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Ep 115: Aliens vs Dinosaurs with Cary Hardy
PodcastAnalysis updated 5d ago1 hr 13 min listen
Cary Hardy joins us to talk about how he got into YouTube and then we discuss Venom along with the new Jurassic Park 30th anniversary.
Highlights
- Jeremy Packer confirmed there are 18 more titles coming out next year from Stern
- 75 percent of Stern's games are designed by Keith Elwin
- Venom is modeled similarly to Multimorphic P3 games with shots concentrated in the upper half/third of the playfield
- Venom features XP/experience-based progression mechanics similar to online RPGs rather than traditional mode-based gameplay
- Cary Hardy won the Grand Champion Best Show award at a major pinball show with his restored Getaway machine
- Texas Pinball Festival hotel accommodations sold out in less than three minutes
- Dwight Sullivan is handling the code for Venom and the game's success depends heavily on code quality
- Community reception to Venom has been lukewarm with very few people expressing genuine excitement about the game direction
- Stranger Things experienced a significant reversal in community perception after code updates and changed gameplay experience
- Cary Hardy's Riviera EM machine from the early 1970s was a home-use-only game with original documentation from that era
Notable quotes
“The mighty have fallen. You've got Keith Elwin on speed dial, and you get me on here to talk.”
“I realized that I like playing video games, but I don't have a passion for it... I realized that when I was editing, I just don't want to do this. It seemed very forced... maybe I should try changing the content up... and that's pinball.”
“I like to see things go from bad to good. It's just something satisfying about it... Watching something that's dirty or non-functional, taking it, and making it look beautiful.”
“There are very few times I've just cried over something. And that was one of those moments... right up there with the birth of my kids, sadly, but my kids more obviously.”
“If you strip out Yeti's artwork, the playfield is not that packed. It really isn't. But with Yeti's artwork, it actually makes it feel more full... you do have Tee'd Off feel like you are getting your money's worth.”
“This could have been a Multimorphic P3 game... if you look at the Venom play field and compare that Tee'd Off a Godzilla play field, you're going Tee'd Off wonder where the assets are.”
“I typically have a pretty good feeling about certain games when they get released... My thoughts on Jurassic Park: it was one of those games. I remember watching the stream. I was like, 'This game is going to be great. This is an amazing game.'”
“I haven't played Venom yet. But from looking at the gameplay stream and everything, it seems like a typical fun layout... It's going to mainly depend on what [Dwight Sullivan is] going for it on the code.”
“Well, they're gimmicks, right?... it's supposed Tee'd Off just – Jon Hey, here's like your – do you remember like the old video games where there was like an Easter egg and you ended up like playing Space Invaders in the middle of a game or something like that?”
“I don't know what it is about this game. I just, I don't really have the urge Tee'd Off own one. Like, Venom's all right. Like, I'm not opposed Tee'd Off him. I know of a few people who are buying it.”
Entities
- Flip N Out Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Deadpool· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Godzilla· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Lord of the Rings· game
- Stranger Things· game
- The Getaway· game
- Venom· game
- World Cup Soccer· game
- LoserKid Pinball Podcast· organization
- Brian Eddy· person
- Cary Hardy· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Jeremy Packer· person
- Josh Roop· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Matt Scott· person
- Nicole· person
- Scott Larson· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
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