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Jeff Rivera of the Pinball Podcast joins us to help with a recap of the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown. Wonka, Black Knight, and deodorant are all covered! You don't want to miss it
In Episode 10, we sit down with Dan Nikolich and talk all things Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown! After the interview we talk Flip N Out pinball stream and the results of the Aquabats pinball theme
A great story from Graham TerMarsch - three donated Bally Big Times were used to teach kids at his son's school about reverse engineering and they ended up restoring one of the games - congratulations everyone! This week I also wanted to highlight a couple of interesting notes on the Pinside forum regarding bingos: One person has trouble with their left and right buttons in a Magic Screen game, with a simple, but easy to overlook fix: And second, another owner converts his beautiful Bally "Bikini" to have wooden rails - an interesting modification: The Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown is this weekend, June 8-10 in Denver, CO. Phil Bogema will be there this year and will be bringing two beautifully restored Bally bingos: Parade and Carnival Queen. Phil does stunning work, and I look forward to hearing the show reports from players there. Today is the penultimate "Year of Flipperless" game: 1932's Amusement Corporation of America's "Ski-Doo 23": As always you can find me on Facebook at Instagram Twitter Thank you for listening!
The Multi-Bingo is coming along! New parts, new machines, new playfields - great! Phil Bogema is bringing a beautifully restored Parade and a Show-Time to the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown! Check out those great (and unusual in the case of Parade) games. June 9-11th in Denver, CO - Universal 5 Star is a bingo pinball-style machine made before the first widely accepted bingo pinball machine! Check out the pics on the right side. Weird, attractive game that looks very challenging.
What a month it’s been… Denver and the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown was a blast, and the announcement we made left our little company about a mile high. Yes, it’s official… Spooky Pinball is making “Rob Zombie’s Spookshow International“.
Don is one of the hosts of The Pinball Podcast (www.thepinballpodcast.com). He recently attended the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown and found the elusive Scoregasm Master. Topics range from Scoregasm gameplay, construction and features to bingos, general repair, and the unrealistic nudge physics of the Pinball Arcade.
Phil Bogema attended the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown earlier this month, and he reports on some of the games he played and enjoyed, and the overall EM availability. He also responded to my show on slot machines a few days after that, and I've taken the liberty of posting both anecdotes here. Vic Camp also posted a correction about my episode on Exhibit's Treasure Chest.
Terry DeZwarte, of www.pinballlife.com and dayonepinball.com fame, has recreated the 1934 Pacific Amusement Co (PAMCO) game Contact Master as Scoregasm Master. Scoregasm Master retains the gameplay and features of the 1930s game, but adds beautiful new artwork, a great cabinet (with wooden legs!), and some minor solid state changes. It is great to see the great gameplay of the 30s pingames return with Scoregasm Master. Unfortunately, the first 15(ish) minutes of the audio are a little rough. Stick with it, good stuff! We discuss some of the differences between this modern game and the original, the return of the pedastal-style tilt mechanism, reliability, scoring techniques and the open source nature of the game. If you would like to purchase a Scoregasm Master, contact terry@pinballlife.com - these are an incredibly limited quantity, and likely no more will be made! For those attending the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown next week, there will be a Scoregasm Master at the show - check it out!