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."

"And then they had like Matt Andrews make the artwork on the Houdini machine and they brought that whole playfield to like Texas Pinball Festival. Do people forget the history of this company?"

"Why did these companies even bother going to Texas Pinball Festival if they could not even get games frequently into the hands of customers? And it's three months later. 90 days ago, you showed us your product."

"All these manufacturers came to TPF, showed us their product, said, give me your money now, and you're going to get your pinball machines. And here we are. It's like mid-June."

"Instead, you're gonna spend a few thousand dollars, a thousand dollars, $2,000 and have like nothing but a headache coming out of, like it's just, it makes no sense to me."

"When I was at TPF, I've spent as little time as possible on the show floor because it's exhausting. It's overwhelming. I feel bad for my vendor friends. It's not fun."

"I just have fun hanging out at Perry's Steakhouse talking pinball, but if that's the case game, I'd rather you guys fly to New York City, let's spend three days here talking pinball at better restaurants, at better bars, have more to do, and then we could go to Jack Bar and play pinball"

"We also saw this with Scooby-Doo. I would go to shows like TPF and there'd be like five Scooby-Doo's there and you could buy it and take it home that day. But man, imagine if you order Scooby-Doo and your game's a year and a half away and you could just go to a pinball show by the game and have it that weekend."

"When I was at Texas pinball Festival, they had a Batman SLE there and it was beat to crap. I mean, totally beat the crap all over the machine and you could easily take photos that hide the damage on the machine."

"He said people walked by him at Texas Pinball Festival and didn't realize how great Celts was. And they sold some Celts machines. And now he's going to make more Celts machines at the end of the year with the fathom builds."

"Why is he spending money, him and Marty spending money to fly to Texas Pinball Festival? Why? Why are you at Texas? Why you should be back there building games every single day that you are behind on your build orders."

"Why are you in Texas smiling, kissing babies, signing autographs when you've got tons of games to make? I don't find it funny. I don't think it's cute. I don't think you deserve to be at a pinball show doing any sort of victory lap with your game that you have people that have waited for almost a year to get their game that they paid in full for."

"Now I've watched a lot of gameplay footage on this machine, I've played the game at Texas Pinball Festival and I don't think if you go premium or LE on this game you are going to be experiencing a lack of flow."

"and I was thinking about all the new games we just saw at Texas Pinball Festival, and if you ask a question like, where is the innovation, or who is doing stuff that's radically new with any of these machines, and the answer is none of it. Like there is nothing really innovative happening anywhere in pinball."

"I was thinking about all the new games we just saw at Texas Pinball Festival, and if you ask a question like, where is the innovation, or who is doing stuff that's radically new with any of these machines, and the answer is none of it. Like there is nothing really innovative happening anywhere in pinball."

"I wanna see Ryan McQuaid's game because I do feel Ryan's a little smug. I mean I saw him at TPF, designer of Sonic Spinball. Okay bro you're not making Sonic Spinball."

"They've been shepherding this game around Texas pinball Festival. It's now about to go to MGC. Why is it so hard for them to ship one of these games?"

"Pulp Fiction LE was the hit of Texas Pinball Festival. It had the longest lines. It's got such great hype."

"Everybody wants Pulp Fiction LE. Pulp Fiction LE was the hit of Texas Pinball Festival. It had the longest lines. It's got such great hype."

"Texas pinball festival is amazing. It is so much fun It is two days non-stop of partying and pinball and people and that's the best way to describe the show"

"So when you finally get up to a machine and you want to play it and you want to experience it You are not going to experience the machine in the right way It's hard to hear the music the call-outs everything about it This is not the ideal format for how to immerse yourself in a brand new pinball machine"

"I want to thank everybody that came to the Perry's happy hour. I mean it was amazing Friday from 2 to 4 30 I reserved a section for 20 people by the end of that happy hour We were about 50 people strong and I was so happy to pick up the tab for each and every one of you"

"I literally landed in the airport and Derek picked me up in his Porsche GTS electric car and yes Derek the GTS is nicer than the base level and he drove me right to Paris and then the happy hour Started right away So my show got off to a bang"

"From behind the paywall, Kaneda's Pinball Podcast, thanks to each and every one of you, we have gone 6 for 6 in the Chwipies, And I am so ecstatic. It was so fun sipping champagne on the first-class flight back to New York City with that TWIPY in hand and I just want to say this going to Texas and Celebrating with each and every one of you who was there"

