#121 Taxi - The Classic Pinball Podcast
Taxi review. Tony the customer arrives to pick up game. Taxi gameplay. Corrections and clarifications. Old and new business. Puck bowlers again. Playfields for sale. Theclassicpinballpodcast1@gmail.com
Kineticist’s take
Deep-dive restoration and gameplay discussion of 1988 Taxi with live play-testing.
Synopsis
Dave and George discuss Taxi, a 1988 Williams pinball machine designed by Mark Ritchie with art by Python Angelo. Dave recounts his 18-hour restoration of a customer's game (Tony's from Connecticut), including flipper rebuilds, pop bumper repairs, artwork touch-ups, and significant troubleshooting of coil and switch issues. The episode covers the game's design, artwork featuring 80s pop culture figures (Gorbachev, Pinbot, Lola), gameplay mechanics (skill shot spin-out plunge, multiball via express lanes and ramps, passenger collection), and concludes with extended live gameplay featuring George, Tony, and a player named Leon.
Entities
- Williams· company
- Bride of Pinbot· game
- Comet· game
- Cyclone· game
- Diner· game
- Fishtails· game
- High Speed· game
- Indiana Jones· game
- Pinball Circus· game
- Pinbot· game
- Taxi· game
- Papa· organization
- The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
- Bowen Kerins· person
- Dave· person
- George· person
- Leon· person
- Mark Ritchie· person
- Maureen· person
- Mr. Kearns· person
- Python Angelo· person
- Tony· person