was 50 cents. Yeah, you're not getting $500. Yes, it was. It was 50 cents. Yeah. Bobby Orr was 50 cents. Yeah, you're not making that back in a year. I don't like Bobby Orr. Bobby Orr is fine. It doesn't do much for me. I like the Gottlieb version. But it was just nice that they were doing... Oh, yeah. It was for passion. It had nothing to do with making money. No, I like that. I love that. I'll definitely check that out. They're like, hopefully we break even this year. Hopefully this is the year we break even. What's the Gottlieb hockey one? Ice Fever, I think it's called. It is so fun. Yeah. Interesting. So that was the main pinball spot you hit? Yeah, that was the only pinball spot I hit. Good trip other than that. Oh, yeah. Anything else interesting? Kyle pulled a full Jeff maneuver before going on this trip. What? Where you bought a car like the day before you left. Oh, yeah, I did. I drove to Cleveland, picked up my new car, drove back to the Lions, picked up other people, drove to Pittsburgh, picked up somebody else, drove to West Virginia for the night. You got wild and wonderful. full Jeff maneuver. I'm about to go on a trip. I need some more room. I was going to rent a minivan. I'm like, I'm going to spend $1,000. Let's buy a car. Let's go buy a fucking car. Buy another one, you rich motherfucker. Zach also rolled over to the podcast tonight in some new wheels. Zach, talk a little bit about your new ride. Your hair is blowing in the breeze. Mary Beth's new ride. No. 99 Volkswagen Capri convertible 5-speed. It's Dolores' so. And Dolores' old car. Oh, okay. Now it makes sense. 57,000 miles on it, and we paid three grand for it. There you go. Never seen a winner. Yeah, because we stored every winner. Yeah. For her. I was feeling a little attacked because Kyle pulled in in a Volkswagen, and then Zach pulled in in a Volkswagen, but thankfully Corbin pulled in in a Subaru. Just because it's not Wednesday. I don't have my WRX yet. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, tell us that's the other side of that story on the next podcast. Yes, please. Yeah, so let's talk about – so Corbin and I did an interesting delivery a while ago. We have, with Mad Pinball, some of the best customers. We sell – in case you guys didn't know, we sell pinball. Occasionally. Just to fund us buying other pinball machines. Literally. It's basically the whole motivation of – so we're going to do a couple deliveries. One is a regular customer in Medina, Ohio, Garrett Fuller. And usually whenever he gets a game, he'll just leave me the garage door code while he's at work. Corbin and I will dump it in the garage. He'll leave me a couple of Zebra Cakes. Jeff normally goes in his house and takes Zebra Cakes. I don't know if they're necessarily for grabs, but I mean, they're good. Go through the cupboards and stuff. He has a lot of teenagers, and I eat like a teenager, so it all works out. Also, this episode is not sponsored by Camelon's Pizza, but it's delicious. But it should be. Little Debbie's could sponsor us some Zebra Cakes. Oh, God. The little Christmas ones. Anyway, I'm not going to get distracted. He was getting a Harry Potter this time, and he requested, like, hey, can you guys do an inside delivery and take it into the basement? I'm like, yeah, dude, absolutely. Like, I don't want you killing yourself. We've had a lot more people wanting the Harry Potter stuff all the way. Because they're heavy. So same sort of situation, except this time. They just have, like, four cinder blocks in the bottom of them, like, ratchets trapped. Dude, punching bag games come with a... I'm sure they do. They come with a paver strapped to them in a box. It bumps them right up to – yeah. And so the first time we got it, we were like, what the – is this supposed to go on the bottom to counter? We call them. They're like, no, it's just a counterweight for shipping. You can keep it. So now we're like paving a small section of the place. That fantastic Filling in random potholes in the Northeast Ohio Yeah it awesome So he had asked us to bring it in and I said yeah no problem So we literally inside someone house while they not home taking a machine down the stairs or whatever. It's not that abnormal anymore. Yeah, I don't know. It still felt a little bit awkward. And he had said the day before. You made it awkward when you started taking off your shirt and stuff and getting comfortable on the couch. I mean, there were a lot of different coats that I wanted to try on. It's like, dude, you're trying to get this game in. You're trying coats on. It's like, I get it. I'm not going to rush