
Episode 203 - Dream Unity
Pinball: We talk about a recent interview with David Fix from American Pinball relating to homebrew games and GTF!, go over Homepin's plan to reveal a pinball machine at Expo not designed for...
Highlights
- American Pinball's American Dream contest did have a winner selected, but the winner and IP have not been announced because American Pinball is attempting to secure the license for the homebrew game before production
- Galactic Tank Force is doing a 'soft reboot' at Expo 2025 with the live-action backbox cast appearing to sign autographs and walk around the show
- GTF targets were getting bent in production, requiring a brace that was tested extensively but production versions differed from test versions
- Josh Sharp indicated Pulp Fiction's reveal timing was driven by licensing requirements, explaining the six-month delay before production started
- Original theme pinball games will never outsell licensed IP games in the current market
Notable quotes
“we did actually pick a winner. The winner knows who won. They know they won. The thing is, is because after they took the developer, Ryan, who had the Sonic spinball game, and then they couldn't get the Sonic license because some other pinball company came in and took it. They haven't revealed who the winner is because they're trying to secure the license of the winner's title”
“I just don't, I'm sure that whichever game it was, it's going to be a big enough license that with their get or their attempt to get, especially they're like we'd like to get the license there's already a game made but we need the license to actually sell it isn't gonna isn't gonna fly”
“It's not like having John Rhys-Davies come to TPF. And one of the greatest things, if Jeff Patterson came up with this for the Twippies, absolutely brilliant. It was the most epic thing ever was to get him to come up there and go, jackpot, won.”
“Nobody knows these people. And no offense to them. I'm not judging their performance in the game or anything like that. But it's not a draw. Right? It's not like having John Rhys-Davies come to TPF.”
“Are we really at the point of desperation that to try and move units, the best we can come up with is, well, let's just get all of our cast to be there. To do what?”
“Cassandra Peterson is a big exception. Yeah, that's a huge exception because of the pinball tie and the outside ties.”
“We've seen it proven time and time again that it really does not matter just how good an original theme is in this day and age an original theme will never outsell a license right”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Expo· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Final Resistance· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Galactic Tank Force· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- Sonic Spinball· game
- Pinball Innovators and Makers Podcast· media
- Cassandra Peterson· person
- David Fix· person
- Dennis· person
- John Rhys-Davies· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Ryan· person
- Tony· person
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