Texas Pinball Festival

"And look, we're three weeks away from them unveiling this game at Texas Pinball Festival. And I'm telling you right now, this game is going to go down with even less enthusiasm than dialed in. It's going to be crickets in the room at Texas Pinball Festival when this game gets unveiled."

"You know me, I can't go this year. I've got a big St. Patrick's Day party with Colin Joust and Michael Shea from Saturday Night Live. We're doing it Saturday, March 16th, right? So Texas Pinball Festival is Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and no TWIPYs means no Kaneda."

"I played it at Texas Pinball Festival and I did notice that the callouts did sound like crap. I didn't want to say anything. It was a loud show. I didn't know if that's why the game was sounding so poorly, but something about it didn't sound right."

"I can't wait to see this game at TPF. If it is a barbecue game, it's going to be the laughing stock of the pinball world. Trust me, that's what it's going to be."

"When you go over like in Elton John, it sounds amazing. When you go over to Jaws, it sounds amazing. The callouts and Jaws sound incredible. And then when you play Pulp Fiction, it sounds tinny."

"And that's okay because you're going to get to play the game at Texas pinball festival and have some fun on it there."

"I miss hanging out with my fans at Perry's steakhouse. That's always my favorite time of that show."

"But look, everybody have a great time in Texas and maybe next year we'll get the TWIPYs back and we'll kick that clown to the curb who destroyed the award shows."

"Now, when I was playing this game at TPF, I did notice that when you really crank the volume, it was very tinny and distorted sounding."

"We've got American Pinball supposedly coming to Texas Pinball Festival with their next title."

"It's been a year since Galactic Tank Force tanked. Nobody's ordering that game, and we all know they're gonna march into Texas with their Berrio Food Truck Barbecue Inspire Dead On Arrival game."

"I really do feel bad for Jack Danger. He should have been up on stage in Texas, having everybody clap and celebrate his inaugural game, Foo Fighters, which was a tremendous pinball launch last year."

"Now, before I get to it, we're also getting some breaking news from Knapp's Arcade, Jason Love Your Brother, and he said that American Pinball might be bringing its next title to Texas Pinball Festival. Well, of course they are."

"I think Jaws Pinball is gonna have a huge presence at Texas Pinball Festival in March."

"So I think Jaws Pinball is gonna have a huge presence at Texas Pinball Festival in March."

"So you're going to have to get this game to shows because if you just put this thing up on the internet, nobody's going to buy this thing. There's no casual person that wakes up and all of a sudden is going to want a Barry Oursler food-based pinball machine."

"So they're obviously gonna use March and Texas Pinball Festival as a chance to get Elton John in front will that help ignite Elton John sales?"

"I think we have to see something new from American Pinball and they have to get a new game out in front of the audiences at TPF and especially the audiences at Midwest Gaming Classic because here's why."

"Then we're going to get this Pedretti Gaming remix of BLE Williams games as we slide towards Texas Pinball Festival. Everybody always seems to drop a bunch of stuff in March."

"They're probably going to announce that they're going to bring it to Texas Pinball Festival. Right? It's March. A year on the anniversary of Galactic Tank Force's release, we're going to get that game."

"Are we going to see a new American pinball game at Texas Pinball Festival? Is the company really for sale?"

"There's a Barry Oursler game coming out in a little over six weeks. Are we going to see a new American pinball game at Texas Pinball Festival?"

"I expect Jerry to show that game for Texas Pinball Festival in March. So another P3 Multimorphic platform game."

"I think we're going to see the first one sometime in March. So in just a couple months, isn't it crazy?"

"We're gonna get Princess Bride from Multimorphic, which we're gonna see at TPF."

"The shows are going to get really fun because a lot of new games are going to come out. There's that period between January and Texas pinball festival where, you know, it's like, all right, like a lot of new stuff starts to happen in pinball."

"There's that period between January and Texas pinball festival where, you know, it's like, all right, like a lot of new stuff starts to happen in pinball."