you. I need to find a new winter coat So we get the game down the steps It wasn't too bad of a basement It was like couple down, turn, landing, down, whatever It was literally not what you want In a basement delivery A straight shot is kind of what you want But it was fine with two people Walk out basements which you want Is that the one you went down on? No Because he was home That was at Patrick's house because he was home He was there to witness it So we get it down there and then at the bottom of the steps, there are four cases for six packs. I thought you were joking. I thought he was joking. He's like, I'll leave you some beers or something. There's literally four six-packs of beer at the bottom of the steps. I'll read them off right now. We've been sampling them this evening. One of them was a Columbus Brewing Company. It's called Lunar Lights. It's a low-gravity IPA. It's a cool can, good colors. It feels like it's painted almost. It's a 5-4. It's a Kyle beer. I'm just going to read you guys this all of the flavor. Storytime with Corbin is brought to you in part by Columbus Brewing Company. Hey there, cadet. Looking for a beer that feels like floating through the ever-expanding universe without a care in the world? Take a fresh sip of Lunar Lights. It's out of this world. Galactic Tank Force. So anyway, that was one of them We also had another Columbus Brewing Bodie Which is an all-time classic We had a Great Lakes Space Walker Not a bad one, it's a good one And then another one I had never tried before I think it's three Floyds It's called Turbo Reaper It's pretty good That's a weird name It's Turbo Reaper Reaper Corbin Turbo Reaper It's like the Grim Reaper, but turboed, I guess. Yeah, spoolie boy. Spool and pool. So that's all we got here. Yeah, these four six-packs were donated. He sponsored tonight's show. Shout out, Garrett. Appreciate you, buddy. That's what I was going to say. Appreciate you, man. This really made my day, made my evening tonight. I kept them on ice since we got them. You didn't even crack one, which is amazing. All four six-packs were still in self-control. They were around in the trailer for a week or two, too, before I put them in the fridge. I'm sure. So then we left from there and went north a little bit to Patrick, Oles, great customer as well, and we're delivering his Harry Potter CE. Another Harry Potter. So literally ten minutes away, we're like, oh yeah, hey, by the way, Patrick, we're ten minutes away. So he just buzzes out of his job, comes and meets us, and he also – He said he was – no, he said he was on a – they thought he was – he doesn't smoke, but they tell him he's on a – oh, I'm going on a smoke break, and he disappears for hours. But anyway, so we delivered that one too. So he also wanted it inside delivery because these JJPs are super heavy. And I've had this happen to me before when Corbin and I were doing a delivery. We were going into kid force, and I stepped on the curb and stepped on ice, and I just – It's not funny. I'm not laughing. I just lay down with the game on top of me. It's all very graceful. It is. So we were doing the same thing up the front steps of Patrick's house and got to the top. and for whatever reason, I just came a little bit too far and he just laid it down on top of me for a second. He was like, eh, so I stood back up. I craned my neck around the game like, you all right, buddy? Corbin, if you need a hug, I can... The game hugged me. It was good. I'm just saying. He got the full love of Jersey Jack. I weighed about his half as much as Harry Potter. Yeah. But Patrick had a cool setup down there. It wasn't Harry, it was Hermione, but anyway... He had all the pins going. He had a really nice... He has a nice lineup down there. Table tennis down there. Was that the only non-stern? It was. But he's had other things. Oh, yeah. No, absolutely. He's had... He had a very interesting... I would be interested to talk to him a little bit more about his past. Because he was talking about buying out arcades and operating different things in the 90s with his brother. And it's like, okay. That sounds like it would be a very interesting time. That's a real interesting thing. But this was the first on his current rendition of his lineup of non... Speaking of not a stern... Who's a non-stern guy now? Who has no sterns? I'm a non-stern guy. Are you a zero stern guy? I don't have any sterns. I won't tell Gary. He will be pretty upset. That's crazy. He's going to come after you. I can sell all mine off my sterns. Sure. Those ones make money. They do. I'm just fucking around. You need a classic