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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast March 2021
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago2 hr 9 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
Join April Fools Jonathan Joosten from PinballMagazine and Martin Ayub from Pinball News as they bring you up-to-date with all the key events from the world of pinball throughout March. There’s...
Highlights
- Guns N' Roses Bill of Materials completed and all drawings finished by January 15, 2020; game ready for reveal at Texas Pinball Show but delayed for additional code development
- Jersey Jack produces 20-25 games per day at Elk Grove Village factory; some days production under 25 units, some days over, with sales exceeding daily production capacity
- All Guns N' Roses CEs have been built and shipped or in process of shipping; LEs currently on production line
- EU 25% tariff suspension lasted four months starting in March 2021; distributors rushed to order before tariff reimposition
- Guns N' Roses won Twippies and Pinball News Game of the Year 2020; awards validated game quality and drove additional sales
- Secondary market CE Pirates of the Caribbean sold for high price (~$38,000 mentioned as example); CE Guns N' Roses prices similarly elevated
- Jersey Jack prioritizes multi-generational licensed IP with long-term appeal and rich asset libraries over movie tie-in timing
- No announcement of next Jersey Jack title in 2021; focus remains on Guns N' Roses production; future timing depends on parts availability and production readiness
Notable quotes
“While we might build 25 games in a day, I can tell you that some days we sell more than 25 games.”
“I get calls almost every day, people looking for Hobbit, people looking for Willy Wonka, people looking for pirates, people looking for Wizard of Oz.”
“The other one saying how great and how happy they are that they got the game. Really, people now seem to be focused on buying quality and not quantity.”
“You can have a really great game with not a really great theme, and it's still a very good game, and you can have a really great theme with a very bad design playfield and rule set. That's just a waste of a license.”
“Getting the animation, getting the terabytes of concert footage, getting call-outs from band members, having Slash be an integral part of the design process: without question contributed to make the game be what it is.”
“We got an amazing amount of phone calls and flurry of emails that you can't believe from our European distributors, all telling us...pleading and begging to please get us games before the tariff goes back on.”
“It's nice that other people are coming out with games, but Coke doesn't like Pepsi and Pepsi doesn't like Coke. They're both colas, let's say, and they're both drinks, and you respect the customer base, so the customers decide what they want to buy.”
“You never know. We might have that license for the 100th anniversary. Yeah, I mean, how long do you need before you know it's a classic title?”
“You got me to tell you the next game is Justin Deere.”
Entities
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- European Union Tariff· event
- Pinball Expo· event
- Texas Pinball Show· event
- Twippies· event
- Guns N' Roses Pinball· game
- Hobbit Pinball· game
- Pirates of the Caribbean Pinball· game
- Willy Wonka Pinball· game
- Wizard of Oz Pinball· game
- Final Round Pinball Podcast· media
- Chris Smith· person
- Eric Meunier· person
- Fred Young· person
- Gary Flower· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jim· person
- Jonathan Euston· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Martin Leib· person
- Slash· person
- Elk Grove Village Factory· product
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