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Episode 186 - Big Bang Plunge
PodcastAnalysis updated 5d ago25 min listenBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski
Tony was unable to participate on this episode, aside from a small blurb at the start. As such, Dennis just focuses on pinball and goes over the results for The Pinball Awards in 2022, talks about...
Highlights
- Rush won Best Game of the Year at the Pinball Awards, with wins in Playfield Layout, Music, and Best Lighting Effects
- Toy Story 4 won Best Art for Cabinet/Backglass, Best Art for Playfield, and Best Animation at the Pinball Awards
- Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity won Best Toys, Best Innovation, and Best Callouts
- IE Pinball won Excellence in Streaming; The Pinball Show won Excellence in Podcasting
- Scott Denise was named creative director of the next P3 pinball game by Multimorphic
- Planetary Pinball Supply filed trademarks for 'Big Bang Bar' and 'Big Bang' in November and December 2022
- There is a rumor that PPS and Chicago Gaming Company are ending their working relationship
- The rumor suggests PPS is upset with CGC's production speed on Cactus Canyon remakes
- Scooby-Doo has a very large upper playfield and floaty upper playfield gameplay
- Scooby-Doo features numerous horseshoe shots and safer, more forgiving layout than Halloween and Ultraman
Notable quotes
“I think with a cartoon theme that maybe would appeal to a lot of kids, I think it's better in my personal judgment to lean towards easier gameplay than to kind of pull a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that Stern did, which I think most people would agree is a fairly brutal layout”
“Scott, amongst pinheads, is an extremely popular individual...because of that, I think his name is one of those that helps move units”
“Successful in the fact that the games did actually get done, get built, and get sent to buyers. A failure in the sense that, by all reports, it was a financial burden on the person behind it”
“I think this one's pretty unlikely myself because JJP has been, I feel, priding itself on trying to get to a point where they can do two of their games a year...if they're doing two games a year, I just don't see them being able to accommodate this”
“American Pinball's build quality is very well respected...They would be my best guess. But again, I'm not sure that they can do the production levels that CGC was doing”
“the issue is actually not CGC is what I heard but CGC is not the one planning to end the relationship. It's PPS. PPS is upset that CGC per the rumor...they are upset at the speed that Chicago Gaming Company has been turning out the Cactus Canyon remakes”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Planetary Pinball Supply· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Big Bang Bar· game
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Halloween Pinball· game
- Rush Pinball· game
- Scooby-Doo Pinball· game
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pinball· game
- Toy Story 4 Pinball· game
- Ultraman Pinball· game
- Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity· game
- Eclectic Gamers Podcast· organization
- IE Pinball· organization
- Nap Arcade· organization
- Nudge Magazine· organization
- Straight Down the Middle· organization
- The Pinball Show· organization
- Dennis· person
- Scott Denise· person
- Tony· person
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