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BONUS X!! Who is the Rizzler of Pinball??

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In BONUS X2, Matt and Don catch up about Pulp Fiction, Popeye, and Ripley’s. Then it’s time for ‘Education Hour’ where we’ll learn about fancy new Gen A slang, including the secret identity of the...

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Highlights

  • Ripley's Believe It or Not seems to represent when Stern started cutting costs, with an average playfield lacking interesting mechanical features despite Pat Lawlor design and fast shooting action
  • Cardona Pinball's 2.0 kits (for No Good Gofers and Black Rose) feature entirely new code, display, backglass, sound, and audio while reusing the existing playfield
  • Cardona Pinball 2.0 kits cost approximately $2,000
  • The Popeye machines at Super Abari in Charlotte and PinFest have different playfield layouts, particularly affecting the right-side shot to the upper playfield
  • Don grew up with delayed media exposure (1-10 years behind) due to Spanish dubbing in Panama, effectively experiencing 1970s-1980s content during the 1990s

Notable quotes

“If I could get this game for $4,000 and I could get Fire for $2,500, I would say get Ripley's. Come up with the extra $1,500 and get yourself a Ripley's because it's way, way, way better than Fire”
“I'm interested. I'm the target audience for this 2.0 kit. It didn't... I couldn't even tell if it would have been fun because the game played so poorly and was so dirty. If they want to show off their product, that was not the way to do it.”
“The Rizzler. In my head now, that's what he's called. The Rizzler.”
“Ferngully, man. That's animated, right? ... That was actually my favorite movie for a long time... a huge movie in Panama. Yeah. I came here and no one had ever seen it.”
Don
“I kind of grew up in the 80s... And also the 70s for cartoons. So I think I grew up in the 80s.”
Don

Entities

  • Cardona Pinball· company
  • PinFest· event
  • Black Rose· game
  • Cirqus Voltaire· game
  • Last Action Hero· game
  • No Good Gofers· game
  • Popeye· game
  • Pulp Fiction· game
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not!· game
  • Ferngully: The Last Rainforest· movie
  • Bash Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Don· person
  • Don's wife· person
  • Matt· person
  • Pat Lawlor· person
  • Super Abari· venue

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