Texas Pinball Festival

"CES gets a lot more people coming through it than damn Texas Pinball Festival Midwest Gaming Classic. Because after this, think about it, there's no big, big show other than maybe Comic-Con."

"Like Iceman would have the swagger and the confidence to roll in to Texas pinball festival and like hang out with us."

"I mean, we're looking at early spring, so I think you're gonna see this game right around TPF or right after TPF."

"I mean, it was nice being at TPF and having like over 300 people in a room celebrating pinball. It was also nice seeing people get up there and give speeches, so I'm not sure how they're gonna do it, if they're gonna ask people maybe for award videos to play, if they're gonna do it that way."

"And then things are really going to ramp up because we know leading into TPF, we're going to get Harry Potter. We're going to get the next game from AP, the next game from Stern."

"I think they need to get this game out before TPF. Demand on Labyrinth is gone."

"If you have never been to like TPF or Expo, you're never going to really experience the beauty of the community until you meet people in real life and I'm just going to say this right now."

"And that's what I like about expo. It's not nearly as big as TPF. So if you've been the TPF, do not expect that size of a show."

"I don't think anything from them is going to come out before Texas Pinball Festival. And I'll just say this, it's never a bad time to release an amazing game. And it's never a good time to release a bad game or a theme people don't want."

"I don't think we're going to see the next game until TPF. So over the next two weeks, are we going to see something at Expo from Barrels of Fun that teases their next game?"

"I know that Damien flew first class like not just him, also his family members. When he went to Texas Pinball Festival, do you think they were flying in coach? Nope, they were flying first class tickets to America. Who do you think bought those tickets? Someone on this list who doesn't have a game."

"All right, so that's what's next from Barrels of Fun. I think something nostalgic, I think we're gonna see it sometime around Texas Pinball Festival 2025."

"I think game number two is gonna take place probably around March. I think they're gonna wanna have that game ready for Texas Pinball Festival."

"I think something nostalgic, I think we're gonna see it sometime around Texas Pinball Festival 2025."

"And then we're going to roll into pinball shows with a lot of cash and buy anything we want for 30% cheaper."

"And six months from now, we're all gonna be raising a glass and cheers-ing to feeling better about ourselves, our bodies, our health, our mentality on pinball. And then we can rock into like Expo and TPF and look better."

"I mean, you're going to get more people watching on the internet than you ever would at a live show and then you would save everybody the money of having to fly to Texas to see it. But if you want to do it at TPF, I would love that as well."

"And they successfully destroyed the Pinball Award show and they successfully took away what I believe was the highlight of Texas Pinball Festival. And now they replaced it with nothing."

"I'm not going to do any more award shows, by the way, people. I made it my mind not going to TPF, not doing more award shows. Like as far as I'm concerned, the people who killed those awards, they can live with that, but they ruined what brought a lot of people joy and happiness and pinball."

"And it was a, it was a, you know, it was a colluded effort to do that just so I couldn't say I'm the world's favorite pinball podcaster. And guess what? I sit on the iron throne by myself. I won it six years in a row."

"I made it my mind not going to TPF, not doing more award shows. Like as far as I'm concerned, the people who killed those awards, they can live with that, but they ruined what brought a lot of people joy and happiness and pinball."

"Why do you think Christopher Franchi, his booth at TPF, was right next to Spooky Pinball's booth?"

"Do you know in my 10 years of doing this show, I've never been invited at a pinball show to get in early and play a manufacturer's game. They throw me in there with the rest of the public and I'm trying to get my opinions on a game while I've got some people behind me making me anxious or I've got some jerko in front of me who's playing a four player game and he's just one person."

"All right, so at Texas Pinball Festival, the new games were David Fix's Disaster Barbecue Game. We're going to talk a little bit about that. We had Multi-Morphix, The Princess Bride and as far as like new games go that you've never seen before, that was it. Those were the two main new titles."

"A Texas Pinball Festival without the TWIPYs, but we did get a lot of new games rocking up to the show. We're going to talk about that now."

