Pinball Industry News: July 2020 Re-cap
Pinball Magazine editor Jonathan Joosten and Pinball News editor Martin Ayub discuss the pinball industry news of July 2020. This month's headlines are: - Jersey Jack Pinball is hiring
Highlights
- Jersey Jack Pinball is manufacturing games at their Elk Grove Village facility
- Iron Maiden won Stern Showdown with 59% of votes vs Lord of the Rings' 41%
- Four Stern games received code updates in July: Elvira House of Horrors, TMNT, Stranger Things, Jurassic Park
- Nodeboard firmware updates included in all four game updates to improve stability
- Slash (Guns N' Roses guitarist) is rumored to be involved in upcoming Jersey Jack Pinball title
- Jim Petler hired as Chief Operating Officer at Jersey Jack Pinball
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles finally available in UK and Europe as of July 2020
- Dwight Sullivan code for TMNT may be overly complex for casual players
Notable quotes
“I just want to flip the ball around and have some fun, and I don't want to be concerned... Give me a fun objective to go for, and let me discover the game from there.”
“They are building games, so good news there.”
“I'd rather see them have some quality inspectors and so on before they start shipping games, because I'd rather have games being inspected properly.”
“These days they seem to want to do all their quality control and testing in-house rather than put them out on location.”
“It won by 59% to 41% for the Lord of the Rings.”
“They weren't allowed to call it Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... ninjas were seen as a bad thing at that time... So it was actually called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.”
“When they first brought these pinball podcasts out, the Jersey Jack ones, they were called Behind the Backglass... but that seems to have disappeared now.”
“I'm pretty sure it's going to be something like Hello Kitty or something.”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Comic Con (San Diego)· event
- Southern Pride Game Room Expo· event
- Stern Showdown· event
- Iron Maiden (Stern Pinball)· game
- Lord of the Rings (Stern Pinball)· game
- Metallica (Stern Pinball)· game
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Stern Pinball)· game
- Deadflip (stream)· organization
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jack Warnieri· person
- Jeremy Packer (Zombie Yeti)· person
- Jim Petler· person
- Johnson Euston· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Martin Mayer· person
- Peter Dawn· person
- Slash· person
- Ted Estes· person
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