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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular Beetlejuice Drawing Day May 2
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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular Beetlejuice Drawing Day May 2
Highlights
- American Pinball development timeline is approximately 18 months from conception to finished game
- Over 125 people entered the Beetlejuice drawing despite being a small subscriber base of 709 people (approximately 15-18% of subscribers)
- Spooky Pinball is willing to do another drawing with multiple copies of their next game title
- Beetlejuice demand remains very high and would be only one of a few games that could achieve 125+ drawing entries in recent years
- George Gomez at Stern Pinball made a special gesture for Kaneda's son's first pinball machine
- Spooky Pinball has shown the most improvement of all pinball manufacturers over the last decade
- Pokemon Pinball location machine is out-earning other games on location
- One drawing entrant (Pinball Hans) opened an arcade bar in October and reached 2,000 play mark in one month with Pokemon Pinball
Notable quotes
“it takes about 18 months to go from conception to a game”
“I mean that's just amongst my tiny little subscription base of 709 people. A good I mean that's what is that like 15% of people... about 15%.”
“if the hype was gone, why do 125 people want one, bro? If I did a drawing to get five DND at MSRP, Nope. King Kong at Elite, Nope.”
“Spooky Pinball is above and beyond uh and by far the organization that I still think has improved the most out of all the pinball companies maybe in the history of pinball”
“you're not just making a pinball machine. You're building a brand. And and this is the one part of pinball company failure that is endemic to so many of the organizations”
“I will never buy from them. I will never buy or support a company that treats its customers the way they do [referring to CGC]”
“When I buy from Spooky, I know the people that my money is helping and empowering and I know the organization that I'm helping to fund and grow.”
“this is my son's first pinball machine, and George did something really, really nice”
“Note, if you're going to call Switzerland, use WhatsApp.”
“Even if I don't, mad props to you for providing this for fans. There are going to be five very happy people and hundreds of people who love and respect your even more for pulling this off.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Beetlejuice· game
- Pokemon Pinball· game
- Brenda· person
- Brian Vincent· person
- Bug· person
- Cassian· person
- Christopher Franchi· person
- David Van Es· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Kaneda· person
- Kelly Daniels· person
- Killian· person
- Morgan· person
- Pinball Hans / Hyperbeery Company· person
- Seth Davis· person
- Spooky Luke· person
- Merlin's Arcade· venue
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Episode 1229: "Something We Can All Agree On"
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TL;DR
Kaneda condemns Stern's incomplete game launches and urges community to withhold support until quality improves.
Everyone wants the same thing, but we won't get there if we keep buying right away.
