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Pinball Industry News: March 2019 Re-cap

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday1 hr 33 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
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Re-cap of the pinball industry news of March 2019, including new game reveals at the Texas Pinball Festival and Stern's new Black Knight: Sword of Rage.

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Highlights

  • Wizard of Oz Yellow Brick Road Limited Edition priced at $11,500, limited to around 500 units with approximately 200 planned for 2019 production
  • Texas Pinball Festival 2019 had record of over 500 pinball machines on display
  • Wizard of Oz Yellow Brick Road LE removes the winged monkey mech from the original game due to mechanical reliability issues
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory will be revealed at Midwest Gaming Classic on April 13-14, 2019
  • Multimorphic has opened a new in-house manufacturing facility in Texas where they are building games
  • Multimorphic demonstrated a new four-player networked version of Cosmic Kart Racing where multiple machines connect for competitive play
  • Suncoast Pinball's Cosmic Carnival features artwork by Donny Gillies (Dirty Donny) and they have locked him down for three additional titles
  • Pinball Magazine won a Twippe award for Best Pinball Publication at Texas Pinball Festival

Notable quotes

“There's always so much stuff going on, but in this case, it's almost, I mean, it's great that there's 500 games, and you need probably 500 games because there's so many people there, but it's an illusion to think that you're going to be playing 500 games that weekend because you simply can't.”
Martin Eyre
“The walk around video ended up being 45 minutes long just because there's so much to see and I don't want to rush around so you can't see what all the games are or what's going on there.”
Martin Eyre
“It's limited to around 500 units in total. Jack said in the seminar that they probably make about 200 this year, of which 150 or so were already sold, or were at the time.”
Martin Eyre
“So it was like network play. You basically have four players racing against each other, each playing their own pinball machine. So you need four pinball machines to make that happen, which is quite interesting.”
Jonathan Bergeron
“If there would be an award for most innovative pinball machine, and I definitely think that Multimorphic should be winning such an award.”
Martin Eyre
“Jack Guarnieri will not be at that show as he will be at the Flip Expo show, which is the same weekend in France. Yes, where you and I will be at that show.”
Jonathan Bergeron
“The artwork is certainly highly identifiable as coming from him. I think it looked amazing.”
Martin Eyre
“They have a lot of stuff on the floor. They've sort of given over the whole floor to manufacturing pretty much, just a little meeting room where we did our interview with Jerry later in the evening. But the rest of it, there are no offices.”
Martin Eyre

Entities

  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Marco Specialties· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Suncoast Pinball· company
  • Flip Expo· event
  • Midwest Gaming Classic· event
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Pinball Magazine· organization
  • Pinball News· organization
  • Butch Patrick· person
  • Christopher Franchi· person
  • Donny Gillies (Dirty Donny)· person
  • Ed Van Der Veen· person
  • Gary Flower· person
  • Jack Guarnieri· person
  • Jerry Stellenberg· person
  • John Borg· person
  • Jonathan Bergeron· person
  • Martin Eyre· person
  • Pat Priest· person
  • Cosmic Carnival· product
  • Cosmic Kart Racing· product
  • Munsters Pinball· product
  • Wizard of Oz Yellow Brick Road Limited Edition· product

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