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For Amusement Only EM and Bingo Pinball Podcast

Detailing EM and Bingo pinball features, gameplay, and repair techniques.

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What are the main things to consider when looking at your first bingo? Condition is king, but if you are like I was at first, you'd never seen one of these before.
Episode 25 - What to look for in a Bingo


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How to disassemble and clean a drop target bank, and how drop targets are typically constructed. Not mentioned: how much I dislike solid state Williams drop targets.
Episode 26 - Drop Targets


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How to break down and transport a game, then how to reassemble and start cleaning!
Episode 27 - Transporting a Game


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When your bingo doesn't count replays approporiately, what do you do? Manual, schematics and observation are a help, but knowing the units involved will set you on the right path faster.
Episode 28 - Bingo Scoring Problems


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How does a bingo know to lock you out of features after shooting a certain ball? How does it know _not_ to lock you out if you are able to reach the ball return without landing in a trap hole?
Episode 29 - Timing is Everything


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High voltage can hurt or even kill you. This is a warning about how to identify high voltage in your machine at a glance and the super easy way you can avoid getting hurt. Your health is more important than getting a game running.
Episode 30 - High Voltage


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What's the point of shaking a machine? How much is too much? How do you know? Are bingos games of skill or games of chance? Can older games make you a better player?
Episode 31 - The Gentlemanly Art of Nudging


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Ramps, lighted scoring, DC-driven coils, multi-level playfields - all were children of the 1930s, and continue to inform today's games.
Episode 32 - 1930s Innovation


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I interview Phil Hooper, creator and maintainer of http://bingo.cdyn.com, the Internet's source for technical information on Bally and United bingos. Phil conducted this interview on 4/5/15 via email.
Episode 33 - Phil Hooper Interview 4-5-15


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Another new pickup! Gigi described - gameplay to follow after I shop it. I describe how to perform adjustments on an EM game.
Episode 34 - Gigi and EM Adjustments


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I talk with my friend Clark Fraley, who is a technician for an operator. Clark has been with me on a couple of pick ups now, and is a great guy to boot. Interviewed after we moved my new bingo and played for a bit. I hope to have him on again soon(ish) to discuss his upcoming acquisition!
Episode 35 - Clark Fraley Interview 4/12/15


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Description of the gameplay of the 6 card Bally Ticker Tape and the current status of my project Gigi.
Episode 36 - Ticker Tape Gameplay and Gigi Status


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Bzzzzt! What makes the machine tilt? There are many tilt innovations that occurred after the 30s (when the plumb bob tilt mechanism was invented), and several interesting tilt innovations in Bally's bingos.
Episode 37 - TILT


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Cleaning the ball arch on a metal rail EM is important, though no one but you will ever know!
Episode 38 - Ball Arch Cleaning


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Arcing in a pinball machine - sometimes unavoidable, almost always bad. Why it happens, how to stop it, and how to look for it. Also: Our first listener question answered on the air!
Episode 39 - Arcing


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Discussion of the only hack I found in Ticker Tape - the operator had disabled the 4 corner scoring feature. I fixed this afternoon, then Ava and I played many rounds together.
Episode 40 -Ticker Tape Hacks


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Older pinball machines used bells as the only sound (aside from the coils and noises of the machine).
Episode 41 - For Whom the Bell Tolls


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Chime boxes in EMs - everyone has an opinion and a preference, and I'm no exception.
Episode 42 - Ding Ding Ding


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Interview with the EM Dungeonmaster himself, James Willing from the Spooky Pinball Podcast.
Episode 43 - Interview with James Willing 04-21-15


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Rockola was a jukebox manufacturer, and got into pin games (along with every other company, it seems) in the 1930s. During this decade, they produced one of the most beautiful, elegant games ever created.
Episode 44 - 1937 World Series by Rockola


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My partially parted out Gigi project is now working! I detail the gameplay and fun with Gottlieb coin circuits (they hate me).
Episode 45 - Gigi Gameplay


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Vic Camp (the passionate bingo pinball player and collector) sits down with me to talk about his time playing bingos on route in New Jersey.
Episode 46 - Interview with Vic Camp 4-25-15


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A listener asks a multi-part question regarding purchasing advice for a new bingo.
Episode 47 - A Listener Question


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If this one sounds like it stops abruptly, that's because I'm sleepy, and it's a two-parter! How to care for your backglass if it has deteriorated.
Episode 48 - EM Backglass Preservation


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Issues unique to backglass deterioration on Bally bingos.
Episode 49 - Bingo Backglass Preservation


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