Episode 136 - Diablo Interviews
Pinball: After a brief update on the Pinball Hall of Fame the guys discuss their deeproot Pinball interview (now over three years old)! Video Games: Discussion focuses on the Avengers game, the end...
Highlights
- An anonymous donor contributed $79,000 to close out the Pinball Hall of Fame's $200k GoFundMe goal
- Deep Root expected to have more innovation than all other pinball manufacturers combined
- Deep Root's quad assembly manufacturing would allow output from one unit per day to 100 units per day
- Deep Root's quad assembly required only 25,000 square feet versus traditional assembly's 100,000 square feet
- Deep Root had 25 to 30 patents in process as of the 2018 interview
- Deep Root took preorder money before obtaining UL certification
- Pinball Hall of Fame was more likely to succeed with fundraising than Replay Foundation's Penberg
Notable quotes
“an anonymous, generous donor looked at the GoFundMe total and went ahead and just, I guess, cut a check for $79,000, which would close out the GoFundMe”
“Deep Root, though, did have another announcement at the end of the month, end of February, that the games are not – there was a hope to get games out, I think, mid-March. But that's not happening, obviously.”
“I think that was, that was over, that's overly ambitious.”
“why did you take money before you filed for the UL certification?...they took preorder money before they got their UL certification because they still don't have their UL certification”
“the thing that I have people write to me, and I think you're in on some of those messages that we get where the biggest thing people don't understand is that it doesn't seem like Deep Root has ever made any serious attempt ahead of time to get their manufacturing ducks in a row. It's always been everything else.”
“it just felt like buzzword soup to me. It felt like it back then. It feels like it now”
“I don't see it. I don't see how it's – yeah. I don't see how it's possible.”
“Replay Foundation and Pinberg, more popular with hardcore pinheads than the Pinball Hall of Fame...I think there would have been even more people going into it and trying for it”
Entities
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Hall of Fame· organization
- Replay Foundation· organization
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Robert Mueller· person
- Tony· person
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