Episode 82 - Solo Dennis
Dennis flies solo this episode (making it the shortest and maybe most boring show ever!). Pinball: Dennis discusses Pinburgh going to 1,000 tickets, the four trademarks of American Pinball, the...
Highlights
- American Pinball has filed four trademarks (Poker Run, Robin Hood, Valkyries, Sherlock Holmes) likely as a shell game to obscure which title they're actually developing next
- Chicago Gaming Monster Bash Remake had decal cracking issues caused by wrapping decals around cabinet corners combined with cold temperature contraction, affecting approximately 1% of units
- Stern is releasing Spike board schematics before March 2019, addressing long-standing community frustration about lack of technical documentation
- Zacharia Pinball mobile app was removed from Google Play Store due to sexual content flagging (nipples on Farfalla backglass artwork)
- Activision Blizzard laid off over 800 employees (8% of workforce) despite record $7.5 billion in sales and $1.5 billion profit
Notable quotes
“I think Sherlock Holmes is the best pick for them... It's really recognizable and it's a famous literary character. And because it's in the public domain for the stories, it's not going to be based obviously on the television series or the Robert Downey Jr. movies.”
“The reason for the cracking had to do, it was a twofold issue, it seems. One was the fact that the temperature got really, really cold. And the other was that the decals were wrapped around the corners of the cab.”
“A big frustration that people have always had since the shift from Sam to Spike is that there haven't been any schematics to work on them... So the release is imminent.”
“They don't actually have the app purchasers in their own database. So they apparently don't have any access to the now-removed-for-sexual-content purchasers in any sort of list.”
“$1.5 billion in profit, and obviously it wasn't a priority to protect jobs. So I don't know. I work in the nonprofit field, so we just have a different philosophy.”
Entities
- Activision Blizzard· company
- American Pinball· company
- Chicago Gaming· company
- Epic Games· company
- Nintendo· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Fortnite· game
- Monster Bash Remake· game
- Super Mario Maker 2· game
- Tetris 99· game
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Wrath of Olympus· game
- Zacharia Pinball· game
- Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· organization
- Bobby Kotick· person
- Dennis· person
- Doug Bowser· person
- Jake Danzig· person
- Reggie Fils-Aimé· person
- Tony· person
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