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Ep 52: 4 Inches Thick...of Concepts with Eric Meunier

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Eric joins us to talk all things Guns N Roses! From unused concepts to favorite moments from the creation of the game. Enjoy!

Highlights

  • Guns N' Roses collector's edition sold out in 90 minutes, generating approximately $6.5M in revenue
  • Slash personally intervened with band management to approve the custom pinball-integrated GNR logo (flippers/pinball replacing revolvers/bullets)
  • The game contains 21 licensed songs with elaborate light show integration, compared to typical music pinball's 10-12 songs
  • Joe Katz spent approximately 80 man-hours across two weeks to create the 'Live and Let Die' light show sequence
  • Slash obtained rights to use Paul McCartney's 'Live and Let Die' via personal phone call to McCartney
  • The collector's edition playfield differs from the LE: specifically including the 'Coma Lock' ball save mechanic inspired by concert venue infirmaries
  • Slash personally owns multiple pinball games and was actively involved in every step of the game's development
  • Guns N' Roses social media posts and Slash's personal Instagram (5M followers) significantly broadened market reach beyond traditional pinball audience

Notable quotes

He is not just a super awesome guitar player. He was completely different than I expected in all of the best ways possible. I anticipated, you know, it's Slash. You just expect someone of his caliber to be aloof and standoffish and arrogant and none of those words could ever describe this man.
Eric Meunier
If you don't want, we've got licensors lined up around the block that now want us to make their games because of what we do. If you can't give us the assets that can make it comparable game, take a walk.
Eric Meunier
I really felt like we were on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when we went live with that thing. because there were just like papers flying in the air, phone calls, people's personal cell phones are ringing.
Eric Meunier
It took Joe probably 80 man hours, two solid weeks of work, to make that three-and-a-half-minute song lights look the way they do. You know, that's eight hours a day for 10 days at his computer listening to the song two seconds at a time, three seconds at a time.
Eric Meunier
I personally make it with a laser cutter, with a shear, with a break, with a bend, welding. I put the harness on. I put the first game together 100% with my own two hands. And that is hundreds of hours.
Eric Meunier
You see the final product of thousands and thousands of man hours, but what you don't see is the final product of all of the other thousands of man hours that got cut or reiterated or redone in a different way.
Eric Meunier
if every pinball company is not paying attention to this is how you're supposed to do a release then they should because the the the earth has shifted and that's how you're supposed to do it
Scott Larson
when that song started, he was actually moved to tears. And he's like, that's not me. That's not what I typically do when I'm playing a game. But that's part of that experience.
Josh Roop (quoting Tim Purcell's blog)

Entities

  • Element Studios· company
  • Flipping Out Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball (JJP)· company
  • Guns N' Roses Pinball· game
  • Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Pinball Loft· organization
  • Alex (Element Studios)· person
  • Axl Rose· person
  • Duff McKagan· person
  • Eric Meunier· person
  • Joe Katz· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Paul McCartney· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Slash (guitarist)· person
  • Tim Purcell· person

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