Episode 149 - Sorcerer's Hiatus Connected
Pinball: The guys discuss Sorcerer's Apprentice (the new P3 game from Multimorphic), Homepin announcing This Is Spinal Tap Pinball, This Week in Pinball going on hiatus, Stern Pinball launching their...
Highlights
- Sorcerer's Apprentice is an unlicensed game, not tied to Disney's Fantasia or Sorcerer's Apprentice film
- Sorcerer's Apprentice is the first internal-developed game for an existing P3 module by Multimorphic
- HomePin's shipping container costs have increased tenfold from historical levels
- Spinal Tap Pinball was designed by Balser and he has already departed from HomePin
- HomePin's Thunderbirds Argo Pinball is possibly the lowest-rated game on Pinside
- A new Stern game announcement expected Wednesday will be $600 more for Pro models, with Premium/LE increases of $1,000
- TWIP received anonymous cryptic messages that were borderline blackmail threatening to destroy the show with information
- Jeff from TWIP had a phone call with Robert (Deep Root Pinball) in late 2020 involving what Jeff thought was an FCC investigation
Notable quotes
“There's a tie-in there it is. So, let's go ahead and jump right into it and I think I've got five categorical topics for pinball. Holy crap.”
“This is not licensed at all. And in their teaser stuff on their Facebook and such, they did make it clear. At least I thought they did make it clear this is an unlicensed game.”
“So much for my feelings, Tony. I guess that's the moral.”
“If there's the right offer pinball people are going to go in there there could be a guy offering candy in the back of his van if it's the right offer”
“I don't know what borderline on blackmail means. So that's almost blackmail. That's like almost pregnant, though.”
“Blackmail is normally asking for money or some other consideration in exchange for not going public with your criminal or embarrassing action so if someone knows that you did something wrong and they tell you they're going to go forward that isn't almost blackmail that's giving you a heads up”
“Now, if someone has information of something that they thought was wrong, there's nothing that, you know, like whistleblower style going forward. That's not a problem to do.”
“There were a number of noteworthy claims in the announcement, so I want to touch on a few pieces of it”
Entities
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- HomePin· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Cosmic Cart Racing· game
- Heist· game
- Sorcerer's Apprentice· game
- Spinal Tap Pinball· game
- Thunderbirds· game
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Balser· person
- Dennis· person
- Jeff· person
- Mike· person
- Robert· person
- Tony· person
- Buffalo Pinball· person/entity
- This Week in Pinball· product
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