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Turbo Force - Episode 157

Podouken · February 25, 2026

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01:07:55 - 01:08:55

the true thing like it's it's almost sad sometimes because we we know collectors yeah and there's some collectors that it's going to disappear into their house for decades and never be enjoyed either them their close family members or occasional friends are going to be the only ones who get to play it sometimes it's just them yeah i mean we know people that just hoard stuff i played a lord of the rings and nobody ever goes there i played a lord of the rings pinball when my wife bought her freddie kruger that had 27 plays on it you and i do that in in jared's come up you help me unbox star wars within the first 10 minutes i think had 27 plays huh because we're that bad we're horrible at pinball but like we don't have that mindset i don't think i could ever buy a game to just have yeah like i'm gonna play it like i don't know well lord of the rings though let's be fair that those 27 plays represented i was at least seven hours of game play i was played 28 on it because i was buying a game he let me play it dude it was incredible but yeah

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... and hit not broken and putting them up there and it's tough man but i always try to like take myself out and go well they're meant to be played they're not meant to sit in my house and be played the true thing like it's it's almost sad sometimes because we we know collectors yeah and there's some collectors that it's going to disappear into their house for decades and never be enjoyed either them their close family members or occasional friends are going to be the only ones who get to play it sometimes it's just them yeah i mean we know people that just hoard stuff i played a lord of the rings and nobody ever goes there i played a lord of the rings pinball when my wife bought her freddie kruger that had 27 plays on it you and i do that in in jared's come up you help me unbox star wars within the first 10 minutes i think had 27 plays huh because we're that bad we're horrible at pinball but like we don't have that mindset i don't think i could ever buy a game to just have yeah like i'm gonna play it like i don't know well lord of the rings though let's be fair that those 27 plays represented i was at least seven hours of game play i was played 28 on it because i was buying a game he let me play it dude it was incredible but yeah your stuff you you know you've got we've had your neo here for a while we have your miss pack man yeah yeah and your tna yeah tna that's still working on that one yeah that is one that i guess would fall under this category a lot of that's just it's not necessarily the money thing it's ...

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01:08:05 - 01:08:56

some collectors that it's going to disappear into their house for decades and never be enjoyed either them their close family members or occasional friends are going to be the only ones who get to play it sometimes it's just them yeah i mean we know people that just hoard stuff i played a lord of the rings and nobody ever goes there i played a lord of the rings pinball when my wife bought her freddie kruger that had 27 plays on it you and i do that in in jared's come up you help me unbox star wars within the…

01:00:31 - 01:02:18

so i won't be able to focus on like the fun right i feel like and correct me if i'm wrong but because i don't own an arcade but i feel like that happens regardless because as a collector like you notice things so like if i go in and i'm like oh i'm just gonna play a game but i flip stuff on and something's up and it can be something minor i can be playing a pinball and be like i just hit that post and there's a little bit more wiggle than i'd like i need to take the glass off and tighten down everything so that…

01:18:41 - 01:19:15

i did get the email that hey the f zero ax still up and running yes it is it is oh yeah we definitely we definitely still get that well i think there's like a handful of those on location in the country there's not many of them out there is there's a mapping service for it much like ddr and there's not that many locations available for it yeah so come to flipping gray pinball on tallahassee florida play some f zero arcade yeah well cool i appreciate you guys letting me uh finally talk about space lamborghinis…

00:40:11 - 00:40:45

rights for that little to produce games which is probably about the value of uh 91 luxus yeah i was gonna say does that kind of bum you out that we could have it absolutely pull our money together and we could have owned the ip for 600 bucks that's less than the new pinball game a base pro model this is after they after they ported uh turbo force so maybe turbo force struck again and devalued the company uh but yeah they they bought the the zero dive purchased it from city connection for for a million yen that's…

01:16:09 - 01:16:43

tried to do is like okay listen we know each of us likes different things each of us likes more of one thing than the other but let's try to be representative of good games of all genres in all eras and i think we've done a good job of that i think so i we've we've gotten a little more um we've got a little modern heavy on the pinball side well i mean i i think people like that though a lot of people kind of sour on the older stuff they're wrong for doing so we need more 90s pens i agree we need more ems um…

01:05:00 - 01:05:33

their rings on and they're hitting the you know the powder coated farmer uh lock down bar and side rails and so you just gotta kind of let that stuff go yeah and then i've already broken rules before i was like well i'm never putting my centaur out on the floor that was not on the floor dude that's one of my favorite i forget i think was pinball help came in he's like a youtube guy has a pretty big channel and he came in he's like oh i'm gonna look at the games he goes oh centaur on the floor you never see that…

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