"I'll be an old man wheeled into the room, right? A Texas pinball festival like 30 years from now. I remember back in the day when collectors editions were just $15,000. I mean, shush, they're going to be like $150,000 by the time I stopped doing this show."

"Remember when March came around and all these companies were making their announcements around Texas Pinball Festival? I was surprised that American pinball with an original IP game would offer one version for $11,500."

"I might do a party at TPF. I might have everybody come over to Perry's Steakhouse at exactly the time the TWIPYs begin and have the greatest pinball media mixer anyone has ever seen."

"Stern either goes early like they did last year in like February, where they went before TPF and they brought out Foo Fighters in front of everybody else's plans. And they kind of screwed over everybody."

"Remember when they made this game, Adam West was still alive. I met him at Texas Pinball Festival. I have a signed Batman flyer with his name on it. So he was heavily involved in this game."

"by texas pinball festival you're going to see elton john LE's for like 9 thousand dollars for 8500 and you're going to see the c e's for 11 thousand dollars"

"If you think about the day that they launched Foo Fighters, remember it was in February and they came out in front of everybody and they shocked everybody with that early February launch of Foo Fighters and they were like the first game to show, right? As we were getting excited about TPF, Stern swooped in and scooped everybody with Foo Fighters."

"I think we're gonna see Spooky Pinball's next game sometime around TPF, sometime around March. And I do think it's gonna be Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Looney Tunes."

"There's not nearly that many games. You're gonna walk around that show in like an hour and have seen it all."

"You've got all these months in a calendar year and you're telling me everybody's going to drop their games on top of TPF and on top of freaking what pinball Expo, which is a tiny show, by the way, for you people going to pinball Expo. It's a small show. It's like not nearly as big as TPF."

"We saw this at Texas Pinball Festival. Stern won that battle before the show even began. With the Foo Fighter game. We got Jersey Jack's Godfather, which flopped."

"We got American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force that flopped. What else did we get at that show? We got Pulp Fiction, which seemingly won over the pinball community."

"They're looking silly and they're waiting for the show. And we saw during COVID, we had some of the hottest pinball sales of all time without a single pinball show, without a single machine arriving at an event."

"We saw it last March. What did Stern do? As everybody was prepping to launch their games at Texas pinball festival, Stern swoops in and launches Foo Fighters and gets thousands of orders and sets the agenda. They control the narrative and everyone else is looking foolish."

"And remember, like people laughed this game off the stage. They laughed this game off the stage because he removed Mechs from the game and then he charged more money."

"Do you think someone who was in the audience when Jack Guarnieri released this game for 12-5 and laughed in his face? Do you think someone who witnessed that in April of 2021, April Fool's Day for all these newbies, a Wizard of Oz Yellowbrick Road edition sold for $19,000?"

"So remember when Jersey Jack announced the Yellow Brick Road edition of Wizard of Oz? I was there. He did it at TPF. He took out the monkey mechanism."

"The intention is to have a Kingpin available for play for the entire Texas Pinball Festival and to build significantly more than just the test machine they are bringing to TPF. The plan is for production in late 2018 or early 2019. Early 2019, that will be freaking five years ago when we get to the next freaking TPF."

"Now, this was the gentleman who did elf pinball that he's been bringing around to the shows. He's making this game for commercial release. I think the plan is to make four of these for Texas Pinball Festival."

"I think the plan is to make four of these for Texas Pinball Festival. And I'm just here to tell you right now, Tilt Bob, I don't know how many you want to make of these, but if you're going to make this game with that artwork and I get it, I get what you're going for some campy, all original thing."

"I heard the rooms for Texas Pinball Festival sold out in like two minutes. So yeah, for everyone out there saying like, oh, pinball is losing its momentum, like people are going to be leaving this hobby. They're not."

"And those guys with money, they don't want to go to pinball expo. They don't want to go to Texas Pinball Festival."

"Why did they announce it? It wasn't like it was an anniversary. It didn't have to be at TPF. I mean, they might as well have brought it to TPF 2024."