"And by the way, that build out at TPF where Labyrinth was, absolutely phenomenal build out where they were displaying that game."

"And so here's what I heard from the show. I heard people absolutely don't like this barbecue game by American Pinball. It's an absolute joke. We're not going to spend a lot of time on it."

"And look, I spoke to people who played it with an open mind. They went up to the game and they wanted to walk away after ball number tw"

"Look, I wasn't at the show, so I can't tell you if the show was any good or not, but I'll say this, I've been to enough TPS, I've been to enough Expos. Going to a pinball show is all about hanging out with people."

"the fact that David Fix is bringing this thing to Texas pinball Festival, and he thinks this game is not an embarrassment, it is David, like this game is basic, this game looks like it's $3,000, nobody's really gonna want this game"

"I haven't played the game at Texas, I'm just curious, will this sort of like drawn out narrative storyline, like role playing game kind of storyline, will that work in a pinball machine, where like pinball is super intense, fast action"

"Colin didn't just destroy the TWIPYs, Colin didn't just destroy you and I's ability to hang out at TPF, Colin destroyed the whole thing, This Week in Pinball is dead, the TWIPYs are dead"

"I got people at Texas who have played the Barry Oursler BBQ Challenge, and unanimously, everybody is telling me the game is terrible, I don't know what else to tell you, I don't think the game is any good"

"showing up at Texas Pinball Festival with their new game, Chris Turner and Turner Pinball and their Ninja Eclipse game, you know me, like I don't understand why anybody in their right mind would start a pinball company right now, there's like so many companies, so many games"

"Alright, everybody, this is going to be fun. We're going to go through the years. I'm not sure I'm going to do this on every episode, because I really want to cover what happens at TPF."

"Here's what we're gonna do on this episode of Kaneda's Pinball Podcast. We're waiting for the TPF news. I wanted to do something different."

"Look Texas Pinball Festival is right around the corner. We're going to get a lot more news from the show."

"Well, we're going to get more this week as Texas Pinball Festival happens. I don't think there's going to be any big surprises at the show."

"We haven't seen much activity leading up the Texas Pinball Festival, which is crazy. Usually people are dropping games right now. They're trying to get that early thunder going. Nobody's doing anything."

"Jerry's always had a big presence at the show. It's kind of like his local show. If you don't know this, Multimorphic is located in Texas."

"I think the second game that has the most anticipation over at Texas Pinball Festival is going to be the Princess Bride. Jerry's always had a big presence at the show. It's kind of like his local show."

"So I think this game is going to be unveiled before then. They're not going to wait until then, because then they're going to miss all of the foot traffic on Friday."

"And I'm just going to say something crazy right now. I actually think the first one might be Indiana Jones. I mean it. I think the first one might be Indiana Jones."

"I thought they wanted to bring these games to Texas Pinball Festival. I still think they're going to. I think they're going to be the one company that surprises us and shows up at Texas and pulls the curtain off a BLE Williams remake."

"This company is going to be the laughing stock of the entire pinball world. Saturday, March 15th at 7 o'clock at night at Texas pinball Festival when David Fix gets up there with Maurice."

"Trust me, Stick of Fork in American pinball, 7 o'clock, March 15th, Saturday night at Texas pinball Festival. I will be at my Jameson St. Patrick's Eve party. But trust me, you're going to want to hear my take on this game when I just go off."

"Come March 15th at 7 o'clock at night at Texas Pinball Festival, we're going to talk about that, but let's just go down the horn."

"And unveils to the world the secret sauce of American pinball, which is going to be their barbecue themed pinball machine. It's happening. It is a barbecue themed game and it's Barry Oursler designed. And when we see this, this could be the end of American pinball."

"It's another reason why I'm not going to TPF."

"We're going to talk about, you know, the fact that TPF is right around the corner, it's just what, like three weeks away. What kind of show is it going to be? Is it going to be underwhelming? Is it going to be worth the trip?"