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#86 Pintastic 2022 The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 59 min listenBy George
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This is a long episode. We talk about our Pintastic history, the upcoming show, and lots of other topics. Star Trek Next Generation and Williams repairs. A congratulations to Eric Stone. Please join...

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Highlights

  • Eric Stone won the 2019 World Championship (delayed to 2022) on Dialed In
  • Keith Elwin walked away from his final game (best-of-nine tiebreaker) against Eric Stone, surrendering instead of playing it out
  • Pintastic 2022 will use QR code-based voting for Best in Play awards instead of paper ballots
  • George predicted in 2019 that Stern would remanufacture retro games annually; this did not happen
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast produces ~25 episodes per year with no advertising or sponsors
  • Dave took possession of three playfields intended for Florida that were misrouted by FedEx
  • Chris Franchi will not attend Pintastic 2022 due to disagreement with organizers over artwork deemed 'not PC enough'
  • George and Dave were not initially invited to the Pintastic podcaster roundtable event on Thursday; they had to request inclusion
  • George will not attend the Thursday podcaster event because he is arriving Friday morning
  • Dave and another person (Maureen) now handle Best in Play judging after other team members left due to relocation or other concerns

Notable quotes

“Way to go, Eric. Well done, sir. Well done.”
George
“We don't do it with malice. We're not lying, George.”
Dave
“Four hours for two players in match play is just, it's insane.”
George
“We don't have a website. We don't have a URL. We don't have Facebook. We got nothing. We're lucky, and we only introduced it a couple of months ago. We have a Gmail email account.”
George
“We are not yes-men. We will never be yes-men. We tell you up front that we have opinions. You might like them. You might not like them.”
George
“If you want critical thinking, stay here. If you don't like critical thinking, go elsewhere.”
George
“We are in the sub-basement. All right. How's that?”
George
“He might be blind deaf and dumb but he can sure play mean pinball.”
Dave (quoting Tommy from The Who's 'Tommy')
“What is wrong with you? [in response to Dave playing Rush zero times]”
George
“I was made aware from Grant. Grant, thank you for being my guardian angel. I will now, before I put the podcast out, listen to it with earplugs.”
George

Entities

  • American Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Pintastic· event
  • Dialed In· game
  • Rush· game
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Chris Franchi· person
  • Dave· person
  • David Fix· person
  • Eric Stone· person
  • George· person
  • Jack Guarnieri· person
  • Jeff Parsons· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person
  • Jim Belsito· person
  • Joe Lemaire· person
  • John Borg· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Lauren Gray· person
  • Mark Seiden· person
  • Maureen· person
  • Mike Salpadro· person
  • Ray Day· person
  • Ryan McQuaid· person
  • Stephen Bowden· person
  • Steve Ritchie· person

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