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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News December 2020 recap PINcast
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago2 hr 4 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
The Pinball Magazine and Pinball News PINcast is back, as Martin Ayub and Jonathan Joosten review all the key events in the pinball world during December 2020....
Highlights
- Led Zeppelin designed by Steve Ritchie with Tim Sexton on code, featuring an electric magic device with optical spinner, posts, and magnet for ball manipulation
- Stern added a new EULA to December 2020 code updates restricting streaming, modification, and potentially disabling internet-connected games in future
- Pinball Brothers plan to manufacture 100 Alien games per month in Italy by April via Pedretti contract manufacturer
- Alien remake removes in-playfield screen and replaces modular design elements with traditional Williams-style construction
- Stern code updates standardized features like DJ mixer, graphic equalizer, backbox brightness modes across multiple games
- Paperflop's '30 Years of Stern' Kickstarter book faced years of delays and now shipping manually through USPS due to fulfillment issues
- Licensed music on Led Zeppelin and other games makes streaming difficult due to copyright blocking by Twitch/YouTube/Facebook
- Pedretti is known for quality issues with plastic replacement parts despite manufacturing for Planetary Pinball
- Jersey Jack Pinball celebrates 10 years in business at this time
- Modern Stern games feature overly complicated rule sets prioritizing tournament players over casual players
Notable quotes
“This doesn't have a number of the things which Guns N' Roses has. It doesn't have the band buy-in. It doesn't have the equivalent of Slash working on the game.”
“Take away the artwork, and basically it could have been any rock band. There's nothing that screams Led Zeppelin in terms of the design.”
“I think largely so basically they're now focusing on tournament players which is only a very small portion of the people actually playing pinball”
“I'd rather have a fun game that's less deep, but I enjoy playing it, and instead of a game that has a zillion options to go for”
“Well, I'm not sure what the proper word is to say, but basically the owner of the company had some tactics that were not very desirable”
“I'm hearing various stories about the quality of replacement pinball parts produced by Pedretti, which are not that good, especially their plastic parts”
“It looks more like a traditional Barry Williams game. If you couldn't see the playfield you would think that's what it was.”
“They're not going to be interested in dealing with every request for a pinball stream, are they?”
“It does sound pretty damn good. So do you want to tell us which microphone you bought? No, it's a pinball podcast. We don't discuss microphones in here.”
“Well, and speaking of misuse, obviously the next thing that the same end-user license agreement also mentioned is that you're not allowed to modify your game.”
Entities
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Highway Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Paperflop· company
- Pedretti· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Planetary Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Zen Studios· company
- Alien· game
- Avengers Infinity Quest· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Iron Man· game
- Led Zeppelin· game
- Star Wars· game
- Stranger Things· game
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles· game
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Andrew Heighway· person
- Gary Flower· person
- Jack Guarnieri· person
- Jonathan Euston· person
- Martin Eyre· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Tim Sexton· person
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