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Pintastic NE 2026 Videos of the Day: Tuckey, Tuckey and more Todd Tuckey

Posted: April 27, 2026 by datechguy in business, fun, pinball, special events
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If you have to point a finger at who is responsible for the rise in popularity of Pinball in the 21st century in general and over the last decade in particular you won’t go too wrong wagging a finger at Todd Tuckey of TNT amusements whose video promotions of his business and unique style predates youtube.

I’ve interviewed him several times over the last decade but at this year’s pintastic I did something different and interviewed him with a couple of his many fans.

I had intended only the one interview but he recorded a special video for their children about the pinball machine they were buying and my coverage of it turned into a 2nd interview and a shameless plug for myself:

Their kids will be watching that video long after we are dead and gone and say: “My parents knew Todd Tuckey!”

I also shot some of his seminar, because of limited battery and limited space on my camera I only managed part of it but on his own TNT Amusements site they have the full thing:

Part 1 of 2

Part 2 of 2

For those unaware these seminars run on Friday and Saturday and include all kinds of interesting pinball stuff.

His youtube channel is here.

His site is here.

And since we had a shameless plug on the video let me add one more. I’m currently 13 subscribers away from being able to monetize youtube. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal but I lose my job in ten days. If you want to help soften the blow please consider subscribing to my youtube channel.

Of course if you choose to hit DaTipJar I won’t complain either.

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Pintastic NE 2026 Videos of the Day: Pixels and Pinballs & EMP Pinball

Posted: April 24, 2026 by datechguy in business, fun, pinball, special events
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The single most important thing about Pintastic NE are of course the pinball machines that people bring for others to play. The various pinball clubs (There were 4 at the convention) all brought their own machines for their club rooms. The extra ball lounge consists of games brought by Gabe  D’Annunzio (whose interview will be the final Pintastic blog post I make in this series) and I’ve already talked about Tycoon Pinball out of NH and the games they brought.

But when it comes down to sheer volume of games EMP Pinball (Electromagnetic Pinball Museum) annually knocks it out of the park

You really need to go to Pawtucket and check them out: I never got a chance to talk to Michael & Emily this year as they were even more flat out than normal but as I mentioned in this video there are plenty of such interviews by me over the last decade that you can find. (Here is one from Pintastic 2021)

But one thing that you don’t see as much from EMP are the brand new games and that’s where the vendors who sell those new games come in. I talked to Matt one of those vendors. He just purchased Pixels and Pinball who had a bunch of new machines:

You can find Pixels and Pinball’s web site here.

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Pintastic NE 2026 Videos of the Day: Leo Reinhart & Maggie the Clown two Artists in Action at Pintastic NE

Posted: April 23, 2026 by datechguy in culture, entertainment, fun, pinball, special events
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I have maintained that Pinball is an art, there is the actual artwork on the machines. The physical design of the machines, the art of the programing, the art of the story.

Today’s videos are of two different artists. One new to Pintastic Leo Reinhart:

I think it’s very appropriate for a pinball convention having a piece of art with balls being moved via gravity causing things to react. If they were pinballs instead of marbles it would have been perfect.

Our 2nd artist is someone who we have featured before and has been with Pintastic NE since the very start, our old friend Maggie the Clown:

As Pintastic has gotten bigger the number of kids have increased so Maggie becomes an even more important part of the show on Saturdays. She still owns the camera every time I see her there.

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Pintastic NE 2026 Video of the Day: Cardona Pinball Designs Fish Tales Mod

Posted: April 22, 2026 by datechguy in fun, pinball, special events
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Yesterday we showed a video of a mod to an old EM Pinball machine. Today we see a significant mod to a much newer pinball machine, the excellent Fish Tales:

Cardona’s website is here.

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