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Episode 85 - Sword of Lexan
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 31 min listenBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski
Pinball: The guys discuss the release of the detailed TWIPY information, and then focus their time on Stern Pinball's Black Knight: Sword of Rage. They also play 20 Questions. Video Games: Multiple...
Highlights
- Black Knight: Sword of Rage is designed by Steve Ritchie with Tim Sexton as lead coder (his first lead role at Stern)
- Pro model of Black Knight lacks upper playfield, while Premium and LE models have one
- The April Fool's prank replacing Zach Menney on This Week in Pinball with Ken Cromwell was orchestrated by Dennis, Ken, and Zach himself
- Jack Danger's Burger King livestream April Fool's prank (showing BK instead of Black Knight gameplay) was highly impressive and received better community response than other pranks
- Dennis's dad found a Black Knight project game in central Kansas two Fridays prior and is restoring it
- The Twippies awards showed extremely lopsided voting in some categories with at least one game receiving 0.0% of votes
- Kevin O'Connor did art and graphics for Black Knight: Sword of Rage; he previously worked on the new Kiss game
- Scott Ian of Anthrax provided music for Black Knight: Sword of Rage
Notable quotes
“I haven't decided if I'm going to get if I'm going to replace the motorcycle that I sold when I had kids, or if I'm going to get a tattoo, or if I'm going to get a pinball machine, or if I'm going to get a dog, or whatever. I'll figure it out by 50, I figure.”
“That would have been hilarious. It would have been. But it seemed like... It wins its own award that it shouldn't even be eligible for my personal opinion.”
“He decided not to do the overlay, which I wouldn't have done the overlay, unless you're going to completely redo the entire cabinet... so it's like okay so it's a player's game because the cabinet will never look great unless you sand it and re-stencil it”
“That is so impressive... That might have been the best April Fool's.”
“I felt so much better about what we did on the Twit Podcast after that because I thought, oh, people are going to be way more mad at Jack than they'd ever be about pulling Zach off of his own show.”
“There were people who were pissed. I can understand, but that is so impressive.”
“It's the same reason I don't have a pinball machine yet. Sure. More important reason. But one of these days.”
“I charge them $60 an hour... I figured contract work would be $100 an hour, four-hour minimum is how I'd do it. I did it at the same rate our contract accountant does it for that group, which is lower than her normal rate.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Twippies Awards· event
- Black Knight: Sword of Rage· game
- Eclectic Gamers Podcast· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- Bill Webb· person
- Chris· person
- Dennis· person
- Don Hooker· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Ed Robertson· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jason Fowler· person
- Jeff Patterson· person
- Jerry Thompson· person
- Josh Clay· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Kevin O'Connor· person
- Scott Ian· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Tim Sexton· person
- Tony· person
- Zach Menney· person
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