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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast April 2021
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago2 hr 21 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
These are exciting times in pinball, so Jonathan Joosten of Pinball Magazine and Martin Ayub of Pinball News are joined by Mike Kalinowski of Homepin as they look back at all the excitement from...
Highlights
- Haggis Pinball announcing Fathom Revisited as their second title and first in a planned series of classic game revisits
- Fathom Revisited launching in two editions: Classic ($9,500 AUD / ~$7,400 USD) and limited Mermaid Edition (limited to 250 units, $11,500 AUD / ~$9,000 USD)
- Haggis expects 50 units per month production capacity in new facility
- HomePin relocated from China to Taiwan due to government inspections, authoritarianism, and personal/family reasons
- HomePin contracted veteran designers Joe Balser and Jeff Bush for new licensed machine
- HomePin's new licensed title must be completed before Christmas 2021
- Haggis Pinball producing mirrored back glasses in-house, with potential to serve other manufacturers
- Fathom Revisited Mermaid Edition includes choice between original ruleset and new 2.0 version with mode-based gameplay and wizard mode
Notable quotes
“Well, pinball's easy Matt... people tend to change their mind after a while don't they”
“It's like a breath of fresh air moving to Taiwan... you're not stared at like I was in China... here you're just another person they don't care they don't look twice”
“There's not that many companies that actually make that number of games. Probably only two, being Spooky Pinball and Jersey Jack Pinball. And everybody else is lucky to get to 50.”
“I don't want to repeat what happened with Thunderbirds where we announced it and people were all excited and then I had a lot of misfortunes”
“We deliberately chose a theme that we felt would sell better in other markets that weren't their primary markets, such as England and Australia and New Zealand and Canada... This time around, we've got a theme that's very strong in America.”
“In China we had to make every single part because you simply can't import things into China that easily. You can't even order a book from Book Depository and expect that you'll get it.”
“It's a bit early in the day to do that. Certainly, perhaps next time we have a chat, I'll be more at liberty to say something.”
Entities
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- HomePin· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Planetary Pinball· company
- Porsche· company
- Scientific Gaming Industries (Williams)· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- China Zombies· game
- Fathom (1981)· game
- Fathom Revisited· game
- Thunderbirds· game
- Barry· person
- Damien O'Shaughnessy· person
- Jeff Bush· person
- Joe Balser· person
- Jonathan Euston· person
- Martin Lave· person
- Mike Kalinowski· person
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