Brokentoken Classic Arcade And Pinball Podcast

Monthly gameroom, project and personal updates abound! We talk to Victor and Tori Marland from Tenpence Aracde podcast, Jeremy and Matt Fleitz from the Louisville Arcade Expo, discuss SpiderMan Vault Edition, spend Brent's money and review Star Wars - The Force Awakens! The post Episode 37–Not Quite Siskel & Ebert first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

December 2015 It wouldn’t be proper if we didn’t take reverence for this time of year and reflect a bit The post Episode 36–Merry Christmas!! There’s a 906 stuck in your ball trough first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

November 2015 As we roll out of Thanksgiving and officially into the Christmas holiday season, it’s a good time of The post Episode 35 – I color-matched the GI! first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

As we bring October 2015 to a close, it’s time to start looking towards the upcoming holidays, time with family and friends and hopefully some quality game restoration time! We’re definitely looking forward to the same and to help kick off ‘our favorite time of the year’ we have a new episode to help get you through some of that oh-so-quiet garage time applying bondo and huffing magic eraser suds. :) One thing that never ceases to amaze is just how much you can accomplish, even on a short schedule. Both Brent and I were on the road most of the month for work and vacation, yet we still managed to cover off on a lot of topics: Brent goes to Disney and gives us the low-down on Disney Quest, he makes some great progress on the Burgertime and gives the Big Guns the boot. Whitney gets another Satan’s Hollow, wishes he had worked on the Zoo Keeper, laments starting on the Rally-X and almost drops an R-Type to its death. Add to that we cover off on everything you’d ever want to know about rebuilding a G07, respond t

Fall is in the air and with that comes the upcoming Holidays, family time and (hopefully) some good garage and playing time, as well. Speaking of playing, it’s an interesting point to consider – if you could have any arcade games you wanted, what would make the cut on your top-10 list? Brent and I answer that question this month and dive into the titles that win out over all others. It’s a fun and lively discussion and it’s a segment we’ve been meaning to do for months and we’re happy to slot it in for this episode. Personally - I was glad to see that Brent loves Donkey Kong so much… I knew he’d eventually come around. Once Brent came down off his Donkey Kong high, we were able to get back to business and discuss some game room updates, new reproduction parts for this month, respond to a TON of feedback (thank you!!), do a mini-review of the movie Pixels and we learn a little about Brent’s multi-game cabinet… great story and one that will certainly hit home for anyone who shares the hobby with their family

August 2015 Are you ready for another 4.5 hours of “arcade goodness”?  Not really?!?!  Ready or not, episode 32 is The post Episode 32 – If I knew it, I forgot it first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

July 2015 We *finally* get back in our (studio) groove this month and stretch our legs a bit now that The post Episode 31 – A Trifecta of Fail first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

June 2015 It’s our big (ok, not really *that* big) 30th episode and we’re in the studio catching up from The post Episode 30–Not Really, But Kinda Yes… first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

This is the fifth and final episode in our coverage of the 2015 Louisville Arcade Expo and we’re excited to be bringing you this very special interview with David Crane. The post Episode 29 – 1To1 with David Crane first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

This is the fourth episode in our coverage of the 2015 Louisville Arcade Expo and we are proud to bring you the audio (and video) from the David Crane seminar entitled “The Internal Magic of the Atari 2600”. The post Episode 28–The Internal Magic of the Atari 2600 first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

This is the third of a whopping five special episodes that encompass our live coverage of the 2015 Louisville Arcade Expo! This show’s format is what I’d like to think of as “unplugged” as we camped out in a hotel room with the mics and portable recorders and 12+ people joined in on the fun where some beers were consumed, gaming was the topic and the Expo was the backdrop. It was a great time and is something we’d definitely like to do more of. The post Episode 27 – It’s Happy Hour (and then some)! first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

This is the second of a whopping five special episodes that encompass our live coverage of the 2015 Louisville Arcade Expo! This show was recorded live on Saturday night, March 7th, 2015 and includes coverage from the expo floor and several sit-in guest interviews from friends of the show (Shawn & Sharon O'Shea, Steve Ridge, Patrick Wall (sons Andrew & Davis) from GameroomJunkies, David Paul (sons Ben & Jason ) from LifeUnderGlass) that were in attendance, as well as Whitney's daughter Grace and Michael Ridge! The post Episode 26 – Saturday Night Live from the 2015 Louisville Arcade Expo first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

