#19 The Production Room Floor: The Classic Pinball Podcast
Outakes from several recording sessions with little editing. First up is flipper talk. The guys discuss RAZA and the unobtainium shot for the last time. Poor playing games at tournaments. The guys recall the time they both went to acquire several Embryons at once. They also discuss making it a 7 digit game.
Kineticist’s take
Flipper strength critique of Deep Root, tournament standards, and classic game restoration.
Synopsis
George and Dave discuss flipper strength issues at recent pinball tournaments, particularly critiquing Deep Root Pinball weak flipper setup on a show machine that made a key shot inaccessible. They contrast this with best practices at major tournaments and venues, emphasizing that loaned/tournament machines should play optimally. The episode shifts to nostalgia about classic games like Embryon, restoration projects, and technical modifications like seven-digit display conversions.
Entities
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Embryon· game
- Retro Atomic Zombie Adventure Land· game
- RoboWar· game
- Groton, Connecticut· location
- Houston· location
- Bruce· person
- Dallas Overturf· person
- Dave· person
- George· person
- Jack· person
- John Toth· person
- Paul (PJ)· person
- Tom Callahan· person
- Allaire State Airport· venue
- Bowlerama· venue
- Free Play Florida· venue
- Funny Games Framingham· venue