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Episode 143 - E2.5 2021
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago48 min listenBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski
Pinball: The guys cover a couple emails and then discuss Multimorphic's plan for a licensed theme on their next P3 title and American Pinball now being owned by Aimtron. Video Games: Discussion...
Highlights
- American Pinball is now directly owned by Aintron and will brand games as American Pinball
- American Pinball plans to release two games per year starting this year, with non-licensed titles in 2021 and Dennis Nordman-designed licensed games starting in 2022
- American Pinball is moving away from the P3 Rock system due to Aintron's ability to manufacture boards in-house
- Spooky, Haggis, and American Pinball have all dropped P3 Rock in early 2021, leaving no major manufacturer still using the platform
- Multimorphic is teasing a licensed theme with Scott Denise handling music composition
- Scott Densey is known for designing Rick and Morty and Total Nuclear Annihilation for Spooky, doing all work except art on TNA
- Spooky's decision to leave P3 was motivated by cost savings; it's cheaper to produce their own boards than continue buying from Multimorphic
- Haggis Pinball produced approximately 18 Kelts machines before adopting new manufacturing approach
Notable quotes
“the main benefit of the current model for the game purchaser is the dealer is supposed to be a mediator and advocate for the purchaser. In reality, this doesn't seem to be the case.”
“I think it will fade with time as well... Stern already drop shipped games, they could still sell at the current MSRP and use the money to hire more staff”
“the original thread has devolved into haikus of DR's ineptitude with the occasional Ben Heck drunk on DR and or J-POP”
“my guess is it's just coincidence... In an interview where Ben Heck talked about Spooky moving away, he made it clear in that that their change was money.”
“I really like his character in Enemy at the Gates, actually... just a Ron Perlman machine. It's just quotes from him from different movies.”
“the weaker the license, the stronger your layout and rules have to be... Harry Potter will just move. Because people have no class in this hobby when it comes to Harry Potter.”
“I'll believe it when I see it. Same. It's the same thing I say with anybody who is not stern and wants to release more than one machine in a year.”
“It felt like they spent half their presentation talking about the Borderlands movie they working on and it just to me reeked of hey look I a studio owner here me because I need to be the star”
Entities
- Aintron· company
- American Pinball· company
- Devolver Digital· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Ubisoft· company
- Final Fantasy XIV· game
- Gears 5· game
- Pinball News and Pinball Magazine Podcast· media
- Pinside· organization
- Ben Heck· person
- Chris C· person
- David Fix· person
- Dennis· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Makesh· person
- Scott Densey· person
- Tony· person
- P3 Rock· product
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