Episode 78 - 2018 Year-End Review
Tony and Dennis cover the biggest happenings in 2018 in both pinball and video games. The pinball section orients around manufacturer, while the video game section is organized more around the major...
Highlights
- Stern accidentally included a Munsters manual in a Primus box, confirming both that Munsters manuals are printed and the game is real and coming in January
- Multimorphic's P3 platform has under 100 units in the wild
- Multimorphic is exploring modifications to allow hardware changes on the lower third of the playfield, previously limited to back-end modules
- Kingpin remake by Circus Maximus had the biggest queue of any game at Texas Pinball Festival
- Circus Maximus has released little information about production progress since TPF 2018
- Spooky Pinball is using Multimorphic's P-Rock and board sets as of Total Nuclear Annihilation
- Dennis wrote articles on Atari's pinball division, middle pop pinball machines, and the Stern Spike system in 2018
Notable quotes
“Stern accidentally put the Munster's manual in the box... I think it's safe to say Stern probably did not think the Primus owner really wanted a Munster's manual.”
“I think the P3's problem is it doesn't have a killer app. I think so. Cosmic Cart Racing is not the killer app.”
“I think when there becomes the game that goes viral, the game that everybody has to have, that's when they'll start moving units.”
“I would like to have seen a little more, I don't know, oomph, just as a sign... I just don't know if the plan is solid or not.”
“Modern pinball is in a good place. Don't be blinded by nostalgia and think that it's all A-list Williams.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Circus Maximus· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Cosmic Cart Racing· game
- Kingpin· game
- Lexy Lightspeed - Escape From Earth· game
- Munsters· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Bruce Nightingale· person
- Dennis· person
- Don Walton· person
- James Rees· person
- Jason Knapp· person
- Jerry· person
- Joe Schober· person
- Nick Baldridge· person
- Nick Schell· person
- Ryan C.· person
- Steven Bowden· person
- Tony· person
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