Texas Pinball Festival

"We know that TPF is coming in just a couple of weeks. Are we going to get any surprises at that show? Remember when TPF was like, the show. It doesn't feel that way anymore."

"And look, one of the things I always say to you is wait and see and if you waited and you really want an Evil Dead, they still have a few available that they're going to bring the Texas Pinball Festival. And I think they were bringing 11 games that people could buy the show game and then take it home."

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

"It doesn't feel that way anymore. We've got pinball at the beach. We've got expo. We've got MGC. We've got a lot of shows now in the pinball world."

"We're also going to see portal from Multimorphic. We're probably going to see that game at TPF in just a week or so."

"We're probably going to see that game at TPF in just a week or so. We're going to get the final edition of medieval madness remake."

"That is seven games in eight weeks. And hey, there might be more surprises. TPF is around the corner. Someone might roll in the TPF with a new game."

"So that leaves Texas Pinball Festival as an opportunity for someone to really steal the story to control the narrative of like early spring, this is gonna be the game everybody talks about."

"So P3 Multimorphic, the rumor is that Jerry has a new title he's going to launch at Texas Pinball Festival, which by the way is the show that's in his backyard. The close companies to this show are barrels of fun, you got Multimorphic, and you've got Chris Turner with Turner Pinball."

"What else might happen at Texas Pinball Festival? Are we going to get maybe the next game from Pedretti Gaming?"

"So is that going to come out at Texas Pinball Festival? That game is most likely going to have the updated code."

"Now you know, I've been saying this for a while now, I don't think TPF is gonna be the place. We're gonna see like the big new games."

"I've been saying this for a while now, I don't think TPF is gonna be the place. We're gonna see like the big new games."

TPF won't have big new game announcements this year

"I just feel like nobody anymore uses a show to wheel a game in and show it to the world for the first time. There's also been some like really bad show reveals."

"And the first time the world sees our game is over the shoulder cell phone footage of Neil McRae playing the game. Like that's not the best way to show your game to the world for the first time."

"So at TPF, here's what I think you're going to see something mysterious from Christopher Franchi. It's probably just going to be some artwork he's going to sell."

"I remember I think it was Cactus Canyon where they were going to reveal it at Expo and they already had the games on the floor before their seminar. So you could like see it there before you saw it at the seminar, which was supposed to be the moment they revealed it for the first time."

"So I think for the most part, the shows have no longer become the moment in which these companies are planning their reveals. So at TPF, here's what I think you're going to see something mysterious from Christopher Franchi."

"Is Cuphead going to go to Texas pinball Festival by American pinball? I don't think so. I don't even think anyone works at American pinball right now."

"Okay, so you might get Cuphead at TPM."

"They would march in and have the games covered up and then they would pull the curtain off the game and we saw stuff. We saw stuff like dialed in for the first time at a show like that. Those days are over."

"So at least there's something Franci's going to reveal to the world at Texas Pinball Festival. You know, people have been hitting me up and they're like, I'm going to TPF, Kaneda. What do you think is going to be shown at TPF?"

"It's probably just going to be some artwork he's going to sell. I don't know. Maybe he made some Lebowski artwork. He's going to sell without permission."

"Now, TPF used to be a show where a lot of the manufacturers would reveal their games and, you know, they didn't reveal the games before the show itself. There would be like a seminar. Remember those days where we were looking forward to the company seminar?"

"And I think some of these companies realize that if I have a good title and a good theme, I don't really need to spend all the money, fly all the staff, do a PowerPoint presentation that's terrible that looks like a third grader did it, you know, and then reveal the game in this room full of sweaty men."

"Now, people are like, oh, Franchi's coming out with a Big Lebowski and here's what makes no sense. People just use Google. The 25th anniversary of the Big Lebowski was in 2023. So why would they bring out the 25th anniversary edition in 2025?"

"Now, speaking of Dutch Pinball X, what's with this photo from Christopher Franchi? Do you see this thing he just put up that he's gonna be at TPF with a surprise and he's got a curtain and you can read on the other side of that curtain is a Big Lebowski with a 25th anniversary title and different cabinet artwork."