stern. That doesn't count, right? Classic. What classic? So what's your lineup now? Like a Meteor or something. GTF. GTF. No, God. Huh? What's your lineup now? GTF. Pinbot. You didn't even tell me about Pinbot. Pinbot is one of my all-time favorites. I know, dude. That's why I got it. I love that game. It's such a good game. So much fun. America's Most Haunted. Rob Zombie. Rob Zombie. You just brought in Flash. Hurricanes down there. Brought in a Flash for Flash Gordon for a buddy to do it. Is Atlantis still down there? Atlantis is still down there. I think that's everything, right? We might get that board back eventually. Maybe. I haven't heard from him in a minute. That's good. You've got quite the eclectic lineup. Yeah. There's a new Rob Zombie on location. I saw that. So if you're near the Pittsburgh area Is that Mike's? So a friend of Mike's Is his name Mike? No, what was his name? It is to me I know his name but it's eluding me right now He's actually a pinball repair tech Which you kind of have to be if you own a Rob Zombie But it's at Time Bomb Toys Near Pittsburgh So if you're out that way, stop by Get some handjobs Get harassed by Rob Zombie himself He actually has an Evil Dead on order That should be coming up this fall Godzilla 70th And then also Stranger Things So yeah Bob has He went from a Stranger Things to adding Godzilla 70th To adding this Rob Zombie And then adding Evil Dead So quite the cool lineup First time in six years I haven't had a Stern See when I first met you It was a solid Stern It was a Stern party I learned my lesson I mean I think the lesson at least for me with a lot of the sterns as a person who has a lot of sterns is that they're everywhere so if i go to any brewery there's a good likelihood that i'm going to run into a row of eight sterns which just is what it is so then i think you've transitioned now to like well why am i going to have games at home that are readily available they're like pin bots like i can go corbin scott but he's probably the only one in the area like there aren't a lot of operators who are or running what Corbin runs. I mean, he gets his pinbots for free. He does. That's a real problem. You're making sound like multiple pinbots. It's just one. At once. Got the one pinbot, got the one Flash Gordon. We run into free games. It was a whole lot of stuff. Yeah, but one pinbot. Okay. One pinbot. Only one single pinbot for free. All right. We are way over the hour mark. Do you want to talk about Barberton? Do you want to talk about the cards or something? I absolutely want to talk about Barberton and the card system. I think people love to get that peek behind the curtain of the operator. Yeah, yeah, let's do it then. So we're dabbling in something new. Traditionally, we've always done cash. It's always been change our quarters, dollar bill acceptors, like everywhere. We're setting a spot in Barberton with Pete and Stefan, who has some nice rhythm games. Because the spot's going to be a mix of its escape room. Yes, yes. He has an axe-throwing arcade downstairs. He has a big escape room thing. It's a real crazy concept. He's axe-throwing. He has axe-throwing places throughout the state. Ashland, Medina. Yeah, yeah. So we're doing the arcades. And we're like, well, let's try. We were talking with him early on, and we decided to go ahead and try the card system out here. So we went with Amusement Connect. So we have a kiosk. You go to the kiosk, you get your card, and each game has to have a reader on it. And so it's been a process to get them all installed. How's the reader installed? Like on the DBA? Anything that has like a new era DBA plate, I did it on the DBA plate. Just because it's like in my mind, I'm like, that's so easy to replace. The door is not destroyed. Like everything I installed, I did it so like nothing is – It's reversible. Exactly. Especially if you're going to rotate like you usually do. Because I'm going to, yeah. So the card swipes, I imagine, tap into the CoinMax and it just gives pulses? Four wires. So you get 12 volts to it, you have a ground with your 12 volts, then you have a pulse wire you connect into just off your drop switch, basically, and then your ground on that, too. So I guess it's two grounds, pulse, 12 volts. So most games, a lot of games will have 12 volts going to the lights. Any of the WPC stuff has 12 volts coming off the coin door interface board you can jumper off of. I think there's only a few randoms that end up having to use a little converter coming off the service outlet. But DBA plates, anything I – if there wasn't a DBA plate, I'd pull off the coin chute