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This is the third and final part of the It Never Drains in Southern California edition of The Meltdown Pinball Podcast with Imoto Harney, Antoinette Johnson, and Michael Gottlieb. -- Also joining us will be 2019 INDISC Grand Champion Colin Urban, Tournament Director Jim Belsito and Daniel Spolar of Project Pinball. The conversation gets a little more tournament focused as we talk about the strategy aspects of card-based or set-based qualifying, also known as the former PAPA style. And we watch as the competition is winding down, until a time when we decide to relocate. -- Intro and Outro Music: FunHouse Multiball (Matt Dibrindisi Mix) -- Other topics: When you show something, be able to ship something Selling, production and distribution The Card System and Pinball Chess Leet Strats Alternate ROMs Levi's Iron Man Making a game tournament worthy Colin WINS! We relocate! Interview with a champion Tournament comments from Jim Belsito Wrap up with Daniel Spolar
Special guests Antoinette Johnson (from Marco Specialties), Imoto Harney (from Imoto Arcade) and Michael Gottlieb join me in the arcade/food/drink area at the Museum of Pinball in Banning, California. This is Part 2 of the INDISC episode and it's still happening while the It Never Drains in Southern California tournament was deep into the Final Round. We pick up right where we left off talking about Haunted House vs. Black Hole, other games and stories. Other topics ... "Surprise and Delight" "Planned Obsolescence" Gottlieb's Texas Ranger Prototype Mini Playfield is not ACDC Certain layouts work Jetsons KEELER! Elwin! Keeping the Monster fed Different art packages Christopher Franchi is hitting HOME RUNS! Creators vs. Consumers Stern, please continue to do well No preorders! Antoinette working for Marco Specialties full time and game design Shout outs to Jon Norris Colin Urban, Jim Belsito and Daniel Spolar will appear on Episode 10 coming very soon. Intro and Outro Music: FunHouse Multiball (Matt Dibrindisi Mix)
Special guests Antoinette Johnson (from Marco Specialties), Imoto Harney (from Imoto Arcade) and another secret special guest join me in the arcade, food and drink area at the Museum of Pinball in Banning, California. This is Part 1 and it's happening while the It Never Drains in Southern California tournament was heading to the Semi-Finals. Head Teacher Antoinette has some pinball acquisition stories to tell us. Imoto remains vigilant monitoring the tournament before introducing our secret guest who joins us about three-quarters of the way through this episode. I tried to kayfabe as much as possible. The INDISC episode will continue next time right where we left off as we were talking about buttons and Munsters and more pinball stuff. So subscribe and check your feed for the next episode which will be coming up shortly. Intro and Outro Music: FunHouse Multiball (Matt Dibrindisi Mix)
Chris took the drive from La Habra to Banning, CA to visit one of the finest collections of pinball on the West coast: the Museum of Pinball.Open only three times a year, the museum flung its doors open to pinheads for what was an amazing couple of days of pinball action at the It Never Drains in Southern California (INDISC) pinball tournament.Chris talks about his favourite experiences at INDISC in the first half of the show, then we talk about how Zen is doing with recreating the mobile pinball experience on iOS (and Android, soon).Check out https://blahcadepinball.com/161-indisc-action for show notes and links to the things we talk about.