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#33 Jaws?

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday58 min listenBy George
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Telling Fish Tales. Dave’s New York trip. We discuss the following games: Eight Ball. Macgyver fixes Fish Tales, Ice Fever, Black Knight, Indiana Jones, Circus Voltaire, Hot Hand, Split Second...

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Highlights

  • 8-Ball Deluxe had a production run of approximately 20,000 units, making it one of the highest production games Williams made, second only to Eight Ball.
  • There is a rumor that one of the big manufacturers is going to come out with a Jaws pinball machine.
  • Fishtales has a known issue where the casting reel pulley (rubber ring) wears out over time, and arcade operators often jury-rig solutions with rubber bands.
  • Split Second's software was never finished during a period when Stern was falling apart, resulting in missing call-outs and silence during gameplay.
  • Titletown Pinball was forced to change its name (now called Sector 84) after the Green Bay Packers claimed trademark rights to 'Titletown'.
  • Dave acquired a Black Knight in home-use-only condition with a chromed lockdown bar.
  • Dave spent significant time (multiple nights) restoring Cirqus Voltaire with a full Titan rubber kit, LED upgrades, and color LED display.
  • A Twitch streamer named Cary Hardy was banned from a manufacturer's Facebook page for saying something negative about somebody.
  • The drive from Poughkeepsie to Northville is approximately 3.5 hours.
  • Dave and George drove approximately 1,000 miles in the Cadillac SUV during the New York trip.

Notable quotes

“I make them mad. I make them mad.”
“So there's a way out of this. I took that thing out. I used my soldering iron, and I made my own little flat spot in the soldering iron with a big tip.”
Dave
“You got to figure, it's a lake, and who's Jaws, right? Well, Jaws would be this little bulldog that weighs 50 pounds, all muscle, and very super friendly.”
Dave
“Because we're going to break the rules, and we're going to do a show on that game. It's not quite a classic, it's not 25 years or older, but it's close and like you said it's a rare game.”
George
“The boom and the whole sky was fireworks. Were they mortars? Mortars, yeah, mortars.”
“It's pinballdoctor.com, all spelled out. Pinballdoctor.com.”
Dave
“Software wasn't finished. So there's call-outs in the game that aren't there because they didn't do them, so you have silence during the call-out.”
George
“This thing is so freaking sweet, home use only. It's worth me dumping some time and money into.”
Dave

Entities

  • Cabinet Reef· company
  • Data East· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Williams· company
  • Black Knight· game
  • Cirqus Voltaire· game
  • Eight Ball Deluxe· game
  • Fish Tales· game
  • Gorgar· game
  • Hot Hand· game
  • Ice Fever· game
  • Split Second· game
  • Green Bay Packers· organization
  • Pinside· organization
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Cary Hardy· person
  • Dave· person
  • George· person
  • Jaws· person
  • Maureen· person
  • pinballdoctor.com· product
  • Flashback Retro Arcade Bar· venue
  • Titletown Pinball· venue
  • Tugboats· venue

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