areas, and normally you could, like, line the holes up enough to make it work. Yeah. So I got them all installed. That was a bit of an undertaking. There's, like I said, a few – like, the one that I thought would be the easiest was the biggest pain in the ass, the Barber Cut game. Literally, somebody had already – like, we got it from Ben, and somebody already had a card system on it. So I'm like, man, there's already taps in here. This is going to be so easy. no, the 12 volts was all the way around back. And so I got it to work. I kept fucking with it and putting it off, going back to it, but I finally got it squared away today. So is that what you were looking for the T-taps for was this project? Yes. Yeah, yeah, I got those T-taps. Because then it's such a clean way to just put the challenges. Those things aren't sharp enough. I think you, like, threw it out in the group text. I did. What is this? I'm like, it's a T-tap. Don't fucking use it. Yeah, that's what I said. It's something that should be soldered. Yeah. Yeah, but for rotating and for not, like, hacking something up, I can see why you'd want to use something like that. Yeah, you'd have to solder every time. Because literally you throw that T-tap on there, you're connected up, and then whenever you pull it off, like, literally it's just still on there or whatever. Exactly. Yes, the theory is there, but, like, a lot of them ended up being, like, the little splicey part wouldn't splice the coating. So now you're not getting a connection. Right, or a little bit of a connection, so then I'd go back through and strip a little bit, close it up a little bit more, wedge it on. Not as easy as it should have been. It's all squared away now. I got them all mounted. Everything's good. And so then today I went through and had to like, you have to go through each reader and you say, okay, reader number 4928 is on Congo. And so you'd assign it to Congo and then you set up in the settings, like X amount of pulses come off. You know, it takes four credits off your card or two credit, whatever the credit amount off your card. And then that is equal to one pulse or is that equal to four pulses? So you have to make it all match. Yep. because then if the game is looking for four pulses to give it a dollar, there's multiple ways you could do it where you could either change it on the reader side where it's going to put off for, if, the way I ended up doing it was, like, if the game was already set up for a dollar a play, or whatever it was looking for, if it was looking for four pulses, whatever the credit amount that then they tapped, I just had it put off that pulse, which you could set it in the settings. Or you could do it, like, the other way standard, it just puts off one pulse, so then you could switch everything to, like, essentially a quarter a play, because it's only looking for that one pulse, but it was getting kind of... So you'd have to tap it four times. Or you just set up the game to be a quarter of play. But it costs like one pulse coming off, but it charges you a dollar, let's say. So here's my question, and I've not asked you this off podcast, but it's the real number one thing in my mind with this. Most of these systems you can do points or credits or whatever. did you keep it super simplistic and one point or one credit is 25 cents basically yeah okay because i wondered if you would try to what's the right phrasing hide complicate the fuck out of it yeah complicate it so that you can charge more per game no um i did not because that felt weird or whatever uh i know you could it wouldn't be hard to do i don't think but it's like i think i have it set up so like you're going to pay for a card if you get you know more than one um the challenge is though how do you pay for that card i guess yes the biggest thing we kept coming to like do you just have a charge for the card or is it a credit i mean you have to if you pay for a credit card there's definitely a charge for that it adds a little bit just because there's a processing fee it's just the bottom line it's just like if you buy a game on a credit card we have to we have to pass the credit card fee on to you right so there's that um i was curious on that side of it because there are some places that i go so many different ways and you get a thousand points for twenty dollars and then you play a game and it's 11.6 points by the time i got everything wired right you have some weird number of points left over i think you can never use them all yeah by the time i got it all wired in i'm like i don't even have the bandwidth to try to figure out