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Ep 41: Pinball Tubes!
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For your Expo travels, lets talk about how I was wrong about news and then 5 games I tell myself NOT to own again and why. Have fun at Expo!!
Highlights
- Labyrinth appears to play slowly, not in a floaty way like Hobbit, but generally on the slow side during gameplay footage reveals
- Jersey Jack Pinball is announcing an Elton John/Rocketman themed game, evidenced by teaser image with vinyl records on drop targets and promotional material featuring Steve Ritchie
- Stern's Alien topper features a moving tail, hand-sculpted xenomorph, RGB LEDs, lit egg sculpts, and individually controlled tubes in the backboard, priced at $1400 plus shipping with limited run of 300 pieces
- Elvira's House of Horrors is overpriced on secondary market; asking prices should drop below $9,000 for units to sell, having lost significant value
- Attack from Mars remake has noticeable flipper latency compared to original and other Stern games, making the game feel disconnected and unresponsive
- Medieval Madness remake also suffers from flipper latency issues similar to Attack from Mars remake
- Total Nuclear Annihilation CE lost Jason $700-$1000 and was the hardest game to sell by far, taking months to move even with price reductions
- Star Wars Pro has physics issues including inconsistent Death Star shot registration between units and drain problems with the TIE fighter ball saver compensation
- TMNT pinball game has a very fast third flipper shot (inner loop/warp ramp) that is difficult to time and crucial to all game modes
- Elvira's House of Horrors feels like a 'chopping wood' game with repetitive shot sequences that don't require skill beyond time investment to reach wizard mode
Notable quotes
“Individually controlled tubes in the backboard. Oh God, tubes. Exactly what I've been looking for.”
“It costs as much as a fucking used car! God! Make them, make them cheaper, but don't make them like home pins.”
“I can't have a game that's going to sit forever. [...] For a game to be that hard to sell, [...] that's personally one of my kind of stipulations of the game. If I can't move it somewhat easy, it's a bad get.”
“The flipper feel in the remakes is real. There is a latency in it. [...] I felt it the first time I hit the flipper when I got it in the house. I didn't test it. I didn't need to.”
“For $6,000 to watch a brain in a machine bounce up and down and get some epilepsy in my eyes, I think I have better ways to spend my money.”
“Every time I walk by, I'm like, this is the most gorgeous game, and I want nothing to do with it.”
“Latency is important to me and the feel, like you feel connected when you, as soon as you hit a flipper button and it pops, bam, like Stern, you know, you... That's one of the best things about Stern games is the feel of the flippers.”
“Shallow and spread out wide.”
“Attack from Mars. Can't wait. Yeah, of course. I've read online, but I thought like, oh, people are meh, you know, and I'll get over it, you know. Oh, no, I did not get over it. Not in the slightest.”
“I do know he plays guitar and I've seen a video of him playing and he's great from what I could see. So, JJP, Elton John, we'll see. The theme everyone asked for, of course, they're gonna be buying it.”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Flip N Out Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Chicago Pinball Expo· event
- Attack from Mars (remake)· game
- Elton John / Rocketman· game
- Elvira's House of Horrors· game
- Labyrinth· game
- Medieval Madness (remake)· game
- Star Wars Pro· game
- TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Willy Wonka (2023 Stern)· game
- Pinball Network· organization
- Jason· person
- Joel Engelberth· person
- Scott Danesi· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
- Alien (Stern topper)· product
- KNAPP Arcade· venue
- Pizza Del Rey· venue
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