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Episode 98 - Retro Knapp Adventure Time!
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 27 min listenBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski
Tony and Dennis are joined this episode by Jason Knapp, host of the widely popular Knapp Arcade on Facebook and other social media. Pinball: The pinball conversation focuses on Stern Pinball's new...
Highlights
- Jason Knapp discovered the Star Wars comic art version story by finding an IGN article published early, about an hour or two before Stern's official announcement
- Multiple Star Wars pinball machines began appearing for sale on Pinside within two hours of the official announcement
- The new Star Wars art was created by renowned artist Randy Martinez
- The original Star Wars backglass art was hand-drawn, not Photoshopped, despite initial community perception
- Stern is privately held and not obligated to release production numbers, unlike historically when it was publicly traded
- The premium Star Wars art features a Darth Vader pose that the artist reportedly created that had never been drawn before
- Star Wars pinball home version pricing is too close to used machine pricing, creating market pressure
- The original Star Wars used market pricing was not strong to begin with
- Nolan Bushnell founded Chuck E. Cheese and previously kept Showbiz Pizza as part of a deal when leaving Atari/Warner
- Jason projects fewer than 1,000 units of the new art Star Wars will be produced/sold
Notable quotes
“I started an Instagram account. That's new. The Nap Arcade Instagram account. It's not like the Facebook page where I share news and articles and stuff like that. It's just pictures, just straight-up pictures of arcades that I've taken across the country.”
“I think the actual – for most people, the secret to pinball art is just oversaturate all the colors, and you'll win them. Just oversaturate.”
“What do you think Jason and Tony about pinball people let's call them commoners... things to say to act like you know stuff about pinball art. Too colorful is now on the list.”
“I'm selling this so that I can get the one with the new cartoon art, which is probably not the best sales strategy in any event.”
“It is just a reskin. It's not like they had to do any mechanical work. Right. it probably didn't cost them a whole lot to do it other than whatever they had to pay for the artist obviously so yeah why not try to milk more out of that license if you can”
“I personally think it would be in Stern's best interest to release production numbers once the games are no longer being produced because that could influence the used market pricing to help dictate to them what are the best games to vault.”
“My main problem with it was the price, sort of like with the Beatles. Like, I like the Beatles pin. I just don't want to pay $7,000 for it or whatever, you know, or Diamond Edition $15,000 or whatever it is.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Black Knight Sword of Rage· game
- Deadpool Pinball· game
- Game of Thrones Pinball· game
- Munsters Premium· game
- Star Trek Pinball· game
- Star Wars Pinball (Comic Art Version)· game
- Walking Dead Pinball· game
- Backbox Pinball Podcast· organization
- Flipping Out Pinball· organization
- IGN· organization
- Logan Arcade· organization
- Nap Arcade· organization
- Pinside· organization
- Silver Ball Saloon· organization
- Slam Tilt Podcast· organization
- Bruce Nightingale· person
- Dennis· person
- Jason Knapp· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Randy Martinez· person
- Tony· person
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