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Pinball Industry News: December 2018 Re-cap

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago40 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
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Summary of the December 2018 news from Stern Pinball, STR and Quetzal, Spooky, JJP, American Pinball and other pinball industry news

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Highlights

  • Tokyo Perfect Drift revealed by STR Pinball and Quetzal Pinball, designed by Antonio (known for Captain Nemo Dives Again), priced at €4,395 (~$5,000 USD), launching with ~50% of rules and 2 songs initially
  • Stern's Primus game shipping with production of first 50 units in December and remaining units in January, limited to 108 total machines
  • A Primus game shipped with a Munsters manual inside instead of Primus manual, containing partial rules information
  • Spooky's TNA (Total Nuclear Annihilation) has completed most of its 550-unit run with less than 30 games remaining and games in stock available for immediate shipment
  • Jersey Jack's Pirates of the Caribbean Collector Edition is being manufactured and shipped with code version 0.98 (not fully featured)
  • Texas Pinball Festival organizers are setting up a Texas Pinball Museum expected to be operational by March when the festival occurs
  • HomePin shipped a container of Thunderbirds pinball machines (likely to Australia) and has switched to using metal pallets bolted with metal pellets for shipment to prevent damage from previous wooden pallet failures
  • Stern's Munsters game expected to be revealed before CES (January 8-11) or during the show, with additional appearance at EAG London show
  • A German pinball collector named Ingo Kramer lost a collection of over 100 pinball machines in a building fire, apparently uninsured, possibly caused by a parked car catching fire outside
  • Jim Askey released a code version 2.0 update for Revenge from Mars (originally from 1999) with new hurry features, championship tracking, and underlying code changes

Notable quotes

“I'm still looking for a game if you catch my drift... I think the play field looks interesting but I'm still missing a game in the game, so to speak.”
Jonathan Houston
“it appears to me that more and more people seem to bother themselves more with whether something is politically correct than get excited about a new game being revealed... I think it's rather worrisome that political correctness is taking over the excitement for a new game.”
Jonathan Houston
“TNA is officially their most successful game to date... Well, congratulations to Scott and the team.”
Martin Eyre / Jonathan Houston
“Version 0.98... not quite version 1, not quite fully featured, but almost. That's quite worrisome actually because that means that they are still putting more into the game and there's already plenty.”
Martin Eyre
“They had a couple of incidences where games got damaged during transport... So in this case, with the games being basically bolted to the pallet, they should not fall off.”
Martin Eyre
“Well, that is exciting, and they do hope to be up and running by the time of the Texas show in March.”
Jonathan Houston
“Ensuring your pinballs won't bring them back, but it might make it easier to replace them.”
Martin Eyre
“We're less than 40 minutes on the way and we're done. Unbelievable. Well, December is always a bit of a quiet time, what with the holiday season and things being held back until the start of the next year.”
Jonathan Houston / Martin Eyre

Entities

  • American Pinball· company
  • HomePin· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Quetzal Pinball· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • STR Pinball· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle· game
  • Munsters· game
  • Pirates of the Caribbean (Collector Edition)· game
  • Primus· game
  • Revenge from Mars· game
  • Thunderbirds· game
  • Tokyo Perfect Drift· game
  • Total Nuclear Annihilation (TNA)· game
  • Texas Pinball Museum· organization
  • Antonio· person
  • Ingo Kramer· person
  • Jim Askey / My Pinballs· person
  • Jonathan Houston· person
  • Martin Eyre· person
  • Pinball Magazine· publication
  • Pinball News· publication

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