Texas Pinball Festival

"Having the TWIPYs at TPF was always like the Saturday night thing. It was so much fun. Like the line was around the line to get into the TWIPYs was the longest line at all of TPF."

"We've got stuff happening over at American Pinball. Apparently people are going over to the factory and they're excited about their next pinball build, which by the way might arrive at TPF in March. Do you believe that? I don't."

"The more people play this game, also TPF, the more the public sees this game at shows, the demand is gonna go up, not down, right? That's the whole principle of supply and demand."

"I think pinball at the beach is gonna become the new TPF I really do I think pinball at the beach is gonna be the new TPF"

"I think that pinball at the beach is gonna become the new TPF I really do I think pinball at the beach is gonna be the new TPF I think TPF is the is the show you know without ed there it just does I don't it just doesn't have the same there's no TWIPYs there there's no like I don't know it just I'd rather go to the beach and hang with everybody in a in a poolside setting and drink pinia coladas and play pinball"

"I think TPF is the is the show you know without ed there it just does I don't it just doesn't have the same there's no TWIPYs there there's no like I don't know it just I'd rather go to the beach and hang with everybody in a in a poolside setting and drink pinia coladas and play pinball"

"I just got the sense that pinball the beach seem more fun than TPF and I don't know you know look some guys like we'll go to every show I I it's a shorter flight to go to pinball on the beach for me it's a more enticing location and and the fact that they got all the manufacturers to go because you know I I think that was the big get that was the big get"

"when I was at um when I used to go to TPF I'd always do a whole Kaneda happy hour at parries picked up the bill cost few thousand dollars as a thank you to my fans I always you guys know when I go to expo I'm very very generous I'm overly giving back"

"I got that sense you know I just got the sense that pinball the beach seem more fun than TPF and I don't know you know look some guys like we'll go to every show I I it's a shorter flight to go to pinball on the beach for me it's a more enticing location"

"when I used to go to TPF I'd always do a whole Kaneda happy hour at parries picked up the bill cost few thousand dollars as a thank you to my fans I always you guys know when I go to expo I'm very very generous I'm overly giving back"

"I do think a game like dune really did need a pinball show. It really needed to be at a high traffic pinball show with a captivated audience. And I think if they had waited, I think it would have had a stronger reveal. The problem is there was no real show to wait for. They kind of missed their backyard show at TPF."

"So not only do we have crooks we have another thing in this hobby cowards"

"I had to be the first one at TPF when Mirco got up there And wanted to sell us a toad in 2.0 kit While his playfields on Guns N' Roses were falling apart There were other content creators in the room There were other people in the room there were there was some of the Pinside loud mouse cow words They said nothing go watch the video Who stood up and said how dare you come here And and and refuse to answer questions about your playfields falling apart"

"Robert Mueller went up on stage at TPF with his funky bunch And insulted stern pinball and said he was gonna make more games in one year than sternus like you know Has ever made or something crazy like that then all the other pinball manufacturers combined He was gonna make more games in one year than all of them and you know what the crowd did Nothing"

"We've been waiting since TPF in March April May Where is it nobody's order an avatar."

"Now looking back on it all, Jack telling everybody at TPF to hold onto your money because we have Harry Potter coming now in hindsight, that was a really smart move. I think a lot of people have held onto their money."

"But they were really smart. They rolled in the freaking TPF with the prototype version of the Merlin edition of the game. It wasn't even the final production version but it really is just another run of the game with just different armor and that's basically it."

"Look at all the orders medieval madness got. And it's the same damn game with just Blue Armor."

"This would have been the new game that would have been looked at probably with the most enthusiasm, but they didn't do that."

"They should have brought it to freaking TPF. They would have captured that show, and they would have got a lot of orders at that show."

"People are wondering whether or not he was supposed to announce the title at TPF. But hey man, the guy took three minutes and stole the entire show."

"We are a post-Texas Pinball Festival and it is gonna be April next week and these companies are about to make the biggest marketing mistake and they're gonna do it for silly reasons."

"Here's a bunch of crossword puzzles at Texas Pinball Festival. Here's a close above a ramp."

"Here's a bunch of crossword puzzles at Texas Pinball Festival. Here's a close above a ramp. They need to take those ramps and shove them where the sun don't shine and actually everybody wake up."

