Episode 197 - Orbclectic Gamers Podcast

“There is no earthly reason that they would reduce it unless their sales were lighter than expected and they were hoping to have the reduction bounce sales up.”

“Anything under ten thousand at this point is kind of like right in the I don't want to say bargain but let's just say it's in the realm of consideration for a lot of people.”

“The most iconic thing about Centaur is probably the art. In fact, I'm not going to say probably. I'm going to [be definitive because] we have a podcast. It is the art.”

“They're not going to make you feel like a pinball rock star. They're going to make you feel like something. I can guarantee you that, but it ain't a rock star.”

“They have crammed in a whole bunch of additions that don't really add the value that they think they do. It just feels like we're throwing spaghetti at the wall, hoping that it'll stick.”

“This is like them doing Supersonic Revisited and the Sonic Oblivion Edition came with a parachute. I realize I'm being fair here.”

“With Fathom Revisited you had two things: quite possibly the greatest art of its era combined with an actually fun game. With Centaur you've got the art's good but the game's not great.”

“This is not a bargain, which is something their quote-unquote remake competitor, Chicago Gaming, is seen as.”

“Centaur doesn't have the bill of materials all that high. It's a single-level design with a few drop targets and some captive balls.”

“The whole I mean I just imagine I'm sitting there... Crikey, we got charged with 25,000, what do we do? What would Ted Turner do? Let's colorize this. That'll solve all our problems.”