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Lords: * JohnB * Kevin * JADES data: https://jades.idies.jhu.edu/public/ Topics: * Thoughts on approximately 5/12 of Don Quixote * The Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" Series (1987-1991) and its impact on a generation of young nerds * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MysteriesoftheUnknown * https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/r487u4/distantastronomicalobjectsiceberg/ * https://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/timelife-mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-ufo-phenomenon * https://archive.org/details/DreamsAndDreaming201809/page/n33/mode/2up * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lal0aWAys0k * Thomas Edison didn't think telephones needed to ring. He figured the caller could just start yelling "hello" at you even before you answered the phone * Desiderata * https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html * https://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lessonimages/lesson372/PoloniusExcerpt.pdf * Is pinball meant to be fun? Can you lose a quarter at an arcade faster in a game cabinet or in a pinball machine? * https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/07/06/arcade-holy-grail-the-pinball-circus/ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAtVBb8rOok * https://archive.org/details/TILTTheBattleToSavePinballDisc2Extras Microtopics: * Dog ownership. * A living creature that just wanders around the house. * Picking up warm soft weird thing. * Cracking open a cold one. * Computers flush with science data. * The deepest images humans have ever taken. * Finding distances to individual galaxies. * Listicles you can peruse. * Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself. * Bug Mars 2. * The Glass Universe. * Hiring women and calling them computers. * A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose. * Some public domain books being more readable than others. * Pun localization. * North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas. * How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic. * Whether we respect English majors on this show. * Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now. * Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza. * The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills. * The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody. * Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction. * Don Coyote. * Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make. * The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read. * The 80s resurgence of New Age thought. * Mystic Places. * The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library. * Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library. * The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide. * Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool. * The Spaceships of Ezekiel. * The JWST iceberg. * The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg. * A tin can and a string with a battery attached. * Hello, fellow phone owner. * A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message. * Funny ways to answer the phone. * E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero. * The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s. * Nice things to do and be. * Desiderata vs. Deteriorata. * Advice giving poems. * Skin cancer is mid. * Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya. * Avoiding loud and aggressive persons. * Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century. * Baffleball. * Pinball features to make things easier for beginners. * The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game. * Tilt-sensing plum bobs. * A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment. * The Black Hole for Personal Reasons. * A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball. * Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball. * Multidisc! * Pinball tables by George Gomez. * Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best. * Free play skee-ball. * Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique. * Twitter forgiveness.
Join us for a recap of the Pinball 2000 episode, as well as a discussion on the current state of pinball. We also discuss a very interesting thing that happened @ Pinfest last year, do an interview with a fine young chap by the name of Greg Taylor, and talk about what we will be bringing to our booth this year. Tilt:The Battle to Save Pinball (seriously, watch this!) http://tilt-movie.com/ George Gomez & Pat Lawlor @ Pinball Expo '99: https://youtu.be/jmmfJ5p_Qxs Allentown Pinfest website: http://www.pinfestival.com/ Nucore Forums: http://www.bigguyspinball.com/community/viewforum.php?f=18http://www.bigguyspinball.com/community/viewforum.php?f=18
Welcome to a special episode of the podcast, a mini documentary on Pinball 2000, a list ditch effort to save Williams pinball. If this episode interested you at all, I implore you to watch TILT:The Battle to Save Pinball. This goes much deeper into the development of Pinball 2000, and the last days of the Williams pinball division. It also has some fascinating interviews with the people involved, including George Gomez, Pat Lawlor, Lyman Sheats, Roger Sharpe, and many others. It is available on Amazon Prime Video as well, and you can go directly to it here. George's Expo '99 Talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmmfJ5p_Qxs WMS Location Today: https://goo.gl/maps/kpu74XYVR4w There is also a P2K Collectors Page here: http://www.pinball2000.de/ Planetary Pinball still has some P2K info up as well: https://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/Williams/pinball2000/home.html And if you have a P2K pin, the repair guide is here: http://pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pinball_2000_Repair And lastly, stay tuned...there will be more P2K info in the next episode, but be warned, Rick will be back. :)
00:00:15 - Introductie Op het Button Bashers Forum loopt opnieuw een Secret Santa actie, ook gingen een aantal forumleden waaronder Steef en Niels naar het Dutch Pinball Museum in Rotterdam. 00:17:50 - Game Talk Alola! Michael verraste menigeen door Pokemon Moon te kopen en ook Niels was net voordat deze uitzending opgenomen zou worden nog even begonnen. Paper Mario Color Splash (32:45) geeft kleur aan je vrijetijdsbesteding aldus Niels, ook speelde hij Tearaway Unfolded (42:04) uit en stapte een andere werkelijkheid in met het spel Batman Arkham VR (45:30) en vertelt over de kwaliteit van PSVR en de PS4 Pro. Souls games zijn niet hardcore genoeg voor Steef, in plaats daarvan speelt hij liever Cheetahmen op de Action 52 (58:33), speelde o.a. Turtles in Time met Bamilolly, heeft wat bordspellen op zijn iPhone gezet (1:07:00) en heeft Flash Point (1:15:14) gespeeld. Michael heeft negen uur Watch Dogs 2 gespeeld (1:16:44) en ook eindelijk Dark Souls 3 uitgespeeld (1:26:53). Tot slot vergelijkt Steef nog even de At Games Mega Drive Classic (1:46:07) met de NES Classic Mini (1:48:01) en wil hij weten wat Michael en Niels van de Nintendo Switch reveal (1:59:44) vonden. 02:22:31 - Game Documentaires Het Button Bashers panel bespreekt enkele van de meest populaire game documentaires zoals Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball (2:21:53), The Smash Brothers (2:47:35), Ecstasy of Order (3:00:59), Indie Game The Movie (3:12:48), Chasing Ghosts Beyond the Arcade (3:31:17) en The King of Kong A Fistful of Quarters (3:41:03). 4:07:54 - Afsluiting Muziek: - Pokemon Sun/Moon (3DS) intro - Shantae and the Pirates Curse (Wii U) - Undertale (PC) - Paper Mario Color Splash (Wii U) - Rollergames (NES) outtro
Join us to a long delayed episode 115! We discuss the Arkansas warehouse raid that we went on over the winter, a lot of new pin acquisitions, and other random things that have been going on. We will also have a booth/table at Pinfest 2016 in Allentown PA on May 5th, and 6th, so stop by and visit us!! We also talk about the future of the show going forward. This is the documentary on the final days of Williams pinball division. A must watch! Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball The Piniwiki list of vehicles that a pin will fit in: http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vehicles_for_Moving_Pinball_Machines Pinfest 21016: http://www.pinfestival.com/ First Arkansas video, which we codenamed "Arkantana" https://youtu.be/8T7Hf9hRqus Second Arkansas trip video: https://youtu.be/sBttUWPNm-Q
Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball is next on our list of curated films
Interview with Greg Maletic, producer of Tilt - The Battle to Save Pinball. A documentary about Williams' Pinball 2000 games and the closing of the pinball manufacturing division.