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Information on Jersey Jack Pinball's Next Two Games and more from Pintastic New England
ArticleAnalysis updated 3d ago
Hey everyone. I'm coming off a super busy pinball weekend, having spent all day Friday and Saturday at the awesome Pintastic New England show in Marlb...
Highlights
- Sonic the Hedgehog pinball is Jersey Jack's next game
- Steve Ritchie described Sonic as 'maybe the fastest game I've ever made'
- Sonic has over 6,000 recorded speech calls
- Author estimates Sonic release in June 2026
- Mark Seiden scrapped his first game layout entirely and started over
- Mark Seiden's new game will be music-themed
- Nintendo refuses to license pinball; Gottlieb obtained two Nintendo licenses in 1980s
- Jack Guarnieri pursued Harry Potter license for about ten years before it became available
- Harry Potter pinball has 938 unique parts and over 3,200 total parts
- JJP filed patent covering AI for pinball and gaming broadly
Notable quotes
“maybe the fastest game I've ever made”
“The game is a standard body, not a widebody. It 'might' have more than two flippers and it has 'satisfying spinners.'”
“the new one shoots amazing”
“pinball is not a category they license”
“one week before TPF 2023 (right after The Godfather launched) saying his flight was being rerouted to Burbank to pitch the game”
“He had one caffeine-fueled week to prepare a full concept: playfield layout, characters, assets, mechanisms, and required audio/video clips.”
“New Arcade Edition and Wizard Edition builds are scheduled for September.”
Entities
- Gottlieb· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Nintendo· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Turner Pinball· company
- Warner Brothers· company
- Pintastic New England· event
- F-14 Tomcat· game
- Harry Potter· game
- High Speed· game
- Sonic the Hedgehog· game
- Stellar Wars· game
- The Godfather· game
- The Hobbit· game
- Knapp Arcade· organization
- Brian Klatsky· person
- Ed Haron· person
- Eric Meunier· person
- Jack Guarnieri· person
- Jason Knapp· person
- Mark Seiden· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Under the Glass· venue
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