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Ep 148: Attack From Mars Topper from The Electric Playground!

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There's a new AFM topper in town and it's by The Electric Playground. Join us as we deep dive with Rob and Alec on the new licensed AFM topper!

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Highlights

  • Attack from Mars topper uses 6 light sensors to detect game state and trigger 8 different light shows on the topper without soldering or cutting into the game
  • The Electric Playground has 50 Attack from Mars toppers ready to ship within 2-4 weeks of order, with remaining 300 units to be fulfilled by end of 2025
  • The Godzilla topper has shipped approximately 10 units since release about a month prior and features four 3.2-inch LCD screens with five interactive modes
  • Rick from Planetary Pinball provided official licensing for the Attack from Mars topper, allowing use of audio clips and intellectual property in the product
  • The Electric Playground expanded to a new workspace approximately 3 times larger than their previous location to support production scaling
  • Brad Albright created the artwork for the Attack from Mars topper
  • The Godzilla topper won 'Best Mod of the Show' at Expo
  • The Big Lebowski topper had a limited run of 100 units that sold in 2-3 days

Notable quotes

“Attack is one of those games I cannot walk by and not put 50 cents in. It's impossible.”
Rob
“We want to make sure that they're getting paid what they're worth. We both come from creative backgrounds. We've been on the other side of this.”
Alec
“Attack from Mars is like the game I grew up on. It's the first game I played that made me love pinball. My dad used to put me down on a bar stool when he was playing his band gigs, and that was the game I got to play.”
Rob
“We didn't have that convenience. There are some ways that you can kind of tap into the Cat5 cable: they call it like a serial sniffer: where you can kind of try to infer what's going on.”
Rob
“We're not doing this as like a flash in the pan. We really want to give the artists the credit where it's due. We want to make sure that they're getting paid what they're worth.”
Alec
“With Godzilla, you have a raising thing. With Attack, you've got movement. We didn't have movement in The Big Lebowski, but we also wanted to make that kind of an art piece.”
Rob
“I downloaded the ROM, and I extracted it, and like got all the audio there. There's a ton of stuff in there that I don't think ever made it into the game. But there is one where the alien goes, 'Five billion!'”
Rob

Entities

  • CGC· company
  • Dutch Pinball· company
  • Planetary Pinball· company
  • The Electric Playground· company
  • Attack from Mars· game
  • Cactus Canyon· game
  • Godzilla· game
  • The Big Lebowski· game
  • Twilight Zone· game
  • Alec· person
  • Brad Albright· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Lyman· person
  • Rick· person
  • Rob· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Zach and Nicole· person

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