Episode 158 - PAX West 2026 Day Two

This week Ben recounts his second-day experiences at PAX West this year. Along with a pair of wonderful interview segments, this episode features a video game-centric soliloquy about aardvark heroes, video pinball games and simulators, a bevy of facts about foreign and domestic mechanical pinball machines, Eric Sloane’s illustrated works, and living off the land in nature with a talking campfire. *** 00:00:29 - Nerder She Wrote, Cubicorn Games, Super Cucumber, and Steam page deets 00:04:25 - An interview with Dustin about Cubicorn’s latest game Super Cucumber 00:19:51 - Pinball-inspired video games, lots of Zaccaria trivia, and video pinball thoughts 00:25:30 - Generations of tables, feels like a money grab, and Ben’s favorite simulators  00:29:05 - Current manufacturers, meeting the Stern creative team, and table tier breakdown 00:32:36 - An interview with Keith Elwin, the designer of the Fallout pinball machine by Stern 00:42:06 - Little Buffalo Studios, Eric Sloane art memories, and an Akiiwan game summary 00:46:27 - Fin *** Follow Two Vague on… Our website: https://www.twovaguepodcast.com On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/two_vague_podcast On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twovaguepodcast On Substack: https://twovaguepodcast.substack.com/ On Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twovaguepodcast.com For show appearances and other inquiries, contact us at [email protected] -AND-  …for all of your PRI and 2VP merch, check out the Partly Robot Industries store at TEEPUBLIC! https://www.teepublic.com/user/partly-robot-industries *** References, Links, and Tags Super Cucumber by Cubicorn Games and marketed by Nerder She Wrote https://www.nerdershewrote.com/ https://cubicorngames.com/Default.aspx https://store.steampowered.com/app/522290/Super_Cucumber/ https://youtu.be/xaHBX25uFNc?si=2QJaOTsKsyK3dYrs The Fallout pinball machine by Stern Pinball https://www.sternpinball.com/game/fallout/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDKsGeBKF94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SquqtbOZRw Akiiwan: Relaxing Survival by Little Buffalo Studios https://littlebuffalostudios.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3673960/Akiiwan_Relaxing_Survival/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tISMFb-mqaY   #Podbean #DIYPodcast #ApplePodcast #VideoGames #Trivia #Comedy #Talkshow #2VP #TwoVaguePodcast #InterviewShow #Gamer #PartlyRobot #PartlyRobotIndustries #CubicornGames #SuperCucumber #SternPinball #AkiiwanRelaxingSurvival #LittleBuffaloStudios #PAXWest #PAXWest2026