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Ep 149: Ep 149: Pre Pinball Expo 2024 with Colin MacAlpine

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Colin MacAlpine joins us the talk what's happen at the 40th Pinball Expo and also about his role in Mulimorphic's latest creation, Princess Bride. We also talk about Dutch Pinball's Alice in...

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Highlights

  • Princess Bride will be playable at Pinball Expo 2024 at Justin Wise's booth, with Josh Kugler (lead software developer) giving a seminar and likely presenting his own P3 whitewood
  • Princess Bride features nine selectable story modes across three groupings (Castle, Gilder, Florin), each with attached mini-wizard modes
  • Princess Bride includes a 'narrative streak' bonus system where completing modes in storybook order grants cumulative end-of-ball bonuses, similar to Indiana Jones or Indy 500
  • P3 platform has received flipper redesigns that Colin describes as 'a world of difference' from older models
  • Multimorphic released quality update kits addressing previous P3 and module quality issues, with zero reported failures since implementation
  • P3 cabinet now supports backward-compatible system upgrades, addressing concerns about platform obsolescence
  • Multimorphic now offers magnetized slingshot and side target artwork for quick swaps between game modules
  • Colin MacAlpine won the Pinberg (not Papa) championship trophy, with High Hand as one of four qualifying games

Notable quotes

“I wanted to give the player complete control. So you as the player have complete control about which modes you want to play and which order you want to play them in.”
Colin MacAlpine
“I wanted people to press that start button again, whether it's in your collection at home or whether you're playing it on location. I don't like games that just become stale.”
Colin MacAlpine
“There's a lot of breadth, not just depth. It's a matter of how you approach the game.”
Colin MacAlpine
“The flippers are totally different. If you played a P3 a long time ago on the old flippers, please, please, please go play on the new P3 because the flippers are a world of difference.”
Colin MacAlpine
“It's like if for some reason you'd written off P3 in the past, give it another chance. And I think you will be not just pleasantly surprised. I think you will be overwhelmed with how much you enjoy playing it.”
Colin MacAlpine
“If anybody's really like OCD about, hey, I put my final resistance module in, but I've got my weird owl, you know, artwork on the slingshots: you can now swap those out even easier.”
Colin MacAlpine
“Don't invite him over to your house if you want any of your high scores to remain intact.”
Josh (Loser Kid host)
“There's rhyme and reason to each one of the modes and why we chose to make them the way they do.”
Colin MacAlpine

Entities

  • Flipping Out Pinball· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Pinball Expo 2024· event
  • Attack from Mars· game
  • Final Resistance· game
  • Ghostbusters· game
  • Princess Bride· game
  • Weird Al· game
  • Buffalo Pinball· organization
  • Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Colin MacAlpine· person
  • Jerry· person
  • Josh· person
  • Josh Kugler· person
  • Justin Wise· person
  • Kevin Manny· person
  • Nicole Sharpe· person
  • Scott· person
  • Steven Silver· person
  • TJ· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person

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