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American Pinball......Assemble.
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American Pinball......Assemble.
American Pinball is about to drop some more info on more talent joining the team. Let's talk about it.
Highlights
- Rob Rath has joined American Pinball as product director, overseeing planning, budgeting, marketing, and go-to-market strategy
- Nick Neitzel has joined American Pinball as product designer and is already working on an upcoming game release
- American Pinball first release will be a reimagining (not an original IP), likely Cirqus Voltaire
- The Electric Playground is expanding operations to St. Louis and hiring additional staff (Michael Wangeren, Troy Oden, John Miller promoted, Dustin Howell as operations manager), bringing total team to 12
- Rob Rath will continue as general manager of Electric Playground while serving as product director at American Pinball
- Pokemon Pinball has a hardware issue with the outer left orbit causing misalignment and ball clunking into the middle drain
- Spooky Pinball secured Jump in the Line song licensing for Beetlejuice and will include it in the next code update
- Melvin Williams has a good relationship with sculptor Lior and AP games will likely feature Lior-quality sculpts
- AP's reimagining games will likely be priced in the $8,000-$9,000+ range
- Ryan (previous hire at AP) will not be returning; leaked text messages from him about the company derailed the relationship
Notable quotes
“Rob Rath is joining the AP team as product director where he will oversee the planning, budgeting, marketing, and go-to market strategy for many of their upcoming titles. He will also assist with game story and rules design.”
“Nick Neitzel is joining the AP team as product designer. He is already working on an upcoming game release and will be involved in the development of many more to come.”
“We are excited to share some major news. American Pinball is rapidly expanding their team and capabilities, and we are proud to become a key part of that growth on multiple fronts.”
“With the reimaginings getting redone, remakes coming out, that means that there is going to be a lot more parts readily available because the parts are going to be coming from Rick over there at Planetary and they are only going to be making parts if there is demand for them.”
“I think we're definitely going to see a good boost in what's going on with American Pinball. And it seems like right now Brian is going around and assembling his team... It's all a matter of seeing talent and snatching it before anybody else does.”
“Chances are if you're currently not on a list with a distributor, then you're probably not gonna get one... If you may want to ask your distro what position you are on their list and maybe reach out to another distributor to see if you can be on multiple lists.”
“I know that Melvin has joined American Pinball. Melvin Williams has a very good relationship with Lior. I suspect, I honestly do not know for a fact here, but I suspect that if we get sculpts, they're going to be Lior quality.”
“Cirqus Voltaire right now is going for about 9, if not more, depending on the quality of it... I think if the price on the secondhand market climbs up to a certain extent, that's when they'll probably see the possibility of doing a reimagining.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Electric Playground· company
- Flip N Out Pinball· company
- Pedretti· company
- Planetary· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Beetlejuice· game
- Cirqus Voltaire· game
- Funhouse· game
- Pokemon Pinball· game
- Theatre of Magic· game
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater· game
- Brian Allen· person
- Cary Hardy· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Lior· person
- Melvin Williams· person
- Nick Neitzel· person
- Rick· person
- Rob Rath· person
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