"I played some John Wick for the first time and yeah, not interested. Really not interested. Also with Wick, what's weird is like the flippers feel like they're even slanted down more than normal, cradling the balls a little bit harder. The whole game feels a little narrow and pinched in my honest opinion."

"And I know you wanted to show something at Texas, but I'd be curious how many people actually ordered. I don't think they sold a hundred Merlin's Arcade. And then it's like, now what? Right? Now what are you going to do?"

"So what else did we see at Texas Pinball Festival? We saw Merlin's Arcade. I watched about 20 minutes of Merlin gameplay and that song just playing over and over and over and over again. And the sound of that foosball spinner sounds like you're chopping some wood."

"And the code itself doesn't seem that far along and it just begs the question. I know you're in Texas, but this game got a lot to go code-wise. And you're only going to get one chance to make a first impression. And I don't think the code is far enough along to have shown this game."

"Now look, this game is much simpler than everything else in the marketplace. Yes, Chris Turner is a super nice guy. He's listening to this right now. He's a Kaneda Club member. I'm just not sure. I just don't think at $9,000 there's enough going on here."

"The faces are blurry. In that electric playground pulp fiction topper for $1,500. It has been confirmed they are blurry faces. So they did not break IP infringement. They went by the letter of the law and released a topper that looks a little funny, a little weird, will it sell? I don't think so."

"In that electric playground pulp fiction topper for $1,500. It has been confirmed they are blurry faces. So they did not break IP infringement. They went by the letter of the law and released a topper that looks a little funny, a little weird, will it sell? I don't think so."

"I got about 10 games on the machine and I want to report back that I think the game is an amazing shooter. It really is. And you can tell, right? The moment you first start playing a game, it has a lot of great shots, a lot of satisfying shots. I love the music. I love the callouts."

"I want someone who's at TPF to take a picture of this topper and settle this debate once and for all because we still don't know."

"But I think the overall consensus, regardless if the faces are blurry, we're going to get an answer on that at TPF. I want someone who's at TPF to take a picture of this topper and settle this debate once and for all because we still don't know."

"The biggest show. This used to be the biggest show and nothing else is really dropping there."

"There's really nothing else at the show that's totally intriguing me. We know about D&D. We can look at the medieval madness armor. We're going to talk about the Blue Merlin Edition, but honestly, the two major things are going to be Portal and Merlin's Arcade, right?"

"The only pinball podcaster probably not at Texas Pinball Festival right now. The show begins today. And I'm curious about two things at this show."

"And right now we've got TPF in a few days. We're still waiting for the big games."

"if I were to tell you, is it worth traveling to Texas to go play the new game from Multimorphic and Turner Pinball? Are you buying those playing tickets?"

"Remember when this show used to be where the big dogs released their games? But man, everybody's been gaslit in Pinball, everybody!"

"I heard that barrels of fun is going to hand out at TPF or another show coming up. They're going to hand out as a teaser. I'm going to give you a teaser of their teaser. They're going to hand out sand to people."

"So look for those teasers at TPF. Everybody have fun. I love this hobby."

"March 14th, usually this time, right before the Big Texas show, usually, we've had a manufacturer or two reveal their game to the world. So then, when they bring it to the show, they can just set it up and everybody can bang on it. But there's nothing."

"For a lot of you out there now, you don't need to travel the Texas to play D&D. You don't need to travel the Texas to play Evil Dead. You can start to see these games out on location."

"And I think more and more of us are starting to sort of limit the amount of pinball shows we will get on an airplane for. And we'll probably drive to locations and shows that are closer."

"It just goes to show if you're one of these people who for many, many years traveled down to TPF. It was always the show that everybody was working hard to reveal their product to get it on the floor at TPF. How times have changed. This show is no longer the sort of deadline that everybody is working towards."

"In fact, there might only be one new game revealed at TPF and that might be Portal. That might be it."

"This show is no longer the sort of deadline that everybody is working towards. In fact, there might only be one new game revealed at TPF and that might be Portal. That might be it."

Texas Pinball Festival has lost its importance as the deadline show

"Texas Pinball Festival is like what like nine days away. Normally people would reveal their stuff before TPF that's what's going to happen with Portal."

"So once again, you could cut the line and get your game months before people who are waiting who ordered on day one."