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Pinball Industry News: September 2019 Re-cap
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 45 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
New Elvira pinball game, new Ghostbusters code, Suncoast Pinball bankruptcy and much more pinball industry news discussed by Martin Ayub and Jonathan Joosten.
Highlights
- Suncoast Pinball filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to unpaid back rent (~$14,500 initially, escalating to $30,000+ with legal fees and future rent guarantees)
- Cosmic Carnival's production was reduced from 250 units to 100 units approximately two months prior to the bankruptcy, signaling poor sales
- Elvira's House of Horrors was announced at Texas Pinball Festival 2016 (approximately 2.5 years before September 2019)
- Dennis Nordman completed the Elvira playfield design and then left Stern to work for Deep Root Pinball, forcing Stern to complete the game without further designer input
- The Elvira's House of Horrors live stream on Deadflip's Twitch channel revealed incomplete code with limited modes, lack of call-outs, and repetitive mode sequencing
- Elvira's House of Horrors Signature Edition is priced between $15,000-$20,000 with only 50 units produced, while the Limited Edition has 500 units
- Blurry leaked images of Elvira's House of Horrors appeared before official reveal, sourced from someone guessing the URL on Stern's website
- Ghostbusters pinball version 1.16 code update added wizard modes, music, voice calls, balanced scoring, and a 'God mode' trainer that jumps to pre-wizard modes
Notable quotes
“if you have a good seller on your hands, why would you reduce the numbers?”
“these guys are willing to pay me to design more games for them, I have no obligations to Stern so off he went”
“it looks like they might still be working on it for quite some time based on the fact that... we've seen a very interesting curve of development”
“they got a new game even though they already have it for three years in their house”
“they came and they kicked ass”
“to me, I didn't want to run them because I didn't think – well, I thought they were effectively stolen property because Stern didn't want them out there”
“It's a sanitary lesson because you would have thought they were a reasonably well-funded startup having a successful arcade company behind them should be able to see them through the first couple of games.”
Entities
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Suncoast Arcade· company
- Suncoast Pinball· company
- Whizbang Studios· company
- Deadflip· company/media
- Pinball Expo· event
- Batman 66· game
- Cosmic Carnival· game
- Elvira's House of Horrors· game
- Ghostbusters· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Sacred Stiff· game
- Pinball News· media
- Cassandra Peterson· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Dirty Donny· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Greg Ferris· person
- Jack Danger· person
- John Weaver· person
- Jonathan Houston· person
- Lyman Sheats· person
- Martin Edmunds· person
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