"It was the show that most people went to, it was the biggest show and it did seem like the Pinball manufacturers did want to reveal their games around TPF so that when TPF happened, all of the new games were there. There were many, many years where that March time period was always a time period where you were gonna get something new."

"You're gonna spend a thousand or two thousand dollars going all the way to a pinball show. I would rather go somewhere where it's on the beach. I would rather go to Chicago where I can go visit the manufacturers and see all of the people behind the games."

"The other thing that's interesting is this, this company, their home show is Texas Pinball Festival and I heard they are rLEing to get their next game revealed at TPF. But I also heard all of the stars have to align if they're gonna achieve that and it's not looking likely."

"Has TPF lost its luster? It used to be the show. When Kim and Ed were running TPF, it was like the show."

Texas Pinball Festival has lost its luster and is no longer the premier pinball show

"Now, look, I still think a lot of manufacturers are gonna be at TPF. So if you go to TPF, you're gonna meet all the people from Spooky and Jersey Jack and Stern Pinball and there's still gonna be hundreds of pinheads there."

"It's no longer the case. I know when I say I'm not going to TPF, I miss the TWIPYs being live at TPF, that was one of the main reasons I would go."

"I just think with Expo and Pinball at the beach, I don't know, I think the show has just lost some of its luster and I just want to say this, if you live down there and it's your show, I'm happy for you."

"You played everything new at Pinball by the Beach. Are you really a month later gonna go to Texas?"

"I would much rather be at Florida on the beach versus TPF where there's nothing but like a Perry steakhouse to walk to."

"I wish TPF would confirm for people whether or not the next Jersey Jack game is gonna be present, because if it's not, there's no reason to go to TPF. I mean that."

"I think we're not gonna get Harry Potter before Texas Pinball Festival. That's the new rumor."

"Like, I'm sorry guys, but if you wanna have a pinball show, you need to give people a compelling reason to go and having a new game launched and revealed at your show is something these show organizers sort of need to work on."

"But as is, I don't see a reason to go unless these shows really find a compelling reason to get me there."

"someone said this to me earlier today and it's like one of the reasons why i think like shows like TPF are not going to be nearly as popular moving forward one of the reasons is this and and he said something really smart he's like you used to have to like go to a show to really like experience a game and to know like a game"

"with so much content creation now i don't feel nearly as like disconnected from the product like there's just so much out there now that i i don't really feel the need to fly to all these pinball shows now"

"I'm here to tell you and you guys all know this you don't need a show to sell a game. If you have a good theme and you have something called the internet and people like what they see you're going to sell every single one without even needing to go to a show."

"But there's always been that like desire some of it's just probably a little bit the desire to walk around the show and and slap high fives and be the man you know like I'm the one who did this. I'm in front of a crowd right with a terrible PowerPoint presentation and I'm about to tell you how we made this game and then I'm going to slap you with the price and kick you in the balls right."

"you know the old tradition was always like you got to launch a game around TPF because that's when you launch games and if you launch it right before TPF then you go to TPF and that equals sales."

"We launch games around TPF we launch games around expo that's sort of been the go-to approach."

"I don't know should I go to pinball on the beach yeah I'd rather go there than TPF I have to be honest like if I did shoes between going to warm Florida where the entire thing is sort of set up to be by the pool drink in frozen cocktails with pinball personalities out in the sun you know I don't care about the games I don't understand you know and I know all the games are going to be there but."

"now I will say this whenever I go to TPF I would always share a hotel room with Blake Dumas nil love Blake he's the artist you guys know Blake his work has been on a few games he did the logo for a lot of tpfs"

"I'd rather go there than TPF I have to be honest like if I did shoes between going to warm Florida where the entire thing is sort of set up to be by the pool drink in frozen cocktails with pinball personalities out in the sun you know I don't care about the games I don't understand you know and I know all the games are going to be there but."

"Chris Turner took the advice from everybody, put the game in a normal cabinet, brought it to TPF and has since sold all 100 units of his Ninja Eclipse game"