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The pinball community lost one of it’s own last week. David Taylor was an active member of the pinball community and passed away last week after a battle with cancer. He will be missed. RIP David.
— This Week’s Top 5 Stories —
1. Oktoberfest New Info – Special When Lit Podcast
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This last week they interviewed Nirmal Vasani, Lead Sales and Marketing Strategist at American Pinball. He shared some interesting information, including quite a bit on American Pinball’s upcoming pinball machine, Oktoberfest. Below are a few of the highlights from the interview:
(Note: We’re picking up midway through a comment about when they confirmed Oktoberfest at Vancouver Flipout last month…)
Nirmal: …he [Joe Balcer] told everyone about Oktoberfest [at Vancouver Flipout], he showed a picture of the bartender who is hilarious by the way. Jeff [Busch] did a really good job of drawing him as well.
Special When Lit: Is that bartender integrated into the game then?
Nirmal: Yes, yes. He is actually one of the main characters in the game.
SWL: I wanted to talk about that picture from Vancouver too…it looked like someone placed a cell phone at a weird angle…I’ve had some conversations with some of our other colleagues about what we anticipate the playfield might look like…
Nirmal: I think was – was it This Week in Pinball or Straight Down the Middle…that posted “alright people, here’s the picture, guess what’s on it?”
SWL: I can confirm that both of those
