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Pinfest Part 2! Texas Chainsaw, Princess Bride!

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This is part two of the Pinfest show where Matt got to play the brand new Spooky games Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Looney Tunes! Also at Pinfest were Barry O’s BBQ Challenge and the new Multimorphic...

Highlights

  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Looney Tunes from Spooky share the same basic playfield, shots, ramps, toys and mechanisms
  • Barry O's Barbecue Challenge is a tribute to Barry Oursler, who passed away recently and may have died before the game was finished
  • Looney Tunes felt more forgiving and easier than Texas Chainsaw Massacre despite sharing the same playfield
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre is probably the first version Spooky designed, with Looney Tunes as the afterthought
  • Princess Bride is a Multimorphic game with a standard cabinet priced around $11,500 and kit-only option starting at $3,700
  • Princess Bride premium kit costs around $5,000 just for the kit
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Looney Tunes are not as mechanically ambitious as other Spooky games, lacking three-layer upper playfields
  • Gottlieb's Bad Girls playfield and art/music are nearly identical copies of Michael Jackson's Bad Album
  • Princess Bride playfield design feels cramped with miniaturized shots crammed into a small back area due to LCD screen taking up two-thirds of the cabinet
  • Multimorphic's Princess Bride has scoop mechanisms that pop up and drop down across the back of the playfield

Notable quotes

Both Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Looney Tunes from Spooky are not unlike Halloween and Ultraman in that they are the same basic play field. All the shots and ramps and toys and mechanisms and stuff are the same.
Matt
They say that they had different teams doing the code and the rules and animations and all that stuff. So they're different... Looney Tunes was the easier game. I had longer games on Looney Tunes I was progressing easier.
Matt
I'd probably gravitate more towards Texas Chainsaw, but also like that movie's gross... it's pretty gross of all the horror franchises... pretty nasty... constant references to eating people and body parts. Yeah, yeah. It's very over the top.
Matt
I almost wish there was like a middle ground theme between looney tunes... I don't see myself like ever wanting to own either of those themes.
Matt
These both felt more polished than any other spooky games that I've played... they were really fun to shoot... it was like the Keith Elwin version of a spooky game.
Matt
I love Princess Bride. I remember everything from that movie. I must have seen it 50 times when I was a kid... The six-fingered man. I will go up to the six-fingered man and say, Hello. My name is Yenigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Don
I wish anybody other than Multimorphic had gotten a license for it... I would have much rather that Barrels of Fun had this license because that would have been a game that I was actually interested in.
Matt
The whole concept is just... you have this kind of worse quality screen that's under the play field... the balls are rolling over the display. It's modular... it all just feels a little bit compromised to me.
Matt
Jaws would have probably been... a better game. Think about all the levels... the artwork, the kind of vibe... if it was made by Spooky. Oh, yeah. That would have been an awesome game.
Matt and Don
X-Men. That was the 2012-ish Stern. That was maybe the best playing game that anybody brought to Pinfest. It played great... It's fun. It feels like Tron.
Matt

Entities

  • American Pinball· company
  • Barrels of Fun· company
  • Data East· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Golden State Pinball Festival· event
  • Pinfest· event
  • Bad Girls· game
  • Barry O's Barbecue Challenge· game
  • Halloween· game
  • Jaws· game
  • Labyrinth· game
  • Looney Tunes· game
  • Princess Bride· game
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre· game
  • Ultraman· game
  • X-Men· game
  • Bash Pinball· organization
  • Barry Orsler· person
  • Don· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Matt· person

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