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52: 7th Day of Balls: Kevin Manne
PodcastAnalysis updated 5d ago24 min listen
The 12 Days of Balls is upon us! Each episode features a different pinball guest and we get to know their balls. Do they believe in aliens? What was their favorite pinball thing this year? What...
Highlights
- The GTF Signature Edition bundles items that are already available for purchase separately (glass for $20, banner for $100, powder-coated armor) with minimal additional value beyond signatures and a hologram sticker
- Spooky is doing two separate development teams for simultaneous releases (Texas Chainsaw Massacre and another title), similar to their Ultraman/Halloween approach
- During COVID, used pinball machines were selling for more than new machines, and Stern Premiums were being marked up $3,000+ over MSRP due to FOMO
- Tron Pro machines went for $11-12k during COVID despite new MSRP around $4.5-5k
- Total Nuclear Annihilation was launched at $9,000, significantly higher than the original game's $5,500 launch price
- P3 module swaps take approximately 1-1.5 minutes including glass removal and service positioning
- Final Resistance is Kevin's favorite 2023 release because it offers more gameplay variety and approachability for home players compared to Total Nuclear Annihilation
- Pinball awards are flawed because they function as a popularity contest where Stern dominates due to higher installed base, making smaller manufacturers' releases unlikely to win
- Mark Seiden has a pending pinball machine release from JJP in development
- Buffalo Pinball is scaling back stream team collaborations and shifting channel direction while maintaining monthly podcast schedule
Notable quotes
“all the awards nonsense that's going on right now. Like, yeah, the awards are like pinball awards are done to begin with... it's like annual awards for an industry that produces like a handful of things every year. And one company has far greater reach than everybody else.”
“I'm glad the kind of like insanity of COVID is over where everybody was just buying everything that comes out before they had a chance to play it. And then the used games were more expensive than the new games.”
“Final Resistance hits that vibe but brings more stuff to do different ways to approach it while you're playing. I think that's going to be my pick for the year.”
“I think they pushed the price up too much on that... it's a very simple, fast Iron Man type of game. Even more linear.”
“Hopefully this is the year that Mark Seiden's pinball machine comes out from JJP. I'm really looking forward to seeing what he's been working on.”
“If American Pinball is thinking that Cuphead somehow is a good enough theme, then I think Metroid, if it comes to video game themes, would smash that.”
“I really want JJP to... I mean, they put their heart and soul into games. And the last two, like, theme-wise... I want JJP to do The Matrix... they're going to be making those for years. Printing money.”
“Dialed In is probably the correct answer for sure. It's great. Well, hey Kevin, Merry Christmas.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Brody Even Talk Pinball· content
- Broken Token Podcast· content
- fun with bonus· content
- Addams Family· game
- Cuphead· game
- Dialed In· game
- Final Resistance· game
- Ghostbusters· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Pirates of the Caribbean· game
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Tron· game
- Buffalo Pinball· organization
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Kevin Manne· person
- Mark Seiden· person
- Scott Danesi· person
- GTF Signature Edition· product
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