Episode 5 - Kaneda (Part 1) / Budge The Nudge
Fight night! Ian and Shane welcome on pinball's very own firebrand - Kaneda. This is one for the ages. Also, Ian debuts a new gameshow called Budge the Nudge. Thanks for listening! Please...
Highlights
- Homebuying represents approximately 80% of the pinball market; the remaining 20% drives growth through community engagement
- Stern passed on Back to the Future as a licensed game because focus groups of young people were unfamiliar with the film
- The pinball industry is in trouble due to oversupply of unsold inventory at distributors post-COVID and declining secondary market values
- Stern has never organized special events or early access for customers who have spent $250,000+ on their products
- Johnny Depp's likeness for Pirates of the Caribbean cost an extra $250,000 per film, totaling $1.25 million for five films
- 13-14 new pinball games were released last year, with only 3-4 accounting for 80% of purchases
Notable quotes
“I love that it's just every game is unique. So when you own an American Pinball machine, unlike owning a classic arcade machine, it's just random fun every time you play it.”
“Homebuying is 80% of the market. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.”
“The way you grow pinball, you just take everybody who is in it right now, who loves it and get them to bring a friend into the hobby. Then you've doubled your size.”
“Absolutely, it's in trouble. If you saw me walking through that distributor, how many unsold new in-box games are just sitting there? That's bad.”
“When was the, name me one moment in which you did something special for somebody who's bought $250,000 of your product. Have you ever done anything for them?”
“I think the LCD screen has been a blessing and a curse with pinball... you're a slave to the screen in a way that's like it actually doesn't pinball is not about screens right.”
Entities
- Dungeons & Dragons· game
- Godzilla· game
- Jaws· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Lord of the Rings· game
- Uncanny X-Men· game
- Xenon· game
- American Pinball· organization
- Electric Bat· organization
- Jersey Jack Pinball· organization
- Mad Pinball· organization
- North Star Coin Machine Company Pinball Collective· organization
- Nudge Magazine· organization
- Nudgecast· organization
- Stern Pinball Inc.· organization
- Stiff Richards· organization
- Straight Down the Middle: a pinball show· organization
- Dan Hanson· person
- George Gomez· person
- Ian Jacoby· person
- Kaneda· person
- Seth Davis· person
- Shane Toll· person
- Solveig· person
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