Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast February 2021
Martin from Pinball News and Jonathan from Pinball Magazine return with their joint PINcast looking back at all the exciting events in the world of pinball in the month of February 2021. As ever...
Highlights
- American Pinball hired Jack Hager as art director, joining AIMTRON as parent/sister company
- Pinball Hall of Fame fundraiser reached $200,000 target with anonymous $79,000 donation after initial GoFundMe stalled at ~$130,000
- Deep Root Pinball's Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland received 130 pre-orders (70 arcade, 60 extra edition) and delayed production beyond mid-March due to COVID and Texas weather
- Jersey Jack Pinball imposed $1,000 price hike on Guns N' Roses (Standard $67.50→$77.50, LE $9.5K→$10.5K) for new orders only, honoring existing pre-orders
- Guns N' Roses won Pinball Industry Awards Game of the Year and is expected to win multiple Twippies
- Jersey Jack Pinball halted Willy Wonka production across all three models with no plans to manufacture more
- Stern Pinball announced jigsaw puzzle merchandise ($24.99 for 1,000-piece puzzles) including samurai design and zombie yeti artwork
Notable quotes
“No new games announced, no leaks about any upcoming games, I don't think, announced particularly. Well, maybe one... No, it has been relatively quiet.”
“Mid-March he told us in the podcast that it was going to be six weeks from the close of orders until they'd be able to start production, well I don't think that's going to start happening it's going to take quite a bit longer.”
“It's not like they can actually make more machines their production capability is maxed out I think at the moment they're making as many games as they can so if they want to make more money out of the game the only way they can really do that is to increase the price.”
“The biggest news from Stern Pinball left me a bit puzzled... they discovered that you make the most money not from the products for which you're best known, but from selling the various merchandise based around it.”
“You do merchandise to make money, and getting a fulfillment company, those are charging money too.”
Entities
- AIMTRON· company
- American Pinball· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Hall of Fame· organization
- Dave Peterson· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Gary Flower· person
- Jack Hager· person
- Jesse Hernandez· person
- John Popaduik· person
- Jonathan Hewson· person
- Ken Fedesna· person
- Martin Ave· person
- Robert Mueller· person
- Stephen Bowden· person
- Steve Kordek· person
- Tim Arnold· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
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