Episode 76 - KCGameCON
Pinball: In pinball news, Dennis and Tony cover Primus Pinball, a bit about Munsters, and the announced reduction in run size for Mafia Pinball. After the news, they spend a lot of time on KCGameCON...
Highlights
- Stern has emphasized three cornerstone titles per year but only released two in 2018 (Iron Maiden and Deadpool), suggesting a third cornerstone may be coming before year-end or early 2019
- Mafia pinball machine production reduced from 100 units to 20 units, indicating poor sales and that limited-edition scarcity alone cannot justify $7,500-$10,000 pricing for simplistic games
- Jeremy Packer (Zombie Yeti) did the art package for Primus Pinball
- Munsters pinball machine is close to official confirmation, with cast members expected at Texas Pinball Festival
- KC GameCon pinball tournament was organized on only 2-3 months' notice by Carrie Wing
Notable quotes
“in my opinion this is basically a vanity project for Primus and it's only going to be attractive to people who are after Primus memorabilia and have the money to get it”
“you cannot just rely solely on a limited run quantity to ask for an exorbitant price for a simplistic game”
“her expectations for our commentary were very, very low... I would have been happy if there had been a single camera on a single game that was just capturing footage from that game for the entire day”
“pinball streaming's really hard compared to video game streaming”
“I've seen pinball tournaments that do that. I've seen pinball tournaments that don't do it and in my opinion, you want the commentary all the time”
Entities
- Pinball Star· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- KC Game Con· event
- KC GameCon Pinball Championship· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Attack from Mars· game
- Frontier· game
- Mafia Pinball· game
- Munsters Pinball· game
- Pabst Can Crusher· game
- Primus Pinball· game
- Woe Nelly· game
- Eclectic Gamers Podcast· organization
- Electric Bat Arcade· organization
- KC Game On· organization
- Slam Tilt Podcast· organization
- Adam McKinney· person
- Carrie Wing· person
- Dennis· person
- Gordon Brown· person
- Jeremy Packer· person
- Paige Ilsley· person
- Steve Hill· person
- Sunshine Bond· person
- Tony· person
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