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#76 Bally Speakeasy - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago33 min listenBy George
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The guys discuss and play the prohibition themed game.

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Highlights

  • Bally Speakeasy was produced in approximately 3,000 units or fewer
  • Only two pinball games were made with flyaway targets: Speakeasy and Grand Slam
  • A four-player version of Speakeasy exists and was distributed to Australia and other overseas locations
  • The Speakeasy playfield is made of plastic resin fiberglass and does not wear out
  • George sold the Speakeasy playfield 15+ years ago for $100
  • Zach Frey built a homebrew pinball game called Poker without using anybody else's board set
  • George originally bought this Speakeasy from a guy in Rhode Island in the late 1990s
  • The customer who bought this Speakeasy wanted it as a Christmas gift for her heart surgeon husband who prefers 1990s Williams games
  • This was George's quickest flip ever: the game sold within a week and a half of acquisition
  • The game has a Lynn, Massachusetts tax/vendor sticker indicating it was previously an amusement device in that city

Notable quotes

“This game boomed. This game found me.”
George
“I just don't like the mechanics of it. Too gimmicky. It's just not my thing.”
George
“This is the fastest game out the door ever.”
George
“It's about sacrificing. It's about putting up or shutting up, that kind of thing.”
George
“the way to make this game shorter is by making it tougher you can actually toughen up the settings so they're more conservative versus liberal and everybody's happy when you're more conservative than liberal George.”
George's co-host
“Did you know that he had a homebrew game at Pentastic?”
Co-host
“Maureen actually likes this game. Maureen actually wanted me to keep this game.”
George
“You're out of order. On any other game? You're out of order.”
Co-host

Entities

  • Data East· company
  • Midway Bally· company
  • Williams· company
  • Pentastic· event
  • Bally Speakeasy· game
  • Eight Ball Deluxe· game
  • Funhouse· game
  • Grand Slam· game
  • Prohibition· historical_event
  • Allentown· location
  • Hudson· location
  • Lynn, Massachusetts· location
  • Newton· location
  • Rhode Island· location
  • Stowe· location
  • Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • IFPD· organization
  • David· person
  • George· person
  • Grant· person
  • Maureen· person
  • Zach Frey· person
  • Fun and Games Arcade· venue

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