"This is not the ideal format for how to immerse yourself in a brand new pinball machine And that is why I think these manufacturers when they're dealing with people like Kaneda and Cary Hardy and other content creators They should really invite us to a more intimate moment"

"you know who was the rudest to me at the entire show I'm just gonna be honest because I went up to him and said hey Mike Mike Vinicor over at stern pinball just was so rude to me at the beginning of the TWIPY's and I was so taken aback by how rude he was to me"

"I reserved a section for 20 people by the end of that happy hour We were about 50 people strong and I was so happy to pick up the tab for each and every one of you"

"This is what pinball is all about and I mean it when I say it when I get up on stage It's not about the machines themselves anymore It's about each and every one of us and how these machines have brought us together From all over the world"

"Here's the one thing that's really challenging when it comes to a pinball show like Texas It is really hard to get immersed into the games the show itself is so loud Everything is going at the same time Imagine trying to go to a car show and every car is revving its engines at the same time That is what TPF is like."

"I'm not going to get a warm reception by a lot of these companies at Texas pinball festival I don't care I don't care"

"they canceled John's game at jack bar he didn't get it nobody is getting the games dropped off on location the week of TPF this is going to be a very make or break moment for this game at Texas pinball festival"

"Now look, I feel good I get to play this game soon at Jack Bar. I'm going to play it soon at Texas Pinball Festival."

"And I think the reason why is he's gonna have this game on location in a few places, and I think he wants to have this game like in Chicago, in New York, like in different locations while Texas Pinball Festival is going on."

"I am super excited to play all of these games. I have not played any of these new games and you know, Kaneda, I'm not the best pinball player but I really can't wait to jump on each of these machines."

"I think he wants to have this game like in Chicago, in New York, like in different locations while Texas Pinball Festival is going on. So that's what I think is gonna happen."

"Alright so this is it. So bad and clean up is Galactic Tank Force and now everyone's sights are on TPF. I'm headed to TPF."

"If David Fix is gonna hold the reveal till Wednesday of this week, he might as well just hold it till Friday and reveal the game at Texas Pinball Festival. Like you're just two days away from this huge festival."

"Don't travel and do any victory lap until you're done building the freaking games. Or there's someone back at the factory building the freaking games."

"Do me a favor. When you see him at Texas, be like, hey Marty, how's War of the Worlds coming along? Just scream it as loud as you can and see his reaction."

"The word on the street is that American Pinball is going to release this game the week leading up to Texas Pinball Festival. Well, guess what? It is the week leading up to Texas Pinball Festival."

"I almost find it borderline offensive that he's going to have a booth at TPF and spend money to show us that freaking whitewood. What's wrong with people?"

"I find it offensive. I almost find it borderline offensive that he's going to have a booth at TPF and spend money to show us that freaking whitewood."

"I was talking to Kim and Ed. They're so nice. I can't wait to get the TPF. They've set me up with a media badge."

"Why is Haggis pinball even flying to TPF? Why would they spend any money flying to TPF? When they have all of these fathoms to make?"

"Scott Danesi's new Multimorphic game, which everyone's already forgotten about. Final Resistance. Jerry, what were you thinking? They just dropped this game out in the middle of all of these crowded reveals, and all of a sudden nobody cares about Scott Danesi's new game."

"But this game is also going to be at Texas Pinball Festival, alongside Galactic Tank Force, alongside Scooby-Doo, and Foo Fighters, and Godfather, and all these games, and Queen, I mean, the list goes on and on and on."

"From two o'clock to four thirty So we will have two and a half hours To mingle Get some snacks get some drinks have some fun Hang out with each other. the reason why it ends at 4 30 is is is we're there's going to be A american pinball seminar at five. I think jersey jack is at half. So you won't miss anything"

"So this the friday of TPF. I believe it's march 24th I will be hosting a Kaneda club Hangout at perry steakhouse, which is right across the street from the show. It's like it's less than a two minute walk"

"Anyone who takes the cargo short joke seriously or is offended by it, and if you wear cargo shorts, I think everybody, the Kaneda Army, we should wear as many, it should be the cargo shorts happy hour, like, it's not funny."

"I need to book my flights to Texas. I need to call Perry Steakhouse and secure the happy hour, the Kaneda happy hour on Friday."