
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 16.5: Catching Up Without TOM?!?!
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 16.5: Catching Up Without TOM?!?! Hosts: Joel Engelberth & Travis Murie This episode is just Travis and Joel as they discuss Texas Pinball Festival and some of the...
Highlights
- Travis has relocated from Oklahoma to the St. Louis area in Missouri and accepted a position as Marketing Officer at The Pinball Company
- Tom Graff is absent because he's preparing for a World Championship tournament in Florida next month
- Chicago Gaming's Cactus Canyon remake is 'the best playing remake' the hosts have experienced
- Multimorphic's Weird Al had significantly more lines/interest at TPF than previous Multimorphic booth years
- 80-90% of people interviewed at TPF enjoyed Weird Al
- Weird Al's hidden upper flipper design creates a usability problem for novice players
- Legends of Valhalla is Travis's favorite American Pinball game to date, surpassing Hot Wheels
Notable quotes
“the cornerstone of this podcast, the biggest leg of the three-legged stool, Tom Graff, is not here”
“he decided to play in a pinball tournament instead to win some money... World Championship thing, something like that, next month to play in down in Florida”
“I got a job with the pinball company as basically their marketing officer... I can't really reveal yet, but there'll be a lot more stuff coming along”
“if you're a buyer, if you're waiting on that game, I know they're slowly trickling out... if you're excited about that game and Cactus Canyon is a game that you enjoy, you will like the game”
“It is hidden. It is hidden. And that's the problem... if they're hidden, when you do need to use them, you don't know where they are”
“I never hit the upper flipper shot... without visually seeing the flipper, it's just a guess until you get used to the timing”
“if they would have had five weird owls there for sale, just like highest bidder, I get the feeling they might have been able to sell them for about $13,000 to $15,000 each”
“it's by far my favorite American pinball game produced... the shots, the lights, the way that the rules were set up. I really enjoyed it”
“I would actually seriously consider having one of these at my house. I was, I was that impressed by it”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Chicago Gaming· company
- Flippin' Out· company
- Fliptronic· company
- Multimorphic· company
- The Pinball Company· company
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
- Twippies· event
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Heist· game
- Legends of Valhalla· game
- Weird Al· game
- Jerry· person
- Joel· person
- Nicole· person
- Ryan· person
- Steven Bowden· person
- Tom Graff· person
- Travis· person
- Zach· person
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