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Ep 107: Pulp Fiction with Butch Peel
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Butch Peel from CGC joins us to talk all things Pulp Fiction. Also, he clears up so of the confusion surrounding the game.
Highlights
- Pulp Fiction is in the top three of everyone's choices at Texas Pinball Festival
- Limited Edition Pulp Fiction units sold out quickly at Texas Pinball Festival
- Quentin Tarantino's initial creative input was directional (rejecting modernized design) rather than granular (moving targets, changing mechanisms)
- Mark Ritchie originally designed Pulp Fiction as a wide-body with gun-handle ball shooter, LCD screen, and complex toy features before Tarantino redirected toward 1970s-80s aesthetic
- Chicago Gaming Company and Play Mechanics have a collaborative partnership with blurred responsibility lines rather than strict division of labor
- David Thiel transitioned from Deep Root Pinball to serve as sound designer for Pulp Fiction after Butch Peel facilitated negotiations
- Pulp Fiction contains 265 F-words and 431 total curse words across 2 hours 34 minutes of film
- Chicago Gaming Company will produce coin-op editions first, followed by Safe Cracker editions, then Limited Editions, with additional coin-ops at the end
Notable quotes
“When people are able to play and hear the game, it's going to be that much better.”
“Passion breaks through barriers. Passion doesn't take no for an answer. Passion does whatever it takes to make it work.”
“Chicago Gaming Company does toppers the best.”
“Pulp Fiction is Quentin Tarantino's baby, period. Miramax is a rubber stamp kind of sign off on the thing, but he has veto rights on virtually everything.”
“He couldn't have put it on table any more than they could have on that concept, right? But when he saw it, he knew it.”
“There's no stovepipes there where you stay in your lane and, you know, no one was ever told to do any of that.”
“If you're going to do that theme, you've got to be able to add that. You don't want to abandon a lot of the things that made Pulp Fiction what it is.”
Entities
- Atari· company
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Miramax· company
- Play Mechanics· company
- The Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Pulp Fiction· game
- LoserKid Pinball Podcast· organization
- Butch Peel· person
- David Thiel· person
- Doug· person
- George Petro· person
- Jim Thornton· person
- Josh Roop· person
- Mark Ritchie· person
- Matt Scott Larson· person
- Nicole Mani· person
- Quentin Tarantino· person
- Zach Minney· person
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