you're just looking for simplicity at this i just I want it to be straightforward. I want people to come put their money in the kiosk, get their card, play the game, have a good time, move on. You know, so that's, yeah. Makes perfect sense to me. So you're thinking that maybe that might be ready to go Friday? When I left there today at like 6.30, everything was live. I had tested every single game with my card. I had gone through, leveled everything, spaced everything out. Everything was locked in place. I'm going to stop back out there probably Friday afternoon just to double check everything. So that'll be Friday, August the 29th. Yeah, they're kind of doing it like soft starting here. It just made me sad saying that. Well, summer's over. Yeah, Max, that's cool. Boys are back. So anyway, yeah, they're going to soft opening it, start to get a list together, work out the bugs and everything, but it's going to be full open starting end of this week, going into next week. Perfect. So definitely stay tuned. We'll put pictures, videos, all that kind of stuff out. And the location is Timber Beast Axe Throwing and Arcade. Yes. It's 579 West Tuscarora Avenue in Barberton, Ohio, which is literally just a stone's throw from Game On Arcade. Oh, you can almost see them from the front door, the one to the other. And so pinball-wise, we have 11 pinballs up there currently. I think the way I spaced them today, I think I can probably squeeze one or two more in, and I will, because I always do. We have a nice lineup. I think the oldest is Whirlwind, the newest being, I don't know. Stern, so like Monsters. Monsters or Rush maybe. Yeah, so Rush. Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo might be the newest. Scooby-Doo. So there's a Spooky. There's Waz's up there. There's Rolling Stones. Twister's out there. Ooh, Twister. I mean, there's a nice mix of Congo, Twilight Zone. We got a nice mix of games. Dirty Harry, I just took that out there. Then you got your basketballs. You got skeeballs. You got this set of the Fast and the Furious arcade games. Barber Cut. We got – Marahunt. Crane game. Oh, there's a plush crane. There's a duck crane. There's a Barber Cut game. And then there's also the Mega Shot, that giant – Which that thing is way cooler than I thought it was once I saw. It's pretty cool. We'll have to go play it. It's the one that has like – there's a literal compressor in the back of the game. So you have that feedback every time you shoot it. Pneumatic guns. It feels more like realistic. So that's a pretty cool game. And then Stefan is doing rhythm games. He has five rhythm games. Two of them are the same. And he said, that's supposed to be the one that I'm supposed to play because it's like good for beginners who have no idea what they're doing. Excellent. And then he has like the round one. Is it good for people that don't have any fucking rhythm? I don't know. He didn't say it would help with the rhythm. I don't know. But he told me, oh, I'm not that good. But then he showed us a game and I'm like, dude, I just saw that combo like 600. Like, I'm pretty sure you're good. You're an all-star. It's okay. You don't have to brag. Dude, I'm just trying to shoot this ramp. I've been trying for an hour. He's got a cool... He's got four different, but five rhythm games out there. He's going to be doing events and different things with them. Very cool. I'm excited. He played one for us and he's going to show us the other ones next time I'm out. I'm excited to see them all in action. It would be interesting to have someone like him actually show me how to play some of these games. It's the best case because when he was navigating to even start the one game, I'm like, dude, I have – wait, wait. I couldn't even – watching it, I'm like, I couldn't even start this game. Right, because a lot of them aren't regionalized for English. None of this was. It was all in – So if you don't know what you're doing, then you're trying to use your Google Translate and mess it up. And he said when they were trying to troubleshoot the one, Pete was using the Google Translate, and it literally just said USB dongle not plugged in. But they were fighting, and he's like, Translate. He's like, oh, it's just not plugged in. Oh, hi there. Nice. That's pretty cool. No, he's pretty – I would consider he might be someone who might be interesting to have on just to talk about these rhythm games because he has such a wealth of information on it. And it's a whole other – I mean we're semi-knowledgeable on pinball or whatever, but he – like it's a whole other world, a whole other genre of things. And