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Episode 83 - Carnies in the House
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 48 min listenBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski
Nick Baldridge (For Amusement Only: The EM & Bingo Pinball Podcast and Gaming on Ten Minutes a Week) joins us to discuss the new publication he co-authored with Ryan Claytor called Coin-Op Carnival:...
Highlights
- Multimorphic P3 has engineering that is 'a step above' other pinball machines with extensive modularity and minimal exposed/exposed damage-prone components
- Lexi Lightspeed uses screen-based virtual targets with ball tracking on lower two-thirds playfield, enabling novel gameplay mechanics
- Coin-Op Carnival took over two years to develop and grew from 24 pages to 64 pages
- Coin-Op Carnival is planned as a series of four publications, releasing one every two years approximately
- Nick plans to create a Quest for Glory pinball game as his first P3 development project
- Coin-Op Carnival is 100% illustrated with no photographs, full color, and costs $15
- Bally's Double Up bingo pinball is described as the second-most complex electromechanical game ever invented, with only Hawaii (sister game with one extra stepper) being more complex
- All four interviews for Coin-Op Carnival's planned series are already completed and banked
Notable quotes
“the engineering in this game is insane. It's a step above. It's really amazing... there's very little in there that is not modular, meaning you can actually take it and physically remove it from the machine to work on it”
“I'm kind of a replay chaser. Yeah, we're going to be getting into that. I play for the thrill of winning a free game and there are no replays on Lexi so it's all about progressing through the modes”
“they need that killer app. Lexi Lightspeed, I think, is a lot of fun, but it's not a top ten game in the minds of pretty much anyone”
“issue number one took us over two years to develop. and it ballooned in size from 24 pages all the way up to 64”
“Coin-Off Carnival is dedicated to historical accuracy wherever possible. So we have really gone through and refined and made sure that our facts were straight”
“we wanted to get it out into the public consciousness, get some feedback on it, those kind of things. So what we're doing instead is taking the slow burn approach and releasing one every two-ish years”
“Don Hooker, in my mind, is one of the greatest amusement device engineers that ever lived... But Wayne developed some of the most fun games that have ever been made, so it's a toss-up there. But as far as engineering prowess goes, I'd give the edge to Hooker”
“every issue will have those features. We'll have an interview with an EM designer, and we actually have all four of the planned series banked, all the interviews ready”
Entities
- Multimorphic· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- York show· event
- Bally Double Up· game
- Cosmic Kart Racing· game
- Hawaii· game
- Lexi Lightspeed· game
- Mystic Marvel· game
- Queen of Hearts· game
- Quest for Glory· game
- Star Trek· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Pinball Profile· media
- Dennis· person
- Don Hooker· person
- Jerry· person
- Joe Newhart· person
- Nick Baldrige· person
- Ryan Claytor· person
- Tony· person
- Wayne Nines· person
- Coin-Op Carnival: Electrifying Tales of Mechanical Contraptions· product
- Multimorphic P3· product
- Drop Target Scene· publication
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