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Ep 151: Pinball Expo 2024 Recap

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Homebrews, Space Hunt, Danger potato, and Clowncore?! We're talking about the rest of how or Expo went.

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Highlights

  • Metallica remaster features millimeter-level playfield adjustments by John Borg to improve gameplay
  • Raymond is the 'heir apparent' to Lyman Sheets' legacy for balanced, complex rule sets
  • Alice in Wonderland has upper playfield locked behind achievement progression
  • Greatest Showman homebrew cost approximately $16,000 in parts and materials
  • Greatest Showman homebrew took over 800 hours to complete and still needed more coding
  • Saw homebrew homebrew had five dedicated team members including artist and sound designer Glenn Wecker
  • Alice in Wonderland shooting mechanics are comparable to best post-Bally/Williams games
  • Stern Pro Edition machines can be upgraded with speaker lights and expression lights aftermarket
  • Deep dish Chicago pizza delivery failed to meet 45-minute promise, taking ~90 minutes total

Notable quotes

“This isn't a lazy, Jon Hey, we want to sell a few hundred The Games thing. They really pushed this as if it were a cornerstone.”
Josh Roop
“I would argue this is the Let's Get Rocked version of Jurassic Park, where it's not going to be Theater of Magic. It's not going to be Tales of the Arabian Knights.”
Scott Larson
“The best thing Stern does is they make the Premium Edition worth it... even if you decide to go with the Pro Edition you can get a good alternative.”
Josh Roop
“Homebrews have the ability to do whatever they want without licensing interference... imagine what some of these games that have notoriously challenging licensing could do.”
Scott Larson
“If you don't know the difference... if you didn't know you would assume this was a cornerstone game.”
Scott Larson
“There really should be a give me for the upper play field just so someone gets to play it for the first time right... there really should be a moment where it says, Jon Hey, shoot here, and you get to play it once.”
Josh Roop

Entities

  • Dutch Pinball· company
  • Flippin' Out Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Pinball Expo· event
  • Alice in Wonderland· game
  • Greatest Showman· game
  • Metallica· game
  • Saw· game
  • Glenn Wecker· person
  • Jay French· person
  • Jeffrey Jones· person
  • John Borg· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Lisa Sue Jones· person
  • Melvin· person
  • Nicole· person
  • Raymond· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Thomas Law· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person

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