April 1st is a day of jokes, gags and fun so Brent and I decided it would be the perfect opportunity to poke some fun at ourselves and compile a collection of outtakes from previous episodes, as well as some bloopers from some of our past live shows! It takes a lot of mistakes to make up a show episode (trust us, we generate tons of them every month) but we picked some of the best for everyone to enjoy and thought it neat to put out a mini-show between regular episodes. We trust you’ll get a few laughs at our expense (as it should be) and enjoy the show. We’re holding a few more back (hey, we wanna put together a 2x show for next year!) so rest assured there’s more then enough tomfoolery (#20dollarword) to go around! The post Episode 25 – Hear the Fool, Be the Fool, LOVE the Fool! first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

This is the first of a whopping five special episodes that encompass our live coverage of the 2015 Louisville Arcade Expo! This show was recorded live on Friday night, March 6th, 2015 and includes live coverage from the show floor and several sit-in guest interviews from friends of the show that were in attendance. The post Episode 24 – Friday Night Live from the 2015 Louisville Arcade Expo first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

*whew*... we just barely made it in under the "short month" deadline for this episode.. weather here in KY has been nothing short of "tough" the past several weeks and getting together to record has been a bit of a challenge due to that. BUT - we found a decent day break in the -10 temperatures and took advantage of it and had a blast putting together this month's show. The post Episode 23 – My Bucket Runneth Empty first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

We're ringing in 2015 with a bit of flair by way of some updates to the podcast, and we trust that everyone is as excited as we are for some of the changes we're making for the New Year! With the Holidays now squarely behind us, we take some time to revisit the year for a bit and also cover what we've been up to for the past month - which turned into far, far more than either of us had originally thought. I've (Whitney) been hammering on the ZooKeeper resto project and cabbaging as many tube swap candidates that I can find. Brent on the other hand has been BUSY.. so much so that I thought we'd have to split his updates out into a separate episode! Speaking of, he goes on the road for our first interview - New Years Eve @ The Place, Retro Arcade and not only talks with owner Cary Chaney and world-record holder Estel Goffinet (and laments why arcade games just don't seem to like him very much) as well as some of the most important (and often under-appreciated) people in the hobby - Arcade Wives! In an intervi

January 2015 We’re kicking off the new year in a massive way by sitting in with legendary Pinball designer, John The post Episode 21 – An Evening with John Trudeau first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

Merry Christmas everyone! This episode sees us amazing even ourselves on the sheer amount of content we can pack into a single month’s episode. In short, this month’s show should easily outlast even the longest of ‘Griswold-esque’ family get-togethers and equal about 2.7 stocking stuffers! The post Episode 20 – Welcome To My Intervention first appeared on Brokentoken.com.

We’re back in the studio to recap all things related to Pinball Expo 2014 where we run through all the announcements, give our thoughts on everything we saw and discuss the most notable parts of the show. We then discuss what we’ve been working on in-between travels over the past month and Brent recaps his progress on the Burgertime Project (the winner in the “Put Brent to work” poll) while Whitney finally (*finally*) gets one of the games he’s been after for years (a grail?!?!?) – Zoo Keeper! We are fortunate this month, as we have two interviews – our first guest is Andrew Heighway of Heighway Pinball and we talk about all things related to Full Throttle and get some info on the upcoming Alien Pinball. Gerry Stellenberg of Multimorphic Pinball sits down with Brent for our second interview and discusses the P3 pinball platform while we get some scoop on Lexi Lightspeed and Cosmic Cart Racing! We announce the winner of our first listener contest, play some voicemail, respond to some feedback and talk a bit

This is part 3 of 3 of our coverage from Pinball Expo 2014. This episode is a recording of our livestream show on Saturday, October 18th, where we recap the weekend and talk through everything we’ve seen and what really sticks as we wrap up the expo. We talk about several of the more unique games at Expo, we give EM’s some love and talk about the afternoon’s autograph session (where Whitney goes all fanboi for Steve Richie). We also spend some time talking to Patrick Wall from Gameroom Junkies to get his input on the expo as well as listener Shawn O’Shea - who gifted us with some awesome #FAARPARR shirts during the podcasters panel and was a big help to us over the weekend. The post Episode 18 – Whole Lotta Pinball Going On first appeared on Brokentoken.com.