
Episode 97 - Like a D6
Pinball: The guys talk about Stern Pinball's upcoming Elvira House of Horrors, an update regarding Dutch Pinball and what options exist for those who preordered, a Pinball EDU update regarding their...
Highlights
- Elvira House of Horrors is not a cornerstone title and comes in premium ($8,000 MSRP) and LE (400 units, $9,600 MSRP) with 50 signature editions (no MSRP listed)
- Cassandra Peterson recorded custom video clips for the game, which is a first in pinball according to IGN
- Dennis Nordman designed Elvira on contract with Stern 'quite a while ago,' with announcement at Texas Pinball Festival 2017
- Lyman Sheets coded Elvira and has been working on it for a year (unsubstantiated claim Dennis read)
- Dutch Pinball's Barry offered EAs option to pay $12,500 to jump queue and get refund of original $8,500 pre-order OR keep both machines, with undefined 'special extras' as incentive
- Dennis believes EAs who take the buyout offer will be deprioritized and placed at end of line once non-complainers receive games
- There are approximately 135 EAs; at least double that number (270+) of new buyers would be needed to generate enough revenue to make EAs whole
Notable quotes
“It is almost a prototypical Stern in the stereotype sense... I just don't know. Like, Batman 66's geometry is really unique. So I just sort of was surprised, I suppose, would be the way to describe it.”
“I think that's why the special extras were added on, as a special incentive to try and sway... I do not think he thinks people are dumb enough to do this, but I do.”
“Who out of anyone has the most vested interest in seeing new games sold besides Barry? The pre-orderers are the ones that want him to succeed the most because they want the game they paid for.”
“With no timeline and no specific chart of how they're going to do things, if they do get to a point where he starts filling those games, I can guarantee you right now the EA who are going to actually receive their games are going to be the ones first are going to be the ones who did not take this.”
“I've played so many other hobbies and done so much other stuff where something like this, what happens is the people you screwed come walking out with axes and pitchforks and torches... but for some reason in pinball, they hit their knees so fast that they risk shattering their kneecaps and bowing to you.”
“I don't think so. I think you could have easily sold 100 at $12,500 if ARA had had 100 at $12,500. But 100 games on top of the 40 that already went out... Because remember, the plan is 400 to 500 total games to make the EA's whole.”
“I do not believe that this game holds at $12,500 for very long if they're actually starting to hand-build games. I think that the price goes down pretty quickly.”
“It's like, technically, we'll just see if they... I have no idea how aggressive the NFL is on trying to hunt that stuff down or not.”
Entities
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Attack from Mars· game
- Batman 66· game
- Elvira House of Horrors· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Medieval Madness· game
- Munsters· game
- Smiles· game
- Deadflip· organization
- IGN· organization
- Pinball Supernova· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- Barry (Dutch Pinball)· person
- Cassandra Peterson· person
- Dennis· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Jack Danger· person
- John Borg· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Lyman Sheets· person
- Tony· person
- Zach Minney· person
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