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Pinball Industry News: November 2018 Re-cap

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 15 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
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Recap of the pinball industry news of November 2018 and the first week of December 2018.

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Highlights

  • Primus pinball is limited to 100 games for sale plus 8 additional units for band/management/South Park creator
  • Primus retail price is $7,995 USD
  • Beatles pinball uses Sea Witch playfield layout with new opto spinners instead of microswitches
  • Apple Corp charged Stern on a per-second basis for Beatles music licensing
  • Zombie Yeti is the artist for Primus pinball artwork in collaboration with Zoltron
  • Monsters game has been pushed back from December 2018 launch, with possible January/February 2019 target
  • Deep Root Pinball has postponed their company reveal scheduled for Texas Pinball Festival 2019
  • Beatles pop-up exhibition in London runs until December 12th with four gold edition machines

Notable quotes

“Stern and finally did it, they managed to keep a game a secret.”
Jonathan Houston
“Apple were charging virtually on a sort of per second basis for how much of each song they wanted to use.”
Martin Air
“hats off to Zoltron and Zombietti for the artwork, because it's a very colourful, drop-dead gorgeous game.”
Martin Air
“the quality of the animations on the LCD display and I think they're absolutely wonderful they're really very well done”
Martin Air
“You nail them and they spin for like 20 seconds or something which is exactly what you want”
Martin Air
“probably the biggest Update Probably if we've seen it on any game for a long time It seems to have totally transformed it In a good way”
Jonathan Houston
“I think Metallica must be down as done by now, wouldn't you think?”
Martin Air
“So he has quite an interest in how this game turned out. And also he himself is a huge fan of a more simplistic, maybe a single level type play field.”
Martin Air

Entities

  • Apple Corp· company
  • Deep Root Pinball· company
  • Electrocoin· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Primus· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Dutch Pinball Open· event
  • IAPA· event
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Batman 66· game
  • Beatles pinball· game
  • Dialed In· game
  • Hobbit· game
  • KISS· game
  • Metallica· game
  • Monsters· game
  • Pirates· game
  • Woe Nelly Big Juicy Melons· game
  • Butch Patrick· person
  • Gary Stern· person
  • Jean-Paul De Wynne· person
  • Jonathan Houston· person
  • Martin Air· person
  • Zoltron· person
  • Zombie Yeti· person

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