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Rotation VII and Oddities
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 16 min listen
We are on a mission to discover all there is to know about Rotation VII and other forgotten pinball oddities.Let the journey begin!
Highlights
- Evil Dead had 685 plays at Cleapin; Harry Potter had 655 plays
- Evil Dead unit is now at 5,000+ plays total after being in circulation since early summer (April)
- Challenger EM was produced in very limited quantities (only 110 units) by an unknown manufacturer in early 1971
- Challenger was only distributed by House of Coin in Edmonton/Alberta, Canada
- Alvin Gottlieb believed in the two-player pinball concept and had it produced via House of Coin distributor, but the game was a commercial failure
- Star Wars Fall of the Empire LE became available for pre-order starting September 24th
- Hexa Space Hunt is generating more customer inquiries than Merlin's Arcade
Notable quotes
“Evil Dead ended up getting the most plays with 685... Harry Potter came in with 655 plays. That thing came out the beginning of the summer, right? Pretty much. April. Ours is number 89.”
“We could not figure out why there are only 110 of these things. It seemed very bizarre that a company that was literally churning out minimum four, five, six, seven, eight thousand... It's like a pinball. I thought it was late 70s, like 76. No, it's early. It's like 71.”
“A distributor – Nobody was jumping on board. Nobody was jumping on board. Except for one. House of Coil. One distributor in Canada came in and said, I want you to build these for me.”
“They go out of business... when they got into pinball in like the 80s or 90s, that if you were going to find these, you would always find them in that area of Canada because they were just basically blown out.”
“Stern has taken care of us... on the very first day of the new Star Wars Fall of the Empire. Ellie's ship today, today being September the 24th.”
“The most questions I've had have been about the Space Hunt... The main one being gameplay in English to where, you know, hey, four-player game, you know, like a live stream sort of situation.”
“Our friend in Buffalo, Dave Sousa, emergency appendectomy... down in the Carolinas, Sam Bowman had to have his gallbladder out, emergency surgery.”
Entities
- House of Coin· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Cleapin· event
- PGX (Pinball Game Expo)· event
- Alien Star· game
- Bally Rotation 8· game
- Challenger EM· game
- Evil Dead (Spooky Pinball)· game
- Harry Potter Wizard Edition· game
- Hexa Space Hunt· game
- Merlin's Arcade· game
- Star Wars Fall of the Empire· game
- Fresh Pinball Podcast· organization
- Nickel City Pinball· organization
- Quarter Up· organization
- Alex Eddy· person
- Alvin Gottlieb· person
- Corbin Angeli· person
- Dave Sousa· person
- Jeff· person
- Kyle· person
- Sam Bowman· person
- Stacey· person
- Zach Angeli· person
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