#136 - Better, Stronger, Faster - The Classic Pinball Podcast
Dave’s repairs: Data East Star Wars, Bride of Pinbot, Getaway, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Simpsons. Arcade visit. 100 men vs King Kong. Six Million Dollar Man, Funhouse, Robots.
Kineticist’s take
Pinball repair stories from Gloucester trip covering Stern and vintage game maintenance challenges.
Synopsis
George and Dave, hosts of The The Classic Pinball Podcast, discuss pinball repair and restoration work from a recent trip to Gloucester, including challenging repairs on early 2000s Stern games (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Simpsons), vintage electromechanical machines, and reflections on the complexity of maintaining older pinball equipment. The episode includes technical troubleshooting anecdotes, discussions about game mechanism reliability, and venue exploration.
Entities
- Pin and Pixels· company
- Pinball Life· company
- Rotten Dog· company
- Attack on Mars· game
- Blackjack· game
- King Kong· game
- Metallica· game
- Pinbot· game
- Pirates of the Caribbean· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- Six Million Dollar Man· game
- Star Wars· game
- The Getaway· game
- The Simpsons· game
- Straight Down the Middle: a pinball show· media
- Dave· person
- George· person
- Jim Rutherford· person
- John Rutherford· person
- Tanya P. Holt· person
- Tim· person
- Novus 2· product
- Back to the Arcade Media· venue