Pinball Industry News: August 2018 Re-cap

“But I have to give Stern credit for announcing a game and being able to ship it within a week and have it on location. And again, that's their strong point at this moment.”

“The artwork on the LCDs is a complete style slash with what's happening on the playfield... and then if you look at the premium and the LE versions, they have 3D-molded characters on the play, which are, again, a complete style slash with what else is happening on the playfield.”

“They need to move on with Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle. So they are planning to stop the production of Total Nuclear Annihilation at 550 units for now, then move on with Alice Cooper.”

“You have no clue what to shoot for. There's nothing that's obvious like, oh, I gotta shoot this three times and then that will happen... if that's lacking, you can program it as deep as a New York phone book, but that won't save it.”

“The operator market... You need somebody who doesn't know anything about the game or knows a limited amount about the game but knows the theme to be able to walk up to it... They should have some idea of what to shoot for.”

“When you walk up to a game that with such deep rules, you haven't got a clue. It's hugely intimidating to look at a blank playfield... it's not a huge amount of fun until you've spent a lot of time and invested a lot of time and money into the game.”

“Stern is paying close attention to what Scott Danesi has been doing... Stern immediately came with a Keith Elwin reference in Deadpool.”

“It will be interesting, though, because if you see how long he has been working on Total Nuclear Annihilation, it would be difficult I can imagine it would be difficult for him to crank out a game in a couple of months when the first one took you a couple of years”