Episode 189 - Royale With An Offer You Can't Refuse
Pinball: We discuss Jersey Jack Pinball's Godfather Pinball, a little bit more about American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force, the reveal of Chicago Gaming Company's Pulp Fiction Pinball, Turner...
Highlights
- Godfather will have 5,000 limited edition models at $12,000 and 1,000 collector's edition models at $15,000
- The game features 29 different ball paths through use of diverters
- Keith Johnson designed rules for Godfather similar to his previous JJP work on Guns N' Roses
- The game uses two coils firing at 10 hits per second each to simulate a Tommy gun firing 20 rounds per second
- JJP has 'doubled down' on home environment gaming and abandoned operator-focused standard editions
- The call-outs are custom-written (not from film audio) and feature over-the-top stereotypical New York mobster impressions
- Godfather uses red and gold color scheme matching current Blu-ray box set branding
- JJP successfully secured audio clips from the Godfather films for call-outs and scene integration
Notable quotes
“There are 29 different ball paths so because their use of diverters and stuff the way they're they didn't count the number of shots they're counting the number of different ways the ball might return based off of a shot”
“I'm like, that's going to be so loud. That is my biggest concern is that it's going to be so loud and so rapid and so jarring.”
“These prices, these are home environment games, obviously. I think that Jersey Jacks clearly doubled down and said, like, we're done with standard editions. This is my interpretation. We're done with operators.”
“I'm not a big fan of the red and gold look because I don't really associate it with Godfather.”
“The rules in a way that the approach of it kind of reminds me of Stern Star Trek. In this case, there's like a stained glass window above the flippers instead of the little quadrant of different missions.”
“I'm not sold on the idea of Godfather as a game theme. But from what it sounds like they've done with the rules, I'm actually way more interested in it than I ever thought I would be.”
“The electric guitar rendition is like nails on a chalkboard to me”
“The family approach, again, very – you don't get that feel from the movie so much. I mean, you know there are rival families fighting each other, but giving them sort of more of an identity, that's a very video game style thing, and I think it makes a lot of sense.”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Napp Arcade· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Foo Fighters· game
- Slam Tilt podcast· organization
- Straight Down the Middle· organization
- Christopher Franchi· person
- Dennis· person
- Eric Menier· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jean-Paul de Win· person
- Jesper Abels· person
- Keith Johnson· person
- Ron Hallett· person
- Tony· person
- The Godfather· product
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