Episode 111 - A HEIST of Specs
Pinball: The pinball segment focuses on COVID-19 shutdowns, American Pinball's new Hot Wheels game, and HEIST for the P3. Video Games: In video games the discussions are around COVID-19's continued...
Highlights
- Spooky Pinball announced supply chain disruptions due to Chicago area outbreak impact, despite isolated manufacturing location
- Stern, American Pinball, and Jersey Jack all build in or near Chicago area, creating major manufacturing vulnerability
- Three main local pinball venues are closed or severely limited: two are takeout/delivery only with pinball machines turned off, 403 Club is completely closed
- Hot Wheels game has an off-center screen to accommodate car artwork on right side
- Hot Wheels spinning car toy never stops spinning during play and is not interactive (ball does not touch it)
- Hot Wheels animation clips in game are sourced from a stop-motion show featuring Hot Wheels city fighting monsters and dinosaurs, not custom to the game
- P3's Heist uses modular system with third flipper option at $250 additional cost
- P3 pricing: single game $10,000, two-game bundle $13,000, three-game bundle $15,000
Notable quotes
“Symmetry looks better than asymmetry. Asymmetry is just more fun to play.”
“If you're going to make a car game based off of a car movie at this point in time and you don't get the Fast and Furious license, it's just because you're cheap.”
“I don't think Stern Pinball is the only company that could get the Fast and Furious license if they wanted it.”
“The biggest toy people are going to notice when they look at it is going to be the crane.”
“A heist is a really good theme just a general heist theme is really solid for a pinball machine because it lets you do modes for your prep of the heist and everything else.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- P3 (Multimorphic)· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Fast and Furious· game
- Heist· game
- Hot Wheels· game
- Houdini· game
- Lexi Lightspeed· game
- Oktoberfest· game
- 403 Club· organization
- Arcade Heroes· organization
- Roanoke Pinball Museum· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- Dennis· person
- Steven Silver· person
- Tony· person
- Zach Minney· person
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