Episode 10: “The Uncanny X-Men is here!” - Initial Reaction!
In this episode, we're diving into the week's biggest news: The Uncanny X-Men has arrived! Stern Pinball has just released their newest flagship game, and it’s looking incredible. Join us as we break...
Highlights
- The Uncanny X-Men is Jack Danger's third game if counting the Jurassic Park home edition
- The offset flipper layout is novel in modern pinball (last 10 years)
- The Sentinel hand can break the wire form and send the ball in multiple directions
- Expression lighting is now available as an accessory for non-LE machines
- The artwork is by Zombie Yeti
- Wolverine is a sculpted figure rather than plastic
- Stern is more proficient at code updates compared to Jersey Jack Pinball
- The game may be complex for beginner/casual players to pick up quickly
Notable quotes
“Well, now you're not getting wash, rinse, repeat. This is very innovative in my opinion. There's innovation going on.”
“The Sentinel hand breaking the wire form and send your ball going all sorts of different places... that is cool as hell. Like, I love this. This is badass.”
“If you don't care about that stuff then every game is going to seem the same right... it's a really a lot of it has to do with like how did the software developer that wrote the code think about the theme and the code integration to that theme”
“I don't know. I'm that excited. This whole X-Men thing... This looks fire guys. I mean, I don't know what to say. This looks amazing.”
“I think all the people that are just usually on the Stern hate train are going to be not on the hate train. They're going to be like, holy crap, because it's innovative.”
“Once you start learning something new, it's very satisfying when you could start to consistently hit a shot that you can't when you first get it. So that's just like, that is also adds to replay value.”
Entities
- Game Room Goodies· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Avatar· game
- Elton John· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Godzilla· game
- Guns and Roses· game
- Jaws· game
- John Wick· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Stranger Things· game
- The Uncanny X-Men· game
- The Flipside Pinball Podcast· organization
- Aaron· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Retro Ralph· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
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