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Episode 139 - Waffles!
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago46 min listenBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski
Pinball: The guys discuss Spooky's expansion plus other planned updates and Heist getting 15-ball multiball. Video Games: Discussion focus on Square Enix rumors, Amazon dropping a Lord of the Rings...
Highlights
- Pinball hobby feels frozen despite claims of resurgence; distributors say pinball is popular but no one can get games except Stern
- Spooky Pinball is moving to a larger facility in Wisconsin to increase production capabilities
- Spooky is switching from P3 Rock boards to a new custom board set designed by Ben Heck
- Spooky's coding team has struggled with P3 Rock systems, with reported issues in games like Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle
- Multimorphic board sales to Spooky, Haggis, and American Pinball are significant income; Spooky departure could pressure company finances
- Spooky announced adoption of Molex connectors instead of hot glue for board connections
- Multimorphic announced 15-ball multiball update for Heist to surpass Apollo 13's 13-ball record
- Original themed pinball games don't sell compared to licensed IP; licenses are the only way to achieve significant sales
- xQc lost 2.6 million followers (from 8+ million to 5.5 million) due to Twitch bot purge
- Twitch's machine learning algorithm detected and removed 7.5 million bot accounts
Notable quotes
“This whole hobby feels like it's frozen in carbonite.”
“Everyone tells me, all the distributors, other hobbyists, other collectors, other players, they're all saying pinball's in the resurgence. Pinball's never been as popular as it is right now... and then it's like, no one's getting any games.”
“I'm personally, I'm glad that they're increasing their production capabilities because I felt that all the signs were there that they needed to. I still have to go back, you know, pandemic and all the slow shipping aside. I think most human beings don't feel like they should have to preorder and wait 18 months to get something.”
“It looks really amateur so I'm glad they're finally going with a connector. I don't know why it took them this long to go to a serious connector that can withstand shaking and movement.”
“With $50,000? Yeah. I can think of enough other machines that I'd load up first... I still wouldn't have a P3.”
“Avengers is the 15-ball multi-ball of Square Enix. It is, and they just keep throwing more and more stuff at it, and it's like they hope that suddenly it's going to become something, and I don't think it ever is.”
“If you guys refuse to ever say anything negative and you only say positive things you actually hurt the company you're actually hurting sales because it feels so artificial that something could be that good that there's not a single negative to ever bring up.”
“He went from over 8 million to 5.5... Soda Poppin... lost half of his followers. He went from 6.5 million to 3.3.”
Entities
- Amazon· company
- American Pinball· company
- CGC (Chicago Gaming Company)· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Square Enix· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Twitch· company
- Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle· game
- Heist· game
- TNA· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Ben Heck· person
- Charlie· person
- Dennis· person
- Soda Poppin· person
- Tony· person
- xQc· person
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