Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 14: Robert Byers Jumping Off The Top Rope
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 14: Robert Byers Jumping Off The Top Rope Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Special Guest/Extra Ball: Robert Byers, 2022 INDISC Classics I...
Highlights
- InDisc 2024 finals featured three vintage/non-purchasable games: Stargate, Rock and Roller Games, and Alvin G's Mystery Castle
- Zach Minney (Pinball Show host/distributor) criticized the finals game selection as unsuitable for marketing pinball to new audiences on an 800-1000 viewer stream
- Tournament format prevents replaying previously-selected games, forcing players to pick from remaining inventory by finals
- Robert Byers won the Classics 1 championship at InDisc 2024
- IE Pinball stream reached 800-900 viewers during InDisc finals with strong production quality from Carl D'Angelo
- Rush Pinball has bent/torn cliffers and playfield design issues limiting left-side shot appeal
- Rush Pinball has no left ramp, only center-upper-flipper ramp and difficult scoop/orbit shots from right flipper
- InDisc 2020 featured modern games like Alice Cooper (Spooky) and Pirates of the Caribbean (Jersey Jack)
Notable quotes
“I just watched the finals. And he completely kind of tore them apart...why in the world is the final round of the biggest tournament of this year played on such crappy games?”
“As soon as you force a game on a person, you just took away that advantage that the first place person has been working towards that entire tournament.”
“I would like to see the higher seeds be rewarded by the time the finals come...by the time you get to finals, you're going to be playing it just basically rolling the dice on whatever games are left.”
“In competitive play at a major tournament then is not the time to try to market pinball...the Stern Pro Circuit Championship is the perfect time to do because it's guaranteed to be a sternament.”
“I don't have a lot of time on it, but I walked past a Rush Pinball a thousand times at NDSC...And then I walked away and I never came back.”
“There's nothing on the left side of the game that excites me...I'm so used to having a left ramp in a game, and this game has no left ramp.”
“We just witnessed the best tournament that's probably been streamed in, I don't know, the last two, three years because of COVID...Carl's production and the commentary, the announcers, the four days of it...was incredibly well done.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- InDisc· event
- Stern Pro Circuit Championship· event
- Alvin G's Mystery Castle· game
- Godzilla· game
- Rock and Roller Games· game
- Rush Pinball· game
- Stargate· game
- IE Pinball· organization
- Pinball Show· organization
- Triple Drain Podcast· organization
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Galvin· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Joel· person
- Robert Byers· person
- Steve Bowden· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
- Zach Minney· person
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