Episode 74 - Beatles BlizzCon
Pinball: The guys discuss the KCGameCON 2018 Pinball Championship, an article on Stern Pinball's SPIKE system over at TWIP, the upcoming Stern Beatles pin, MonkeyGate, and the notion of Bill & Ted's...
Highlights
- Beatles pinball will be limited to 1,964 units total: 1,614 Gold, 250 Platinum, 100 Diamond editions
- Gold editions are expected to be priced around $8,000
- No gameplay differences exist between any of the three tier editions
- Beatles layout is Sea Witch with modifications: additional spinner, added magnets including spinning disc, new shot behind left drop targets
- Song lengths in Beatles are tailored to mode length, varying based on mode duration rather than full-length tracks
- Game includes eight specific songs: Hard Day's Night, Can't Buy Me Love, Ticket to Ride, All My Loving, Help, Drive My Car, It Won't Be Long, I Should Have Known Better
- Distributors will set their own pricing for Diamond and Platinum editions based on order block allocation
- Coin door inclusion is optional and depends on customer request, not standard default
Notable quotes
“Oh, man. This hurts already.”
“I don't like the way they're going about that. They just need to, whatever the price needs to be, they just need to let the price out there.”
“You cannot, for a broad set of people, show them something this flat, this Baron and convince them that it's worth more than a pro.”
“I think Stern's experiment on seeing if by basically passing the buck to the distributors and saying, we're not going to announce an MSRP on those two models.”
“If coin taker price is too high, they're just going to be sitting there with diamond editions that don't sell. So they'll eventually have to tweak the price.”
“I think that Diamond Edition Beatles games sell for less than $15,000 that's what I think is going to happen”
“I kind of think that's what this is going for. And part of the reason why I assume they picked Sea Witch, besides that look, is if this is also an experiment to see if there's demand from people who want the classic Sterns remade.”
“Every change they've made to the Sea Witch layout I think is smart.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- KC Game Con· event
- Pinball Expo· event
- Batman 66· game
- Beatles· game
- Jetsons· game
- Monster Bash· game
- Quicksilver· game
- Sea Witch· game
- Sea Witch (Stern Electronics)· game
- Stargazer· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- WWE· game
- Slam Tilt Podcast· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- This Week in Pinball Podcast· organization
- Dennis· person
- Jeff· person
- Joe Kamikawa· person
- Nick Baldridge· person
- Nick Schell· person
- Tony· person
- Zach Sharp· person
- Spike system· product
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