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Orbitor-1 and the Space Beyond
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 7 min listen
A full Pinball at the Beach recap is featured within.Let's talk Stern Electronics Orbitor-1 and space themes in pinball.Beware of furnace blowers folks!
Highlights
- Only 889 Orbiter One machines were produced in 1982, divided among different countries with Europe receiving the majority
- Dixie Reinhardt, Orbiter One co-designer, had his name on the patent for original Apollo space gloves and held multiple glove-related patents
- An Orbiter One prototype was sold to a pawn shop by Reinhardt's family after his death, containing Polaroid photographs of another unreleased prototype game called 'Clone'
- Orbiter One featured a 'time on ball' scoring system where operators could not disable the minimum time, requiring players to maintain ball-in-play for specified durations
- Stern came to inspect the Orbiter One prototype and shut down operations the next day
- Orbiter One was Stern's last game and involved collaboration with Sebring
- Orbiter One featured a 100th game special display where the 100th play would trigger a replay, resetting after each 100-game cycle
Notable quotes
“Orbiter One's magnets and spinners: those red bombers spin wild, they're smacking the ball everywhere. It livened it up so much. It's a completely different concept.”
“His Orbiter One prototype: when he died, his family just sells it to a pawn shop. They take this prototype to a pawn shop. Don't pay any attention to what's in it.”
“Inside this prototype are these Polaroids of another prototype called 'Clone': it's the same type crazy textured playfield, this insane looking alien.”
“You could just sell the flippers up. I got this shit. It would magic its way back up in the middle of the playfield.”
“This is when the pinballs are starting to be like, 'oh, we got to get weird.' And that got: they got real fucking weird.”
“Popeye Saves the Earth: I brought it home in hopes of finding some love for it and bringing it back to life and releasing it into the wild.”
“I promise you, after this is aired, there's going to be a run on Pinside on Popeye. The price is going to go up.”
“The one we played this past weekend at Pinball at the Beach was the most lively. The magnets and the spinners: I never realized before those red bombers. They spin. They spin wild.”
Entities
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern-Sebring· company
- April 7, 2022· event
- Pinball at the Beach· event
- Clone· game
- Evil Dead· game
- Joust· game
- Labyrinth (JJP)· game
- Popeye Saves the Earth· game
- Stern Dungeons and Dragons Pro· game
- Stern Electronics Orbiter One· game
- Fresh Pinball Podcast· organization
- RetroBitch.com· organization
- Art Myers· person
- Corbin· person
- Dixie Reinhardt· person
- Jason from Look for the Cure· person
- Keith Nesbitt (Nezzy's Prince)· person
- Kyle· person
- One-Up Bar collector· person
- Zach Angeli· person
- Sweets and Geeks· venue
- Timber Beast Axe Throwing· venue
- VFW· venue
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