he's done the deep dive and he's imported them. Yep. he's done the research it's very interesting I'm excited to see him in action no same absolutely same but yeah anyway Barberton's opening soon so that'll be I think the third major location we've opened this year and Corbin is still upright and walking sometimes hardly hardly alright we're about an hour and a half in so I think I'll make the rounds here for final thoughts Kyle any final thoughts here, buddy? Any last little nuggets for us all? Play better. Go Browns. Oh, boy. Who's 11? I gotta go play Ghostbusters. I don't even give a shit about the Browns. We'll save that. We'll save that story for another podcast, because that's a pretty good one. I got a good laugh out of that. Zach, final thoughts, my man? Instead of watching football, play pinball. I have a fantasy football draft coming up on Sunday. I'm going to Tank's house to do it. I'm sure you do. Last year, I did. You won. I did. I am the champion, which I'm a bit of the taco of the league, as they say. How many football games have you watched in your entire life? Zero? I've won. Back in high school, marching band. Yeah, to make out with girls or whatever. Yeah, and drink beer. Yeah, exactly. I've gone to a lot of football games, like the tailgating section, and never made it to the games. Well, no shit. Anyway, should I auto-draft again, do you think? Or should I... Auto-draft all day? That's what got me last year. I won last year off out of draft. Pissed a lot of people off. Yeah, fuck them. Dude, I made a loser's trophy. They should draft better. It's not your problem. I made a loser's trophy and a championship belt. Oh, that's where it's at. If you're going to let me win, I'm going to make it. I'm going to step it up. I like that a lot. So anyway, if anyone else wants to draft for me or help me draft on Sunday, I'll be at tanks. That's my last. What are we going to put in place in Merlin's arcade tomorrow? I saw that, Jeff. That's a bonito. Isn't that sick? Yeah. There's two of them next to each other? So they are... Okay, so... Custom re-themes. I'm going to have to explain to everyone what we're looking at. So Matt Parker and Trey Stone, creators of South Park and many other things, have a... The world's best billionaires. Right. Have a restaurant that they've renovated called Casa Bonita. I've heard about this, yes. And it's this wild dinner and a show sort of thing. And the Cartman one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So it's basically... They actually bought the place. Yeah, they do like acrobatics and all of this stuff in a show. Well, at the place they took to, it's either Well Nelly, perhaps Can Crusher, or Primuses, and rethemed them to custom Casa Bonita machines. I hope they didn't do Primus. I mean, any of them. It's a super low production game. I still want that Well Nelly. Yeah. It's just a super popular one for people to retheme because you get the spike platform. I mean, even something like that, though. So, like, is it not a possibility that they contacted Stern for a custom? Zero percent chance. You think? No. They went rogue on this for sure. Really? Are we getting Moonwalker? Oh, I need to reach back out to that guy. In what game did that other guy who had the World Nelly want a Metallica or something? That was Jaws. You wanted a Jaws? I'm just curious. But he was moving warehouses and it was like some whole thing. Yeah, that's right. I'll circle back to him now that Star Wars is coming. See you once. But Casa Bonita is classified as a Mexican restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado. Oh, there's a decent chance I could go there. So not the Lazars, but the cooks were just out there. And I believe they went to Casa Bonita. So the next time we see them, now that summer is winding down. I've not seen them in so long. And Jared and Lindsey will maybe be back in Ohio. I haven't seen them since Pembroke. Pembroke. They'll be at Cleapin I bet We'll see them at the tailgate Step this tailgate up this year boys Step it up You're right we should put a pinball out there No shit Don't be rude about it So my final thought is If you're in Colorado Go to Casa Bonita and do dinner and a show And play some And go see Nate and Mikey Mikey works at a snowboard shop He does I think they're going to put a wipe out there which would be cool so I'm trying to convince him alright Kyle play the walkout song thanks everybody if you need a pinball machine cheers email corbin at mattpinball.com play better play better willing to accept any and all food and beverage donations as sponsorships Thank you.