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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular April 25
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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular April 25
the only 90-minute show that works
Highlights
- Spooky Pinball made approximately 80 unnumbered 'show games' of Beetlejuice beyond the promised 999 units, driven by dealer pressure
- Barrels of Fun has licenses for He-Man, G.I. Joe, and 'most likely' Big Trouble in Little China, with He-Man coming from American Pinball after Stern passed on it
- Winchester Mystery House has only produced ~80 units in 7 months (as of April 25 timeframe), with 425 more units to deliver
- Pokémon Pinball has the best shot layout and flow among recent games, designed by Jack Danger with George Gomez
- Beetlejuice shoots well despite negative narratives, with more content trade-off compared to Pokémon
- Spooky Pinball is the only pinball manufacturer that has truly grown and ascended, but still lacks Stern's flipper feel/responsiveness
- Kaneda is preparing to enter the pinball manufacturing business
- Winchester Mystery House sold out in two days despite slow manufacturing delivery pace
Notable quotes
“Spooky, take it. Take that money. You earned it. Don't fall victim to what I know is in your head from the dealers and the distros that are telling you to make more. Don't do it. You're all you're going to do is make the dealers and the distros more money at the detriment of your brand.”
“If if Dungeon Crawler Carl sells out, I legitimately I legitimately will not do a show for an entire week and I will do nothing but hype the game for them. That's how shocked I would be.”
“The only thing that's missing is the flipper feel is still not as good as a stern. And it has to do with the the sort of the uh you know the electrical pulse... because it's it's it's a lot of variables. It's the coils, it's the switches, it's the computing.”
“Pokemon will be the most fun they've had just flipping a game... less is more sometimes when it comes to pinball layout.”
“I'm getting a little tired of making PowerPoint slides and asking permission to be myself every day... I think I'm getting close to just jumping into the pinball biz, baby.”
“This is all facts. Stern had the license for He-Man. It was in development. They decided to pass on it. That is when American Pinball got the license for He-Man... Barrels of Fun has the license and is gonna make the game. So, this is happening. This is not a rumor.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Beetlejuice· game
- Big Trouble in Little China· game
- G.I. Joe· game
- He-Man· game
- Pokémon Pinball· game
- Winchester Mystery House· game
- Brett Abbis· person
- Frank Mack· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Kaneda· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Luke· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
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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.
