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BlahCade Podcast

INDISC Action

PodcastBy Chris Friebus and Jared Morgan

BlahCade Podcast

43 min

Summary

Chris played 78 machines at Museum of Pinball, reviews modern/rare pins, praises Zen recreations.

Chris attended It Never Drains tournament at the Museum of Pinball in Southern California, where he played 78+ different pinball machines across 10 hours. He provides detailed commentary on modern games (Stern, Spooky, Jersey Jack, HomePin), rare machines (Highway Pinball's Alien, Houdini), and compares physical machines to Zen pinball digital recreations. Key takeaways: Spooky's games don't appeal to him despite understanding their appeal; Zen has nailed their Williams recreations; Highway Pinball's Alien is thematically strong but lacks story progression compared to Zen's version; Star Wars (Premium)/LE is more playable than Pro version; TNA remains compulsively engaging despite simple layout. Also discussed: Arcuda's cabinet production timeline and Touch Wizard Android bartop announcement.

From the creator

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  for show notes and links to the things we talk about.

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