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Episode 112 - Quarantine Gaming
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 3 min listenBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski
Pinball: The news is at a crawl thanks to COVID-19. The guys talk about the shut downs in production, the impact coronavirus is having on the hobby, and Dennis Nordman leaving deeproot Pinball....
Highlights
- Dutch Pinball is the only manufacturer still manufacturing during COVID-19 lockdowns (Big Lebowski machine), operating with two people maintaining distance in a home setting
- Multimorphic would be capable of performing playfield construction from home if needed during extended lockdown scenarios
- Dennis Nordman has left Deep Root Pinball as an employee
- Dennis Nordman never relocated to Texas during his time with Deep Root Pinball
- Jurassic Park won multiple Twippies categories with dominant vote percentages (57% for best rules, 53.6% for playfield gameplay/layout, ~50% for Game of the Year)
- Willy Wonka consistently received approximately 16-21% of votes across multiple Twippies categories (rules, layout, game of year)
- Black Knight Sword of Rage won Twippies for best music and sound effects
- Elvira's House of Horrors won best callouts with less than 3% margin over Black Knight
Notable quotes
“The only manufacturer that I have heard that is still actually manufacturing is Dutch Pinball on the Big Lebowski. Isn't that like one guy in his mom's basement? I heard it might be two.”
“COVID's given every manufacturer a pass for missing any deadlines. So if that had not happened and there had been another delay, this would have been seen as a huge red flag.”
“I think if one is honest with oneself, you can tell when you've done something that you think is worthy of recognition and when you haven't, and I had not.”
“I think that's the percentage of people who vote for Jersey Jack no matter what. So you think there's about a fifth of the twippy voting population that are fanboys? Yeah.”
“I don't think you can make one [argument that Wonka was better than Jurassic Park], not seriously.”
“Wonka's got a good rule set, but it's like we're at levels where it's, again, it's like objectively speaking, Jurassic Park has got the best rule set.”
“I think Wonka is probably the second best set of rules that's ever come out of Jersey Jack.”
“Objectively, it's just humorous that everywhere Wonka is sitting in the same, even stuff where Wonka shouldn't have even been in the ballpark, Wonka is sitting in the same percentage category.”
Entities
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Twippies· event
- Black Knight Sword of Rage· game
- Elvira's House of Horrors· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Star Wars Home Edition· game
- The Munsters· game
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory· game
- Coin-Op Carnival· media
- Pinball News and Pinball Magazine podcast· media
- Silver Ball Chronicles· media
- This Week in Pinball· media
- Roanoke Pinball Museum· organization
- David Dennis· person
- Dennis· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Jeff Patterson· person
- Tony· person
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